tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30352082011-07-17T03:10:19.184+10:00internet flaneurdigital ramblingsJSnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-46022497734271122762007-06-10T11:09:00.001+10:002007-06-10T11:09:35.967+10:00blogger have asked me to access this blog.so I have.hope they don't delete it; may use it again one day.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-1143429821745468862006-03-27T13:23:00.000+10:002006-03-27T13:23:41.756+10:00rewriting don quixoteJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-916922782003-03-31T16:32:00.000+10:002003-03-31T16:32:42.496+10:00well, that's that. form faxed and posted, with student card enclosed. I still have to return my library books and fee receipt, and hope I get most of my $1800 back.
I am having small regrets, but I think they're more for what the course should have been for me than what it was.
on my list of pros: an outside work/home interest, career development, intrinsic interest (?), work paying for the JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-915136912003-03-28T10:54:00.000+10:002003-03-28T10:54:34.903+10:00i don't know if I've lost some posts, or if I wrote fewer notes on the course options last year than I thought.
wanted to go back and see what my Melbourne options were re: getting straight into masters/phd without honors. but I can'd find them.
Monday is D-day, continuing-wise. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-913131492003-03-25T10:56:00.000+10:002003-03-25T10:56:15.623+10:00another long night. I'm afraid the signal: noise ratio in the lecture wasn't very good. maybe I'm too familiar with the territory. I also minded very much a 20-minute lecture on how to write essays, sparked by a question from a student last week who nicked off after the break this week, so didn't have to endure it.
sigh. it's not that it's not interesting and all. it's just that it's not as JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-912127022003-03-23T15:43:00.000+10:002003-03-23T15:43:06.216+10:00finally doing some reading.
things that stick out: mitch kapor saying the price we pay for signal is noise in a 1993 Wired article . juxtaposing that with a comment in the Feb 03 Wired article about how we're storing everything these days. so how do we find stuff that's useful? is this why we adore Google so much? the feeling of control it gives us? when will google betray us?
still JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-908987922003-03-18T13:37:00.000+10:002003-03-25T10:56:55.000+10:00blackboard for this subject.
second lecture; good background stuff about telecommunications policy. nothing I haven't heard, just well arranged. but Trevor has a very soft voice and it had been a long day and I nearly fell asleep.
fellow students; some from last year, most of whom I get on well with, one I find tres annoying. plus some marketing students who seem to think the point of a JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-900917232003-03-04T14:17:00.000+10:002003-03-04T14:17:07.140+10:00gawd. the first class ran the whole three hours. It had been a long day and I ended up slumped over the desk wanting to escape; shocking, shocking headache.
luckily Trevor Barr is still teaching the subject; with all due respect to the co-teacher who was there as well, it's Trevor's mind I'm after in this subject.
no in fact I don't have to do all the reading, it seems. focus on one aspect, getJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-899934222003-03-02T20:17:00.000+10:002003-03-02T20:17:18.890+10:00uni starts tomorrow. only up to page 75 of castells. too much to read.
thoughts on network complexity: traffic lights cf onboard computers. intelligence in the network. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-884411432003-02-03T09:32:00.000+10:002003-02-03T09:32:54.900+10:00have started reading the huge three-volume book (Castells) and though it's heavy going, it seems to be moving towards putting a lot of things in context. it's going back to first principles, like modes of production and how they affect society, and how identity is formed in relation to society. probably worth buying, even. this is after getting about 10 pages into Asleep at the Wheel and finding JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-882953822003-01-31T09:53:00.000+10:002003-01-31T09:53:47.993+10:00a list of various privacy people that I came across when researching an article on this mob
should this be in my ratava online identity blog? probably. but if I'm going to look at this stuff for study, maybe I should merge them. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-881389942003-01-28T14:48:00.000+10:002003-01-28T14:48:00.386+10:00the interesting guy finally sent me a link to some of his online identity architecture work. (chunky PDF) haven't read it yet. at work. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-875130752003-01-16T13:37:00.000+10:002003-01-16T13:37:38.430+10:00this semester's reading list:
Recommended Reading
Barr, T., new media.com.au: The changing face of Australia's communications, Allen & Unwin, 2000.
Castells, M., The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, 'The Rise of The Network Society, Vol 1, 'The Power of Identity', Vol 2, 'End Of Millenium, Vol 3 , Blackwells, 1996-8.
Hudson, H., Global Connections, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York,JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-866520212002-12-29T17:33:00.000+10:002003-01-12T11:06:36.000+10:00classes will be Monday nights. which kind of sucks, but there you have it. I will have to set the vid to tape Media Watch, that's all.
JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-866411632002-12-29T11:05:00.000+10:002002-12-29T11:05:18.306+10:00hmm.
the compulsory subject I have left looks OK after all.
as does this other first semester subject. which still leaves one subject, plus the thesis.
I think I'll definitely drop back to one subject next semester; two would be overloading it, even with an extra day off a week, given that I'm lukewarm anyway.
maybe I can convince myself to do one of the second semester coursework subjects. if JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-864245732002-12-23T16:11:00.000+10:002002-12-23T16:11:41.170+10:00crossposted from bloggety blog:
meanwhile, am feeling most ambivalent about spending a large chunk of next year completing my masters' degree. it has turned out to be muchly more of the same as the postgrad b.litt, which was really undergrad stuff; lots of reading, synthesising theories and not much original thinking/surfing around. what did I expect from a coursework degree? or maybe I'm just JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-858213962002-12-11T14:39:00.000+10:002002-12-11T14:39:55.000+10:00ahem.
