Using human-made tornadoes to supply energy and save the environment

This really should underpin a science fiction novel, even if it turns out to be unworkable in practice.

Are Man-Made Tornadoes the Answer to Global Warming? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

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Mark Cuban has forgotten how to write

I suspect more people have this problem than let on. If my work were not so portable -- meaning that I end up writing on printouts on the bus and in waiting rooms -- I could easily see this happening to me. Cuban reacts in shame: "Should I take a class with 5 year olds to relearn ???" But I'm more interested in how this will affect today's five-year-olds, so-called "digital natives," who will be writing more with electronic devices and less with pens and paper.

I Forgot How to Write ! - Blog Maverick

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2008 voting will probably begin in 2007

We saw speculation about this in the last two presidential election cycles, but it might actually happen this time. South Carolina Republicans have moved their primary to January 17, 2008, and this move looks to cause "a chain reaction among other early primary states," whose primaries are scheduled in relationship to other primaries by state laws. For instance, New Hampshire's state law dictates that it must have the first primary in the nation, a law that benefits NH immensely and selfishly. Similarly, the Iowa caucus is the first contest in the nation by state law. In theory, if another state were to legislate that their primaries had to precede New Hampshire's, we would have a legislated infinite loop on our hands. I'm not sure how to press Control-C in that eventuality.

On a side note, when I lived in Iowa, it was commonplace to see presidential candidates as the caucuses and the Iowa Straw Poll approached. Meeting a candidate was a good way to get a free pancake breakfast. But the casual access did tend to spoil people. I remember one woman's letter to the editor in the Des Moines Register, complaining that GW Bush had not visited the state enough; how could she decide whether to vote for him if she hadn't even met him? Ah, Iowa.

The Texas Blue | The Primary Primary

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Why we need IRBs

THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL - New York Times

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Make news, comment on the news

Google News will soon display reader comments from people who actually participated in the news story in question.

Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news

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Big merger in the works

Slashdot | Astronomers Witness Whopper Galaxy Collision

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WWN RIP

All the News That Seemed Unfit to Print - washingtonpost.com

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Who foresaw cell phones?

Not William Gibson. But then again, science fiction really isn't about the future, it's always about the present.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Not getting the cell phone ahead of time: William Gibson

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Move to Austin

I tell people that anyway, but now there's a more concrete reason than features such as the Alamo Drafthouse and El Sol y La Luna:

Austin tops the nation for business - Austin Business Journal:

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Associations Mean Endorsements

People have been jumping all over the story that Rudy Giuliani's daughter apparently "endorsed" Barak Obama by joining his Facebook group. We heard similar things about George P. Bush in 2000, but that was from the mainstream media, not screen grabs on TechCrunch.

Facebook Embarrassment For Rudy Giuliani

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Call for Papers: Ninth Biennial 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference

Ninth Biennial 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference

Wednesday, May 28 through Saturday, May 31, 2008

The University of Texas at Austin

Call for Papers:

Translating and Collaborating, Across Disciplinary, Educational and Geographic Borders

The very nature of WAC scholarship has led practitioners across disciplinary, educational and geographic borders. In doing the process of collaborating across these borders, we have learned as much as we have given: How has translating our work for those outside our field helped us reconceptualize WAC’s mission, theories, pedagogy? How has our presence in an institution, school system or country effected a cross-translation, a hybrid, an evolution of each? How does our movement across disciplinary and geographical spaces translate into effective pedagogies that prepare future generations—and how do we know they are effective?

This year’s conference will focus on how working with other disciplines has influenced our theories of composing and communicating; how communicating across local (e.g. K-16), national and international borders is changing our definitions of writing as well as our teaching and collaborative practices; how we translate what we do so that students, academic staff, administration, and those outside our institutions support the scholarship and curricular reform we promote. We invite proposals that investigate how our border crossings have affected the shape of our field, our institutions and our global WAC conversations. For example, participants might explore

* How multiple forms of communication make up a discipline, particularly those that may not often be discussed (e.g., the genre and eventually employment of field notes within a discipline): How are these communicated to students? How do they shape (a) discipline(s) and our work with faculty? How does all of this compare across borders or educational levels? What are the implications of this cross-comparison?

* How do current technologies change, foster or pose challenges to writing and learning in the disciplines? How does technology complicate our WAC practices (e.g., issues of plagiarism, technological equity through pedagogy)? How might technology open or complicate disciplinary research collaborations across educational or geographical borders?

* How have new knowledge and/or technology changed our evaluation of writing in and across disciplines? What practices of assessment differ across disciplines and/or across educational or geographic borders? How does that affect how we teach our students to communicate to audiences within (and outside of) disciplines?

* What new forms of faculty development have proven successful and how are we measuring their success? How do our cultural ideas about learning and education contain or foster particular practices and programs and what have we learned from others about improving each? How do we translate what we do; ;what forms do we use to successfully communicate our work to others (e.g., text, report forms, images, graphs); what constitutes the rhetoric that speaks to academic staff and administration?

* What applications of language theories successfully translate across disciplinary, educational or geographic borders,? How can these “crossings” promote teaching and learning and/or build mutual partnerships that help our students understand and respect the international conversations in which they will engage?

These questions and areas are meant to stimulate ideas for proposals not prevent other questions from shaping proposals.

We strongly encourage participants to propose thoughtful sessions or individual presentations that demonstrate or would be interactive, and that allow for questions. We suggest innovative and experiential presentations: for example, participants may want to “teach” a class during their session, recreating for participants a mock student or faculty experience. We encourage participants to submit a poster, inviting participation by scientist, engineers and others who excel in and can teach us about this form of presentation. We invite forum sessions: collaboratively-run sessions during which participants and leaders explore a similar problem and work on solutions together.

For more information or to download the IWACC 08 Call For Papers, please visit

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/wac/conferences/iwacc/index/

Proposal deadline is Friday, September 28, 2007.

