BE: Composing the Digital Self

Some of you may be having difficulty including your audio recordings in blog posts. Follow these steps to post an Odeo player of your original recording:
1. Log in to Odeo and select “Record Audio” under the “Create” menu
2. Record your audio and select “Save Audio” when you are satisfied with the recording
3. From here [...]

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In class on Thursday…
We discussed equipment and online system for reservations available through the DLC – though we (I) did learn that it took a phone call to reserve a laptop.  I’ll mention again that the DLC is the place to go for hardware and software concerns as they relate to coursework on campus.  We [...]

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On Monday we opened the door to Flickr – currently the most popular photo community online, we played a bit with Fastr, and we opened a door into social bookmarking with del.icio.us. I encourage you to practice composing yourselves in the communities you’ll find there: visit the photo collections of others, leave comments, upload [...]

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Folks, just a reminder: I should have received two URLs from each of you – one for del.icio.us and one for your Flickr account. Check your outgoing email to confirm sending the links. It is to your advantage that I have this information; if I can see your work online, I am more [...]

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Because class discussion ran a bit thin on John Deely Brown and Paul Duguid reading, I thought I’d post a few of the not-to-miss highlights from this very important assignment. If you have not completed the reading, let me encourage you again to do so. I count this article as among the most [...]

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Lab on Tuesday addressed creating titles for your webpage composition, inserting images, and creating rollovers – all very cool stuff. Thanks again to James for his introduction to the technology behind the scenes, but do remember that “composing” a web page reaches beyond managing the technology to considerations of audience, purpose, and the conventions [...]

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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 [...]

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The joint is jumpin’! Google has launched their new (beta) Google blog search engine. If you haven’t already heard, you need to expand your blogroll. This is news!! Give it a try.
Over at Technorati Dave Sifley is joining in on the celebration, basking in the flood of affirmation it is to [...]

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Many of you have written to concerns related to the disaster and aftermath of hurricane Katrina. This NYTimes editorial from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, is a provocative “triangle” of considerations relating governance in the city-state of Singapore to the response of the U.S. government to demands of its own citizens [...]

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My records indicate that Gilwan and Diki have been “missed” on most of your blogrolls. Please subscribe to their blogs today:they’re doing some great writing that you won’t want to miss!
THEN … go here and follow the instructions to add your Bloglines blogroll to your Blogger location. I’ll take a look [...]

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