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The first review of 2005
All hail, Christian, who really knows how to get some spiritual bang for his livejournal buck: 2005 is the year great things are built. From the waves, iron and rock will emerge, vaulted into being by our ability and willingness to swallow pride and cough up roses. We will be known. Certain in our doubt, […]
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more keyword haiku
Inspired by Matt Borondy, I constructed these using of some the google search strings that have led people here in the last 24 hours: 1. what influenced the streets to write music? organic creativity bohemian urban tribes 2. Pictures inside my head the sounds of silence fruity loops cracked They would have been a lot […]
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the poetry of the everyday
Beautiful, often poignant fragments of everyday life at The Department of Me: The almost daily ritual includes a photo of the day (PoD) and a haiku of the day (HoD): Wet grass after rain – the fertile damp of dark dirt smells like green to me. I can relate to that after our recent deluge: […]
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Another PhD blog
cool! Marika’s PhD (in media and comm at the University of Oslo) on the interplay of personal media in the everyday lives of young people is right up my alley. And she has an excellent blog, which will go straight on my blogroll.
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Lifeblog Beta Released
I’ve been waiting for this for a while: Nokia’s Lifeblog software beta has been released (for Windows). Background from the BBC: The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones. The PC software organises information on a timeline and lets people add to the collection with […]
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The verdict on class blogs
At the last lecture of MSTU2000 Music Subcultures and the Media, I administered a student questionnaire as one way of evaluating the usefulness of the research weblog assessment task I had implemented for the first time this semester. Here are the results (apologies in advance to any stats junkies – bare frequency tables only, I’m […]
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Crazy Carnival Life
I’ve had an exciting and astonishingly busy week. I’ve finally managed to put together a diverse lineup for the music industry panel discussion that takes the place of a final lecture in the Music Subcultures and the Media course I’m coordinating. This week also winds up the experiment with blogs as a form of assessment […]
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The Sounds of Silence
I know I’ve been quiet here lately, but that is because life is so noisy everywhere else. Here are the headlines: teaching It was with great trepidation that I introduced my undergraduate music/media studies students to research blogging this week. I was dumbfounded in some cases when I realised the size of the conceptual leap […]
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ScholarBlogs and GoogleGuilt
I’ve just blogrolled Alex Halavais – for a couple of reasons. Firstly, he just went and whipped up a little script that scoops out the 8th-to-last sentences of blog posts, generating a collective stream of consciousness mimetic literature much like the wee bibliomancy craze of last week does. The results are intriguing and nifty. Secondly, […]
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academic blogfind
I like the chutry experiment