New Year, new opportunities

Greetings with a New Year to colleagues, friends, students, and followers!

I was really pleased to look back on 2009 and see that I had indeed increased the amount of blogging for the year. There is no doubt that my Twitter use greatly influenced that change, along with the purchase and robust use of my iPhone.

This year, particularly over the course of the next six months, my blogging will continue to increase as I add blogs to six sections of sociology, in addition to a partnership that I have with Pearson Education to blog at The Social Lens.

I also am looking at expanding the topics that I cover, and developing a range of content. The content will range in quality as well, as my dive into Twitter has impressed upon me the possibilities with content. Some posts will be more developed, some won't.

I continue to work to integrate a variety of services which house my content, and am currently developing a local project which will exhibit that same type of integration. I hope to speak and post more about that within the next few months.

So let's welcome the New Year, keep our sociology eyes open and aware, and further the introduction to sociology and our perspective on the world in which we live.

Chad

Corporate, retail driven society

Today is New Year's Day. Christmas was just a week ago.

By the way, Happy Valentine's Day!!!




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Hilton Head

Left Wednesday Dec. 17th, didn't get out of town until 4pm, hour late than planned. The Dish Network guy with the plumbers butt had some extra work to do. I wanted the tv fixed prio to returning so we would have a tv when we got back for Christmas.

We got hung up in traffic outside of notion, which delayed the first leg of ourgeip to Macon.

Haven't been through the ATL in quite sometime. Apart from the pressure o 8 lanes, traffic was not too bad on a Thursday night. Came through around 11pm.

But, the sky line for mw was breathtaking. It was stunning. The tops of the buildings were well lit in the nighttime sky.

Networked Learners-from the Pew Internet Project

A look at the demographic profile of digital natives in the U.S.

Networked Learners (MVU Keynote)

View more presentations from Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center.

Whitening the Resume

Quite a thought provoking NYT's article about race, identity, and opportunity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/weekinreview/06Luo.html?_r=1

Gaming: Fake achievement

Below is an interesting self analysis of sorts regarding the psychology of achievement in videogaming.

This is also interesting as an illustration of Mead's work on the social significance of play and games.

http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html

Free Food inspires

so Chik Fil A is offering a free meal deal for a year, or something...people are camping out for this??




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