Email proposals as MS Word attachments to George Schorn at gsschorn@mail.utexas.edu. Please include in your email your full name, institutional affiliation, contact information, and whether you are proposing a single submission, panel, round table, or poster session.

Also please use " WAC 2008 Proposal" in your subject line.

Questions or information should be directed to George Schorn (gsschorn@mail.utexas.edu) or Joan Mullin (jmullin@mail.utexas.edu)

Emergent task timer

This flash application allows you to keep an eye on what you're spending your time on.

Productivity: Keep track of your time with the Emergent Task Tracker, online edition - Lifehacker

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Multiverse, a direct competitor to SecondLife

Multiverse is "a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the company’s development tools, which are then run on its servers." But the revenue model looks a lot like a flat tax:

The system and revenue model is markedly different from SL, however: instead of fostering user-created content in a single world, Multiverse is a network of worlds accessible by the client software. It comes with e-commerce tools built into the system, so developer’s can earn an income, while Multiverse makes money by taking a 10% cut of that revenue.

GigaOM Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse «

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You will use ChaCha

That's the message of Michael McRobbie, Indiana University president and former member of ChaCha's board. ChaCha is

a search engine that uses experts as "guides" to help users find what they need on the Internet. To avoid a conflict of interest, [McRobbie] resigned before taking over as Indiana University's president.

Have a great time using ChaCha, IU!

IU getting in step with ChaCha | IndyStar.com

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gPhone

ComputerWorld is reporting that Google is showing around its cell phone prototype, and it may reach markets within a year. It "plans to offer consumers free subscriptions by bundling advertisements with its search engine, e-mail and Web browser software applications," ComputerWorld says, sourcing the Wall Street Journal. The move involves partnering with one or more existing telecoms, and that draws comparisons to the iPhone:

The move would echo another recent product launched by a phone industry outsider, Apple Inc.'s iPhone. But Google's product would draw its revenue from a sharply different source, relying on commercial advertising dollars instead of the sticker price of at least $499 for an iPhone and $60 per month for the AT&T Inc. service plan.

And relying on ads makes wireless/telecomm analyst Jeff Kagan skeptical:

"The average adult who can afford a cell phone is not going to want to listen to ads. So this is mainly for teenagers, twenty-somethings, high schoolers or people who can't afford a phone," said Kagan.

Four quick reactions:

1. Is Kagan misreading the plan? Earlier in the article, the advertisements were said to be bundled with "search engine, e-mail and Web browser applications." Text ads on these services are not the same as listening to ads when you have to make a phone call -- phone calls are about immediacy.
2. Is Google planning to avoid competing with the big vendors, instead taking a chunk out of pay-as-you-go phone service such as Virgin's?
3. Google tends to chip off competition in long-tail markets with free stuff, such as Google Docs. Is this a continuation of the same strategy? Will it be willing to let the gPhone be a loss leader?
4. If Google is partnering with existing telecoms, why does it want to bid for wireless spectrum?
   

Report: Google shows phone prototype to vendors

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Traffic accident, Austin style

"But she's from Austin," he said, "and I figure Austin folks are a little different."

Metroblogging Austin: Naked Collision

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What does it mean that the GOP spends so much less on new media?

Patrick Ruffini points out on techPresident that the GOP candidates are spending far less on in-house staff for new media than the Democratic candidates:

Looking closely at the list, I noticed another trend, and it's a disturbing one that ties depressingly into the issues by the YouTube debate. While Republicans and Democrats are spending almost equally on their Web efforts, Democrats are spending dramatically more on in-house staff. Approximately 36% of the Democrats' Web budgets are dedicated to staff, while less than 8% of the Republican budgets are. Overall, the Democratic candidates have 39 people working in the Web departments while Republicans have 18, spread over 9 active candidates. That works out to an average of 5.6 staffers per candidate on the Democrat side, and just 2 on the Republican side, encompassing both frontrunners and also-rans. Obama alone has 10 people on his Web staff... and it shows.

But what does it mean? Ruffini assumes that this percentage represents a significant lost opportunity, a bad tendency on the GOP side to outsource Web operations instead of dedicating "boots on the ground." He adds:

Most disturbingly, it shows that we are not investing in the human capital needed to drive our online efforts forward. If we can't innovate in a competitive primary environment, when can we innovate? The Democratic nominee will have access to nearly 40 bright minds who have direct Presidential campaign experience, and the Republican nominee will have access to less than half that. The key question(s) we need to ask ourselves are as follows. Would any campaign in their right mind tolerate a 3-1 imbalance in Political staff? In Communications staff? In Finance staff? So why is online different?

I'm no strategist, but I wonder if this has something to do with the candidates' perception of their voters. The GOP draws disproportionately from rural and suburban areas, and perhaps candidates believe that those voters are less likely to be attracted to a campaign via new media outreach. Or perhaps they believe that new media is for the young, and they think the young are not as important or reliable a demographic.

In any case, Ruffini points out that the exception on the GOP side is Ron Paul. Paul has leveraged the free infrastructure available to each of us (YouTube, Digg, etc.); perhaps that has freed up cash to spend on personnel?

techPresident – GOP Outgunned 3-1 on New Media Staff

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Get up and dance

BoingBoing reports on a system to convert the power of moving people into energy via a subfloor. "Designed for a railways system, Tad Jusczyk and James Graham's "Crowd Farm" would consist of sub-floor that moves slightly as people walk across it." And here's this gem:

And while the farm is an urban vision, the dynamo-floor principle can also be applied to capturing energy at places like rock concerts, too. "Greater movement of people could make the music louder," suggests Jurcyzk.

Boing Boing: Crowd Farm to collect energy

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Managing your life with SMS

Gina Trapani points out exactly what allowed me to abandon my PDA.

