Sarah and I finally got our blog up for the love letter project. You can check it out here. Let me know what you think. Hopefully we’ll be able to continue the project throughout the spring, if we get enough interest going.
So this blog is no longer a class blog, but one of my own. Not that it wasn’t my own to begin with - it’s just that I won’t be posting class assignments here anymore, but more of my own stuff.
So let the personal blogging begin.
March 23rd, 2006
How are Carleton students using new media like digital photography?
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February 26th, 2006
I think Facebook “culture” is fascinating. I know I check mine at least a few times a week. And then there are those kids checking theirs in the library, between classes, while talking on their cell phones… what do they want? Are they finding it?
Listen to my podcast…
February 21st, 2006
In two years, The Facebook has become a integral part of social networking on college campuses. On a deeper level, sites like The Facebook (I’m thinking of Friendster and MySpace) cater to our vanities, obsessions, desires to feel a part of “the group,” and our voyeuristic tendencies. But how has social networking and our sense of identity changed due to our obsession with our digital selves? What do we want to include (and not include) in our personal advertisements?
Here is the script for my podcast, which I hopefully will post soon.
In the meantime, here’s everything that I’ve been reading, tagged on del.icio.us.
February 7th, 2006
Walking out of the library a little past 11pm, I was struck at the sight of this artifact of disposable, ingestible Awake. The general drug of choice in this do-all, achieve-all, know-all realm of higher education. And yes, Green Mountain coffee is fair trade and organic. It’s politically correct. We feel good taking sips from its plastic lid before we toss it and go back to our reading.
January 25th, 2006
Breach, v.
1. trans. To make a breach in (a wall, defence, natural boundary, etc.); to break through.
2. intr. To make or cause a breach; to quarrel, separate. Obs.
3. Naut. Of whales: To leap out of the water.
Breach, n.
I. The action of breaking.
3. fig. The breaking of a command, rule, engagement, duty, or of any legal or moral bond or obligation; violation, infraction: common in such phrases as breach of contract, covenant, faith, promise, trust.
4. An irruption into; an infringement upon; an inroad, injurious assault. Obs.
5. a. A breaking of relations (of union or continuity).
6. The leaping of a whale clear out of the water.
II. The product of breaking.
7. A physically broken or ruptured condition of anything; a broken, fractured, damaged, or injured spot, place, or part; an injury. a. of the body. Obs. b. A disrupted place, gap, or fissure, caused by the separation of continuous parts; a break.
11. A condition of broken relations; a gap in sentiment or sympathy
January 18th, 2006
I thought that I had mastered at least a small part of this theme design hoopla. At least I made a valient attempt to “trick out” my page, but for now, grass it is.
January 17th, 2006
I heard once that Winston Churchill was also a painter, yet it was hard for him to get over the vastness of possibility that a blank canvas contained. One day, with the brushes arrayed before him and the paint cans lined up in neat little rows, he stood before his easle for an entire afternoon, paralyzed. His wife finally came out into the yard, took one look at him, picked up a can of paint and splashed its contents onto the canvas. Then she took his plate and glass left over from lunch and brought them back into the kitchen. Churchill was cured. He began to paint.
This is my canvas.
January 15th, 2006
