{"id":4081,"date":"2016-01-03T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2016-01-03T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:48:03","slug":"the-hanging-indent-week-of-january-3-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-hanging-indent-week-of-january-3-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hanging Indent:  Week of January 3, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/empirestatebldgradiowaves.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3819\" src=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/empirestatebldgradiowaves.gif\" alt=\"empirestatebldgradiowaves\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s candy from the sensorium. \u00a0I love it when I read really worthy (evocative, new learning)\u00a0\u00a0weekly bests like <a href=\"http:\/\/katexic.com\/clippings\/\">katexic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=a49b6da947649384fbe966275&amp;id=13f8375846&amp;e=689dd3642b\">Thought Shrapnel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyletter.com\/audreywatters\/archive\">Hack Education<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediashift.org\/author\/jkeck\/\">MediaShift Daily Must Reads<\/a>\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Music I&#8217;m Listening To<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmmt.org\/\">WMMT<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmu.org\/\">WFMU<\/a>. \u00a0We just bought an Amazon Echo after much thought and careful consideration. \u00a0What jazzes me about it is how it can\u00a0call up TuneIn or IHeartRadio stations at will. \u00a0One of my first great Internet joys has always been\u00a0radio. \u00a0I love it. \u00a0I worked at radio stations as a reporter for one of the great unknown radio stations in the world\u00a0when I first moved to the southcentral Kentucky,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WLOC-1023-FM-Fan-Page-150699551642378\/\"> WLOC<\/a>. \u00a0Sadly,&#8230;.no more, but \u00a0I still get a thrill from scanning the dial when I make crosscountry road trips. \u00a0The Echo lets me relive that same sense of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>WMMT is mountain radio from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appalshop.org\/\"> Appalshop<\/a> in Whitesburg, KY. \u00a0The Eastern Kentucky yawp\u00a0\u00a0alone is\u00a0enough to give any ex pat Kentuckian a killing case of homesickness. And the music! Eclectic, deeply mountain, local and beyond. \u00a0Listened to some killer Japanese bluegrass the other day.<\/p>\n<p>WFMU is the longest running freeform radio format in the country. My wife and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmu.org\/playlists\/shows\/64159\">listened to\u00a0Hearty White deliver<\/a>\u00a0one of the funniest Christmas riffs since Jean Shepherd ruled the airwaves. \u00a0One of my former students, <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/member\/cheyenne_h\">Cheyenne Hohmann<\/a>, \u00a0does a podcast and is uber ringleader at the Free Music Archive which has a show on WFMU, <a href=\"https:\/\/wfmu.org\/playlists\/GA\">&#8220;Gray Area by Jason Sigal&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the two best new Christmas songs ever this year via the Echo. \u00a0I don&#8217;t even like holiday music and these were simply grand.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a live version of &#8220;A Dollar Short of Christmas&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify%3Atrack%3A1CcJ8Rm0b4XkS8BzqZucHL\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And LCD Soundsystem&#8217;s first song\u00a0since they broke up. \u00a0Warning: \u00a0Very dark. The bells at the end will &#8216;sleigh&#8217; you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify%3Atrack%3A0dMGq0YUOik1rMZicB96Qa\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Article I\u2019m Jonesin&#8217; On<\/strong> &#8212;<\/h2>\n<p>This is an article from 2011 that I ran across in the New Yorker: &#8220;The Possibilian:\u00a0What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.&#8221; \u00a0Here is the penultimate paragraph in the article that defines what Eagleman means by &#8216;possibilianism&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Eagleman was brought up as a secular Jew and became an atheist in his teens. Lately, though, he\u2019d taken to calling himself a Possibilian\u2014a denomination of his own invention. Science had taught him to be skeptical of cosmic certainties, he told me. From the unfathomed complexity of brain tissue\u2014\u201cessentially an alien computational material\u201d\u2014to the mystery of dark matter, we know too little about our own minds and the universe around us to insist on strict atheism, he said. \u201cAnd we know far too much to commit to a particular religious story.\u201d Why not revel in the alternatives? Why not imagine ourselves, as he did in \u201cSum,\u201d as bits of networked hardware in a cosmic program, or as particles of some celestial organism, or any of a thousand other possibilities, and then test those ideas against the available evidence? \u201cPart of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time,\u201d he said. \u201cAs Voltaire said, uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amen.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Book\/Story I&#8217;m Living With<\/strong>\u00a0-_<\/h2>\n<p>I love this story: \u00a0a man gets imprisoned for his blogging opinions. He spends eight years in jail with not Internet access. \u00a0When he is released, he discovers the world has changed since 2008&#8211;and he is not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is a true story. It happened to Iranian &#8216;blogfather&#8217;\u00a0Hossein Derakhshan. \u00a0His Guardian article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/dec\/29\/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web\">&#8220;Iran&#8217;s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web&#8221;<\/a>, describes what it is like to be cut off from the Internet time. \u00a0He is not happy. \u00a0If you want to prove him right, don&#8217;t go to the article. \u00a0Here are some highlights and a couple of quotes to give you the spice with which he writes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">Reading on the Internet has changed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">No one reads blog posts anymore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">The hyperlink is no longer royalty, \u201cdevalued, almost made obsolete.