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This site gives you 13 different plug ins to improve your wordpress blog.

This page gives 20 tips for proper netiquette that will remain useful for personal and business settings. Some of these include the common sense aspects such as starting an email with 'hello' and limiting or eliminating the use of all caps because that is viewed as yelling in internet terms.

New Media: A very useful blog about new media and all aspects of it, including (but not limited to), those that Manovich discusses. The blog details the evolution of media and allows discussions about said subject.

This site is a blog where bloggers come to discuss issues about new media.  The range of discussion includes anything from the real meaning of digital to the debate between the written word like newspapers versus the internet.

Show the influence of digital media in a participatory culture

continuing the argument of whether or not it is more important to keep your identity on the internet private.

"An online identity can be as permanent as an offline one: pseudonymous users often identify themselves in different social networks using the same account name"

REMEDIATION. Pandora is one of the most primary examples of how remediation is alive and well in today's digital society. It's a site that has taken the radio and placed it essentially in the listeners' hands with the ability to skip songs they don't like and build stations around songs/artists that they tend to favor.

A long pdf article that discusses a line design technique called hashing in geometrical shapes and transformations. It has lots of information on how hashing is used in the world for an important but different form of design. 

A tutorial that discusses line art and designs. I found it helpful because it is neat to see the lines being created and used after we have read about their functions and meanings.

A website that specializes in media design. I found it relevant and useful because it is real life application of what we are learning about and shows that people need specialists to get a certain emotion or point across. 

Here is another you tube video I found that gave really easy to understand information on the internet and how it works.

Internet's "Black Holes"

This website provided another perspective on the issue the reading discussed. Is there a solution for inequality?

This blog post talks about what this particular person believes achieves "flow" in a website and the benefits of having a website that flows very nicely. He even provides an example of a website that he did in the blog.