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Notes from the Interblags

Hey, let’s get back to some cool stuff I read online recently: • I really like this post from Tenured Radical, which is largely about facebook, faculty meetings, and school starting. In particular, this line is spot-on: If I can say I learned anything it was that faculty really ought not to complain about their [...]

Blogs, Notes from the Interblags, Privacy, Technology, public sphere

Bruns (2008): Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage by Axel Bruns My rating: 3 of 5 stars Bruns’s Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond is a solid argument about how the Internet is changing the way we produce content. Bruns explains that content creation online “operate[s:] along lines which are fluid, flexible, heterarchical, [...]

Blogs, Internet culture, New Media, Wikipedia

As the term starts rolling along

As the term begins, I thought I’d write a quick post with some useful links. • Composition instructors know it can be difficult to teach using a handbook. How do we approach the text as a useful resource for students? All too often it’s easy to assign pages from a handbook for students to read, [...]

Blogs, Teaching Composition, Technology

Meetspaces: Going the Way of Newspapers

Diesel Sweeties raises an interesting point, that media studies and rhetoric don’t seem to focus on as much as the perishing newspaper: how much are our public physical spaces changing due to online behavior and sociality? I’ve read a number of news stories over the last four years about bars closing down (particularly gay bars) [...]

Blogs, Privacy, public sphere

Reading Zines

When I visited my friend Billy from high school while driving through Chicago in June, he gave me some copies of his recent zines (and by recent, I mean within the last few years ago). Billy first introduced me to zines (independently produced magazines) in high school, when we’d read stuff by other high school [...]

Blogs, Zines

Iran: A Nation of Bloggers

from too many sources to h/t: IRAN: A Nation Of Bloggers from ayrakus on Vimeo.

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pseudonymously writing in public

As you may well be aware by now, pseudonymous blogger Publius, who writes at Obsidian Wings, was outed as law professor John Blevins by Ed Whelan on his TNR blog. The NY Times has a post with various opinions about blogging pseudonymously, which is worth reading. Whelan writes that not signing your name in public [...]

Blogs, public sphere

under construction

changing my theme… again!

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sidewalk blogging

I took these pictures about a month ago, but thought of them again tonight. Someone on campus, “Nathan,” has started sidewalk blogging. This involves a “post” a day on a square of sidewalk in front of the library on campus, often detailing a small part of the day, something he enjoys, or some musings of [...]

Blogs, Literacy

rhetoric and psychoanalysis

There’s a pretty good conversation starting up at The Blogora on Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis. If you’re interested, check it out. (An addition: I’m engaged in an argument with my cousin on Facebook about homosexuality. With the Iowa supreme court ruling on marriage, she seems intent on showing how homosexuality is abnormal. And of course, I’m [...]

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