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An interview with Scott McCloud, who will be lecturing at the MU Great Hall Thursday, January 27, at 8pm. McCloud is a cartoonist and theorist. His work is important to the rhetoric of technology because he deals with new ways to present information that are better suited to the computer screen.

A book I ran across about information overload and how we can take control of the media that is overloading us and use it to our benefit (the Foreword is written by Clay Shirky).

An interesting site that attempts to track the origins of internet memes. It's an excellent peek into how we spread information

Some of the authors we read this semester drew from work by Norbert Wiener, the founder of cybernetics. Although rhetorical studies was not Wiener's field, his writing has had a profound affect on modern technological language.

Information on intellectual property law

Updated information on one earthquake talked about in Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody."

Really interesting article about the idea of conversational knowledge and wikis as information systems managing that knowledge.

Here is a little update on China's censorship after social media became a more common tool for getting information out as Shirky talks about in the last part of the book.

Here is the article that Bilton references in Chapter 3 when talking about anchoring through Social Networking and how digital natives have mastered this in order to survive the information overload.

We can all read and Write...Here's the standards we need to worry about.

CBS provides more information on this theory and some think it's fake while others believe in it