Weblog TweakingJerz’s Literacy Weblog) I’ve made a few very minor tweaks to the blog, as I re-familiarize myself with JSP. Will is planning on making some changes to the site soon, and I want to be up to speed so I can more fully understand what he’s accomplished for me. The underlying code that he…
Early, link-heavy blogs were, for the most part, a method of sharing links. They usually contained entries that consisted of one or two hyperlinks, the blogger’s commentary on the link’s content, and a place for other bloggers to make comments about the entry. These early blogs often focused on what <a href=”htttp://www.rebeccaspocket.net/essays/weblog_history.html”>Blood calls “the dissemination…
Update, June 2015: New URL for the Directory of Open Access Journals in Education To the best of our ability to discern, we have included only links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost. We have excluded professional magazines that are largely not refereed, and commercial journals that may…
Two North Carolina men were indicted for violating the state’s junk e-mail law by sending thousands of e-mail pitches for investments, software and other products, in what prosecutors said was the nation’s first felony charges for unsolicited e-mail. —Virginia Nabs Two Big Spammers (Wired/AP) I’d like to think this will make a difference… maybe it will,…
Works Cited “Susan” (smgct1@comcast.net). “Oddly enough…” [Weblog comment.] N.d. “More Questionable Use of My Work.” Dennis G. Jerz. Jerz’s Literacy Weblog. Seton Hill University. 10 Dec 2003. (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=1998) Poster’s Lastname, Firstname, I. (or screen ID) “Title of comment, or first few words.” [Weblog comment.] Date comment was posted. Title of blog entry. Author of blog…
Works Cited Jerz, Dennis G. “Citing a Weblog in MLA Style.” [Weblog entry.] Jerz’s Literacy Weblog. Seton Hill University. 11 Dec 2003. (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink.jsp?id=2000). 11 Dec 2003. Lastname, Firstname, I. “Title of individual blog entry.” [Weblog entry.] Name of Weblog. Sponsoring organization — if any. Date posted. (URL to permalink.) Date accessed. Note: See also “Citing…
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 28 (UPI) — Thousands of Iraqis took to Baghdad’s streets Friday condemning terrorism and urging a halt to political violence. ‘ [OK… so far, so good.] The demonstrators shouted “death to terrorists”… [Gaak! This sounds like a bad MadTV skit. Were these demonstrators paying attention to the supposed purpose of their event?…
More Questionable Use of My Work While surfing the web today, I was surprised to find, in an OpenWiki installation on a web page published by the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (University of California, Santa Barbara), a document containing a subtantial amout of my own work. The OpenWiki document in question states…
Often, while sifting through the mountain of daily Gothamist correspondence, we come across emails asking for advice about starting a blog. Why anyone would consider Gothamist an authority on the sweet, intricate science of blogging is beyond us — but we are loathe to sidestep our obligation to respond. Here then, based on our blog-exploration…
Spokesman Richard Boucher confirmed Monday that [US Secretary of State Colin] Powell had indeed appointed [James] Brown to be the first US “secretary of soul and foreign minister of funk” but said the job description for the post had not yet been drawn up. —Powell ‘appoints’ soul legend James Brown to new diplomatic postYahoo/AFP) And…
Think about it — do you really believe that person who says they couldn’t do something because “something came up?” That they couldn’t do their homework because the printer broke? Lame…. These lies will work as excuses because no one believes excuses anyway! And to think, if they are outrageous lies, they will become more…
The increased adoption of blogging, citizen journalism, Flash presentations and the like portend a different season of political coverage than what we’ve seen in the past. These aren’t new developments, but they’ve been used more frequently in the last year by the online-news industry, and will likely be incorporated into upcoming electoral coverage. —Steve Outing…
Unless the population of a state is dispersed evenly in proportion to the size of each county, there is no direct relationship between the physical area of a county and the number of people, registered voters, or votes cast within it. | Which is why I was surprised to see an analyst from a leading…
One only needs to have had a weblog for about five minutes to see the relevance to blogging of Cialdini‘s ideas about how we are persuaded and how we reach decisions — particularly concerning whom one links to or adds to one‘s blogroll. If you’re honest, you’ll recognize that at least some of Cialdini‘s principles…
“We want to find out what your working conditions are, anything that we can do to help you,” Otwell tells the young women at the factory. He speaks in English slowly, for the benefit of an Arabic translator, who then turns to an Arabic-speaking sign-language translator to sign Otwell’s questions to the seamstresses. | The…
“The technology is simple,” said Microsoft Office Research Division Head, Richard Greenwood, “students have been doing it for years. Thanks to the power of Microsoft Word 2004, anybody can turn a five-hundred-word report into a ten-thousand-word masterpiece.” —Word 2004 to Pioneer AutoUnsummarize Feature (BB Spot) Not the best spoof news site, but this article isn’t bad.…
I’m marking blogging portfolios for my Writing for the Internet course. Here are a few gems: “I don’t get any leftovers at school, and I miss that twice-heated home cooked goodness.” — Amy Slade “I’m willing to wager that writing for an online medium is letting me take the easy way out.” — Julie Young…
A solid agreement has been reached between BlogShares founder Seyed Razavi and technologist Jay Campbell — the site is coming back! —Blogshares: Coming Back Soon I figured that a good idea wouldn’t lay dormant for very long. Similar:If You Think You Hate Puns, You're WrongI wrote my college application essay on …AmusingThese Fake Local News…
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Citing the prior week’s ABC broadcast of “Living with Michael Jackson,” the controversial Martin Bashir documentary, the school official lodged allegations of “general neglect by mother and sexual abuse by ‘an entertainer,’” according to the summary memo…. [P]ublished reports have indicated that the older boy was taunted by classmates after the documentary aired on ABC’s…