Archive for May, 2007
tag cloud of new chapter 1
Here is a tag cloud of the draft of Chapter 1 I am turning into Lisa this morning: academic argue baoill become being believes bloggers blogosphere blogs boards brooke chapter claims class classroom comments community composition considered content conversation course critical culture definition democratic different discourse discussion essays exigence filter focus form genre goals graduate [...]
a five minute break from my thesis
I turn in a draft of what is now my first chapter to Lisa later this morning. I am so frustrated… I just want to bash my head on a rock. I don’t know how many times I hit my head on the table last night writing out of frustration (or how much my smoking [...]
Seventeen explains how to hook up with a blogger
My friend Drew in Iowa points to Ezra Klein’s post about Seventeen magazine’s article on dating. Evidently, in addition to the standard “How to date The Emo Guy” and The Store Clerk and The Club Promoter, Seventeen now includes The Blogger: You don’t agree with all his posts, but they make you think about new [...]
standard format in submissions…
I’ve never been a big fan of Microsoft Word, and now I’m really starting to abhor it, but it seems to be the general required submission format for files, which is icky. I find myself drafting in either TextEdit (.rtf) or NeoOffice (.odt), and I wish there was a shift in submission requirements (and formats [...]
is democracy inherently good?
Yesterday in Creative Democracy Professor Orosco asked us to write and share our ideas on two questions. It hadn’t occurred to me to blog about this, but then Luke did, so I thought I’d go ahead and type up what I wrote about and a bit of a reflection. Orosco’s two questions: 1) Is democracy [...]
digital data storage goes organic?
After reading Boing Boing for a few weeks now, I’m left wondering how I ever lived without it (probably with a few extra free minutes a day). Yesterday, Boing Boing points to an article about using genetic material for data storage. Boing Boing writes: Japanese researchers are developing methods to store data as genetic code [...]
great website full of ads and gender
I’m working on a performance art piece for Queer Vox as part of this year’s Pride Week at OSU. My performance/presentation will revolve around gender and the sexualization of youth — and a hopefully well-done deconstruction of it. I came across a great resource, not only for my presentation, but also for visual media literacy [...]
a fair(y) use tale
via Dennis Jerz, a YouTube video using images from Disney movies to explain copyright and fair use. Well done, creative, and informative!
jealous, lonely, and out west
I’ve never wanted to be in Detroit so bad. When I was at 4C’s, everyone was telling me I should go to Computers and Writing, but really, it’s timing is bad. We’re in the middle of week seven (out of ten) here, I’ve got way too much homework, and my thesis looms over my head [...]
perfect day for reading kerouac in the quad?
Sitting in my office this morning, I thought it would be the perfect day to go out in the quad and finish Dharma Bums, but once there, I was reminded what week it was. There, in the center of the quad, is a large display of the so-called “Genocide Awareness Project” – a tall billboard [...]