Geek To Live: Manage your life via SMS - Lifehacker

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Back to the future

Slashdot | DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta)

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Conducting qualitative research "unscientifically"

UIE Brain Sparks has a pointer to a series by Leisa Reichelt about "accepting the unscientific qualities of qualitative research, and using qualitative research as a flexible way to gather rich and insightful information about your intended audience." They provide a brief conversational apologia for qualitative research, which probably won't convince skeptics but which are interesting anyway.

Qualitative Research » UIE Brain Sparks

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Republican candidates don't want a YouTube debate

Presumably this has something to do with the way the Democratic YouTube debate went. Too bad: The questioning is less controlled, and I suppose the candidates think it's beneath their dignity to be asked questions by animated snowmen and so forth, but the YouTube debate was useful in that it gave actual non-journalists and non-politicians the chance to ask questions. I don't think this will play well. The only Republican candidates who have signed on are John McCain, who has nothing to lose, and Ron Paul, who -- in addition to having nothing to lose -- has shown strong willingness to engage with distributed media.

But Don't Ask Him on YouTube... | The Trail | washingtonpost.com

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Writing a novel on your phone

Commuter writes book using mobile phone - Yahoo! News

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Chorded keyboards

Some interesting discussions of the possibilities and challenges.

Trevor's Trinkets: Five Finger Keyboards

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Outdated phrase, overheard Saturday

"I'm sure he's not just sitting by the phone!"

AQ leader is just an actor

Reminds me of the Corbomite Maneuver.

Danger Room - Wired Blogs

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Design games

Boxes and Arrows has a nice readable overview on how to use games for developing design.

Using Design Games - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Zuboff and Obama

She sees the current political climate as characterized by a lack of trust, just as the current market climate is:

People are starved for trust. THere is a desperate need to find leaders and companies that offer true trustworthiness– as measured by truthfullness, authenticity, accountability, and responsibility. Both politics and commerce have been engulfed by lies, corruption, narcissism, and indifference. This has accelerated the growing chasm between individuals and organizations.

But that means an opportunity: "If anyone in business or politics can find their way toward real trustworthiness, they will encounter an unlimited market ready to support them with money and allegiance." And she points to Barak Obama as a "first mover in this new territory."

A first mover? I am a big Zuboff fan, but I really do not get this statement. The theme of trust (truthfulness, authenticity, accountability, and responsibility) has been used in small-d democratic campaigning for a long, long time. And "lies, corruption, narcissism, and indifference" are common charges that candidates throw at each other. The fact that Obama is good at convincing people he's trustworthy does not constitute a sea change in politics.

The Support Economy » Blog Archive » Markets for trust

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Accessible architecture for websites

Boxes and Arrows has a nice clear article on the subject.

Practical Plans for Accessible Architectures - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Austin bus is hijacked -- to the airport

The irony is that an Austin bus travels from downtown to the airport every hour.

Austinist: Local Cheapass Hijacks Capitol Metro Bus to Airport

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Ron Paul: A Distributed Web 2.0 Campaign

TechCrunch summarizes Ron Paul's cut-budget, entirely distributed online presence. Fascinating!

Ron Paul: A Distributed Web 2.0 Campaign

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Computers and writing: History, theory, philosophy

Here's the first draft reading list for my fall grad class. It's been an interesting challenge to divide these thematically and to cover different aspects of C&W, and in fact the optional reading list -- all books -- is almost as long as the required list.

Comments? Suggestions?

Reading List for E388m

Overview: History

Gerrard, L. (1995). The evolution of the Computers and Writing Conference. Computers and Composition, 12:279–292.

Gerrard, L. (2006). The evolution of the Computers and Writing Conference, the second decade. Computers and Composition, 23:211–227.

Moran, C. (2003). Computers and composition 1983-2002: What we have hoped for. Computers and Composition, 20:343–358.

Blair, K. L. and Monske, E. A. (2003). Cui bono? revisiting the promises and perils of online learning. Computers and Composition, 20:441–453.

The early years: Social constructionism and the networked classroom

[Barker and Kemp, 1990] Barker, T. and Kemp, F. (1990). Network theory: A postmodern pedagogy for the writing classroom. In Handa, C., editor, Computers and Community: Teaching Composition in the Twenty-First Century, pages 1–27. Boynton/Cook Publishers, New York.

Cooper, M. and Selfe, C. L. (1990). Computer conferences and learning: Authority, resistance, and internally persuasive discourse. College English, 52:847–869.

[Faigley, 1992] Faigley, L. (1992). Fragments of rationality: Postmodernity and the subject of composition. Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh. (Ch.6)

Hawisher, G. E. and Selfe, C. L. (1991). The rhetoric of technology and the electronic writing class. College Composition and Communication, 42:55–65.

[Kemp, 1995] Kemp, F. (1995). Writing dialogically: Bold lessons from electronic text. In Petraglia, J., editor, Reconceiving writing, rethinking writing instruction, pages 179–194. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey.

The optimism wears off: Political-rhetorical critiques

Selfe, C. and Selfe, R. (1994). The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in electronic contact zones. College Composition and Communication, 45(480-504).

Slatin, J. M. (2001). The art of alt: toward a more accessible web. Computers and Composition, 18(1):73–81.

[Johnson-Eilola, 1997] Johnson-Eilola, J. (1997). Wild technologies: Computer use and social possibility. In Selber, S. A., editor, Computers and technical communication: Pedagogical and programmatic perspectives, pages 97–128. Ablex, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Hypertext and databases; associational and constructivist theories

[Johnson-Eilola and Selber, 1996] Johnson-Eilola, J. and Selber, S. (1996). After automation: Hypertext and corporate structures. In Sullivan, P. and Daughtermann, J., editors, Electronic literacies in the workplace: Technologies of writing, pages 115–141. NCTE, Urbana, Il.

