On the Search for the Genuine

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30

• Coarse Grade Vermiculite in Columbus, OH for Square Foot Gardening — FOUND! Minor miracle! http://post.ly/hprd #
• @vickysaumell But close 2nd place benefit is current, constant access to online resources that I'd never find any other way. #
• @vickysaumell Proof in pudding: since I tweeted @ a conference last weekend, have added 20+ followers, mostly tenure/tenure-track scholars. #
• @vickysaumell M.A. student in Ohio. Love Twitter 4 following/connecting w/ other scholars, esp. senior scholars. They do read and respond! #
• RT @s2ceball: a great starter article on teaching digital audio in humanities classes. http://bit.ly/cbtUow [blatant retweet for #dmac2010] #
• RT @jcmeloni: RT @tweetmeme Strolling Through 19th Century London Today http://bit.ly/dyFcrY [i can haz one for every major city in world?] #
• @kristinarola That is more limited in topic/scope than a personal blog, but also easier to maintain regular publishing. #
• @kristinarola, I have same "want to blog no time" problem. Wish we had a communal C&W community blog where ppl could guest blog at will. #
• RT @OliviaMitchell: How to write a presentation title that's like a magnet to your audience http://bit.ly/ch6CTv #
• RT @trauman: Steve Krause comments on #cw2010, CCCOnline. http://post.ly/hFuu [thx from ppl like me who wondered what was going on!] #
• RT @ChronofHorse: Check out these horse puppets from the London based play War Horse. So life-like! http://bit.ly/9hZgOv #
• @rrodrigo RIP: A Remix Manifesto by @remixmanifesto is a must-have, students love section on Walt Disney as remix artist #
• @trauman Yes, I'll be at #dmac2010 as a grad student observer. Wonder who else? #
• RT @ChrisPirillo: Farmville is Coming to 7-Eleven – http://lgno.me/b9wazS [clever business model ftw!] #
• RT @WOSU: Ohio Says It Will Try Video Visits For Families Of Prisoners. http://bit.ly/a4W93F [digital rhetoric dissertation topic, anyone?] #
• RT @web20classroom: 3 Google Tricks When You Don’t Know What to Search For http://goo.gl/TPrZ [awesome!] #
• RT @courosa: xVideoServiceThief great software utility to download videos from various services to multiple formats. http://is.gd/cmFYx #
• Also, almost all non-white #cw2010 peepz (incl. me) are from upper socioecon classes. Kudos @kristinarola for broaching this issue. #
• RT @kristinarola: i really want us all to think about how shockingly white this conference is. #cw2010 [see next tweet for my response] #
• Psyched that Digital Media and Composition Institute @ Ohio State 6/3-15 has a hashtag! See you there, tweeps #dmac2010 #
• Psyched that Digital Media and Composition Institute @ Ohio State 6/3-15 has a hashtag! See you there, tweeps#dmac2010 #
• Ah, Burkean cluster analysis (for hw) with the help of Wordle and ManyEyes Word Trees. So much faster! So much easier! #
• RT @plugusin: no one said much about guys that died in BP oil rig disaster while lost WV miners became heros? [rhetorical analysis, ne1?] #
• RT @mashable How the U.S. Engages the World With Social Media http://bit.ly/bbGY9a [Perfect for biz writing/non-profit writing classes] #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23

