do not blog more than 5 times a day

Found this while next blog blogging

:Do Not Blog More Than 5 Times Per Day:

Of course there is a context.... still, i just enjoyed the warning and thought you-all might get a kick out of it as our own blog rolls along

http://english110genres.blogspot.com/2004/12/notice-to-my-students-as-seen-on-bb.html#comments

blogging during class

Ok. So I'm blogging during this evening's workshop.

Liz, Elif, Shanestelle, Don and Amanda are all busy working on their websites.

I'm checking up on email.... in between rolling around the lab on the chair and looking over folks' shoulders....

some great websites/electronic essays are coming together here in this room....

ok, cheers, and happy thanksgiving

c-span series of the digital future

DIGITAL FUTURE
Series Broadcast on C-SPAN
David Weinberger, former senior internet adviser to the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign, will discuss how Web logs work & how they are valuable in children's education.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Beginning Monday, November 15, 2004 until March 2005, C-SPAN will broadcast live a series of discussions hosted by the Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center. The series will examine how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified. The goal is to educate the public on the what the digital age means to their lives. The events will include a featured speaker, followed by a panel discussion, and a question and answer session with the audience at the venue, and C-SPAN television viewers. Our viewers will be invited to email questions to the experts.

Books and Sentences

21 Dog Years @ Amazon by Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey’s, the main character and author of 21 Dog Years @ Amazon, position in customer service exists because of a “less-than-disciplined” audience who is unwilling to conform to a new medium, and Daisey documents his experience in his book and blog, which may be difficult for blog virgins to understand. (Amanda)


Life without a Net edited by Lou Anders
Though I see much of the language of cyberspace, interpretive communities and rhetorical tropes of links and images found in the fiction, I expected a larger vision of the future which presented things I had never thought of rather than the ordinary. (Liz)


Remediation by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
Like Brookes, Bolter and Grusin suggest that a new, more immediate way of thinking, composing, reading and communicating is emerging with new media, but this new mode is not really new or immediate—just a different combination of old elements (i.e., immediacy + hypermediacy = remediation). (Carl W)



Steal This Computer Book III by Wallace Wang

Read Me First by Ann Sellers (a Sun Technical Publication)
Computers and information technology have become so important, according to Ann Sellers’ Read Me First that it has become rather imperative that people have an understanding of its use {and an understanding of different styles within which IT can be used?}. (Donald)


Cyberpunk and Cyberculture by Dani Cavallaro
The book gave me the insight on the genre of science fiction and now I am more disciplined to understand the issues of cyberculture. (Sonia)


The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
Friedman’s book supports Collin Brookes’s view of IT as a new usage of language through the breadth of evidence provided regarding the integral role of IT in transforming world financial markets through the ease and sophistication of electronic communication. (Stephen)


In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
In In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Stepehnson argues that information technology requires an evolution of language, often in the form of jargon and applied metaphor, to simplify complex processes and create a foundation of universal “computer literacy” (required by the “global” or “connected” nature of computers and the internet). (Emily)


Wired Style by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon
By listing the definitions and common usages of computer and cyberspace-related words, Wired Style shows the new associations of the words and phrases, many of which require knowing the environments that created them. (Shanestelle)



Digital Sensations by Kenneth Hillis
This book, Digital Sensations, relates to Brookes’s thesis that cyberspace represents a new use of language, because virtual realities are, for examples, based on a language of computer codes that is completely different from what we use in our everyday lives, which require us to be disciplined and be part of an interpretative community where that language is understood. (Elif)

agenda for 11/2

first we will talk about carl's and liz's proposed projects and websites

then we will hear from elif about hillis's book

then we will try to draw together issues, concepts, theories from the book talks so far

then we will hear from amanda, shanestelle and liz

recovering from last night

whew.... at some point last night, Gershenfeld's idea that the computer screen is really a poor interface for reading (i.e., it's like shinning a flash light through a piece of paper and into your eyes) was very forcefully driven home. I guess I can now say that I have learned something new from a migrain headache.

I have an idea I want to float by people. What do you-all think about writing a blog as a final exam? I'm not saying that we are going to do this, but I'm thinking about it. We could keep a communal blog, post to it (I could see and grade whatever any individual is writing), comment on each other's post, and in that way cover the course concepts. I could do some grading formula along the lines of 75% for your individual posts, and 25% for the communal dynamic, effectiveness, and interplay with comments. What do you think?

10/26

tonight's agenda

hear from Stephen and Donald on their sites

hear from Emily, Elif, and Shan-estelle on their books

hear from Carl, Liz, and Amanda on their sites

maybe, maybe, maybe talk about CSS