back to school; back to blogging
In case you haven’t noticed, ever since I started my job at UW-Stout in 2008 I’ve hardly blogged. The dissertation [on blogs of all things] consumed me and even though I defended in March, formatted in April, skipped the Tampa graduation in May, and finally received the diploma in the mail in July, I took [...]
wordle
I’m going to experiment with colors and word layout settings, but here’s my first go at pasting my 150-page dissertation into Wordle And since my dissertation is on blogs, here the Wordle of what’s here at DaisyPignetti.com
Twitter on paper
BTW if you follow me on Twitter you know that I’m in the final push of formatting the dissertation according to grad school standards. As soon as I’m done I plan to compose thoughts longer than 140-characters and update this blog with details about my defense experience, feedback I received, and ideas for future projects.
heading to #cccc10?
Join this diigo group beforehand and start bookmarking those interesting finds! Diigo Groups
Google Map Time Machine
Does anyone know when Google Maps updates its street views? It’s becoming common practice for those impacted by disaster to use Google Maps to either organize efforts or search for views of homes/neighborhoods, but I was surprised when tinkering around with Street View to see my now razed home still showing up. Some background: As [...]
the brilliance of @stephenfry
on Twitter, poetry, agony columns, texting, profanity, and an open society
MVP Media
Has Drew gotten any sleep since Sunday?
Krewe of Drew!
Check out the baby Bacchus football! And, finally, the pre-game chant is revealed! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN! WIN! AGAIN!
this is the turnaround moment
Thank you, Drew and Sean! And thank you, Cokie Roberts! NOLA’s future is bright and I couldn’t be happier! Just wish I didn’t have to wait til JazzFest to get down there to celebrate… Speaking of which, other than Twitter, which I can scroll through pretty quickly, I plan to be offline a lot for [...]
superbowl bound!
I cannot believe it! But I should know better. If there’s anything the city of New Orleans and Saints fans all over know to do, it’s to BELIEVE! After reading that headline, this is how I feel:
export/import
I’ve been in serious dissertation writing mode this new year which means I’ve hardly tweeted, watched little TV other than that on DVD and returned very few emails. Sorry about that, but that’s what consumes my life when the semester begins. Well, not the TV part. Anyway, since I am in this dissertation state of [...]
images of the dissertation
tis the writing season again! Have a reprieve from the grading and have been back to work! Typical day begins with editing existing pages, reviewing notes, then artifact-ing [or story boarding] them on a sketch pad. then moves to the dry erase board where the lists help me stay focused.
UNDEFEATED!
Thank you, Sharon, for linking me to this latest WHO DAT fan song!
SYTYCD & Ellen
I’m not into Season 6 of SYTYCD as much as I was Season 5, but while trying to find video of ballroom boy Ryan’s solo from this past week I came across this appearance by the Top 10 on Ellen. Go Ellen, Go Go GO!
Pet Shop Boys
My beloved Boys have launched a new i-phone friendly version of their website, which includes a neat interactive media player where you can remix tracks, watch videos, etc. Love, etc, that is… FULL SCREENhosted by playlive.fm
another twitter link roundup
And another attempt at NaBloPoMo down the tubes. Oh well! I still plan to post as often as possible, now that I feel that my weeks are more manageable, even with the stacks of grading. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m very much into Twitter and have a growing list of bookmarks on diigo, which [...]
the Saints are coming!
We’ve come a long way, baby! 7-0!!!!!!!!
google wave
While I was at AoIR everyone was all a buzz about Google Wave. I too suddenly wasn’t complete until I received an invite, but then when I got one, I didn’t know what to do with it. I noticed several of my Twitter followers saying the same, “It will be a good tool but there [...]
trying this again
Given the cool stuff I’ve been working on and tweeting about but too lazy to blog, I’m going to try this 30 posts in 30 days challenge again. So far, it doesn’t look like there’s a theme to adhere to either. I always feel better after I’ve clicked “publish” so here goes!
Disaster 2.0 / AoIR
I’m just back from my first Association of Internet Researchers conference and have to say it was the best conference I’ve attended in a long time. Small enough to not get overwhelmed, and with the half hour breaks in between sessions and the #ir10 Twitter channel, it was quite easy to meet with people I’d [...]
addiction on the rise
Created by The Oatmeal I knew my score would go up once the semester and conferences began!
tech videos
These three videos have gotten the most discussion started in my 101 class which focuses solely on technology, literacy, and life on a laptop campus:
remember
I’ve been sharing Katrina-related links on FB and Twitter all morning, but now can’t think of anything to say. I’ve become numb remembering all of this again, even with it as my dissertation topic and therefore something I think about ALL THE TIME. That writing, though, is focused on the positive, the uses of technology [...]
the blogger who doesn’t blog
All I can say is that the posts have been few and far between b/c I’m writing in a much more important space, my dissertation document! Still, it’s weird that I write about blogs all day and night but haven’t blogged much at all since the loss of access to my USF blog. I think [...]