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Ben M

Creating 'After the jump' summaries - Blogger Help - 1 views

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blog help

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  • Ben M on 02 Jun 10
     
    How to add a "read more" link in your blog
Gideon Burton

Indie - About | Kirkus Book Reviews - 0 views

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self-publishing books review

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  • Gideon Burton on 06 Jun 11
     
    Now self-published authors can get their books reviewed through Kirkus (for $425). This could certainly help give legitimacy to self-published works. I would worry about how they select reviewers for the book, and it would be curious to see reactions from those who have used the service.
Sam McGrath

Amazon.com: Kindle Direct Publishing: Help - 2 views

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kindle ebooks publishing

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  • Sam McGrath on 07 Jun 11
     
    Amazon's guidlines for publishing images in the kindle format.
Aly Rutter

Lessig's "Rootstrikers" Project - 0 views

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Remix Lawrence Lessig Rootstrikers

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  • Aly Rutter on 09 May 11
     
    Website dedicated to helping people tell stories about how their lives have been corrupted by the government
Gideon Burton

Lendle: Kindle™ Book Lending, Borrowing, & Sharing - 0 views

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Kindle ebooks lendle Sharing ebook

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  • Gideon Burton on 17 May 11
     
    A service that helps to make eBooks more like print books (in terms of being able to borrow, lend, and share them)
Audrey B

Digital Zapatismo and the Threatened Persecution of Prof. Ricardo Dominguez (UCSD) | Ca... - 0 views

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  • The EDT and other Digital Zapatistas succeeded in furthering the message of the EZLN and the indigenous peoples of Mexico, but they never physically harmed anyone or anything, in spite of the government violence directed at them.
    • Audrey B
      Audrey B on 09 Jun 10
       
      nonviolent electronic civil disobedience
  • As an artist, Dominguez has always looked to open “disturbance spaces” inside our contemporary communication platforms. He is a former member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), a group of artists and activists whose focus is “the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism.” Later Dominguez helped found the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) which sought to expand the work of the CAE into cyberspace. They developed the idea of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD), which just as the name suggests is an electronic extension of Thoreau’s old idea.
  • With black tape across their mouths, surgical masks marked with X’s, and holding signs that read “Art is not a Crime,” and “Academic Freedom,” over 200 students gathered on Thursday, April 8th at the Silent Tree on library walk.
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  • In 2009 Dominguez was named by CNN one of its “Most Interesting People” for his work in developing the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT
  • Professor Dominguez’s work, first with Critical Art Ensemble and then with Electronic Disturbance Theater, has been highly cited, and he has been invited to lecture on the work across a host of important international venues…The esteemed status of Professor Dominguez’s field-defining work has been duly noted by the external referees, who include major international intellectuals working in performance art, new media and globalization.
  • EDT illuminates a new set of possibilities for understanding the relation between performance, embodiment, and spatial practice in cyberspace. Unlike a number of other performance artists, who have explored the relation of the body to technology through the literal encounter of individual physical bodies to machines, those working at EDT have placed the very notion of “embodiment” under question. Rather, they have sought to understand the specific possibilities for constituting presence in digital space that is both collective and politicized.
  • taking known forms and then augmenting or subverting their messages in order to provoke thought, discussion and emotion. What made the EDT different is how they applied these age-old principles of artistic expression to “new” media and digital technology.
  • performances and interventions were based upon questioning (but never fully answering) contemporary social problems and injustices.
  • Members of the EDT, including Dominguez, contributed to the artistic front of the EZLN’s fight for the indigenous people of Mexico. They crafted themselves as Digital Zapatistas, “attacking” the websites of the Mexican government and the agencies of the US government, which were supporting the oppression of the people in Chiapas. But the “attacks” were never effective… only affective.
  • developments of EDT was FloodNet — the technology behind Virtual Sit-Ins such as the one against the UCOP website for which Dominguez is now under investigation.
  • EDT’s goal was to take the long respected tradition of a peaceful sit-in to the virtual space of a website.
  • And, just like an embodied sit-in, to be effective the virtual sit-in must be open and transparent.
  • There are key differences between the virtual sit-in and a “Distributed Denial of Service Attack,” which Dominguez has been accused of launching. With the latter, computers of unknowing individuals become conduits to increase traffic to a particular Internet address, therefore rendering it inoperable, threatening the potential crash of the system itself. In this type of attack the identity of the perpetrators remains obscured in a prolonged assault usually motivated either by retribution, financial gain, and/or attempts to censor free speech.
  • In contrast, with the virtual sit-in, the goals of the action are stated, grievances described, participants known and once it is over no physical damage is done. FloodNet is a Java applet that is the code equivalent of going to the target website and constantly clicking the “reload” button. It also allows the participants to leave messages in the server’s error log by looking for non-existent URLs in the target server, which will then generate error messages. For example, a search for “human_rights” will generate an error message “File not found. ‘human_rights’ does not exist on this .gov server.”
  • by the same administration, which is now threatening him.
    • Audrey B
      Audrey B on 09 Jun 10
       
