Archive for February, 2007
exciting news
I woke up this morning to a wonderful email in my inbox: Hello, Just wanted to let you know I linked to your blog in my column on CBSNews.com today. Thanks! If you want to take a look, here’s the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/blogophile/main2519884.shtml Thanks, Melissa
linking trimbur and sirc
I didn’t even think about this, but Jeff Ward does a great job of linking Trimbur’s article to the work of Geoffrey Sirc, writing: Geof’s mission, or at least my take on it based in direct conversation as well as reading his book English Composition as a Happening, is that part of what makes it [...]
Citizendium!
via Blogora, an article about a new wiki to rival Wikipedia (perhaps rival isn’t the right term, but the site hopes to have more accuracy and accountability than Wikipedia). An early version of Citizendium is up.
my contribution to the carnival
Here’s my carnival contribution on John Trimbur’s article “Changing the question: Should writing be studied?” (Composition Studies 31.1, Spring 2003): The discussion so far is pretty rich (see my previous post for a list of other contributors; Ten Minutes a Day and Wind Farm add to the discussion today; I missed Digital Digs from a [...]
joining the trimbur carnival
I just read the John Trimbur article “Changing the question: Should writing be studied?” for the carnival this month, which I’m a bit intimidated by. There’s already been a variety of responses: • Jan 27: Yellow Dog • Jan 27: Collin vs. Blog • Feb 18: Why Not Blog? • Feb 20: Bill Degenaro • [...]
bias and wikis and poedias
Jim at Blogora points readers to Conservapedia, a conservative alternative to Wikipedia. Their main page notes: Conservapedia has over 3,400 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics, as well as more than 350 lectures and term lists. There have been over 252,000 page views and over 14,800 page edits. Already [...]
what’s a zine?
I haven’t been posting enough about my academic work recently, partially due to being too busy, partially due to being too stressed emotionally and intellectually, and partially due to a great weekend. My friend Luke and I went to California for the weekend, where I did research in the UC Davis archives for a day [...]
a reader…
Thought I’d link to some good posts: • Musing on Making Things Real (Apophenia) “The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.” — Hannah Arendt Have you ever found yourself not saying something that is on your mind because [...]
reactions to changes in technologies never change
EDIT: This now includes the proper link to the renewed YouTube video (The feed I had here before had been taken down).
what does it mean to do well? oh, get married?
My philosophy teacher suggested I read The Elements of Moral Philosophy to get a good introduction to moral philosophy (because I don’t have much of a philosophy background outside of English courses). I’m not so far into the book, but pretty quickly I have to doubt the inclusive nature of the book (or lack thereof). [...]
