December 2006
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
November 2006
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards
March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
by 7 othersrather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing
many of the past issues were on thematic concerns; ever of greater importance in academic and knowledge communities is the how-to of electronic publishing
THE PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE by Albert Benschop
complete book online, covers many areas often not dealt with, such as porn sites and dating sites; one insight that may draw you to read more: "the times that count in cyberspace are highly accelerated and strongly individualized."
Revealing Pictures & Reflexive Frames 2004
visual anthropology open archive, photos with comments: "opportunity to examine photographic modes of communication across societies, cultures, and academic worlds"
howstuffismade.org
visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
October 2006
what to think about so many lurkers
by 2 othersmore lurkers than online writers--do you need to worry about it?
virtualpolitik
"A blog about digital rhetoric that asks the burning questions about electronic bureaucracy and institutional subversion on the Internet." Well-written, points to developments in the arts and on the web that otherwise might go unnoticed.
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
September 2006
Monkey Bites
readers' votes on best and worst web 2.0 sites, sept 06
Wired News: Web 2.0 Winners and Losers
sept 06, one person's take on what's useful or irritating; I am also turned off by terrible graphic design on a web site.
August 2006
a_film_by
Yahoo discussion group, focusing on the relations between film form, style, meaning, and authorship.
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