A student in my graduate course blogging at Famous in My Own Head points to this news release from Lewiston, Maine: A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge it. The best part of the story,…
Diane Penrod over at Blogdelirium Redux points to this hilarious student-created eHarmony parody by creating stories around Facebook relationship status updates, groups, and poking (as well as another by the duo Rhett and Link). Hilarious. Credits: Produced for EXPOSED, a variety TV show at the University of Southern California. Directed by Mu…
Richard Miller (at about 1:35 in) to the Rutgers Board of Governors (1/24/08): “It goes without saying that we are living at the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history.”
The latest issue of The Chronicle has an article called "Blog Comments vs. Peer Review: Which Way Makes a Book Better?" which describes an interesting experiment: to see which is more effective for reviewing a book, blog comments by a community of online peers or traditional peer review. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is posting portions of…