      So let me get this right, basically UCSD hired him after they knew that he co-founded EDT, had participated in ECD, and they knew what he was capable. So they were fine with him "attacking" the Mexican government. But when he and students non-violently protest through a virtual sit-in, because it is aimed towards them, they get mad and are now trying to take his tenure away? Hello, Dr. Dominguez is a professor teaching ECD. Are they going to fire him and take him to court for something he teaches their students?
  • Also among his scholarly and artistic accomplishments cited as reasons to grant Dominguez tenure were the various uses of FloodNet technology to conduct virtual sit-ins on websites run by governments, international finance organizations, anti-immigrant sites and even UCOP’s website.
  • In the hour to come Professor Dominguez would frame his encounter with the administration “Zapatista style,” transforming a closed meeting, the purpose of which was to conduct “fact finding” in relation to his March 4th actions, into a collective meeting or “consulta.”
  • Rejoining the crowd of supporters he sat quietly listening to faculty and students as they read letters that spanned the globe, and which voiced solidarity, alliance, and outrage at the administration’s criminalization of his work.
Bri Zabriskie

Zotero | Home - 0 views

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research reference bookmark

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  • Katherine H on 28 May 10
     
    A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources.
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 May 11
     
    this would've been so useful in the past
Sam McGrath

BoomWriter - Schools - 1 views

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schools edtech education writing collaboration

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  • Sam McGrath on 19 May 11
     
    This is an interesting online tool to help students develop their writing skills and maybe even learn to love it. It makes assignments much more relevant.
Ashley Nelson

Back to the Classics 2011 - 0 views

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literature reading blog

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  • Ashley Nelson on 23 May 11
     
    While researching blogs on James Joyce I ran across this challenge. To help our reading habits and turning back to the classics. I thought it was a great idea. By joining it makes one more accountable to what one reads.
Sam McGrath

10 Writing Tips for a Winning Web Site - 3 views

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writing web site

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  • Sam McGrath on 11 Jun 11
     
    This might have been good at the beginning of the semester. I guess for those of us who will keep blogging it can still help us out.
Ashley Nelson

YouTube - John Huston's The Dead - Finale - 1 views

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james dubliners literature youtube

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  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    A little video from the very last scene of The Dead.
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    I am not sure if anyone has read The Dead. I have several times and I had no idea that there was a video until Dr Burton mentioned it to me. I found this on youtube and couldn't help but marvel how different this last scene was watching it instead of reading it.
Andrea Ostler

Study Help for Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon - 0 views

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  • Andrea Ostler on 09 May 11
     
    I found this powerpoint on google scholar, and it has given me a better sense of direction in how I should read the novel.
Andrea Ostler

The Value of a Good Name - 2 views

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mormon literature

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  • Andrea Ostler on 10 May 11
     
    I just got called to speak in church on Sunday about "my family's good name." I found this talk, but any other ideas would be helpful---I just don't know what to do with it!
  • James Matthews on 10 May 11
Derrick Clements

Twitters - 3 views

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Digital literacy

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  • Twitter can be tricky to explain to a newbie. So Robin Cooper (well, me with my silly voice) decided to call up some people who could help
  • Derrick Clements on 05 May 11
     
    Okay, so really I just think this video is hilarious.  But also, relating to the Vinge book, this humorous video reminds me of Robert when he started to learn how to use his wearable, especially the silent messaging feature.  This video stays funny with every viewing.
Bri Zabriskie

