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After studying Obama’s blog in March, my conclusion is that Obama concentrates more on Credibility through Similarity, Goodwill and Idealism. It’s not about Power at all. Obama’s ethos is about his ability to connect to voters.

John McCain and Hillary analysis is up next. Stay tuned.

I met with my advisor yesterday to discuss my dissertation topic. I am going to start writing my prospectus this week to hone in on the specifics.  Again, I am going to write about Blogging, but with an emphasis on the Presidential 2008 campaign.  When I finish my prospectus, I will post it on my web site. 

From On Christian Doctrine

And so, for one who should speak with wisdom, even for the very reason that he cannot do so with eloquence, it is absolutely necessary that he remember the words of the Scriptures.

“That rhetoric, therefore, does not belong to a single defined genus of subject but is like dialectic and that it is useful is clear–and that its function is not to persuade but to see the available means of persuasion in each case, as is true also in all the other arts…” (1355b)

Dr. Andrew Chen from Minnesota State University University summarized the conference sessions on his blog, Lepus Inter Extraho.  Here is the link to what he thought of the panel I presented on.

 439 Computer Culture 13

She rightly points out a number of issues inherent in that sort of context, and I hope that word of her sort of work can get out more so that we can move beyond such definitional and descriptive issues as has been plaguing much of the discussion about weblogs.

 The discussion after both Dr. Philip Baruth and I presented was very good.  I thought the discussion about anonymous posts and blocking comments all together should be looked into more thoroughly.  If we block comments on blogs are we hindering the conversation that blogs are so well known for?  I enjoy comments when I receive them.  But, Dr. Baruth has a political satire blog where comments might hinder his blog posts.  Dr. Baruth welcomes e-mails and will include sections in his posts as would any “letter to the editor” section. But, as I mentioned in my paper, we can not say, this is how ALL blogs should run.  The author of the blog has a right to control the conversation.  I do!  All comments are emailed to me for my approval.  The beauty of a blog is that it’s the author’s voice.  If that voice is credible and informative, then the blog itself is a wonderful tool for our social-knowledge to grow.

 

I will be presenting a paper in Albuquerque February 11 at the SW/TX Popular Culture and American Culture Association. My paper is titled “Wired Ethos: Establishing Ethical Standards for Online Journalism Weblogs”

Wishing you many happy returns!

The Mighty Suavecat

I just found this Rhetoric site. It is Ed Lamoureux’s rhetoric lecture notes, BUT it definitely helps put what my colleagues and I learned in History of Rhetoric II in perspective. These notes might be handy for a review of concepts and major figures in rhetoric.

Click Here for the Rhetorical Theory Lecture Notes

Time magazine, reported that how a person perceives a word affects a persons smell.

Taking a new approach to the power of suggestion, researchers at Oxford University have tested the effect of words on our perception of smells.

This article made me think of I.A. Richards semantic triangle theory… that if you say cat, two different people could percieve that as a cute pet, and one person could percieve that word as ugh… I’m a dog person. So, I could see how a word could smell differently to another person… it’s all about symbolism and perception and one’s own personal experience. Sorry for the rhetorical analysis.