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cgerben

  1. Cruel Irony: My prescription seasonal allergy nasal spray being perfumed with the scent of lilac. Someone didn't think this one through. about 9 hours ago via web
  2. The Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller Generator malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com [Clearly "Power" is destined to be the next big hit] 5:39 PM May 31st via web
  3. How important are all those ugly Tweet Buttons to news sites? nie.mn/McbpIP [Is it ironic that I used the Tweet button to post this?] 11:02 AM May 31st via Tweet Button
  4. Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era nyti.ms/M4HB0S [We can look at tech as "wasting time" or we can bridge it to literacies] 6:21 PM May 30th via Tweet Button
  5. The top 10 ways college students [supposedly] plagiarize ecampusnews.com/?p=47662 5:33 PM May 26th via Tweet Button
  6. 13 Unique Punctuation Marks You Never Knew Existed sobadsogood.com/2011/10/29/13-… 1:55 PM May 25th via Tweet Button
  7. On ZD and Siri tehwhovianhufflepuff.tumblr.com/post/233274161… [I find Zooey Deschanel more annoying by the day, glad I'm not alone] 11:41 AM May 25th via web
  8. New Pedagogies For the Digital Age edudemic.com/2012/05/new-pe… 11:09 AM May 25th via Tweet Button
  9. Vintage ventriloquism portraits were incredibly unnerving io9.com/5913114/vintag… 3:27 PM May 24th via Tweet Button
  10. FREE ebook now through Wednesday amazon.com/The-Muffs-Barn… 1:20 PM May 21st via Twitter for iPad
  11. FREE! e-book starting Monday amazon.com/The-Muffs-Barn… 10:26 PM May 20th via web
  12. Note the halfmoons twitter.com/cgerben/status… 7:06 PM May 20th via Twitter MMS
  13. Eclipse via leaf shadows twitter.com/cgerben/status… 6:54 PM May 20th via Twitter MMS
  14. Eclipse via collander in alamo sq twitter.com/cgerben/status… 6:51 PM May 20th via Twitter MMS
  15. Solar eclipse via poptarts wrapper at alamo sq twitter.com/cgerben/status… 6:47 PM May 20th via Twitter MMS
  16. @ncarbone Thanks, Nick! I agree, if I can't celebrate this properly then the last 5yrs wasn't worth it. I'll include a toast to you, too! 4:42 PM May 20th via web in reply to ncarbone
  17. DONE! My chairs have officially signed off on my diss, which will be turned in tmrw. 5yrs of studying and writing over. Goodbye grad school! 4:36 PM May 20th via web
  18. The Aloneness of Social Media huff.to/LjzdUz [I've had students write better reflections on this topic, just saying] 1:10 PM May 20th via Tweet Button
  19. "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium" ftrain.com/wwic.html [Thanks @mirrashidi] 12:28 PM May 20th via web