\u201d.\u00a0 Long live apps. Long may they rule.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">Links are now the same as photos or text.\u00a0 Unless somebody \u2018gazes\u2019 at them, they are less than nothing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">Apps gaze inward and because they are so insular they are blind to web pages outside of the app.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">We are more apt to be controlled by this than any other system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>A couple of exemplary quotes:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">&#8220;A most brilliant paragraph by some ordinary-looking person can be left outside the stream, while the silly ramblings of a celebrity gain instant internet presence. And not only do the algorithms behind the stream equate newness and popularity with importance, they also tend to show us more of what we have already liked.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"author-d-16z86ztz122z98z81zz82zz85zunv3z82zpqfnl7z90zdz81zz90zpz71zpz75znxz84zz68zdmz77zz86zmjz66zfgmz66zz79zkw9\">\u201cWhen Facebook can know us better than our parents with only 150 likes, and better than our spouses with 300 likes, the world appears quite predictable, both for governments and for businesses. And predictability means control.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"content__headline js-score\"><strong>Tools I&#8217;m Messing With<\/strong> &#8212;<\/h1>\n<p>I am having fun with Legend, an iOS and Android app that lets you play with kinetic type. \u00a0I love it even though I know I am limited by the templates provided, I am still happy with it because it lowers the barrier to playing with kinetic typography and allows me to see the rhetorical effects of using these digital objects in blog posts and other digital objects. I am trying to understand this tool in terms of Jenkins, Ito and boyd&#8217;s definition of participatory culture and will be creating a short zeega to demonstrate this with gifs created using Legend. Until then here is my first gif defining participatory culture with Legend.<a href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/5D4AD214B5A28E6BB9791BEF2EE3DF61.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4082\" src=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/5D4AD214B5A28E6BB9791BEF2EE3DF61.gif\" alt=\"5D4AD214B5A28E6BB9791BEF2EE3DF61\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Quotes to Die For &#8212;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Here is an extended quote for David Eagleman&#8217;s collection of\u00a0variations on the theme of an afterlife. \u00a0(Actually, it is a complete story from it.)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/sum-circle-of-friends\/\">Sum: Circle of Friends<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What I&#8217;m buying<\/strong> &#8212;<\/h2>\n<p>I listen to lots of audiobooks. \u00a0Right now it&#8217;s all about <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_6xMnIsh-tIC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Five+Elements+of+Effective+Thinking&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwje3suY743KAhWMOiYKHfhFBzoQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Five%20Elements%20of%20Effective%20Thinking&amp;f=false\">The Five Elements of Effective Thinking<\/a> by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird. \u00a0Two mathematicians. \u00a0Very lucid. \u00a0But that is not why I am writing this. Because I do listen to a lot of audio material, I run through earbuds like water. I have despaired of ever having a reliable, comfortable, tough earbud that was worth listening to both music and spoken word. \u00a0Until now. \u00a0I have found it: the\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Panasonic-RPTCM125K-Headphones-Black\/dp\/B00E4LGVUO\">Panasonic RPTCM125K Headphones<\/a>. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/headphones.reviewed.com\/content\/panasonic-ergofit-rp-tcm125-review\">a review<\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Of all the qualities I demand, \u00a0the most important for me is comfortable fit. These Panasonics \u00a0are by a factor of ten, easier on the ear canal than any other ear bud I have ever used. \u00a0And the sound quality is superb. \u00a0And they cost $10. And they are occasionally on sale. And they have a mic in them. \u00a0I own no stock in Panasonic. I don&#8217;t even like Panasonic stuff, but for these I make an exception. \u00a0I have a couple of spares (I still wear them out) just in case. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/doorknobhaunting2_zpsafb298221.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3629\" src=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/doorknobhaunting2_zpsafb298221.gif\" alt=\"doorknobhaunting2_zpsafb29822\" width=\"443\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week&#8217;s candy from the sensorium. \u00a0I love it when I read really worthy (evocative, new learning)\u00a0\u00a0weekly bests like katexic, Thought Shrapnel, Hack Education, and\u00a0MediaShift Daily Must Reads\u00a0among others. Music I&#8217;m Listening To\u00a0&#8212; WMMT and WFMU. \u00a0We just bought an Amazon Echo after much thought and careful consideration. \u00a0What jazzes me about it is<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-hanging-indent-week-of-january-3-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}