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Name: Bill Wolff  |  william.i.wolff@gmail.com

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wordles of the #on911 hashtag: a brief analysis

Written on September 11th, 2009 at 5:39 pm by Bill

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As readers know, I am quite interested in Wordles and how they challenge out understanding of texts. I thought it would be interesting to create a Wordle of the tweets posted with the #0n911 hashtag. To gather the tweets, I tried to use Yahoo Pipes so I could filter out common operation words that Twitter [...]

what the web looked like on 9/11

Written on September 11th, 2009 at 1:04 pm by Bill

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Many TV and radio pundits have mentioned that this is the first 9/11 anniversary for President Obama and are scrutinizing his every statement, bowed head, and solemn look. But this 8th anniversary of 9/11 also marks the first anniversary of the event on Twitter. Or, more correctly, it marks the first time when Twitter has [...]

shingles, act 1, open for comments

Written on August 14th, 2009 at 2:53 pm by Bill

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Those who follow my Twitter stream know that I have been working on a play. I started on it toward the end of August, 2008, writing a variety of scenes in no particular order or overall understanding of just what the play was going to be about. I had lots of ideas, so I tried [...]

possible collaborative writing assignment for grad class

Written on July 27th, 2009 at 4:45 pm by Bill

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This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and micro-blogging challenge students’ [...]