by David Lee King on June 18, 2007
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Last week,
as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his day off – I wrote a song!
A little more explanation – I wrote the music (with a little help from GarageBand here and there). For each line of the lyrics, I pulled random Gorman quotes from these three articles.
This is probably some odd self-fulfilling prophecy, since I am a blogger, since Gorman said “entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs” … and that’s pretty much what I did to construct this song!
Now, on to the song! And here’s a game for you while listening: try to find each quote while you’re listening to the song!
I’m No Antidigitalist
Music by David Lee King, lyrics pulled from Gorman quotes
an associated flight from expertise
believers in Biblical inerrancy
authoritative printed sources
an extreme example of technophiliac rambling
human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways
verifiable credentials and demonstrable expertise
derision of the professorial authority figure
hyperventilating not blasphemy
I’m no Antidigitalist
there are obstacles to such a benign outcome
antihuman and intellectually debasing
the endemic confusion of means
the triumph of hope and boosterism over reality
I’m no Antidigitalist
read what they want to read … random facts
read what they want to read … paragraphs
an associated flight from expertise
believers in Biblical inerrancy
human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways
hyperventilating not blasphemy
I’m no Antidigitalist
The structures of scholarship and learning are based on respect for individuality and the authentic expression of individual personalities.
Enjoy!
by David Lee King on January 31, 2007
From my comments – “Dopa is reborn as DOPA jr… ” (thanks, Steve!)
From the full article: “Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, introduced S.B. 49 at the beginning of the
current legislative session. The bill is reported to have identical
language to DOPA, with one addition. According to a report on ZDNet, Stevens added language that had been
part of a failed communications bill that required all sexually
explicit websites to be labeled as such, or impose prison sentences on
website operators who fail to comply.”
Just an FYI to those who hadn’t heard about it yet…
by David Lee King on April 10, 2006
Update: How funny… this post was SUPPOSED to show up on my fledgling non-library blog, davidleeking.com/etc – not my library techie blog!
I’m doing an “etc” blog to get other non-library stuff out of my head. It will most likely include videoblog posts (stretching out a little more in that area), might include podcasts of music I create, and once in awhile will have a music and/or a church/worship team post (I drum for my church’s worship team). I still plan to post an occasional videoblog over here – but it will have a library focus to it.
As I said, this post wasn’t actually supposed to show up here. My etc blog works great – just for kicks, I set it up using the ftp version of blogger. But I attempted to post to the etc blog using Performancing, and apparently did something wrong when I set up the Performancing pointer. When I sent the post, I checked to see if the post hit the blog – and it wasn’t there. So I figured I goofed somewhere along the way, and posted the normal way (ie., went to blogger to do the post).
The post apparently decided to worm it’s way over here! So enjoy anyway – the penguins really ARE pretty cool.
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Taken at the Omaha Zoo – the aquarium is extremely cool. This video shows the penguin tank.
performancing
by David Lee King on March 29, 2006
From this article… a professor has banned the use of laptops in her class. The article says “Professor June Entman says her main concern is that
students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and analyze what
she’s telling them.”
Wow. Just wow. I have a question… those students are TAKING NOTES. But using a laptop to do the note-taking.
How in the world is typing one’s notes somehow different from using pen and paper to take notes? Is there really a difference, other than laptops might be a bit more noisy?
Compared to what her students just might be doing in the “real world” (as in, using a laptop to take notes, write reports on the go, etc, etc), I’d think the professor would welcome the use of laptops.
But that’s just me.
by David Lee King on March 29, 2005
There’s always a highly entertaining (and useful) Dead and Emerging Technologies forum at the Computers in Libraries conference. This year, D. Scott Brandt (who usually moderates these forums) started us off with a fun spoof of the “I’m too sexy” song – but he turned it into a rap about technology. It was pretty funny.
So, I had forgotten about that, and I was thinking about the topic of re-using content for web purposes. While thinking about this, an mp3 of Brandt’s “I’m too sexy for my disk” rap was pointed to on Jane Dysart’s blog. And I had some time on my hands…
So for your listening enjoyment, here’s a streaming version of an edited, remixed version of Mr. Brandt’s rap. And here’s a link to the mp3 version to download (free registration is required). For those curious souls – I used a free version of ACID (ACID XPress) for the music (I also had a CD of free music loops), and then moved the music over to Audacity, added the rap, and edited it to fit with the song.
Useful to libraries? Probably not. Fun to do? Yep.
Read all about it here! Or just read this … remember that song/video Michael Porter and I created last year? Well… we’re at it again – with Library 101!
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