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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We’ll be learning more about “wikis” in just a couple of weeks, but for those who would like to take a look ahead, I encourage you to visit PBWiki this evening, sign up, and publish a writing about PBWiki before midnight tonight. According to the promotion, those who link to PBWiki before the midnight [...]

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We talked briefly on Thursday about the rhetorical value of color in the work of composing a message. Think of “rhetoric” as the many intentional choices of presentation (word, image, sound, and others) we make to shape a message in such a way as to get maximun “control” over the meaning it carries and [...]

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We’re been thinking about ways in which the digital 21st century is writing our lives, and here’s one more: PodDating – the next generation of online dating now in video.  Now you can subscribe to feeds and sync your iPod for automatic updates on singles in your area.  
 
There are just about 300 million people in [...]

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We’ve discussed Creative Commons, OurMedia, and the issues of ownership: Take Back TV is another effort moving in the direction of reclaiming the culture. You may find the list of artists currently participating with the effort to be of particular interest. It’s like Lessig says: these efforts aren’t about taking down the notion of “property” [...]

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David Weinberger sits on the Board of Directors for Technorati and was recently invited to speak with the National Public Radio folks about “Tagging” as a new way of organizing our sense of being human. The piece is about 3 minutes long and makes a nice follow up to conversations we’ve had in class. [...]

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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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