03 December 2006
other people's stories
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.
01 December 2006
Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
by 3 othersa basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin
27 November 2006
Lists of Bests
by 5 othersagain, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com
Google Help : Web Search Features
If you click on About Google on its home page, you can get to this page which lists the multiple services Google offers, an amazing array.
Google Page Creator
by 4 othersgoogle tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface
What Should I Read Next?
by 9 othersLike many web2.0 search sites, you tell it what you like and it builds a profile of your preferences. Film and entertainment addition in development.
Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution
by 177 othersa web2.0 radio listening site; you can see others' tastes and perhaps pick up some tips from them; like Pandora, it learns your tastes
group hug // anonymous online confessions
by 9 otherslike postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.
Pandora Internet Radio - Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio
by 192 otherstell your favorite song, hear more like it; site learns your tastes
26 November 2006
PublicRadioFan.com
by 9 othersa radio listening site: schedule listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world
24 November 2006
FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
by 41 others, 1 commentsearch the web for material for your soundmixes; various file formats and sampling rates can be specified
22 November 2006
self portraits -- imagining ourselves
you can contribute your own picture, a sketch, painting.
Scenes of Provincial Life
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
21 November 2006
Adding meaning and value to information
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
GEO 101 World Human Geography
very evocative discussion guides for students doing exercises in and thinking about a wide variety of physical and cultural spaces; writers can gets lots of ideas from this course and its notes
20 November 2006
Listology: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
lists like this give me ideas of what to look for in the library; the whole idea of "listology" is whacky and fun
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Photo Essays in Black and White by Herman Krieger
views of vernacular architecture and everyday use in small towns; from Eugene Oregon
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