• @digitalrhetorVT Dunno, ask Rik! He said it was a comp lab w/ a (human) monitor. I'm guessing 1st floor of Purdue Union? #
• .@rikhunter found out that everyone at #cw2010 gets $10 free printing in 1st floor computer lab. Sweet. #
• Won the GRN scavenger hunt! Thx to all the kind, welcoming C&W'ers who signed my sheet and/or helped me find people! #cw2010 #
• darn it, Vertov not compatible with Firefox 3 #cw2010 #
• Someone in sesh mentions Vertov, video citing plugin for Zotero. How did I miss this plugin for 2 years?http://bit.ly/aExPPA #cw2010 #
• .@eymand gives example of Kutiman who remixes Youtube videos but also "cites" them http://thru-you.com/ #cw2010 #
• @rikhunter find someone in Purdue #cw2010 contingent and beg them for free printing? #
• .@eymand mentioned Robillard's piece re: young scholars/disciplinary citation in 2006 College English http://bit.ly/9vhowW #cw2010 #
• @eymand mentioned Robillard's piece re: young scholars/disciplinary citation in 2006 College English http://bit.ly/9vhowW #cw2010 #
• @girlofnewmedia and 1000 sparkleponies for someone who Rides to C&W 2011 on a Sparklepony #
• Xtra credit to A. Knight for using Ride2C&W in prez as example of social object building a knowledge culture/community. #cw2010 #
• And ditto the design props on Aimee Knight's prez. Beautiful, stylish, thoughtful, effective. #cw2010 #
• Aimee Knight discussing social objects doing rhetoric: follow/unfollow, favorite, link, read, reply, retweet, tag, etc. #cw2010 #
• @cgbrooke reminds me why I do not play WoW. Games that actually end (like Oblivion) ensure eventual return to my academic work. #cw2010 #
• #cw2010 Now in D6, "Can we spell 'New Media' without ME? Non-Subjective Approaches to Technology" #
• C. Selfe: "It's not our business to torture colleagues into doing what we do." Audience member: "But sometimes it's so nice…"#cw2010 #
• Audience comment: students used 2 ask "why learn 2 write 4 work?" but now ask "why multimodal? give me trad. writing, i need it!" #cw2010 #
• Discussion time @ C&C roundtable about Web 2.0. Here comes the fun part! #cw2010 #
• Wish I was in @carl_whithaus' prezi re: genre studies, utterance, etc. Twitter-induced envy. #cw2010 #
• RT @kylepace: A few months old but still worth a look; 10 websites to convert text-to-speech online for free: http://bit.ly/9irFBe #
• Great powerpoint in Biz Writing drop.io for thinking about framing/lighting/etc. issues in video resume #cw2010 http://bit.ly/bzSclz #
• K. Moore notes many video resumes are facetime heavy, not much scrolling/dynamic text to accompany words #cw2010 #
• Sample vid resume, biz writ WS,Gautam Banerjee 2007 http://bit.ly/cKgIuq also see resumetube.com #cw2010 [not perfect but convo starters] #
• Kristen Moore: biz writ conventions often traditional whereas soc media convs emergent, often based in the medium itself #cw2010 #
• Connects betw biz writ/social media: collaborative, discrete unitssynergized, emph on ethos, direct/immediacy #cw2010 #
• Groupwork w/ @rrodrigo, she took pic of our brainstorm re: defs of social media v. defs of biz writing #cw2010 #
• RT @campustweet: Whoa. Insert coin, play Pacman — In the Google logo! http://www.google.com /via @dannysullivan #
• Handouts etc. from Biz Writing/Facebook/Youtube mini-WS, http://drop.io/CW2010businesswriting #cw2010 #
• Response from @s2ceball, there is a proj betw humanists + infoviz ppl, possibly can write into their grant? [name pls?] #cw2010 #
• In Q&A, Sorapure: most infovis tools from comp sci, would be nice 2 do collabortive text-viz project in our own field #cw2010 #
• Will Burdette: audio recording literally "writing", etching of sound waves into surface, we "might try" to regulate sound writing #cw2010 #
• RT @christateston: Gesture-based computing :: http://bit.ly/aITtqY (via @ahier) #
• I just became a member of the Twub for #cw2010 at http://twubs.com/cw2010 [b/c otherwise it gets muddled w/ my everday Tweets] #
