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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.
  2. The Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller Generator malcolmgladwellbookgenerator.com [Clearly "Power" is destined to be the next big hit]
  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?]
  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]
  5. The top 10 ways college students [supposedly] plagiarize ecampusnews.com/?p=47662
  6. 13 Unique Punctuation Marks You Never Knew Existed sobadsogood.com/2011/10/29/13-…
  7. On ZD and Siri tehwhovianhufflepuff.tumblr.com/post/233274161… [I find Zooey Deschanel more annoying by the day, glad I'm not alone]
  8. New Pedagogies For the Digital Age edudemic.com/2012/05/new-pe…
  9. Vintage ventriloquism portraits were incredibly unnerving io9.com/5913114/vintag…
  10. FREE ebook now through Wednesday amazon.com/The-Muffs-Barn…
  11. FREE! e-book starting Monday amazon.com/The-Muffs-Barn…
  12. Note the halfmoons twitter.com/cgerben/status…
  13. Eclipse via leaf shadows twitter.com/cgerben/status…
  14. Eclipse via collander in alamo sq twitter.com/cgerben/status…
  15. Solar eclipse via poptarts wrapper at alamo sq twitter.com/cgerben/status…
  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!
  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!
  18. The Aloneness of Social Media huff.to/LjzdUz [I've had students write better reflections on this topic, just saying]
  19. "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium" ftrain.com/wwic.html [Thanks @mirrashidi]