Oct 4 entry

Research ideas. In this blog entry, you should reflect on between 2 and 3 ideas you have for a research project for this course. Remember that it is advised that you choose a topic related to digital culture or technology; see the research project page for ideas. Include links for at to least one website related to each topic.

For each of the blog entries below, you should browse some or all of the articles listed in the prompt box. Select one and use your blog entry to respond to it, quoting directly from the article or summarizing the argument. Note: You can substitute a different, relevant article if you like.

Oct 11 entry

Blogging.

1. Browse:

• "Blog Interrupted" from the WashingtonPost.com, August 10, 2004.
• "Emerging Alternatives: Blogword" from Columbia Journalism Review, May 2003.
• "Educational Blogging" from Educause Review, Sept/Oct 2004.
• "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" from USC Online Journalism Review, September 26, 2004.
• "Psychology of Weblogs: 2002" from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, May 23, 2002.
• "What We're Doing When We Blog", from the OReilly Webdev Center, June 2002 and Dr. John Grohol's reply "Psychology of Weblogs: Everything Old is New Again," from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, June 2002.
• "Blah Blah Blah and Blog" from Wired News, Feb 18 2002.

2. Respond

Oct 18 entry

1. Browse these articles:

• "Does PowerPoint make us stupid?" CNN.com Dec. 30, 2003.
• "The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation" - read both blog entry and view the presentation itself
• "Learning to Love PowerPoint" David Byrne, Wired September 2003. (best read with Tufte)
• "PowerPoint is Evil." Edward Tufte, Wired September 2003. (best read with Byrne)
• "Is PowerPoint the Devil?" Siliconvalley.com. January 22, 2003.

Oct 25 entry

1. Browse:

• Links of your choice from the Electronic Labyrinth, including, perhaps,"Writing and Reading Electronic Hypertexts", "Literary Formats" and "The Non-Linear Tradition in Literature"
• "Electronic Reading" from Hypertext Now.
• The June 1995 Wired Article "The Curse of Xanadu"on Ted Nelson and The Xanadu Project Page (including the About.. page)
• Mark Bernstein, "Chasing Our Tails" (1997)
• Mark Bernstein, "Hypertext Gardens" (1998)
• Selections from the "Theory" section of Michael Cripps, "Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom"

Nov 1 entry

1. Browse:

• "Rock the Vote Goes IM", Wired News, August 16, 2004.
• Small World (2004)
• "ITSS tests IM for Campus System" Stanford Daily, May 14, 2004
• "AIMless Addicts," Stanford Daily, February 25, 2003
• "Internet Dating Empowers Women." BBC News, November 25, 2002
• "Obsessive Internet Use..." CNN.com, June 13, 2000.
• One of the Blog articles from the Oct 11 blog prompt (if you haven't written on blogging already)

Nov 8 entry

1. Browse:

• "What is a Wiki?" from BlogsandWikis, Bemijdi State University
• "Common Knowledge," The Guardian, January 2003.
• "Business is Toying with a Web Tool," Amy Cortese, New York Times, May 19, 2003.
• "Wiki Epiphany," Jonathon Delacour, blog entry, July 18, 2004.
• "Wide Open Spaces" from the Educause Review September/October 2004.
• "Weblogs, Wikis, and Comments" from Hunting the Muse. June 22, 2004.

Nov 15 entry

1. Browse:

• "Game: Try Your Hand At Nabbing Hussein's Sons" from CNN.com, February 2004.
• One of the articles from Game Studies December 2003 issue.
• "Lara Croft: Feminist Icon or Cyberbimbo?" Games Studies, December 2002.
• "NetAttack: First Step toward Pervasive Gaming." ERCIM News, 2004.
• "Shedding the Stigma." DetNews.com, February 14, 2004.
• "Violent Media is Good for Kids," Mother Jones, June 28 2000.

2. Select one, and respond.