- McCloud presents an interesting take on this poem through his comic.
- Looking at his other online comics, I felt his graphics could have been better and more detailed.
Scott McCloud's "I Can't Stop Thinking Columns"
- (1) "The HTML Blues" June 2000: "Today's HTML standards reflect just a small part of what the web is capable of."
- (2) "The 99.9% Solution--Online Diversity" (chess example) "Diversity can be a doorway which non-comics readers can be drawn to the form itself through pre-existing areas of interest."
***Can't Miss This (My recommended Scott McCloud Online Comics--listed under The Morning Improv)
- #24 "A Bucket Full of Kittens"
- #10 "Meadow of the Damned Conclusion"
- #2 "Proto the Pet"
"What We're Doing When We Blog" -Meg Hourihan June '02
- Weblogs vs. Warblogs
- Weblogs traditional definition= "links-plus-commentary" (1)
- Commonality of weblogs=the format
- Blog characteristics (1) conversational tone (2) post is not a full argument but open to discussion
- Readers join the conversation by commenting
- A weblog "post is a self-contained topical unit" (2) There is no minimum or maximum on its length
- Weblog has the newest information at the top (immediacy and timeliness play a role here)
- I like Hourihan's discussion under The Time Stamp about moments of shared experience. While you may not even know the person's blog you're reading, there is a connection, especially if you comment back and the blogger reads it. To describe this, Hourihan uses the term "bloggers dinner." (3)
- Hmm, what does Hourihan mean by her statement, "What we say isn't as important as the system that enable us to say it?" (3)
- Final idea: I think Hourihan gives us a nice perspective into blogging, since she is a blogger herself. This class's blog is the first blog I've had. It's interesting to learn what else in the form of blogging exists our there in cyberspace.
"Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet's New Storytellers" Summary of Findings
-Amanda Lenhart and Susannah Fox July '06
- #1 reason for blogging=personal journal with politics and government as runner-up (I don't think that finding would surprise anyone)
- I like hearing that blogging is evenly split between men and women. And just as we've talked in class, it's no surprise that bloggers tend to be younger.
- Wow, 74% of users are white to 9% African American. I didn't think this data would be even; however, I did expect African American users would be higher.
- It's good to hear that bloggers are focused on checking facts and citing original sources. If this is true for high school age bloggers, this could be a great help for students already knowing that citing sources is important for their classroom papers as well.
- I think being aware of what's going on in your world in community is an important thing. It's great to see that 72% of bloggers also look online for new or information about politics.
- "Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world" (I totally agree, thanks for the Findings @ a Glance)
*Be looking for notes on "In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year" and "Etiquette for the Bar" in my blog for our next class meeting.
-AAK
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