Yeah I was confused as ever when I woke up this morning. But the WAMC drive was still on the radio so I was pretty sure I hadn’t lost too much time by sleeping.
I just looked and the Coursera site is back up and running. I previewed the four final peer review essays. One rant, one pompous, one interesting and one with a note that English is a third language: please be so kind as to give specific grammar comments. Later for that. I’ll read in a quieter place and give them scores. Some poor soul is having to read my musings about the stair-step building of suspense in Little Brother and how the created world and technology is so well grounded in current culture that it frees the story to be scarier. I also pointed out that the protagonist is very much like co-workers I’ve known – passionate about what they’re doing, how it works and willing to tell everything about it even if the listener doesn’t understand or want to know. I doubt this will charm anyone.
I think I’ll start working through my brief notes about the Victore seminar just to see what it says to me now. They’ve started an online forum for us to share ideas and ask questions so I’ll be curious what other folks have to say about it all.
