I walked through a street fair today on 8th Ave. in Chelsea in Manhattan, and wondered about all the vendors making and selling food in their booths and carts and the like. Lots of people seemed to be eating things as I walked by, yet I could not help to think about the conditions where all this was prepared and cooked. Let's see, no running water and no restrooms with sinks. This does not seem too clean or sanitary to me.

Am I the only one who thinks about this with these local events?

Robin Yap and I are presenting a paper at the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) in June. Our topic is critical hrd (human resource development), which is a combination between the scholarship in adult education (power and positionality in issues around who decides who learns what and when) and hrd (how do people efficiently learn in a workplace setting) and critical management studies  (how can learning effect the bottom line and how can we manage it).

As an added idea around this conference, I am planning to live-blog (as much as there is wifi access).

Lee and Sachi created the best intro to RSS I have seen. Amazingly, they even did it in a relatively low-tech way using simple video without spending a fortune on bells and whistles that look nice but add nothing. They have taught and engaged without any waste or want, which is nice from a technologist and instructional design and social media perspective (look at the comments about this!).

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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don't know where to start. Nice job, CommonCraft!

So, Posey came home last night. The line of her stitches is about 1-foot long (large for a 16-pound pug), and I am hesitant to pick her up since I am afraid of hurting her or causing her surgical wound to open. She is sleeping a lot, which is exactly what she needs. She was so happy when she got home, and while she has a limp since for now until she heels, it is evident she is as happy as can be.

Let's hope the tests for the mass that was removed come back with a low stage rating. 

Posey is expected to be recovered enough to be able to come home tonight. She should be as restricted in her movements as possible since she has a lot of stitches and a drainage tube. She is a little trooper!

Posey had surgery today to remove a cancerous tumor that we discovered last week. Thankfully, Dr. Philip Pacchiana, the surgeon who conducted the procedure at Fifth Avenue Veterinary Specialists, cared for her throughout the day. She should be able to come home tomorrow. 

Speedy recovery, Posey!

So, I suppose the New York Times saw my blog post yesterday and wrote their own article on the new Greek and Roman galleries. While they probably had their story already written and in-press before my post last night. They agreed with my asessment and, with interactive images on the NYTimes website, they seem to agree that the 15 year, $220 million renovation was worth the effort.

This past Tuesday I was fortunate enough to have a member's preview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New Greek and Roman Galleries. These galleries have been closed for a number of years, and they did a wonderful job converting the former restaurant to an open sculpture court. Click the image to see the other photos I took while visiting on the first day the galleries were open.  

So, there has been a lot of discussion about the bullying policy regarding the Kathy Sierra situation, and it seems to be dying down now. Now that she is back to blogging to some extent, and others, like Tim O'Reilly, are considering a code of conduct. I am amazed how much anger there seems to be about it. So much discussion about censorship on his post, almost like people want an anything goes frontier. I suspect many people censor their comments and do not allow anonymous posts or those that are almost savage in their language, but I am surprised there is seemingly so much anger about this.

I wonder if blog users think anonymous bullying is ok?

Granted, those who engage in the hate and anonymous behavior may want to hide behind their words or fake names or whatever else to be somebody else online (like perhaps Second Life?), but those who would want to do this behavior would never sport such a a badge. Perhaps blogging is like porn or illegal drugs or discreet sex or smoking or drinking–people want them but do not always want to readily admit that they engage in them. What I learned in all this, isthat this issue has really touched a nerve, so I am sure that we are not hearing the end of it.