I’m enamored with Johnson-Eilola’s media diary concept and thought I’d keep one this week. I didn’t follow his format exactly, but here’s the one I kept yesterday (under the cut):
Media Log, Monday, January 15, 2007
6:45 to 8:00 am
Bloglines (blogs and online comics)
Email
Read Enculturation article
Wrote on thesis (MS Word)
Wrote blog post
Wikipedia (Roseanne)
Facebook
Livejournal
8:00 to 9:00 am
OSU architecture
Corvallis residential architecture
Street signs
College English 69.2 (2006)
9:30 to 10:00 am
College English 69.2 (2006)
iPod and iTunes (Maxïmo Park)
Wrote blog post
Wrote on thesis (MS Word)
Search OSU Library catalogue online
Facebook
Livejournal
Online clothes stores
del.icio.us
Email
10:00 to 11:00 am
iPod and iTunes (Maxïmo Park)
Grimshaw article
Email
Teaching Sociology article
Wrote blog post
Livejournal
BBC News online
Bloglines
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
iPod and iTunes (Maxïmo Park, Mars Volta)
Walter Benajamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History“
Donald Murray, The Craft of Revision, 5th edition
Type notes for a class and email to clasmate
Facebook
Livejournal
Write for 516 paper (MS Word)
Williams, “Why I Write“
Course Syllabi
Tong, Feminist Thought
Instant Messenger
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Instant Messenger
iPod and iTunes (The Mars Volta, Liars)
Tong, Feminist Thought
Email
Facebook
Bloglines
Livejournal
Brian L. Ott, “I’m Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?“
Top Ramen packages
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Ott, “I’m Bart Simpson“
iPod and iTunes (Dandy Warhols)
Comment on blog
Gunther Kress, “ ‘English’ at the Crossroads“
Facebook
Email
OSU Library website
Bloglines
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Mixed CD (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
Library books (browsing my own)
Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of Difference, edited by Michael Peters, Mark Olssen, and Colin Lankshear
iTunes (Anti-Flag)
Online clothes store
Instant Messenger
Livejournal
Email
Jen Benka, A Box of Longing with Fifty Drawers
Prism, Fall 2006
Blog template
Traffic and street signs
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
iTunes (LCD Soundsystem, Minor Threat)
Prism, Fall 2006
Email
Kairos 11.2 online
Livejournal
Instant Messenger
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera
Internet movie database
OSU library online catalogue
Ani DiFranco lyrics online
My commonplace blog
Wikipedia (Jimmy Santiago Baca)
Baca’s website
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Harper’s Magazine, September 2006
Cooking directions on pasta box
Poster for OSU MLK Celebration 2007 online
Facebook
Livejournal
Google Docs
Email
Mixed CD (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, New Pornographers)
Street and Traffice signs
Cover of Newspaper
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Rereading our CCCC proposal
Email
Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen
Bloglines
Reading and responding to a rough draft of a friend’s poem on paper
Music at Interzone
Drafting poetry in notebook
Coffee mug decal
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Candlelight vigil and singing “We Will Overcome“
Bombs Away menu
Business signs
Phone call
Text Messaging
8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Coffee cup mug decal (Anthony’s Airport)
Email
MySpace
Google Docs
Facebook
Bloglines
Music at Interzone
Turkle, Life on the Screen, and typing notes
Software update for OS X
Apple’s Website help
Spanning Sync’s blog and software
Text Messaging
Livejournal
del.icio.us
Mac downloads website
Adium downloads website and downloads
10:30 pm to 11:30 pm
Google Docs
Music at Interzone
Instant Messenger
Email
CAS (typing report on MS Word, reviewing notes)
Bloglines
Livejournal
11:30 pm to 1:00 am
Interzone music
Online banking
Facebook
Mac Software websites
Instant Messenger
Phone call
Text messaging
Traffic signals and signs
Mixed CD (Maxïmo Park, Postal Service, Stuart Davis)
Coffee signs and bags (Winco)
Grocery signs and ads at Winco (largely ignored)
ATM
iPod and iTunes (Wilco)
Homegrown by hooks and Mesa-Bains
