Katrina Media
As today is the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I’m honored to have been asked to reflect on my own experiences over at the Open Society Institute’s Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster blog. Some information about the site is as follows: Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster was named the best nonprofit website of the year in the [...]
go away Gustav!
Time to get nervous. I’ve already been on the phone with several NOLA friends who are ready to get outta dodge, although today the maps showed a slight westerly turn: Still, a lot of people are on edge, and with the 3-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina tomorrow, this new storm is taking me back to [...]
rising tide 3
Last year I was honeymooning in Australia, this year I’m in Wisconsin starting a new job and still unpacking the new house. I hate missing this, especially since my dissertation focuses on this fabulous group of passionate placebloggers, but I’ve already promised myself I won’t miss Mardi Gras next year and I won’t miss Rising [...]
Paris 4 Prez?
See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die BTW before the spoof came out I totally called it being one that used images of The Golden Girls!
SOLD!
Andy and Daisy SOLD , A year ago my Andy and I were on a plane to Australia to elope, today we’re 2 days shy of celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary and the happiness continues! We’ve moved to the cutest Wisconsin town, we closed on our 1st home a couple days ago, and the writing/researching/teaching [...]
amusing (and accurate)
I created this post over at The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator: Darling I just had a terrible scare when I thought I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died… You would not believe how insane my life has become. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!. I am [...]
social media literacy and pedagogy
As much as I enjoy the trendy books out there on the internet and collaborative software, Howard Rheingold is the only author of such texts that I know of who also actively considers social media’s impact upon teaching. Whether it’s his video letting his students see his point of view when looking out into their [...]
product placement
Yesterday I received my first shipment from drugstore.com. While the locals in Wisconsin probably think the weather lately has been hot & humid, it’s been “perfectly perfect in every way” for me. Considering I grew up in NOLA and lived in Tampa for the past 5 years, 86-degree weather is nothing to me! We haven’t [...]
midnight run to Menomonie, WI
This summer is flying by and I can’t believe it! Here’s a quick time line of events: In late May, we visited our new hometown of Menomonie, Wisconsin, and checked out several houses. Put in an offer, but was rejected. In early June, I visited friends in Orlando and was extremely disappointed with the Sex [...]
stroke of insight
This video of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor speaking is absolutely amazing. [BTW all of the TED talks are great] I appreciate her honest emotion so much, particularly b/c it helps me understand my best friend Sarah’s recent stroke [chronicled here on NOLA.com] and once again feel completely optimistic that she will recover 100%!
another pro-twitter post
Yes, I know I go on and on about Twitter, but even when it has its issues [can you say Fail Whale?], it’s still the place people keep coming back to [even after this week's mini-exodus to Plurk!] For reasons why people like me love the microblogging service, check out this video, which was created [...]
publius project
I’m proud to share the link to the essay I recently wrote in response to Dan Gillmor’s “Principles of New Media.” It has been published as part of the publius project, which is a Berkman Center blog-site featuring “essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net.” Having Gillmor as my advisor last summer when [...]
multi-tasking
Been watching the webcasts of the plenary sessions at the Berkman@10 conference all day. Good stuff–some familiar from my 2 weeks there last summer for the Oxford Internet Institute–but I’m most excited about the speed with which I’m moving between windows and tabs. Haven’t juggled chatting, twittering, flickring, listening, checking email, searching, and posting to [...]
give it 2 me
Not sure why it’s in video format when there is only audio of this amazing remix, but had to share what’s keeping me dancing around the house, writing quicker and typing faster. The rest of the new Madonna album is growing on me, but this track stands out! Ellen dancing to the song: Here’s the [...]
Look for the Mouse
So glad @zefrank shared the link to this video of Clay Shirky speaking on Web 2.0 and time management. Both this video and Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody will help me refocus the first chapter of my dissertation* b/c he makes the very obvious but necessary to hear point that “it’s better to do something [...]
the history of digital community, in less than 7 minutes
Still wishing I could make it up to Harvard for Berkman@10, but it’s nice to know that they’ve launched their own YouTube channel where I can catch up on their most recent conversations as well as a great historical overview!
busy writer bee
Since 4Cs I have had nothing but days filled with writing, stressing, going to the gym, and editing existing pages. My blogging has suffered, but I think, dear readers, you understand why. It’s starting to hit me now that I’ve landed a great job and will be moving in a little over 2 months, but [...]
1000th tweet
Since I’ve been on Twitter I’ve noticed people announce when their 1000th “tweet” is coming up. There’s a certain pressure to make it a good one, yet staying within the 140 character limit is always a challenge. Tonight I hit my 1000th and have to admit it was chosen carefully, although only a few minutes [...]
Spring Fever
I don’t know the answer to that question… if I knew I would tell you Ala Clever Girl, although I don’t have anything to report this sunny Saturday other than once again heading to my library carrel, I thought I’d share a video. I’ve loved this song forever and I can’t help but laugh every [...]
church closures
Growing up in the Catholic school system of New Orleans holds fond memories for me. We had a school mass every week, and starting in the fifth grade, we students were allowed to do the readings, carry up the gifts, and sing in the choir. This was more than just studying to receive the sacraments [...]
CCCC 2008| Blogging New Orleans: Locals Creating Reality Online
For those new readers of my blog who may be visiting this site after attending our Saturday Katrina panel at 4Cs–”Composed in the Wake of Disaster: (Re)Writing the Realities of New Orleans”–I’d like to post some text and links for your benefit. As I was the last panelist of four and we were Internet-less in [...]
tenure and self-promotion at its finest!
Absolutely fabulous! Congrats to Brian Donovan and thank you for sharing this on YouTube! As an internet researcher, I too plan to document my academic career in creative ways!
Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster
I’m so happy Leisa posted the link to this in her Twitter stream. I think I had heard of this project through the Open Society Institute, but never got a chance to read more or watch the student-produced videos until now. The Katrina Media Fellows’ mission is stated as follows: Through stories and images, the [...]
Berkman@10
I really wish I had the time to get up to Harvard for “The Future of the Internet” conference May 15-16, 2008, but now that I’m 80 days away from my anticipated defense date, I have to focus on things like producing pages, making edits, and figuring out where I’ll be living in July! The [...]