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Odeo Player: From the mic to the blog

Administrator — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:24:54 +0000

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 you must return to the main screen in order to proceed (select your user name at the top right)

4. Under “Manage” select “Recordings”

5. From the list of displayed recordings, select your most recent work

6. The displayed player will allow you to select “HTML,” from which you can copy HTML code to insert into your post

technorati tags: Purdue English 106, podcast, Odeo

Wiki Space x 2: A “Bonus” For Looking Ahead

Administrator — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:55:09 +0000

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 hour tonight will receive double the server space for expanding your work online. You may not know what the service has to offer yet, but the link may be a great “just in case” move to make. You never know.

I’ve added more information below along with a link for getting started.

What’s a Wiki?

A wiki is a kind of free-form website that is easy to edit. On a pbwiki, any visitor with the site’s password can edit any page on the site. pbwikis can be made public to allow anyone to read a wiki, while still restricting editing to those who know the wiki’s password. But pbwikis can be private, too.

Edits are done in plain text and don’t require learning fancy or complex codes like HTML. Just start typing! It’s also easy to create new pages and make links to pages you’ve already made.

Why might you want a pbwiki?

Sharing notes on Mayan culture for History class
Brainstorming the new product design for Tuesday’s client presentation
Taking notes to figure out which digital camera to buy
Keeping track of the projects you’re involved with and your TODO list

It’s profoundly simple to make a new wiki with pbwiki. It’s totally free of charge and spam-free. With nothing to download, you’ll be sharing information in a jiffy!So go ahead and make a wiki! It’s fun!

technorati tags: Purdue English 106, PBWiki

Composing in Color

Administrator — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:59:30 +0000

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 the response it will receive. As we begin to see how far the notion of “text” and “message” can reach (for example, self as “text”), the attention given to a more purposeful use of rhetoric can begin to make more sense.

Follow this link to Claudia Cortes’s work on color for a look at the meanings with which color invests inself – the meanings at play when color contibutes to the message.

Then, for those with an interest in seeing color “put to work” in fashion, you might enjoy this Cathy Horyn (NYTimes) report on the latest of Paris fashion, “Haute Couture 2006.” How does color contribute here to the composition of message/meaning?

technorati tags: Purdue English 106, rhetoric and color

Own An iPod?

Administrator — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:28 +0000

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 the United States: sales for iPod are approaching 42 million. The promotional materials for PodDating offer the service as a time-saving, relationship management tool. I post mention of it here as yet another example of the emerging digital landscape.

While We’re Talking About It …

Administrator — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:40:16 +0000

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” or “ownership” as much as they are an effort to navigate the changing currents of the day in directing the focus of the law to protect a nation’s heritage as well as a nation’s future. Take a look at Take Back TV here, and if you have an interest in seeing the concert mentioned on their front page, you can get a direct link from JAVA here.

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PurdueEnglish106, free culture

Weinberger on Tagging

Administrator — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:32:41 +0000

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. Here’s the link.

technorati tags:
PurdueEnglish106, tagging

Google Blog Search

Administrator — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:27:53 +0000

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 have Google finally come on board in acknowledging (as this move certainly does) that blogs are future of internet. Sifley posts in cautionary notes, however, and the links he provides give you a handle on what “Beta” on Google’s new blog search move is all about. Enjoy the Google celebration – the more the better when it comes to shining a light on the many-to-many network, but for keeping a finger on the pulse of the blogosphere, turn to Technorati.

technorati tags: PurdueEnglish106, BlogSearching

Friedman from Singapore: Response to Katrina

Administrator — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:13:28 +0000

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 and formulating a position of convinction (#3 of the triangle) where Friedman’s own thinking on topic becomes pointedly clear.

Care to join the conversation?

technorati tags: PurdueEnglish106, Friedman, triangles