Archive for the ‘Web site Links’ Category
New Web site
Check out my new Web site for the classes that I teach.
http://www.virtualrhetoric.com
Citizen Journalism Explained
Tea time!
LONDON, September 14 (Reuters Life!) - “Well I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea, and some biscuits, nice ones mind you. Oh and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely.”
The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when it decided that a Web site with this mission statement should be archived among those that may be of social significance, stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture.
www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com — “a conduit for pent-up biscuit interest in the general public” according to its author, Nicey — regularly receives more than 60,000 views a week and is one of about 800 sites chosen in the past two years by the library as of possible interest to future scholars, at www.webarchive.org.uk.
Wedding Guests stay home
Here’s a neat idea… why not get married and webcast it over the Internet. You save money and guests don’t have to travel. Check out this article from the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/fashion/25fiel.html?_r=1&oref=login&pagewanted=print
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ONLY two guests — both strangers —were in attendance on May 18, when Dawn Westman and Einar Ollander of Tarpon Springs, Fla., were married in the chapel of the Grand Princess, a cruise ship sailing the Mediterranean. But dozens were watching from home.
The audience included the bride’s father and stepmother, who witnessed the event from their home in Worcester, Mass.; the bridegroom’s mother in Tarpon Springs; and the bridegroom’s brother in Gainesville, Fla. All awakened around 4 a.m. and flicked on their home computers so they could view the wedding couple walking down the aisle, live over the Internet.
Global Voices: Bridging the blogger gap
This article is interesting. It talks about a new web site for citizen journalists.
Global Voices Online is now a project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in Massachusetts and receives additional funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Dutch nongovernmental organization Hivos and Reuters.
Co-founders Zuckerman and MacKinnon spent so much time finding and reading blogs that they felt there was a great need to curate the hundreds of sites, creating a hub for an international community of “bridge bloggers” who want to communicate, often anonymously, with the broader world.
Global Voices is a select guide to conversations, information and ideas appearing on various forms of participatory citizen media such as blogs, podcasts, photo-sharing sites and videoblogs, according to Zuckerman.
Paid regional editors who work 20 hours or 30 hours per week receive $800 a month to assure that Global Voices covers the world accurately, Zuckerman said.
Laptop advice
Here’s the place to ask questions about laptops!Â
Desperate Housewives FREE
Ok… if you missed a Desperate Housewives episode, don’t worry! ABC announced that they will allow Desperate Housewives and other shows to be shown online the day after they air for free. Of course, you MUST sit through commericials… or it would not be free! Your other alternative to commercial free television is to download the episodes from iTunes for $1.99.
ABC Frees “Desperate” and “Lost” Online
New episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, Commander in Chief and Alias will appear on ABC.com the day after they air.
ABC is no stranger to the portable entertainment pool, having been the first network to offer shows for downloading via Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Lost, Alias and the other series heading to ABC.com are already available for downloading and commercial-free viewing for $1.99 a pop. Lost has been ABC’s most popular offering to date, and both the not so deserted island adventure and Desperate Housewives have seen their iTunes numbers increase this year. Unlike the iTunes episodes, ABC.com’s streamed shows cannot be ported to an iPod or downloaded to a file for later viewing on a laptop. (The shows will be available in Flash for PCs and Macs.)
SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference
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.
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.
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Did you miss the Superbowl Ads?
If you missed the superbowl of advertisements this past Sunday, iFilm.com has every commercial you missed. I personally liked the MacGyver commercial.
Mozart online
The British Library never stops to amaze me. They have created an online catalog of Mozart’s works.
Mozart’s musical diary goes online
LONDON (Reuters) - A musical diary by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes online on Thursday, allowing Internet users to browse handwritten pages from the composer’s catalog and listen to the opening bars of rarely performed works.
The British Library in London has produced a digital version of 30 pages and 75 musical introductions from “Catalog of all my Works,” which can be accessed on its Web site www.bl.uk/turningthepages.