Johnson-Eilola, J. and Kimme Hea, A. (2003). After hypertext: Other ideas. Computers and Composition, 20:415–425.

[Mirel, 1996] Mirel, B. (1996). Writing and database technology: Extending the definition of writing in the workplace. In Sullivan, P. and Dautermann, J., editors, Electronic literacies in the workplace: Technologies of writing, pages 91–112. National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill.

Haas, C. (1999). On the relationship between old and new technologies. Computers and Composition, 16(2):209–228.

Syverson, M. (1999). The wealth of reality: An ecology of composition. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville.

Computers and writing at work I: Evaluating the impact of computers on workplace writing and thinking

Geisler, C., Bazerman, C., Doheny-Farina, S., Gurak, L., Haas, C., Johnson-Eilola, J., Kaufer, D. S., Lunsford, A., Miller, C. R., Winsor, D., and Yates, J. (2001). Itext: Further directions for research on the relationship between information technology and writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 15(3):269–308.

Johnson-Eilola, J. (2001). Datacloud: Expanding the roles and locations of information. In Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation, pages 47–54. ACM Press.

Wolfe, J. (2002). Annotation technologies: A software and research review. Computers and Composition, (19):471–497.

Back to the classroom: LCMS, games and simulations

Fisher, D. (2007). Cms-based simulations in the writing classroom: Evoking genre through game play. Computers and Composition, 24(2):179–197.

Matteo, A. (2007, in press). Rhetorical peaks, a next generation case study for teaching writing and argument. In SIGDOC ’07: Proceedings of the 25th annual international conference on Design of communication.

Sherlock, L. (2007, in press). When social networking meets online games: The activity system of grouping in World of Warcraft. In SIGDOC ’07: Proceedings of the 25th annual international conference on Design of communication.

Zachry, M. (2000). The ecology of an online education site in professional communication. In Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation, pages 433–442. IEEE Educational Activities Department.

Computers, communities, and cultures

Grabill, J. T. (2003). Community computing and citizen productivity. Computers and Composition, (20):131–150.

Pennell, M. (2007). Fraternities and ITexts: Composing in the post-industrial age. Computers and Composition, 24(1):74–91.

Sun, H. (2006). The triumph of users: Achieving cultural usability goals. Technical Communication Quarterly, 15(4):483–504.

Zappen, J. P., Adali, S., and Harrison, T. M. (2006). Developing a youth-services information system for city and county government: experiments in user-designer collaboration. In dg.o ’06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research, pages 259–264, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.

Computers and writing at work II: Computers, writing, and postindustrialism

Hart-Davidson, W., Spinuzzi, C., and Zachry, M. (2006). Visualizing writing activity as knowledge work: Challenges & opportunities. In SIGDOC ’06: Proceedings of the 24th annual international conference on Design of communication, pages 70–77, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.

Slattery, S. (2007). Undistributing work through writing: How technical writers manage texts in complex information environments. Technical Communication Quarterly, 16(3).

Swarts, J. (2007). Mobility and composition: The architecture of coherence in non-places. Technical Communication Quarterly, 16(3).

Optional readings: Influential books in computers and writing

[Bolter, 1991] Bolter, J. D. (1991). Writing space: The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing. L. Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.

[Haas, 1996] Haas, C. (1996). Writing technology: Studies on the materiality of literacy. L. Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ.

[Haynes and Holmevik, 2001] Haynes, C. A. and Holmevik, J. R. (2001). High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational Moos. University of Michigan Press.

[Holmevik and Haynes, 2000] Holmevik, J. R. and Haynes, C. (2000). MOOniversity: a student’s guide to online learning environments. Allyn and Bacon.

[Johnson, 1998] Johnson, R. R. (1998). User-centered technology: A rhetorical theory for computers and other mundane artifacts. SUNY Press, New York.

[Johnson-Eilola, 2005] Johnson-Eilola, J. (2005). Datacloud: Toward a new theory of online work. Hampton Press, Cresskill, NJ.

[Landow, 1992] Landow, G. P. (1992). Hypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. Parallax. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

[Landow, 1994] Landow, G. P., editor (1994). Hyper/text/theory. Johns Hopkins University Press, London.

[Landow and Delany, 1993] Landow, G. P. and Delany, P., editors (1993). The digital word: Text-based computing in the humanities. Technical communication and information systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

[Lanham, 1993] Lanham, R. A. (1993). The electronic word: Democracy, technology, and the arts. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

[Mirel, 2004] Mirel, B. (2004). Interaction design for complex problem solving: Developing usable and useful software. Morgan Kauffman, San Francisco.

[Selber, 2004] Selber, S. A. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.

[Selfe and Hawisher, 2004] Selfe, C. L. and Hawisher, G. E. (2004). Literate lives in the information age: Narratives of literacy from the United States. Hampton Press, Mahwah, NJ.

[Spinuzzi, 2003] Spinuzzi, C. (2003). Tracing genres through organizations: A sociocultural approach to information design. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

[Sullivan and Porter, 1997] Sullivan, P. and Porter, J. E. (1997). Opening spaces: Writing technologies and critical research practices. New directions in computers and composition studies. Ablex Pub. Corp., Greenwich, CT.

[Ulmer, 2003] Ulmer, G. L. (2003). Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy. Longman.

Using the Internet as the steering wheel for the overall campaign

Patrick Ruffini argues that whereas direct mail is a tactical communications medium, online media are (or can be) strategic media:

If you view the Internet as a shiny new toy, or worse, a new coat of paint on the old jalopy, you're missing the point. Increasingly, it's becoming the platform from which campaign strategy itself is executed. That's why stuff like body language towards the medium at the candidate level matters (Fred's blogging, Barack's dinners, Hillary's Sopranoing). Tactics without strategy will get you nowhere.

techPresident – Message vs. Tactics Online

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Obama: the first female president?

In the same metaphorical sense that Bill Clinton was described as the first Black president.

