ivrytwr video – the Samcheok Penis Park
At long last I’m happy to share my first ivrytwr video. Korea is filled with interesting local museums. My goal for my remaining time here is to visit at least one of these museums each month and post a video of my experience there. The first museum is the famous Haesindang Park, more commonly known as … Read more
How to increase your twitter followers (and why it doesn’t really matter)
A few months ago I wrote a post called How to increase your twitter followers (the wrong way) that looked at services that promise to increase your twitter followers overnight. This post examined two services in particular, followmania.com and twiends.com. Since writing that post about a dozen people a month find ivrytwr by Googling “does followmania work?” For the … Read more
Links – Five more blogs worth reading
After a fantastic weekend in Seoul eating Greek food and watching musicals, I am rested and ready for another week of ivrytwr. To start the week off on a good foot I’d like to highlight five more that I think are worth reading. While academic blogging has exploded in the past few years, some people … Read more
Abstract: Help or Hindrance? – How social network adoption influences public engagement with history
This is an abstract I recently submitted to the first SSI (Society for Socio-Informatics) International Workshop for Young Researchers in Japan. The theme for this year’s workshop is “the Adoption of Social Networking.” I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions if you’d like to share them in the comments section. “According to the Pew Research … Read more
Thoughts on Open Content Licensing for Educators – Waygook.org as a model for open education
Today I took part in day one of WikiEducator’s Open Content Licensing for Educators Workshop. This is an asynchronous workshop designed for educators and students wanting to discuss and learn more about open education, copyright, and creative commons licenses. So far I’ve found the first day of the two-day workshop to be fascinating, and not surprisingly I’ve … Read more
Links – five blogs worth reading
Another week has come and gone, that means it’s time for a weekly link listing. This week I’m going to focus on five excellent blogs that are well worth reading. Some of these blogs I’ve been reading for months, others I’ve just started reading today. Each of these blogs has something in-common – they are … Read more
How to fail on the internet – or, why the Argyll and Bute Council misunderstood the groundswell
By now many of you have probably read about nine year-old food blogger Martha Payne from Argyll, Scotland. She and her blog NeverSeconds have captured the internet’s heart after the Argyll and Bute Council prohibited her from taking pictures of her school lunches with her camera phone, under the guise of prohibiting students from taking inappropriate pictures at school. … Read more
“You start to root for her in a way that you might not root for a male character” – a Tomb Raider follow-up
The other day I wrote a post discussing sexualized violence in the trailer for the upcoming video game Tomb Raider. This game has sparked a lot of discussion on the internet about how men and women are portrayed in mainstream video gaming. For those that don’t read the gaming journalists at Kotaku, the site has recently … Read more
Links – fun, funding, and frustration
Like sand through the hourglass, another week has gone by. We’ve yet to reach the dog days of summer here in Korea and, to be honest, I’m dreading the summer. Coming from the ever-temperate Pacific North West, I’m not used to heat and humidity. The stories I’ve heard about Korean summers makes me dread the … Read more
The Private Public Space
no face can hide its public, private pain, wincing, already statued. – Elegy, Derek Walcott As a medievalist I have occasionally come across the debate on whether there existed a division between public and private space in the Middle Ages. Given that the social regulations overlooked by the Medieval Church extended into the bedchamber of … Read more
