Shardae White

This is the thought I had waking up this morning. I was thinking about how we tend to like to taste the brownie batter before it’s gone into the oven, but that we don’t eat it all outright, because it often contains raw egg. Though the batter (or cookie dough) tastes nice, its contents aren’t … Continue reading Raw Cookie Dough Could Give You Salmonella

In Douglas Engelbart’s 1962 essay “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework”, he discusses the importance of creating something like what will become the Web in helping humans reach their maximum potential. “By “solvers” we mean more than derivers of possibilities — we mean responsible initiators of action. By “problems” we by no means refer only to … Continue reading Problem Solving as Understanding our World: Nugget Post #2

The Web has been a work in progress far for more than the 25 years it has actually been in existence. In an effort to put together a coherent timeline of the Web, I’ve added three pieces of information to our class timeline. My first is about the issues that arose as we approached the … Continue reading Timeline Blog Post

In his article, “Iran’s BlogFather: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are Killing the Web” Hossein Derakhshan speaks about how the hyperlink is losing its value, and social media sites want to keep users within their realms, treating the hyperlink more like an accessory than a necessary thread. “Blogs were gold and bloggers were rock stars back … Continue reading But What is a Blog?: Nugget Assignment

So, today is the 125th birthday of influential author Zora Neale Hurston. So, I looked her up. http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406265/ http://www.imdb.com/media/rm378181120/tt0406265?ref_=tt_pv_md_1 http://time.com/vault/issue/1937-09-20/page/87/ https://twitter.com/search?q=zora+neale+hurston&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/?xid=tcoshare These links start with an essay about the impact of Hurston’s works, as they’ve been made into movies and other adaptations. This also led to my looking at another influential novel by … Continue reading Associative Trails Exercise: “Zora Neale Hurston”