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Category Archives: technology
Tour of the Internets
Here’s a work in progress. Next semester I am giving my students a tour of the internet early in our digital citizenship course. Please feel free to make suggestions in the comments. General Resources for starting a blog-type thingie Rands … Continue reading
Posted in internet, teaching, technology
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Someone Tell Me If I Like This…
Something bugs me about this video. I watch a lot of the “times-they-are-a-changin’” videos, but don’t know what to make of this. But my Blink sense is tingling… Since I’m teaching my digital citizenship course next semester, I think I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in cool, digital-media, internet, movies, technology, web2.0, youtube
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Obama goes to work
As I recently mentioned, I primarily voted for Obama based on his stance toward net neutrality. Obama has decided to appoint our nation’s first Chief Technology Officer. User Voice, a social aggregator, has set up an interesting forum to discuss … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, internet, ip, net-neutrality, politics, technology, web2.0, writing-tech
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Calling for Five Minutes of Your Time
I just read a disturbing story on how libraries are being pressured away from cooperating with open source project: a concise post, written by Aaron Swartz over at Raw Thought. If you don’t have the time to read the article, … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, books, computers-and-writing, digital-media, ip, politics, productive mess, technology, web2.0
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Once Upon a Time…
I thought nothing could be better than rewinding and pausing live television. Hallelujah technology, for finally conquering the tyranny of linear time. Now, through a student, I have discovered Last.fm. All the randomness and excitement of discovery that comes with … Continue reading
Posted in internet-radio, technology, victory-is-mine
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New Media Rhetoric and Wikipedia
I thought I would share my conference proposal for International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference. I have a feeling its probably a bit too contemporary (ie, it mentions computers) for this conference, but there’s no harm in trying. … Continue reading
Posted in burke, corder, digital-media, diss, presentation, rhetoric, technology, theory, theory-in-practice, wiki, wikipedia
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New Media Rhetoric
The first paragraph of George Oates’ recent A List Apart article “Community: From Little Things, Big Thigns Grow” reflects something I’ve been trying to articulate for a few years: People don’t like being told what to do. We like to … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, diss, rhetoric, teaching, technology, theory-in-practice
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Shouldn’t This Be Bigger News
Came across this story on artificial intelligence this morning. Let’s put it alongside this: I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all … Continue reading
Posted in productive mess, technology
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Time to Shop for Sun Block
Its unofficially official: I have accepted a position with the University of South Florida. The job focuses on teaching the history of rhetoric at the graduate level and will also involve undergraduate courses on contemporary rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric, professional … Continue reading
Posted in jobmarket, technology, usf, victory-is-mine
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Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near
I’ve put off reading this book for awhile, since I find it so difficult to talk about. I find Kurzweil’s work fascinating and dangerous, stimulating and irresponsible. I know he’s coming to come up in my dissertation, opposite and alongside … Continue reading
Posted in diss, Kurzweil, reading-notes, technology, theory
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