Hillary is from Mars, Obama is from Venus | Salon News

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Whole Foods' CEO caught anonymously posting about his company and rivals

John Mackey, iconoclastic CEO of Whole Foods, posted freely on Yahoo Finance stock forums from 1999 to 2006 "under an alias ["Rahodeb"] to avoid having his comments associated with the Company and to avoid others placing too much emphasis on his remarks," according to a company statement. The WSJ continues:

Mr. Mackey declined to be interviewed. But he soon posted on the company Web site, saying that the FTC was quoting Rahodeb "to embarrass both me and Whole Foods." He also said: "I posted on Yahoo! under a pseudonym because I had fun doing it. Many people post on bulletin boards using pseudonyms." He said that "I never intended any of those postings to be identified with me."

Whole Foods Is Hot, Wild Oats a Dud -- So Said 'Rahodeb' - WSJ.com

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Austin named "Startup Hub" by Fast Company

No surprise there. But this stands out:

Among the city's characteristics that landed Austin on the list are the high number of Wi-Fi hot spots per capita and its relatively young population, according to the magazine.

Yes, I remember a few years ago passing a Dairy Queen and seeing this on the marquee: "FREE WIFI INTERNET." Now that's what I call wireless market penetration.

Austin named "Startup Hub" by Fast Company - Austin Business Journal:

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Flock upgrade

Steve O'Hear has a nice comprehensive overview. I've been using Flock for a while now, and really miss it when I have to go back to Firefox.

» Flock: social browser gets significant update | The Social Web | ZDNet.com

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Versionate -- a better competitor to GDocs?

TechCrunch notes that Y Combinator, the incubator that brought us Scribd, has unveiled wiki product Versionate. Michael Arrington thinks it's going to be a strong competitor to GDocs, particularly since you can upload Office documents (Word and Excel), OpenOffice docs, images, etc. Versionate's comparison chart doesn't include GDocs, but it does give you a good idea of what it can do -- including group-level permissions, something that is sorely lacking in GDocs.

It has a free version, so maybe I'll try it out soon.

Versionate’s Wiki End Run Around Google Docs

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Faux Spinuzzis

Now spambots are opening blog accounts in my name.

http://spinuzzi.16jmtt.org/Buy-North-Florida-Dodge-Home.html
http://spinuzzi.01vldy.org/Travel-Tripod-Fluid-Head.html
http://spinuzzi.58qvazkq.org/Wedding-Day-Poems-For-Sister.html

Surreal.

Slow week; computers and writing

I haven't been on the blog much lately due to several commitments -- most notably SIGDOC, which looks like it's going to be very good this year.

However, I'm now turning to my next project, assembling a reading list for my fall grad course: "Computers and writing: History, Theory, Philosophy." Any suggestions? Feel free to email me directly or just post your suggestions in the comments. If there's enough interest, I'll post my completed list.

The Prius can go 100 miles an hour

As far as I am concerned, that's the headline news in this article. Who knew?

Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car | U.S. | Reuters

technorati tags:prius, 100mph

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Pownce -- trying it out

Thanks to Trish Harris for sending me an invite to Pownce. You can see my Pownce stream at http://pownce.com/spinuzzi. As I say over there, I am intrigued by the incremental improvements, but the lack of mobile integration means I won't use it much.

Citizen journalism takes another big step

Jeff Jarvis thinks the online coverage of the iPhone buyers' lines is a big deal:

Two months ago, after the video of the Virginia Tech shooting went up online — more than an hour after the news occurred — I speculated that someday soon, we’d see that same video from a news event being fed live, directly to us on the internet.

Well, that didn’t take long.

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » iPhone and the future of news

technorati tags:iphone, citizen-journalism

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Pownce

I've seen several posts like this one on Pownce, which is being billed as a "Twitter killer." It does more than Twitter, they say, but it lacks the mobile component. Isn't that like inventing a better car but forgetting to put on the wheels?

Pownce, the Twitter Killer

technorati tags:twitter, pownce, mobile, wheels

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More on Facebook and collaboration

The lightbulb comes on at lifehack.org. Guys, you should be reading my blog!

An Unlikely FREE Collaboration Management App - lifehack.org

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Powerset out from under wraps

We've been hearing a lot about search startup Powerset from TechCrunch and others, even though they don't have a public product yet. Powerset promises natural language searches:

Powerset is using natural language technology from Xerox Parc and focusing its efforts on the indexing. It’s building a search destination site and a platform that leverages the wisdom of the crowds for development.

Interesting article, including some speculation on how they can catch Google via committed community development.

» Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

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Accessibility matters

London 2012 Olympics branding film causes epileptic seizures | 456 Berea Street

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Evolution in action ...

... in the lab.

Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural Selection - New York Times

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More on how the presidential campaigns are using technology

This election cycle is seeing a lot of interesting technology use. TechPresident has a good roundup of these, with a special focus on which technologies are the sizzle and which are the steak.

techPresident – Are MittTV and HillaryHub Innovative?

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How will Facebook's open architecture affect education?

I posed a question like this a few days ago, positing that Facebook could provide a substitute for Blackboard and other LCMS. Well, here's what I found this morning when cruising the Facebook "Education" apps:

That's right, now you can share or buy your term papers on Facebook. Talk about an army of Davids.

Net Work, the book

I'm happy to announce that my second book, tentatively titled Net Work, is under contract at Cambridge University Press. This project began with a research study in 2000 and has undergone many phases, and I'm just thrilled that it will finally see print.

TCQ Special Issue on Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work

I just received my copies of the special issue of TCQ I edited. TCQ Vol.16, Number 3, Summer 2007 is a special issue on Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work.

It's a thrill to see this thing come out because it has some really outstanding articles and reviews -- special thanks to article authors Jason Swarts, Shaun Slattery, Marie Paretti, Lisa McNair, and Lissa Holloway-Attaway, and book reviewers Mark Longaker, Natasha Artemeva, and Locke Carter. Take a look -- you won't be disappointed.

