—Technorati’s Speech Bubble Icon (Technorati) What Technorati used to call its “Link Cosmos” appears to have been replaced by “Web Conversations.” The speech bubble icon that calls up a list of inboud links referencing a particular website is now part of the Technorati logo. Much less new-agey, much more down-to-earth. I haven’t time to investigate that…
English teacher Tom McHale sets down his cup of coffee and boots up the computer at his classroom desk. It‘s6:50 in the morning. After logging in, he opens up his personal page on the school Intrablog. There, he does a quick scan of the New York Times front page headlines and clicks through one of…
This paper examines metablogging in terms of Dawkins’s concept of the “meme” and Reddy’s critique of the “conduit” metaphor for communication…. The language of metablogging uses metaphors that emphasize communality and proximity, and thus offers an alternative to the social risks Reddy associates with the conduit metaphor. —Dennis G. Jerz —(Meme)X Marks the Spot: Theorizing…
If you’re an academic who blogs, what prompted you to start blogging? And what keeps you going? What do you try to do in your blog? Does your blog have any relationship to your scholarship? If you’re an academic who just reads blogs, do you intend to start your own blog sometime? If yes, what…
Very Tired on a Friday Afternoon. But it’s a good tired. I just heard that my proposal, “Moveable Types of Information Literacy: Emerging Electronic Genres and the Deconstruction of Peer Review,” has been accepted for the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy this coming October. Seton Hill University featured “information literacy” in a faculty seminar at…
Formerly viewed as a marginal activity restricted to the technically savvy, blogging is slowly becoming more of a mainstream phenomenon on the Internet. Thanks to much media hype and some high profile blog sites, these online journals have captured the public‘simagination. As novice authors plunge into the thrilling world of blog publishing, they soon realize…
I intentionally tried not to post about this (I guess I am meta-posting now) for a simple reason: this is not the way that a scholar discussion should take place…. This is not how this game is played. If anybody has to respond about what has been said at a conference, that should be made…
What stinks about the whole affair is not the glee with which Drudge refuses to let the facts get in the way of a good lie, but that most of those lies (including, apparently, this most recent one) are supplied to him by print journalists who don’t have enough evidence to put them into their…
44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files In a national phone survey between March 12 and May 20, 2003, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that more than 53 million American adults have used the Internet to…
While no replacement for writing articles and books, and no one is going to get tenured or promoted through blogging (at least not today); but what I’ve called a serious blogger would get a big plus on the positive side on the ledger from me when it gets to merit review time! Failing to reward…
Computers and Composition Online is the refereed online companion journal to Computers and Composition: An International Journal, now in its 21st year and published by Elsevier. Our goal is to be a significant online resource for scholar-teachers interested in the impact of new and emerging media upon the teaching of language and literacy in both…
Conference ConundrumsJerz’s Literacy Weblog) Hooray… I just heard that I got near-full funding for both Princeton videogame conference (where I’ll be presenting a paper on Will Crowther’s original “Adventure”) and the San Antonio 4C-s (where my paper topic is “Forced Blogging: Students’ Emotional Investment in their Academic Weblogs”). Because the 4C’s is a long conference…
A scheduled quiz on As You Like It sprang And caught some students unprepar’d today. Soft-hearted me! I bargained with them thus: They’ll blog in verse (as Shakespeare would have done), And I will grant them an exten-si-on. Similar:I Made My Friends Test the 19th Century’s Hottest Dating Tactic: Reading AloudThere are perfectly good…
Googling for ‘weblog’Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) I found this line in my weblog tracking service today: 03 Feb, Tue, 15:49:46 http://www.google.com/search?q=weblog&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=100&sa=N My weblog main page generally gets a couple hits from Google each day, and I do like to see what people are searching for, so out of habit I glanced in the URL for the…
Rosemary Frezza, Blog Angel (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) I’ve blogged about trolls, but I’ve also been thinking about the beings that I call blog angels — those helpful, friendly folks who may or may not have blogs of their own, but who regularly e-mail suggestions or leave them in comments, who privately warn me about typos…
Unless we get an influx of suggestions within the next three hours, I’ll have no choice but to watch this year’s Super Bowl. I write this post from the living room of Vidiot Emeritus Peter Ko, and if the prospect of sparing me from the tedium of this year’s game isn’t enough to spur your…
;-) Neterature: all the quirky, jerky kinds of writing that is/are on the World Wide Web — blogs, fan fiction, role-playing game sagas, news filterese, spam poetry, prose parodies, etc. Neterature: Usually energetic passionate innovative and irreverently funny. Not always great or even good. But the best of it is young and sassy and undeniably…
“I always say that while I can’t vote, I can damn sure make a difference,” he said. “It doesn’t feel odd, it shouldn’t feel odd, because all Americans should be doing this. We as a country need to be more involved, especially our youth.” —Stephen Yellin —Teen Blogger Heads Online (Wired) I’m being called away, but…
—‘She’s a Flight Risk’ Resumes Isabella v has started posting again, after a long hiatus (which I noted in December). I only learned about it after getting an e-mail from “isagirl@hushmail.com” responding to a blog entry I wrote last year. Similar:What a stunningly responsible young man I was, to have on June 10 1998 backed…
Torill Mortensen has a post today referencing the ongoing debate about gender balance in the blogosphere. Are there more men, or more women? Are the men or the women more visible? —Liz Lawley, Academic Women and the Blogosphere (Misbehaving) I found this discussion interesting, especially in light of Andrew Orlowski’s sneering dismissal of bloggers as mostly teenage girls. At our…