Author: Steve
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#firstworldjudgeproblems
Tabbing the Adelphi tournament here in lovely Garden City, NY For the first time ever in my life, I think, there are more judges than there are debaters. So in round 2 we have 7 judge panels. Problem is that there are many same-institution conflicts all over the place. But many alums and other friends…
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New podcast – In the Bin Episode 1
English: Podcast or podcasting icon Français : Icône pour les podcasts ou la baladodiffusion (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Happy to announce that I’ve finally started making the podcast I’ve been thinking about for a while now. In the Bin episode 1 is available for you here. Better downloading options to come as well as perhaps some intro…
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King’s College Tournament starts Tomorrow
I will be tabbing the King’s College Empire Debates 2013, starting tomorrow so keep refreshing this blog for updates from the tournament. Looks like around 50 teams in the tab, but that number can change based on tomorrow morning’s registration. one of the experiments I hope to try at the tournament is collecting a cross-section…
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Guest Post: Lossy Formats
Photograph of Sound Recording Equipment from the Division of Motion Pictures, 1941 (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives) From the pen of +Timothy Barr comes an excellent piece on formats in debate and sound recording. Enjoy! If you want to post a thoughtful piece, contact me and we can work something out! – Steve ________________________ Debate Formats:…
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Are the Presidential Debates Broken?
What is wrong with the Presidential Debates? This new video was released yesterday as a part of a new web series designed to investigate debate and argument. It’s called Podium, and I am featured in it along with a number of other interesting folks. I really enjoyed doing the interviews for this, as I mentioned…
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Why are University Debate Watch Parties Good?
Rhetoric of Reason (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Why were so many people tweeting last night about how awesome it was to have so many students in a room together tweeting about the Presidential debate while watching it? I asked on twitter a few times for a warrant as to why this was a good thing. I…
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Tablet Computing and Debate
English: A Sandisk-brand USB thumb drive, SanDisk Cruzer Micro, 4GB. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Thinking about getting a Nexus 7 after heavily researching the various tablets available. I think it will suit what I do quite well. In reading about it, I also think that tablets suit modern policy debate well too. One of the biggest…
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