WCAG 2.0 status check

For those of you who are interested in accessibility, the WebAIM blog has a pair of new posts on the latest WCAG 2.0 public draft: on the rough edges and on testability.

Perhaps the most useful mobile service ever

TechCrunch reports on a service that may change your life:

MizPee is a new service focused on delivering pertinent information regarding the location of nearby restrooms.

Okay, yes, it's funny that someone would launch this service. But come on: are you going to tell me it's not useful?

Features include ratings for toilets and details (does it have a diaper changing station?). Not sure how the business model works, though.

When You’ve Got To Go, Go To Mizpee.com

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Google Docs moves from tags to folders -- sort of

Google reports on its GDocs blog:

Almost from the day we launched people have been clamoring for folders. They're here! Even cooler, our new folders continue to work like the tags they've replaced - your old tags are automatically converted to folders and documents can live in more than one folder at a time. Organizing your documents is as easy as dragging and dropping a document to a folder. We've also included special controls for seeing only those documents created by you or shared with a particular person.

So what's the "move," exactly? Here's a quick translation of the above:

• Tags are now called folders.
• Instead of text, tags are represented by a large side panel ful of folder icons.
• Folders still work as tags -- you can add a doc to more than one folder.
  
• Oh, you can drag documents to "folders" (tags) or you can use the drop down menu that used to be called "Tag."

Beyond the dragging, not much new here beyond increasing the comfort level of those who are used to more icon-driven interfaces. I mean, really. Is dragging going to be the killer feature? Duncan Riley of TechCrunch thinks so:

Folders are the biggest change. Google has not abandoned tagging and yet the inclusion of folders would indicate that Google is finally listening to the millions of people who prefer folders in preference to tagging.

The question I do have is what about Gmail? Without hopefully causing a flurry of people telling me how wonderful tagging is, I’m one of those (perhaps crazy) people who download my email from Gmail into a desktop based email client, and I do so only due to the lack of folders in Gmail. Hopefully the inclusion of folders in Google Docs is a sign of future functionality in Gmail.

I'm not going to tell Riley how wonderful tagging is, but I am going to point out that this new feature is not a new feature. It is tagging. Adding little folder icons is not a feature, it is the equivalent of putting spinning rims on a car.

Fortunately, GDocs also includes some genuinely new features. You can now view documents by collaborator. Your view defaults to reverse chronological order divided into "Today," "Earlier this month," and "Earlier this year." Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to recover the original, clean interface; to order docs in a different way; or to archive docs so they are not taking up your visual field. For me, the changes are a net loss.

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Replacing Microsoft apps with web alternatives

Yet another roundup.

No Download Required: 30+ Apps That Are Killing Microsoft

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Facebook, Myspace -- forget class, let's talk about "research"

"A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites," the BBC breathlessly reports. This report, which doesn't have a link, frames the research this way:

The conclusions are based on interviews with many teenage users of the social networking sites by PhD student Danah Boyd from the School of Information Sciences at UC Berkeley.

In a preliminary draft of the research, Ms Boyd said defining "class" in the US was difficult because, unlike many other nations, it did not map directly to income.

Instead, she said, class in the US was more about social life and networks - how people define themselves and who they define themselves with.

"Social networks are strongly connected to geography, race, and religion; these are also huge factors in lifestyle divisions and thus 'class'," she wrote.

Broadly, Ms Boyd found Facebook users tend to be white and come from families who are keen for children to get the most out of school and go on to college.

This research report was picked up by various other outlets as well, such as SmartMobs, which adds this commentary: "Fans of MySpace and Facebookare divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study." BoingBoing similarly announces the study as "provocative, insightful stuff that exposes the deeper lessons lurking beneath the tens of millions of profile pages on social networking sites."

So let's look at the study. Oh, here it is. But wait: Boyd frames it in this way:

I've been trying to figure out how to articulate this division for months. I have not yet succeeded. So, instead, I decided to write a blog essay addressing what I'm seeing. I suspect that this will be received with criticism, but my hope is that the readers who encounter this essay might be able to help me think through this. In other words, I want feedback on this piece.

That doesn't sound much like a study -- and it reads more like a think piece or op-ed, especially when Boyd (appropriately) uses many caveats in generalizing from her interviews to the whole of the social networking sites. In fact, she has another blog post up today in which she says she's shocked at the response:

I think some folks misinterpreted this piece as an academic article. No doubt this is based on my observations from the field, but this is by no means an academic article. I did add some methodological footnotes in the piece so that folks would at least know where the data was coming from. But I didn't situate or theorize or contextualize this at all. It's more like publicizing field observations. There's much work to be done before this can be anything resembling an academic article. The "citation" note at the top of my pieces also confuses this. That was meant for when people picked it up and stole it whole from my page or when people got to it indirectly. I put that as a standard for my blog essays a while back because of this issue. I guess I see my blog as a space to work out half-formed ideas. I just didn't expect 90K people to read it. Blog essays to me are thoughts in progress, blog entries that are too long to be blog entries. But I can see where there's confusion.

Lesson: As always, follow the source and don't believe people -- even the BBC -- who rely on "research says."

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Google, defenders of privacy

TechCrunch reports that Google is shutting down its German version of GMail due to new, invasive laws that would require it to maintain detailed records on users:

Google’s Peter Fleischer said that the law is odds to Google’s policy to offer anonymous email accounts: “Many users around the globe make use of this anonymity to defend themselves from spam, or government repression of free speech … If the web community won’t trust us with handling their data with great care, we’ll go down in no time”.

There’s got to be something ironic about a country in the European Union, the EU being the so-called champions of privacy, imposing laws like this. Perhaps our German readers can enlighten us some more in the comments.

