According to Oren Sreebny Dr. Gregory Jackson has resigned from Apple’s University Executive Forum, because of remarks he made in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Colloquy.” You can see my original post here and a followup here. I note that Oren’s post and his followup have already been picked up at Paul Thurott’s Internet [...]

Blogs Post CCCC 2004

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I wanted to point to a few resources for blogging among teachers and scholars in literature, composition and rhetoric that have emerged since the CCCCs conference. First, a list of blogs by teachers and scholars in composition, literature, and rhetoric hosted by Kairosnews.org. Second, a listserve growing out of the CCCC SIG for “comp/rhet/lit folk [...]

Intego, makers of a Macintosh OS X anti-virus product called Virus Barrier, yesterday announced that they’d “discovered” a Mac Trojan horse. I, like Dori, am a little suspicious. For one thing, the language of the announcement was odd; for another, no other anti virus company has reported it even today, and for a third, I [...]

Macintosh Bible, 9th Edition

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The ninth edition of The Macintosh Bible is out. It’s the third edition Michael has contributed to. I’m completely unbiased, as usual, but it’s a pretty good book. The
Spouse describes his contribution thusly:
In the 9th Macintosh Bible I romp gaily through the fields of audio, video, and interactive media in what [...]

WWDC 2004 Socializing

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Like Justin Williams, I have a Student Scholarship from Apple to attend this year’s WWDC. I’m still not quite sure how I’ll get there, but I’m working on it.
I note, via Brent Simmons, that Buzz Andersen has proposed a web-logger get together. I’m game, though it needs to be near Moscone since I can’t [...]

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