Monday, June 27

Exchange: "cKDCgSNTgH"



this is the course id that we will be using in the http://www.prenhall.com/exchange space.

Sunday, June 26

Beginners Guides: USB Memory Drive Projects - PCStats.com: "The USB memory key appears

well on its way to replacing the floppy drive completely; as flash memory prices

have dropped, these devices have become cheap enough that anyone can afford

them. This, coupled with the easy support of such drives in Windows XP, has made

them an extremely attractive device for anyone that needs to move files from

place to place. USB memory drives are not just geek toys anymore!

As you will see here though,

there's a lot more you can do with your USB memory key than just transfer files.

These flexible miniature storage devices can put a whole range of portable

applications, and even operating systems in your pocket.

"

Friday, June 24

Cold remedies that really work.- update - Share The Wealth
Class: I'm kinda sick right now and behind on the grading. My lungs are trying to meet their yearly phlegm production quota in 24 hours. I will get caught up soon, hang in there. And send me your favorite cold remedies.

For this Friday I want you to go to http://www.prenhall.com/exchange and try logging in with the second set of codes I gave you. That will be your assignment in lieu of reading.
Class: I'm kinda sick right now and behind on the grading. My lungs are trying to meet their yearly phlegm production quota in 24 hours. I will get caught up soon, hang in there. And send me your favorite cold remedies!

Tuesday, June 21

Predictions Database: "How will the internet change our lives between 2004 and 2014? A survey of 1,286 network-technology stakeholders, conducted by Elon University and the Pew Internet & American Life Project in the fall of 2004, harvested thousands of projections of what's to come in the next decade. Participants included people from Internet2, Microsoft, Oracle, RAND, AOL, IBM, the FBI, the FCC; Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, and many other top universities; the Mayo Clinic, SBC, AT&T, Gartner, Jupitermedia and hundreds of other government and corporate entities. Participating respondents included people from France, Australia, Japan, Canada, Nigeria and many other nations. Nearly half of the respondents began using the Internet prior to 1993, including about 6 percent who began using it in 1982 or earlier, and 38 percent who began using it sometime between 1983 and 1992, adding up to a total of 44 percent of respondents who have been net-savvy for well over a decade. Internet 'stars' who completed the survey include Vint Cerf, Esther Dyson, Bob Metcalfe, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold, Simson Garfinkel and David Weinberger (see the biographies link below for more information on some of the respondents). Most of the respondents classified themselves as research scientists, entrepreneurs/business leaders, authors/journalists or technology developers/administrators"
Investing - Gates and Ozzie: How to Escape E-Mail Hell - FORTUNE - Page 2: "ill, you have been nailed in court through e-mail that was found in legal discovery. Has that changed the way you use it?Gates: No. I live the examined life. Basically every e-mail that I've ever sent has been looked at by something like 30 or 40 lawyers to see if there's any way it can be misconstrued. I don't put any notes at the bottom where I say, 'Note to lawyer: When I say 'Beat the competition,' I mean in the nice friendly way we always do.' [laughter] So look, the idea that everything you're doing can be examined%u2014there's nothing really wrong with that. Voicemail is like that too. People just should get used to the idea that there's going to be some visibility for things. I don't think we're all going to just go down to the local pay phone or something."

Monday, June 20

Ok, I think the accounts we set up the second time are working, but you have to login here:

http://exch.pearsoned.com/exchange/prenhallLogin.jsp


AAAAAARrrrrrrggggghhhh!!!

CourseCompass

Friday, June 17

Hi,

I haven't yet heard back from Prentice Hall about the peer feedback glitch, so here's what I need you to do:

1. go to the "discussions" link in webct
2. click on "peer feedback"
3. click on "instructions draft" and read my instructions there.

Basically, I need you to post a message to the peer response topic, attach your current draft as a document, and then respond to the next draft in the message thread, i.e. whoever has posted after you.

Let's give it a shot, and email me if you have any questions.

craniac@gmail.com

Thursday, June 16

Main Page - wikiHow



an entire website dedicated to "how to" writing, i.e. technical writing. It includes such topics as "How to Start a Rock Band."

Monday, June 13

Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150



Interesting use of illustrations.

density of information.

I'd like to take the entries for all of my different weblogs, auto-categorize them by blog, and then combine them all into one giant wordpress blog. Of course, I'd lose my awesome google ranking, which is dropping now anyway because I have not posted anything to Markzilla for a while, because I am not sure I really want people to know what I'm thinking.

Thursday, June 9

Research Network Forum, Thomas Rickert: "Ideology is typically understood in a variety of poststructuralist/postmodernist formulations that nevertheless have a good deal in common. Key markers are the reliance on Foucault to theorize the productive aspects of power and on Althusser to understand how subjects are interpellated into ideological discourses. These theorists are utilized extensively in cultural studies-based approaches to ideology. James Berlin and Michael Vivion, for example, describe the practice of cultural studies as being a giant project of ideology critique. They write that 'both composing and interpreting texts become overt acts of discourse analysis and negotiation' (x), and cultural studies becomes a process in which English teachers are engaged in a cultural politics in which the power of students as citizens in the democratic public sphere is at stake. the aim to make them subjects rather than objects of historical change. Both teachers and students then will engage in critique, in a critical examination of the economic, social, and political conditions within which the signifying practices of culture take place. (xii) Unfortunately, this kind of pedagogical program has not proven to be all that liberating or empowering. As has been noted by several theorists, such as Laura Finke and Tim Dean, making students good critics of advertising or patriarchal institutions seems to have little overall effect on disrupting or circumventing their persuasive power. For example, we still eat our fast food, worry about how fat we might be getting, and give in to impulse buying.

One way to rethink this critical impasse, I suggest, is consider again what we might mean by the notion of ideology and how we might go about critiquing it, or even consider if the poststructuralist notion of 'critique' is still viable."

Wednesday, June 8

Writing Instructions

Tools for technical writers

-->read these for Friday's discussion.

Please post your response in the "discussions" area in webct, under the "reading responses" link. Thanks!