After another weekend chock-full of activities I've begun to fear that my current strategy for socialization is not unlike that of a spare tire. It is not unlike that of a third or fifth wheel. I am worried that I have become a social parasite, latching on to a host and not letting go.I know that I'm probably being overly dramatic, but these...
Friday in the Park © Raffaella LoroI have to work an event on Sunday so rather than bank the time I took the time off in lieu Friday afternoon. I headed to the university for a lunch meeting to talk generally about technology integration in academia and government and then strolled down to Corbett Hall to read in the shade out on the...
documentary © Raffaella LoroOn Friday, after a delightful lunch with my chum-of-all-chums, I rushed to the downtown university campus for a lecture on mediated gossip that was being given as part of the University of Alberta's Communications and Technology Research Symposium. The visiting scholar, Professor Leopoldina Fortunati, from the University of Udine, was to speak about reflections on mediated gossip, particularly, how the...
More musings from my notebook...What value do we place on information? If information is free are we more willing to filter through junk? Is there an expectation if we are paying for something it will be of a higher quality? I think about this as I ponder about the idea that somehow this new breed of citizen journalists will change the world. Citizens...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } reach © Raffaella Loro Last year I spent the majority of May in Trinidad. I missed the real transition from winter to spring. I left the city when the leaves were beginning to turn and when I came back it wasn't such...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } for lack of anything better © Raffaella Loro After a long and difficult winter I am ready for a summer of infinite possibilities. ...
I'm going through some draft posts today and publishing things that may even be incomplete. Sometimes my posts are more polished and coherent than other times. But generally, they are streams of consciousness that I've scribbled down during coffee breaks or during other quiet moments before or after work. Sometimes I want to rework the thoughts into something more substantial, but sometimes I...
I've been indulging my appetite for communications theory recently as I work on this rather ambitious project for work. In particular, I've been considering the ways we can use online tools to encourage civic participation. But I'm conflicted. I've been (re)reading Neil Postman and trying to come to terms with the wise concepts about culture and technological change that he presented time and...
Interesting post about paying for media from A Photo Editor that deserves some discussion.I think we will eventually arrive at some kind of micro payment/advertising business model for online media in the not too distant future. Ideally there will be a common payment system on the device I use to access media or some kind of accepted everywhere pass. Either way it only...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } something blue © Raffaella Loro ...bought a pretty blue dress to wear to two weddings this summer. Almost left the store without buying it, but changed my mind when I discovered it was 40% off...learned that I am allergic to the preservative...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the shoe dilemma © Raffaella Loro This is a duplicate post from my photostream. I've only been posting about really heady stuff recently (wait till the next post, it's a brain twister) and I decided that it's about time for a little...