We Are Visible - SIGN UP SPEAK OUT BE SEEN - helping you connect to the social world - 0 views

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social media web2.0 homelessness

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11
     
    more about our discussion about the anonymity of presence online: This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen.
Sam McGrath

Participate on evly.com - 0 views

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crowdsourcing

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  • Sam McGrath on 06 May 11
     
    This is specifically for crowdsourcing. It seems like the first step toward what is describe in Rainbows End. The idea of this type of social network is kind of exciting.
Sam McGrath

Create Your Own E-Book for Your iPad - 0 views

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E-Book resources

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  • Sam McGrath on 13 Jul 11
     
    Another tool that would probably have been helpful when making an ebook
Weiye Loh

Why Concrete Language Communicates Truth - PsyBlog - 0 views

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Langauge Abstraction

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  • Verbs as well as nouns can be more or less abstract. Verbs like 'count' and 'write' are solid, concrete and unambiguous, while verbs like 'help' and 'insult' are open to some interpretation.
  • Even a verb's tense can affect its perceived concreteness. The passive tense is usually thought more abstract, because it doesn't refer to the actor by name. Perhaps that's partly why fledgling writers are often told to write in the active tense: to the reader it will seem more true.
  • three reasons why concreteness suggests truth: Our minds process concrete statements more quickly, and we automatically associate quick and easy with true (check out these studies on the power of simplicity). We can create mental pictures of concrete statements more easily. When something is easier to picture, it's easier to recall, so seems more true. Also, when something is more easily pictured it seems more plausible, so it's more readily believed.
Weiye Loh

Why I Am Teaching a Course Called "Wasting Time on the Internet" - The New Yorker - 0 views

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Reading Writing Internet Academia Plagiarism

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  • The vast amount of the Web’s language is perfect raw material for literature. Disjunctive, compressed, decontextualized, and, most important, cut-and-pastable, it’s easily reassembled into works of art.
  • What they’ve been surreptitiously doing throughout their academic career—patchwriting, cutting-and-pasting, lifting—must now be done in the open, where they are accountable for their decisions. Suddenly, new questions arise: What is it that I’m lifting? And why? What do my choices about what to appropriate tell me about myself? My emotions? My history? My biases and passions? The critiques turn toward formal improvement: Could I have swiped better material? Could my methods in constructing these texts have been better? Not surprisingly, they thrive. What I’ve learned from these years in the classroom is that no matter what we do, we can’t help but express ourselves.
  • Weiye Loh on 22 Nov 14
     
    "Web surfing as a form of self-expression. Every click is indicative of who we are: indicative of our likes, our dislikes, our emotions, our politics, our world view. Of course, marketers have long recognized this, but literature hasn't yet learned to treasure-and exploit-this situation. The idea for this class arose from my frustration with reading endless indictments of the Web for making us dumber. I've been feeling just the opposite. We're reading and writing more than we have in a generation, but we are reading and writing differently-skimming, parsing, grazing, bookmarking, forwarding, retweeting, reblogging, and spamming language-in ways that aren't yet recognized as literary."
Weiye Loh

Balderdash: Anne Rice on writing about Others - 0 views

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Writing Cultural Appropriation

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  • Weiye Loh on 29 Oct 17
     
    "The bottom line is, you go where the intensity is for you as a writer; you give birth to characters for deep, complex reasons. And this should never be politicized by anyone. Your challenge is to do a fine and honest and effective job. Don't ever let anyone insist you give up without even trying. Two of the greatest novels about women that I've ever read, Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary were written by men. One of the finest novels about men that I've ever read, The Last of the Wine, was written by a woman. That was Mary Renault. And her novel, The Persian Boy, about a Persian eunuch is a classic. The vital literature we possess today was created by men and women of immense imagination, personal courage and personal drive. Ignore all attempts to politicize or police your imagination and your literary ambition."
  • sivernores on 26 Jan 22
     
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  • janejlocane on 17 Aug 22
     
    To write even an ordinary essay is not enough effort. And at the university there are quite voluminous tasks. So I decided to turn for help with capstone project https://www.capstoneproject.net/ and my dissertation. I can imagine if I was given the task to write a book. It would be a nightmare. I wouldn't have done it.
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