Notes from the Interblags
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 [...]
notes from the interblags: post RSA edition
Yesterday concluded the RSA Summer Institute, held here at Penn State. Participants from around the country came to discuss rhetoric in either a week-long seminar or a weekend workshop (or for some, both). I was in the Queering Rhetorical Studies workshop, which was a fantastic experience. I walked away with new connections, friends, and colleagues, [...]
notes from the interblags: twitter doesn’t rehydrate like beer does
It seems that there’s almost as much talk about Twitter as there is Twittering. • Chronicle Wired Campus: Tweeters are self-obsessed. What I found interesting: “This implies that Twitter’s resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network,” the study said. • MLB: Cardinals Coach Tony Larussa is suing Twitter [...]
notes from the interblags: ereading, twitter, plagiarism, potato chips
• Harvard Business: An analysis of Twitter based on gender. Men are more likely to follow other men and more likely to be followed by more people, although there are more women on Twitter than men. Additionally, 90% of the content on Twitter is produced by only 10% of users, and the medium number of [...]
notes from the interblags
• Ira Socol’s post The Width of the World is an interesting read about social media tools. I don’t entirely agree with all his points, but he’s started a decent discussion about groupthink, time-wasting, and human relationships (arguing, largely, against Larry Sanger’s blog post here). • Via someone on Twitter: I LOVE these clowns, who [...]
notes from the interblags
It’s been a while since I’ve done a link-dump, but it’s probably time. Most of the stuff I read now gets linked to from my Twitter account. • Slate’s new women’s website doesn’t seem very feminist according to Feministing—or perhaps downright anti- or post-feminist. UPDATE: Read Anne Friedman’s post at The American Prospect, which asks [...]
notes from the interblags: link dump
• Via Theresa, article on local tv taking advantage of newspapers failing. Check out Theresa’s commentary as well. • The MSM are discussing that meme going around Facebook: 25 “Random” Things… Time, WaPo, NY Times. • It’s weird having a President who’s authoring opinions in newspapers again. • Michael Bérubé retook the lit subject GRE. Pretty [...]
notes from the interblags: literacy, dangerous courses, change.gov
• The NEA reports that reading literature is on the rise. Millie Davis summarizes: This week the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reported the first rise in the number of adults reading literature since they began their survey in 1982. In fact, 16.6 million more adults reported reading literature (novels and short stories, plays, [...]
notes from the interblags
• Ira Socol calls for 2009 to be the year of universal access • New York Magazine has a brief story on gay-related zines out of New York. Towleroad includes links to various zines. I might have to make a trip to NYC sometime soon to visit Printed Matter. • Aaron Bady at The Valve [...]
notes from the interblags
• Inside Higher Ed: On the age bias in hiring academics • Anne-Marie offers some information literacy tools for synonyms • Matt offers some tools for annotated websites • Matt also shares some videos about Twitter. This one on ambient intimacy is especially interesting. • Irene Monreo at Bilerico: Gay is NOT the new black [...]