Yes, and there's also something ironic about Google standing tall against the German government after collaborating with the Chinese government to identify dissidents.

Google May Shut Germans Out Of GMail

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The web apps your students (should) use

Here's a good rundown that's making the rounds.

Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students

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One day, your computer will be a big-ass table

Via TechCrunch, a great parody of Microsoft Surface, the ten thousand dollar table-sized information appliance.

Microsoft Surface Parody Video

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Defense secretary doesn't use email!

And people are just floored by this. At Wired's Danger Room blog, Noah Schachtman says:

The U.S. military is the most technologically-sophisticated fighting force on the planet.  And it is being lead [sic] by a man less computer-savvy than my 93 year-old grandmother.

The difference, obviously, is that Noah Schachtman's grandmother will probably never have to worry about a subpoena.

Danger Room - Wired Blogs

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Two campaigns' online strategies

Two interesting blog posts have appeared today, looking at two of the most Internet-savvy presidential campaigns.

First up, TechPresident reports on Obama on the Go, a mobile campaign with its own shortcode (Obama is lucky enough to have a five-character name). You can join to get campaign updates, download ringtones and wallpaper, and (possibly) submit your own. The idea looks well executed, and Justin Oberman concludes:

It looks like it has been a smooth launch for Obama mobile. I hope the campaign keeps the alerts focused on the mobile medium and doesn't just send out reminders to visit websites and watch television. The mobile medium is best accessed as a form of digital self expression and call to action. Obama has been good with that in the past, now let's see if he can translate it to the fastest growing digital medium in the United States.

Of the top tier candidates, Obama is consistently ahead in adopting social networking and now mobile technologies, and that gives him the potential to spread messages virally and to leverage the inventiveness of his supporters. Whether this translates into a winning strategy remains to be seen.

But let's go to the second tier of candidates. Here, Ron Paul has really jumped in with both feet -- paradoxically, by avoiding creating much infrastructure, as Todd Ziegler reports:

In all the talk about the Ron Paul online machine, there has been very little discussion of his actual campaign website, which has recently undergone a facelift. His approach is novel. Instead of building an infrastructure on his own campaign website. like most candidates have done, Paul has created a portal to his presences on various third party websites.

The Paul website itself essentially consists of a homepage, an issues section, a bio page, a donation form, a sign up form and a blog. Interestingly for the social candidate, his blog doesn’t even allow comments. Instead, it encourages visitors to discuss/interact with the blog content on social sites like Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Facebook. He seems to deliberately avoid building a community on his own site. Due to this, supporters have no choice but to organize elsewhere.

Ziegler goes on to talk about how brilliant this is, and I concur: people already have accounts on other internet services, so why not leverage that? The campaign avoids the expense of developing and adminstering these services. Of course, this means giving up control of these services, but that's not necessarily a drawback for a candidate looking to break out of the pack.

Visualizing social roles online

Here's a pointer to research that looks interesting.

Smart Mobs: Researching Online Social Roles by Structural Signature Visualization Method

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Comparing web office suites

ReadWriteWeb compares Google Apps, MS Office Live, ThinkFree, Zoho, and Zimbra.

Web Office Suite: Who's Leading The Pack?

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Another step toward Google presentations

Google acquires Zenter.

Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday

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Facebook vs. Blackboard

The other day, I idly wondered if Facebook could replace Blackboard. After all, Blackboard suffers from slow development, poor aesthetic design, and middling (at best) interaction design. Its main advantage at UT is that it has been integrated with UTDirect, so students are automatically signed up in their classes.

Compare that with Facebook, which has great scalability and development, good aesthetic and interaction design, and a huge base. You can set up private and public groups, create events, etc. You can't post grades, but UT has a separate secure gradebook for that anyway. Oh, and Facebook is free.

Checking Facebook out today, I notice that BJ Fogg from Stanford has set up a Facebook group on "Teaching and learning with Facebook." He lists three main advantages of using Facebook:

Compared to other online systems, Facebook's tools for groups are limited. Facebook offers no wiki, no group notifications, no applications you can install on a group page. Despite the current limitations (which we all hope will change soon), Facebook has big potential for teaching and learning.

Facebook offers three clear advantages over any other solution:

#1. Our students use Facebook and like it
In most cases our students are already on Facebook. They hang out here. They like it. As teachers we bring our expertise and learning processes into their world.

#2. The social connections are built in
Facebook maps out students' social connections. This can be used in many ways, such as having students get peer feedback on their work. (The value of Facebook's Social Graph is a big topic, which we'll explore together in the coming weeks.)

#3. New applications launched daily
Facebook is adding applications faster than any other company. It seems that most days someone posts a new app that benefits teaching and learning. Soon we'll have a wealth of options. Most important: All this functionality will be integrated with social connections. (This last idea probably should be point #4.)

Facebook | Teaching & Learning with Facebook

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Mobile YouTube

I'm a little late on this, but YouTube now has a site for mobile devices. I tried it, and it works okay, although only a portion of the YouTube library is available for mobiles right now. My sense is that this is going to do a lot more for mobile viewing than the canned content the service providers are offering. YouTube is really ideal for mobile viewing -- mostly short low-fi clips.

Mobile YouTube

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Critiquing style

Ann Althouse goes off on Glenn Greenwald's expansive style. Not the politics, the style.

Althouse: In the company of a few too many Glenns.

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The business breakthrough that makes solar power feasible?

FastCompany points to SunEdison, which has possibly discovered the business breakthrough that could make solar power take off:

When you’ve got Wal-Mart and Whole Foods as eager customers for the same alternative energy source, you’re doing something new. The remarkable thing is that SunEdison’s solar success has nothing to do with technology. It’s all about a business breakthrough.

Cracking Open the Sun. At Last.

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Things that keep me from blogging

Blogging has dropped off dramatically in the last few weeks. First, I went on a weeklong trip. Then, shortly after I got back, my laptop's motherboard went out and I had to use a borrowed laptop for about ten days. In the middle of all this, I've been handling SIGDOC submissions and various projects.

