Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Unclever Title
Here is my text. I just grabbed the first Leno clip I found. This is not designed to promote any particular political agenda. In fact, I haven’t even watched this video yet.
Here is my text. I just grabbed the first Leno clip I found. This is not designed to promote any particular political agenda. In fact, I haven’t even watched this video yet.
I’m looking at a series of icons, sitting next to Kristen during the workshop. The icon above with a series of dots is a kitchen sink and can clean up something (?). The yellow “A” is anarchy and I will now include a little video of “Business Time” by the New Zealand group Flight of [...]
This is my all-time favorite example of what we call “text reformulation” or “copy/change” in the literacy field. Taking a format and redesigning it to be your own.
I like to write because
it’s fun♥
it’s easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU
Publishing
Blogs:
One of the most highly touted features of the Web 2.0 era is the rise of blogging. Personal home pages have been around since the early days of the web, and the personal diary and daily opinion column around much longer than that, so just what is the fuss all about? At its most basic, [...]
The Web as Platform
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn’t have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.
Tim [...]
The litmus test for thinking about how portable your data is might be defined by your answers to the following questions:
Can you share (or embed) your data with other applications?
Can you take it with you, quickly and easily, when you go?
Image courtesy of dbostrom.
Thinking about formats:
HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant [...]
Commenting:
The ability to respond to someone’s ideas in line, and engage in a more direct conversation with an author’s ideas. Commenting is a defining characteristic of blogs, and often when one blogger links to another blog article a linkback (or trackback) creates an extremely powerful network effect by notifying the author that you are engaging [...]