fair OV.

The start of the #fuckyouwashington hashtag escspade. How a hash gets started and moving.

From the originator of #fuckyouwashington, which created a minor hashblurp. Some thoughts on how the tag functions socially.

Multimodal composition.

visual analysis of trolling. use of many eyes

Recursion. Gaming Digg. Adding spam as value-added. I knew that infographic meme was lame.

Love 'em or 'ate 'em. "a pop psych book, where a bunch of research in psychology is distilled into one readable volume. ... 50 scientifically proven ways constitute 50 chapters of the book, longest of which take 7 pages. The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not art, hence with the right approach anybody can become the master in the skill of persuasion." Many of the techniques aren't about designing so much as appeals to pathos and presentation. And they say *rhetoric* is dodgy! 

New media, used dangerously.

Pop piece for Web Content Writing on placing links effectively. Old hat. Nielson was on this years ago, and rhetoricians were suggesting alternatives long before this piece was conceptualized - as the comments on the post point out.

Little bib on changing punctuation conventions, some of the speculation resting too much on ... um ... speculation. Leaves out Crystal and Baron. "All signs suggest punctuation is in flux. In particular, our signs that mark grammatical (and sometimes semantic) distinctions are waning, while those denoting tone and voice are waxing."

Straightforward advice.

Blogging is less popular among teens than it has been, with social networking sites rising. That can make blogging all the more useful in teaching as it becomes further differentiated as a medium from other media.

Just a primer.

Color and design don't persuade but make the mind receptive to an aspect of a message.

Map of visual processing centers of the brain, and extension of Ware's ideas. Why droodles are more satisfying than doodles.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Book is being written with CommentPress

A PR piece version of Rhetoric 101. Useful and revealing for the language the authors use to frame their version of social exchange - even while they hold themselves up as non-experts.

"People aren’t lured into relationships simply because you cast the bait to reel them into a conversation.

"Sincerity extends beyond the mere act of creating a profile on Twitter or forming a fan page on Facebook or a group on LinkedIn. The dual definition of transparency serves very different forms of both genuine and hollow separated by intent and impression. Relationships are measured in the value, action, and sentiment that others take away from each conversation. Talking “at” or responding without merit, intelligence, or quality grossly underestimates the people you’re hoping to befriend and influence.

"If participation were this simple, then perhaps everyone would excel as a Social Media “expert.”'

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Argues that the terms digital natives and digital immigrants are increasingly problematic. The metaphors mask significant ideas.

MLA panel on Twitter with David Parry and others,

I can't even use notebooks my handwriting has gone down so far. But I like them.

A lead in to Annie's session at Amplified08

Annie sums up her observations of reading in motion.

Wake up. We draw on an build on what came before. Documentors of the world unite. Originality is over-rated, and quilting is a form of sampling.

A real-time blog feedback loop turns an audience hostile and dynamites an ethos: within minutes of his posting the story, someone in Florida emailed him a link to a story about Naccio cashing $200 in stock even as his company stock prices dropped. Gillmor posted that link in his next post, and almost instantly, the audience began to turn hostile against Naccio."

A primer for marketing on Wikipedia: "Wikipedia is not the source of easy promotion and marketing that many novices believe it to be. It takes practice to avoid being reverted." Still, the advice is pretty good.

Response to Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind: As a professor, I am in the constant company of 18- to-23-year-olds. I have taught at both public and private universities, and I have to report that the levels of comfort with, understanding of, and dexterity with digital technology varies greatly within every class. Yet it has not changed in the aggregate in more than 10 years.

Projects and products that oscillate between digital and atoms, collaboration. digital / material mashups and re-mediations

By examining what different participants groups do on social network sites, this paper investigates what Friendship means and how Friendship affects the culture of the sites. I will argue that Friendship helps people write community into being in social n

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or

Even though SMS messaging may beat out other technologies in terms of popular appeal, it suffers from several disadvantages including inherent design problems, the opt-in process, character limits, and vulnerability to abuse.

the tacit epistemologies that underlie its activities differ dramatically from what I will call here the “Classical” perspective—the historic views of knowledge, expertise, and learning on which formal education is based. I

Lines drawn from web posts.

Shyftr is a social RSS reader. Like other RSS readers, Shyftr provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and share RSS feeds they are subscibed to. One extension of this experience is the ability to discuss content that is read.

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Promotional blog by Garr Reynolds on tradiional and contemporary professional presentations. Eschews the terms but is steeped in Socratic rhetoric turned towards the digital.

List of social networking articles on JCMC

Commentary version of the Ithaka Report on Univerisity Publishing paper. Contains the original text of the paper and demos how CommentPress works.

A Wired Campus blurb by J Young at the Chronicle. The comments provide a xsection of use to get discussions started in E-Rhet.

Negotiating poking and friending iin a power differential.

IM and Facebook supplement email: instant and throwaway support teenage communication styles. Lorenz invents a generation gap.

As many before me have pointed out, the key is to recognize that paper is all about process, whereas digital media are all about information and retrieval.

Conversation starter video on how the net / tagging changes how we collect and cateorize information.

A consideration of Facebook et al as self-portraiture, and the influence of social network spaces on culture

The Emerging Media & Communications (EMAC) area will add a new series of courses to the ATEC degree plan that focus on new forms of Internet based writing and content development.

Brian Lamb on mashups - for art and for education - learning objects (RIP), conditions of acceptance, and "Educators and higher education decision-makers have an obligation to carefully and critically assess new technologies before making radical changes.

"network literacy and how blogging is not simply keeping an electronic journal, it's distributed and collaborative; it's learning to think and write with the network. I'll also talk a bit about the ethics of insisting students blog in public."

How looking through bookmarks is a lot like looking through bookshelves. We move from a materiality of books to a social network of bookmarks - both of which are rhetorical affordances of identity. "We arrange books not only for our own conceptual orient

More shifts in the language - this time at the rhetorical level and owing as much to "productivity" as mode of delivery: "While short snappy emails and short snappy replies might come across as curt, research suggests that such messages lead to the highes

Sedley. Cf his A-Z: this list is focused on what he calls "persuation windows" aka kairotic moments, or just plain ol' kairos.

Sedley. Sort of a gimmick, but an interesting way / motivation for organizing a set of brief definitions and links to Sedley's current take on e-persuasion.

v. chap 3 for bloggy media. notable for being a draft posted for comment and for its thesis: "Most creativity is collaborative. It combines different views, disciplines and insights in new ways. The opportunities for creative collaboration are expanding"

JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF (application/pdf Object) Schools and afterschool programs must devote more attention to fostering what we call

m an English graduate. I like the physicality of books, the way you can annotate them, the way they start conversations or act as a currency among friends. But I feel deeply that the print industry is out of step with the contemporary cultural landscape,