Archive for September, 2006
damn the spam
A few month ago, I installed a plug-in for WordPress that asks for word verification when you comment because I was getting so much spam. The spam stopped. Fabulous. Wonderful.
Today, I got a notification that there was a comment in the approval queue:
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and on titles
I’ve noticed that when I write a blog post, I usually title it first. Everything else I write, though, the title comes last. This is something to think about.
so, i’m a stalker…
A few days ago, I set up my bloglines account, and today, after adding some friends’ blogs and such, I got up to 67 feeds, which is a bit ridiculous. Of course, not all of these are “blogs” (as of now, 4 feeds are from comics websites), and many of the blogs I feed from [...]
keeping in v. sending away
I’m finally getting around to reading Rebecca Blood’s The Weblog Handbook, and I’d like to quote her on one primary difference between weblogs and more traditional sites (at least back in the 90s and early 00’s):
The weblog points its visitors to other sites. Commercial websites spent years chating the mantra of “stickiness”: the ability to [...]
too many books
Today I realized that I had 132 books checked out from the school library. That’s a bit…insane. I went through every library book I have in my apartment and divided books into two piles. I managed to make a fairly sizeable “return to library” pile, but it’s just so hard to part with a book, [...]
what is reading and writing?
Will Richardson has written an article on The Pulse called “These Days, Reading Means Editing.” I think Richardson raises great points about the blurring of reading, editing, and writing in a digital age where the validity of something written isn’t as readily apparant as it used to be (well, perhaps it never used to be). [...]
bloglines finally
Many months ago when I was looking for a good blog aggregator I set up a Bloglines account, but I wasn’t really satisfied with it. Actually, I couldn’t really find a single blog aggregator I liked. I attempted setting up my own with a wordpress blog, but it had glitches and wasn’t that attractive to [...]
apathy in the student mill
I’m still reading Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Mind. He’s coming to campus in October to speak, and I’d really like to finish the book by then. In fact, Sara Jameson has urged all the TA’s to read the book, and I’d encourage them to as well (though I lament the [...]
risky teachers, shifts in thinking
In composition we are often trying to get our students to come up with something provocative. I’ve struggled a few times with students who want to write an argumentative paper as a report and a few times with students who want to argue something that no one would argue against, e.g., smoking is bad for [...]
a little pro vlog tirade
I’ll preface this post by admitting that I have not “read” many vlogs. In fact, I may know the URLs to only two, but it’s a medium that I find pretty interesting. I’ve always loved the mixture of media, and combining video on a blog seems like a good idea to me.
This post is prompted [...]