This is going to be a busy summer: Beyond SIGDOC, I'm conducting two field studies, coauthoring two grant proposals, and of course directing the CWRL, and I anticipate revising my book manuscript soon. We'll see if I can fit a litle blogging in there too.

"Thumbs up to Sony for this one."

Via Andrew Sullivan, Sony's solution to the classic biometrics problem: What if someone cuts off your finger in order to gain access to your stuff? I liked the pun at the end of the item.

New Scientist Invention blog: Digit-saving biometrics

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WidgetMate ...

... keeps putting comment spam on my blog. I've deleted three of them this morning. WidgetMate, I will obviously not be using your services.

"I'd credit the Internet, wouldn't you?"

Andrew Sullivan notes that Ron Paul's campaign has raised a lot of money since the debates -- going from just under half a mil to perhaps $5 mil, which puts him neck and neck with John McCain. That would allow him to compete across the nation, state by state. Speculation is that this surge has something to do with his principled antiwar stand.

That's great news for his campaign in the short term, but I am not sure his platform is going to be popular -- abolishing the Department of Homeland Security is one thing, abolishing the Department of Education is quite another.

Lifestreaming as an alibi

A man who made it onto the FBI's watch list has decided to prove himself -- by lifestreaming. That is, he has preemptively sacrified his privacy as a confidence-building move. It also appears to be an art installation.

Wikipedia's value ...

... is less in being a repository of all human knowledge and more in being an extensive treatment of nerdculture.

Google in Austin?

Possibly so, says the Austinist.

Another publishing opportunity in WAC+C&W

Karen J. Lunsford is circulating a CFP for a special issue of Across the Disciplines on "Writing Technologies and Writing Across the Curriculum: Current Lessons and Future Trends." Looks really interesting and worthwhile.

Reading :: Rhetoric and the Republic

Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse and Education in Early America
by Mark Garrett Longaker

Mark Longaker's office is across the hall and one door down. He and I drop by each others' offices sometimes to chat about our department's new rhetoric major, about home repairs, and so forth. We hardly ever discuss scholarship, though, since we work such different subfields: I'm mostly into sociotechnical theory and its applications for workplaces, while Mark is interested in Marxist analyses of work and in the history of rhetoric pedagogy in the US. The latter topic is the subject of this book, and although I wouldn't normally pick it up, I found it to be really interesting -- and I'm glad once again to have such smart colleagues.

In this book, Mark uses articulation theory and draws on Gramsci to examine the range of understandings of "republicanism" in rhetorical education around the time of the War of Independence. He persuasively argues that what was labeled "republicanism" was articulated in a variety of ways at different campuses and in different regions, regions that themselves had different strains of capitalism. Longaker quotes from assignments, administrators' and instructors' writings, and students' work as well as contemporary extrascholastic documents to make his case.

If you're interested in how the Republic's discourse evolved and how capitalism and republicanism affected rhetorical pedagogy, get this book.

Reading :: Bass Guitar for Dummies

Bass Guitar for Dummies
by Patrick Pfeiffer

I was surprised last week by a royalty check from MIT Press -- apparently my book is still selling -- so I turned around and spent it on a post-tenure project I've been considering for a while: an electric bass guitar. This book had several good reviews, so I picked it up in preparation.

Why this book? It has some very positive reviews, and for good reason. It assumes that you don't have any experience with the instrument (I don't) or with musical notation (I do, but it dates back to junior high). At the same time, the author wants to ensure that you have the rudiments of music theory as well as technique, and that you understand the instrument. All of these are accomplished fairly well, although the music theory section ramps up too quickly for the absolute novice.

On the other hand, the book has its flaws. It uses three different notations -- standard musical notation, tablatures, and a graphic depiction of the bass neck -- to illustrate the exercises, and they all do different things, making it hard to gain a coherent picture of what is going on. Basic instruction on how to position the left hand along the frets is not what it should be, leading to some confusing moments for me. And although it includes some good exercises and scales, the book has almost no practice music, so I've had to seek out bass tabs in order to try out the techniques I've learned. My sense is that I'll outgrow the first part of the book quickly, turn to supplemental materials for the next few months, then return to the second part of the book in order to better understand music theory and genres. Fortunately, the web is full of supplemental material, from bass tabs to textual, audio, and video instructional materials.

Now here's the question: Why the bass? Does the world need another bass-playing, ashtanga-practicing English teacher? I doubt it. But I'm not planning to join a band, compose songs, or perform in public. I'm just interested in learning something new, and I've neglected music since I played a baritone in junior high. So why not return to the bass clef with an instrument that's relatively easy to play?

Google Search, the timeline view

Now this is just a fascinating way to ego surf.

clay spinuzzi view:timeline - Google Search

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No forgetting

On the heels of an earlier post about forgetting, here's a follow-up story about the possibility of recording one's entire life -- at multiple angles, with telemetry.

work/space: The Collapse of History, Space, Time, Privacy, and More

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The ruggedly individualist musician

My spotter sent me this link to a NYT article about a musician's use of the Internet to build a fanbase and a community around his music. In the process, it helps us to rethink the myth of the ruggedly indivualist musician, the expressivist whose music bursts forth in a creative blaze and who has to fight the studios for artistic control. In this case, the musician certainly is an individual, but one who draws on blog comments, fan videos, and even fan-performed tracks to build his music and image. It's a different model, one that is enabled by the Internet and communication technologies, and one that helps us to take the lid off of the studio system by contrast. Because it's not like the individual artist performed all of these functions in the first place -- studio musicians, filmmakers, PR flacks, and especially producers have performed unsung duties that have been played down in order to build the myth of the individual artist.

Jonathan Coulton - MySpace - YouTube - Rock Music - New York Times

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