If you're here for the first time, or I left you a comment and you thought I had died, you might be wondering why I haven't posted in 3 years, and what all that gibberish from the previous entries means. The truth is, I don't really use lj anymore, nor OD, and if anything I use xanga, so look there for my more recent musings. I'm just on lj to ( Read more... )

Well, not really, but it's the end of my blog. Finally. Why do I say finally? Do you ever have one of those days where nothing seems to go right? Yeah. That was last Monday. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. Allow me to elaborate. So over the weekend (last weekend, before finals), I'm writing this entry (well, the part that's under this ( Read more... )

GlobalTech is a group blog about the current events important in the world, especially those pertinent to the five countries of the five authors, Canada, Pakistan, Costa Rica, China, and the US. I found this group's presentation to be very enlightening. I learned a lot about the issues that face the world today, especially health issues like AIDS ( Read more... )

Youthenasia - the gamer's therapy. Josh, James, Andrew, and Chip, put together a great presentation on gaming. I thoroughly enjoyed their presentation. Youthenasia is a group blog about gaming. Each contributor wrote about their favorite types of games, which include RPGs such as Final Fantasy and music games like DDR. The presentation ( Read more... )

I suppose if I were to define the word E-Topia just by looking at it, I would assume it refers to an Electronic Utopia, which is just what William J. Mitchell describes in his E-topia. The chapter we read was Homes and Neighborhoods, and it discussed the progression of office workers towards working at home more and more because of the advancement ( Read more... )

In Tara McPherson's Reload, McPherson discusses the relationship between the Web and television. I found this essay somewhat easier to read and comprehend than some of other essays, like Camera Lucida, mainly because of the timeframe. I understood many of the references McPherson made because I am deeply involved with them daily. Anyway, ( Read more... )

ok, huh? I'm not quite sure I comprehend this. Sure, you could say that I'm shallow, and can't understand the depth to which Roland Barthes writes on the subject of Photography (or a photograph. Not The Photograph). But I really don't see it. The way I read it, Barthes spends the entire time talking about how to classify Photography, comparing ( Read more... )

Ok so the American Memory Project is this compilation by the Library of Congress of a bunch of old stuff, stored on their digital archives for all time. The AMP includes a lot of old newspapers, art, and general historical collections of American history and culture. According to their website, "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source ( Read more... )

To the modern reader, the subject of Walter Benjamin's essay, The Storyteller, may seem quite strange. Especially to the typical high school or college student, novels are the epitomy of stories. All the great stories are novels, right? What, then, is Walter Benjamin talking about when he criticizes the written type, novels and newspapers? In ( Read more... )

So Rebecca Blood believes bloggers have a responsibility now? Ms. Blood sure seems to have high aspirations for weblogging in the future. News organizations pointing to blogs as serious sources? Not in my lifetime. Why? In my experience, blogs, by nature, are not generally well-researched pieces of writing. If they are, I don't believe they ( Read more... )