Living up to the Title, A Confession

Just a month or so ago I was discussing with a good geeky friend and colleague, CogDog, about the need for setting up alter egos to test technologies on the internet. Whereas I know this is a good thing, it would construct another layer of usernames and passwords to filter through as I’m playing with new technologies. And then, I can’t really envite some of my trusted friends and colleagues to the sandbox to play with these new technologies unless they have, and I know, they “testing alter egos” as well.

This weekend I paid the price (or the piper...whichever). Lately I have been trying to pay attention to social networking sites to think about what they are doing, why, how, and what this might mean for teaching. I got sucked up in the whole Quetchup thing, did give them my Gmail info thinking they would only see who matched (LinkedIn had done it so well earlier that week). And whoop...my email became spam queen.

There is a silver lining...I’ve gotten emails from former colleagues and students who I haven’t talked to in quite a while. So I guess that is “catching-up” a little. 

September 04 2007 | Posted in