BE: Composing the Digital Self

I have just finished reading through weekend writing on the class blogs, and I’ve enjoyed the variety of ideas found among us about which we wrote: color, grammar, choices, and more.  Let me make note, however, that I have seen little or no address made of the reading missed in class discussion last Thursday.  Topics addressed in “The Read-Write Web” about which you might write include: the distinction between one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many modes of communication;the variety of devices and services available for composing ourselves in the 21st century; and, the rate of change taking place, noting, for example, types of functionality that may have become available since the article was written in 2003. 

Note, too, that the email sent last Friday included an assignment for updating your Blogger writing space by thoroughly completing your profile do as to include an image, compose an intentionally written “about me” section, and edit links in such a way as to include an “email me” link on the front page as well as replacing/removing links that currently read “Google news” or “edit me.”   Many have overlooked Friday’s email; I encourage a return for another read and attention given there. 

My English 106 course sequence at Purdue has basically one standing assignment: improve your writing skills.  You’ll have many opportunities each week to address yourself to that work; my expectation is to see you do so at least three or four times a week.  Let one of those times this week be a response to last Thursday’s writing.  I’ll check again for that by 9:00 p.m. on Monday night.

In the meantime, any response to the discussion about a use of color in composition?