Greetings all.
Hi everybody, Kevin here.
I thought the degree of discussion and debate in the lecture was a really positive start for a potentially workshop-format class, and a good sign.
I'll be putting up more information/survival-guides for the blog over the next while, but first I thought I'd open with something that we wouldn't be able to easily do if we didn't have the class blog.
Since one of the whole concepts for the paper is how technology and culture interact, I thought I'd throw out something for people to chew on. It's a comic, by which I mean a complete, scanned, multipage entity like you'd see in a comic store, and part of an ongoing series, although it stands by itself:
"Another Cold Morning," Transmetropolitan #8, written by Warren Ellis.
It's going to take a long time to load, but I'll be interested to see what people think of it.
- Kevin.
I thought the degree of discussion and debate in the lecture was a really positive start for a potentially workshop-format class, and a good sign.
I'll be putting up more information/survival-guides for the blog over the next while, but first I thought I'd open with something that we wouldn't be able to easily do if we didn't have the class blog.
Since one of the whole concepts for the paper is how technology and culture interact, I thought I'd throw out something for people to chew on. It's a comic, by which I mean a complete, scanned, multipage entity like you'd see in a comic store, and part of an ongoing series, although it stands by itself:
"Another Cold Morning," Transmetropolitan #8, written by Warren Ellis.
It's going to take a long time to load, but I'll be interested to see what people think of it.
- Kevin.
posted by Kevin Veale at 4:27 PM
2 Comments:
For the links on the right-hand side, I have a few suggestions:
1. Boing Boing: This is one of the most read blogs on the web, and although some of the posts are just for fun, many of them will hopefully be pertinent to the sorts of things we'll be discussing...
One of the blog's main contributors, Cory Doctorow, had a class at USC earlier this year, and operated a class blog in a similar fashion to this one. Although what he taught was much more specific than this course, I think it still makes for interesting reading/listening (you can hear the lectures over at the Internet Archive).
2. Engadget: Technophile blog with up-to-the-minute posts on the latest gadgets. Their comprehensive iPhone posts are probably worth a look.
3. CSSBeauty: One of many sites that showcase the latest in web design and aesthetic interface developments.
4. The Hype Machine: Similar to Technorati, this is an mp3 blog aggregator which tracks the popularity of music in the blogosphere. Metacritic, an aggregator of professional and not-so-professional music, movie and book reviews, works in a similar sort of way.
5. Facebook: Widely touted as "the new MySpace," Facebook is a social-networking site that creates a virtual community based on real offline friendships. Facebook successfully combines flickr's photo-tagging technology with a host of database interactions which provide users with a news feed that helps them keep up to date with what their friends are doing.
Unlike MySpace and Bebo, pseudonyms aren't used on Facebook; people are encouraged to use their real names, and this lends a lot more credibility to the interaction that takes place on the site. Because people generally use their real names, there is a lot less anonymity, and consequently a lot more trust between users. People tend to only add friends they know in real life, and this leads to a much more tight-knit community. There have been a number of interesting studies recently on trends in social networks, notably in the class differences between the kinds of users on Facebook and Myspace, and the way different groups within society embrace and utilise not only social networking sites, but wider media in general.
Hmm, I seem to have started writing an essay. I think here would be a good point to stop. :)
--Hugh.
Great suggestions, Hugh. Cheers.
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