Today my students are bringing three copies of their first drafts to class for a first round of peer feedback and feedback from me. I just received an email from one student who wrote that his/her printer was out of paper and […]

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. But it does look a little bizarre: John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton – they all have Facebook profiles. Now Hillary and Barack barely really have anything on their profiles except for who supports them – […]

The topic for today’s class is blogs and journalism. We already talked a bit about the development of newspapers when we were talking about Habermas and the public sphere. Today we’ll be more specific. Some of the matters we’ll touch: We’ll start […]

Found at Tawnygrammer.org, in a discussion of the sudden disappearance of the trAce archives: In the future, perhaps, when redirects fail and old links have all broken, will we be able to make discoveries in abandoned regions of the web akin to […]

Usually I only think of backups when it’s too late. But today, when I discovered that my Endnote bibliography was corrupted and wouldn’t open, I only fretted for five minutes before remembering that after that wicked water incident I started using Backup […]

(Looking for the unoffical blogosphere version of the speaker list for MiT5? Here you go!) I’m off (in a matter of, well, months) to the States for not one but two conferences at the end of April. First up is MiT5 (Media […]

The Tags Networks Narrative is, according to its website, “a unique speculative project exploring the potential for collaborative keyword tagging (folksonomy) in narrative research” – at first I thought they wanted to work out how to write stories using tagging, but it […]

Since I just handed out the first paper assignments yesterday, today a link to 57 tips (!) for writing your term paper might be in order. Lifehack.org also has many suggestions for how to hack your studying skills. (For the un-initiated: this […]

Lots of great responses to the assignment this morning! Thanks guys 🙂 Here’s today’s plan: Hand out paper topics and discuss them. I think Olav might not be here today, but if he is, I’m going to ask him to show us […]

On Wednesday we’ll be doing this: I get to show you Michael Wesch’s awesome video of Web 2.0 in three and a half minutes. A quick rundown of some of the sociological background to social networks. Derek has agreed to show us […]