Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Future of the Internet redux

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Trouble the Water

Who knows when I’ll ever get to see this [considering my new Wisconsin town has yet to get Burn After Reading], but I know I’ll look as hard as I can to find it. May even drive to Milwaukee since this schedule says filmmakers will be there in November. As Loki writes, “It is fortunate [...]

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rhetoric, defined

I can’t think of a better way to introduce rhetoric to my class next semester.

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Old Media, New Media, and My Post-Katrina Blues

Cross-posted at Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster: Last week I was interviewed by the communications staff here at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. They contacted me, saying they had heard about my research into the post-Katrina blogosphere, and the result of our conversation is this press release, which was sent out to 50 local and regional reporters. [...]

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You're No One If You're Not On Twitter

I’ll be presenting a paper on teaching with Twitter at 4Cs next year, so, in order to get my “data,” this Monday I will present my students with their task of creating accounts on the popular microblogging site. I was nervous over the summer when the Fail Whale kept rearing his power-blue head, but it [...]

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Facebook does not a digital native make.

All students at UW-Stout are given a laptop and (seemingly) no preliminary briefing on the course management software, which means it’s up to individual instructors to talk them through menus and screenshots. That’s fine by me b/c I like to limit the technology I ask students to use their first semester; however, I have been [...]

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What The F**K is Social Media?

quite simply put… What The F**K is Social Media? View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmediamarketing marketing)

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