• Christensen's intermodal ideas: brainstorm w/ drawing, describe sound w/ colors/shapes, compare essay/piece to a dessert #cw2010 #
• Christensen asserts that intermodal may assist with multimodal by helping students move betw disursive/nondiscursive #cw2010 #
• Christensen's example: just looking @ photo of insect wing allows us to imagine the way the wing would feel under our fingers #cw2010 #
• Christensen says neurologists studied synesthesia (cross-sensory data), found it inevitable/built into human sensory system #cw2010 #
• @varhodes Yep! Sorapure prezi @ http://bit.ly/acG37N #
• Maggie Christensen revising "synesthetic" to "intermodal," considers how student's bodily senses help them compose/embody #cw2010 #
• Great list of ?'s for future of infovis/use of infovis w/ students in last slide of Sorapure's prezi #cw2010 #
• Sorapure on infovis: frequency (Wordle) proximity (ManyEyes) other forms (affect tool bars/part-of-speech coding/root word networks #cw2010 #
• @jwstone Why are there no outlets in this room? Weird, inconvenient. #
• @bonniekyburz will do! #
• Awesome Wordles of Presidential inaugural addresses http://bit.ly/brc53s especially Obama's v. other presidents http://bit.ly/cNFfv8 #
• PS if you dig this Sorapure prezi, she has a great (similar) article in latest edition of Computers & Composition. I copy-edited it! #
• Listening to Sorapure's prezi @ #cw2010 re: infovis and comp students. Presentation at http://bit.ly/acG37N #
• @digitaldigs I'm at #cw2010 and need ur autograph 4 my trivia game. Could win me $50! If u see Jen Michaels in red polo shirt, pls stop me! #
• RT @ChrisPirillo: Free YouTube Business Cards – http://lgno.me/aTo7fr #
• RT @MakeUseOf: Directory – Openbook: Search Facebook Status Updates You Didn’t Know Were Public http://muo.fm/bSLZny [teaching tool win] #
• RT @pfanderson: Wishing University of Michigan had Google Apps so I could try out GPanion http://gpanion.com/ [OSU, hope ur listening too] #
• @TishaTurk, read ur blog post re: technofeminist WS at #cw2010. Did u guys talk about Google Moderator for student questions? I prefer it. #
• Almost done w/ my GRN newcomer sheet! Who do u know @ C&W that made full prof or assoc. prof in last 2 years? #cw2010 #
• Great feedback @GRN. Too many people to thank! I want to grow up someday and donate my book profits to GRN. #cw2010 #
• No wireless 'net @ dorms? Suddenly even more thankful for my (wireless) Pricelined hotel. Cheaper than dorms too! #cw2010 #
• RT @: Yay!! @billhd made it into town with the two steves. Congrats! #ride2cw #cw2010 all the riders made it. #cw2010 #
• is at the Graduate Research Network at #cw2010, woot! #
• RT @pfanderson: RT @varnum looking for a Drupal developer for a full-time position at the U of Michigan Library: http://bit.ly/um-drupal-job #
• RT @pfanderson: Tech Talk from Enriching Scholarship: http://wp.me/pkkrh-kD [@ U of Michigan, good stuff for digital classroom peepz] #
• 1 class to go b4 driving to #cw2010! Macbook, check. GRN notes, check. Most importantly, portable power strip check. #
• For those of us with no eye for flowers: "6 Top Notch Summer Annuals to Use in Hanging Baskets" http://bit.ly/bqu98K #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09

• First 30s with HyperResearch, already annoyed that it's $$$$. Trying Advene next, any suggestions for qualitative annotation cheap? #
• RT @alexismadrigal: The National Archives put out a call for all "citizen archivists." http://bit.ly/c5jRO7 [awesome] #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

• RT @mtechman: Meaning of colours in different cultures http://bit.ly/aLBWXf thanks to @Design_Innovate #
• @mtechman Thx for color/culture wheel, perfect timing for my prezi in semiotics class re: Umberto Eco and culturally determined color! #

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