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And yet this can be such an isolated space. So few voices, and responses deferred in time, asynchronously.

Ah, I may be projecting my feelings about Kate onto this medium, more or less aptly.

More on images: this article on Flickr emphasizes gameplay in creative design. I had not thought of Flickr as a game or game-influenced before, but there's certainly a ludic component to it, now that I look at it from this new perspective.

I wonder what learning technologies would look like, designed from a game stance.

There were more computer problems than I had anticipated! I barely had time to finish working on that one faculty project. I hope that professor gets pedagogical mileage out of those images, especially when they are focusing on, up the projection.

That reminds me of my earlier post on Flickr. Unlike text, there is something immersive about richer media, like sound and video. Even images, though, have that power to allure, fascinate, even amaze.

I know Kate loves that Oscar Wilde novel about the haunted picture, which stores up the subject's accumulated horrors. I wonder how much the Gothic depends on these weird, focused, amazing images.

I now have a new computer. I have gone through three - three! - machines during this past week. Each one had decided to offer me chaos rather than a desktop. Whirling designs, clicking sounds, splashes of color... almost enough to make me switch. Almost.

And great. Now Kate's into spiritualism. This is worse!

I am joking about the last part.

Some readers have asked about the cryptic communications from Kate.
Here is one example, received from her email account.

Following up on my earlier post about Flickr and learning this service should engage visual learners especially. I can imagine assignments based on visual literacy and the composition of pictures. Faculty with a visual emphasis should feel comfortable presenting images as part of curriculum, and to use the full panoply of Flickr’s social tools – discussion hanging from each image, tags aggregated folksonomically to aid in concept surfacing and identification.

For general faculty and students (i.e., those with learning styles other than visual), I can see Flickr supporting visual literacy exercises, as well as all sorts of pictures which aid in visualizing content. Question: how easy is it to export image content with attendant tags and discussion to other formats, such as a zip folder?

I am fascinating by some of the possibilities involving recursion. For example, I could do a screen cap of a Flickr page in order to illustrate some principle of layout or interaction. Then upload that image to my Flickr account. Pictures within pictures, tales within tales.

It was chilling to see those words on my blog. My Livejournal had been invaded, with a dark splotch staining the space.

It is a form of impersonation. Someone else spoke with my voice, and placed their words alongside my face. My own speaking was still, overridden, silenced.

It was… asocial software, exacting pain precisely to the extent that the blog grounds my self and my connection with other people. The thing would not hurt so much if it had not been so good at getting me to feel.

But I do not want to know who did this. No. Stopping there keeps me from the abyss. Oh my Kate.

I will resume posting shortly.

After that strange, horrible post, I decided to step back from the blogosphere for a bit.

The hiatus is over.

What is this?!

What do you think of the various free email services currently available? I've been looking into Hotmai and Yahoo mail. Kate recommended Gmail to me, a while ago.