Today’s lab activity was probably the most productive work done in class. We were asked to sit in our hypertext essay group (which are The Blue..wait for it…FRENZY!) and to create a ‘wall visualisation’ of ideas by using Post-it notes. Basically each member are to choose a Post-it colour, as a group think of what [...]

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For the purpose of this annotated bibliography assignment, my group and I had chosen EXTRACT 2, which is the “Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool” by Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker. Before I began to dissect and analyse the extract, I started of with an introduction entry to remind myself what is [...]

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Looking back at my first annotation reminds me of why we are doing this assignment. The purpose of this annotated bibliography assignment was to provide my group (Yu-Ann, Shae, Sasha) and I some insight on the extract, to think about the problem Mortensen and Walker was trying to explore and to analyse what contents can [...]

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Example of how links are like roots, clustered and unorganized. I realized that up until this point of annotation I haven fully analyze this sentence that “links are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments, creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments” from Mortensen and [...]

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Everything has a balance between both sides, and Mortensen and Walker’s extract are no exception. The first limitation of the extract would be how outdated it is as this article was published in 2002, approximately nine years ago. Hence, it is not surprising that some terms in the extract and the readings are considered too vague [...]

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I find it interesting that both the Networked Media course outline and Mortensen and Walker’s extract have a similar theme or argument, which is to examine the thinking, and writing process in the network/media. Although at first glance it does not seem obvious, Mortensen and Walker’s extract actually relates a lot with Networked Media course. [...]

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Mortensen and Walker brought up a very solid argument in their article “Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool” as they stated that our style of writing and form of expression changes when we write across different forms of tools, which I believed that they are referring to the forms of media. They stated [...]

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“Weblogs, links, blogs, websites, contexts, fragments”. Just by picking a few words out from Mortensen and Walker’s extract and tell me what first appear in your mind. You would most certainly have terms like Internet, Networking or Media to be your answer. Come to think of it, it is difficult to specifically categorize Mortensen and [...]

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My previous annotation entry echoes onto another point by Mortensen and Walker’s extract that “[weblogs that are interlinked] anchors blogs in the public arena, as part of a communal discourse.” This sentence is important for me in order to understand the entire extract because I believe that ‘communal discourse’ is interrelated with my other close [...]

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As I first read the extract, the beginning sentence of “weblogs are densely interlinked” attracted my attention. It is very intriguing to know that everything on the Internet, be it a web page, a blog, social networking websites, video logs and so forth, are actually interlinked with one another. The next question would be how [...]

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