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Ummmmmmmmmm

30, Aug 2011

I would’ve liked to feel a bit more of that glorious feeling of relief. Don’t get me wrong, I’m damn right delighted to have that annotated bibliography outta my life, buuut the hypertext essay (which is kind of like the ann. bib’s mother) definitely spoiled the celebratory mood.
So now what? It’s now mid-semester break, [...]

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PART X ➪ The Ultimate Annotated Bibliography

26, Aug 2011

last but not least

In summary, these two fine academic professors and long time bloggers have taught me a valuable lesson about blogging and its multi-faceted abilities. They lay down the fact that blogs are not just great outlets for personal thoughts and opinions, but act as useful tools for research. The authors point [...]

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PART IX ➪ The Ultimate Annotated Bibliography

25, Aug 2011

“What’s in it for me?” says the Hypertext Essay
… This text will most definitely be relevant in relation to our hypertext essay.
In their essay, Mortensen and Walker also include the fact that ‘the visual appearance of weblogs is important’ (p. 270). Blogs are designed and presented through myriad themes of different colour schemes, fonts, [...]

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The week before mid-semester break Class

25, Aug 2011

CONTENT
One thing has remained throughout all the changes and new comings of technology – this is that content is king.
LICENSING
As the highly intelligible future media kids we are, we also got to create a license for all the content on our blogs, since you know, there’s clearly millions of other online-users dying to use our [...]

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PART VIII ➪ The Ultimate Annotated Bibliography

24, Aug 2011

Did you ask me something?
… Yes, what’s your personal perspective on this text?

All in all, I found this essay highly informative, even more so because like what Torill and Walker said, information and publications about this topic is somewhat laborious. Above anything, reading this document has definitely made me more aware of the growing [...]

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PART VII ➪ The Ultimate Annotated Bibliography

23, Aug 2011

Boos and Yays
… Formally known as limitations and strengths
I don’t think I exactly have the right credentials to specifically judge the limitations of this text, but for now, I can pretend.
To start with the strengths, overall, Torill and Walker do a top job of covering a large scope of all things blogging. They talk [...]

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What to believe?!

22, Aug 2011

On ‘Can of Worms‘ tonight, they posed a question on whether or not you should tell your kids that there is a ‘God’. For a while now, I guess once I reached high school, I slowly became more skeptical about my own religion, wondering whether or not I actually did believe in Catholicism which [...]

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The week before mid-semester break Lecture

22, Aug 2011

Landow: ‘Hypertext’ – The article is also largely about the exploration of text itself, where he more so looks at what hypertext is doing to text.
Different forms of text:
The rosetta stone – text carved into the stone.
Olden day Bibles – each written individually, since the printing press wasn’t yet invented. Also having to be [...]

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PART VI ➪ The Ultimate Annotated Bibliography

21, Aug 2011

Why read this for?
So why have this reading as part of our Networked Media course? I could leave it at, ‘just coz’ but I guess, just for you the reader, I’ll elaborate.
There are multiple ways that this text relates to themes in our Networked Media course – many of which I’m probably not even aware [...]

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To tag, or not to tag?

20, Aug 2011

I’ve noticed a lot of media bloggers with their cool folksonomies building up in their side bars. For some reason, I just never started tagging my posts. So now, I’m aimlessly pondering on whether I should jump on the tagging wagon.
I think I shall start right here on this post. Adding the [...]

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