Author: DXO
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Why The CTA Alerts Isn’t Customized
Splitting up alerts is the most common feature request we’ve gotten from the start. I know why it’s appealing– it would be a cool thing if you could get a simple answer to a simple question: Should I take my normal public transportation route or should I alter it? Should I descened these subway steps…
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The Danger of the Fetish of Nostalgia
Here’s a look from the NYT at what can happen when a memorial to the dead becomes a showcase of the ruling class: People destroyed the memorial to the gassing of the Kurds. So it came as a shock when hundreds of stone-throwing protesters took to the streets here Thursday on the anniversary, beating back…
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More Boots at CTA Alerts
Last week I booted monay2007 for the fateful "what’s up people" callout. She’s in good stead with her other groups (TRUE CHAT, Teen Singles, etc.), however, so I don’t feel bad. We just weren’t for her. More perplexing was today, when I had to boot a couple people who got into an "eat me/ bite…
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Distributed Boing Boing
So the wildly popular Boing Boing website is being blocked by SmartFilter. This guy Mark Christian came up with a script that gets past the filter and masks the origin of the content so people can get to it. Brilliant. Disruptive. Radical. We need more of this– bad software, bad policy, and bad ideas can…
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DIBELS Benchmark Levels
One of the interesting things about being a parent is seeing all the crazy assessment tools that teachers use to evaluate children. One that was new to me was DIBELS Benchmark Levels. We got a letter home with some scores for CXO and what they meant ( 1- 10, kid is at risk, 10 -34,…