I should have just kept my domain hosting updated to my most current email address. Months ago I forgot to renew the domain for my site “Cultivating Minds” at the same time that I was starting to not like that blog title anyway. Actually, I found the title of that limited. First of all, I’m […]
I have to admit, I was trying to blog during the SuperBowl, but my heart wasn’t in it. Greg’s post about the ads yesterday reminded me that I was already missing the boat on relevance a day later and now that it’s Tuesday, and I’m still pulling this post together, and it’s getting to the […]
Greg tagged The Life Cycle of a Blog Post published by Wired magazine. I stumbled upon this post (not literally using Stumble Upon) by checking out my aggregator (Google Reader!) feed for del.icio.us tags. (I wish the Life Cycle had notations so I could refer to specific items on the diagram. Not a big deal, […]
I love the blogging-of-book format of The Googlization of Everything, and I appreciate Siva Vaidhyanathan’s perspective on the increasing omnipresence of Google. I’m pretty sure you can’t be everywhere at once (monopoly!) and not be evil. One of the concerns I have about the pervasive use of Google is that we, as a society, will […]
Keeping with the theme of linking, one of the problems that seems to arise is how to search blog content in order to find connections with which to start. It is also understandable that one might also want to know WHY one would want to search blog content, but I will reserve that topic for […]
Though the Prologue to Manovich’s Language for New Media is a little abstract, it contextualizes “new media” within a historical context. The Man With a Movie Camera, the film that Manovich deconstructs, was made in 1929. Manovich uses still images from the film to frame the underlying characteristics of new media. Though he recognizes […]
One important aspect of effective design, I believe, is giving users a clear choice. On my Mac, when I install software updates, the above demonstrates the choices given to me. What if I am in the middle of something? I am provided with only two options, both of which amount to the same result–I […]
One of the most pervasive interactive, dynamic media forms is the blog. Last week in class, everyone set up blogs here on wordpress, and we explored some other essential “Web 2.0″ tools including del.icio.us and technorati.
While blogging may seem like just a simple journaling exercise, it can be very, very different. Notice I say “can.” […]
One of the requirements I gave in the list of three blogs to link to this week was to locate an academic blog. Though it would be great if members of the class were to identify purely academic blogs, I mostly wanted to push people towards locating blogs where people were writing intellectually stimulating commentary. […]
Greg starts out this blogging endeavor with a post about reading. There are a number of ideas mingled in the post from computer technology making information more readily available to the fact that there is so much information out there. “And,” says Greg, “it’s because there is so much to do on a computer that […]