Current Enrolments for Jenny Sinclair
N095 - Master Of Arts In Communications (Current)
HAM517 Cultural Convergence 2002 / 2 Completed D 80
you know what this means, Moriaty?
yes, it means I can claim my fees back from my employer!
have not seen the actual essay back yet, so no comments etc.
it's likely I'll be reviewing a book by my lecturer for my paper. so good thing tooJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-851839462002-11-28T09:19:00.000+10:002002-11-28T09:19:25.733+10:00Thesis: Master of Engineering Science (Computer):
Goschnick, S.B. (2001). Shadowboard: an agent architecture for enacting a sophisticated digital self, The University of Melbourne (Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering), 199 pages, Sep. 2001.
Supervisor: Professor Leon Sterling
Abstract:
In recent years many people have built Personal Assistant Agents, Information Agents and JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-847554052002-11-19T20:06:00.000+10:002002-11-19T20:06:44.893+10:00ooh! my blog's back at the http address! don't know what happened to that other site that was there. good. hmmph. etc. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-847553792002-11-19T20:05:00.000+10:002002-11-19T20:05:46.266+10:00
yes, I'm pinching Meredith's bandwidth. hopefully I'll see her tomorrow night and buy her a drink in compensation.
this linking thing, it's all about expressing one's take on the world. Jill says it's partly a kudos/political thing, and it is; it's also a chance to "frame" (there's those quote marks again!) something else and comment on it. and it is useful to be able to read other people's JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-847025152002-11-18T21:16:00.000+10:002002-11-18T21:16:09.003+10:00an rmit media studies student's blogJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846543552002-11-17T18:55:00.000+10:002002-11-17T18:55:15.603+10:00dammit! a day of editing and I've only succeeded in making the essay 3700 words. which is 700 too long. and it still needs more explanations.
think I'll copy it and do a vicious cut on the copy, see how it looks.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846535112002-11-17T18:15:00.000+10:002002-11-17T18:15:22.950+10:00jill's talking about nomadic publishing, too.
I now have an iPaq (well, it's my husband's but he's not getting it back).
now I need to find an app that lets me at least post while on buses for later automatic publication when I synchronise the iPaq. that is, once I learn to do that. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846534532002-11-17T18:12:00.000+10:002002-11-17T18:13:40.000+10:00not to mention Jill, who is much cleverer than me. it's all her fault anyway, this blogging thing.
and she's picked up grumpygirl's cartoon-debate meme. it's cute. wish I could cartoon.
(you can tell I'm procrastinating, huh?)JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846533712002-11-17T18:08:00.000+10:002002-11-17T18:08:16.410+10:00see, things like this essay on New York and the Internet and communication are surely more interesting.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846533272002-11-17T18:06:00.000+10:002002-11-17T18:06:23.100+10:00oh dear. this blog seems to have developed readers. I should point out that really, it's just a handy place to bung my study stuff, from uni notes to links to the uni library to essay drafts, plus a few links to sites that are actually interesting
you're welcome, but don't believe a word of any of it. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846531392002-11-17T17:58:00.000+10:002002-11-17T17:58:43.903+10:00too weird. the address http://flaneur.blogspot.com brings up a site in spanish or portugese.
whereas http://www.flaneur.blogspot.com is this site, me. is this possible? JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846530192002-11-17T17:53:00.000+10:002002-11-17T17:53:11.620+10:00have realised I use too many "quote marks", as in "the idea of "virtual" reality..."
when I should say "so-called virtual reality" or "what is known as" or tease out the special meaning of the word in quotes some other way.discovered this by re-reading my first essay, and now I'm trawling the draft of this one for quote marks.
have also discovered that I am a compulsive quoter of Descartes and JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-846393262002-11-17T10:30:00.000+10:002002-11-17T10:30:43.786+10:00writing essays in a houseful of people is not easy. when you haven't touched something for 5-6 days and have to get your head back into it, it doesn't help when people wander in and out chatting about this and that. they probably think they're only interrupting for a second. but my brain is so useless these days it's like getting a big truck into gear and it's not so easy to start up again. sigh. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-842968522002-11-10T12:00:00.000+10:002002-11-10T12:00:05.826+10:00will delete this later, but it's quicker and safer than finding the floppy drive. and after about three hours' work, I don't want to lose it:
??mental interactivity ? essay framework
The thesis of this essay is that as a medium, the Internet-computer network is a facilitator of experiences, which while not new to the human condition, were unavailable in previous media.
Those experiences make up JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-842003862002-11-08T11:25:00.000+10:002002-11-08T11:25:21.516+10:00finding it hard to work out whether I'm looking at electronic writing or the wider medium. I think I'm starting at the former and working my way to the latter; but then couldn't I/shouldn't I be looking at film antecedents etc? textuality is a funny thing. do you read it or are you in it? and where is the line drawn on the Web?
if I put a page of text online, is it more interactive? what if you JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-841921672002-11-08T08:13:00.000+10:002002-11-08T08:13:26.123+10:00it's a bona fide Perfect Day out there.
and I'm locked inside with Karl Popper.
who says that reality can be defined as anything which causes effects on things. so "world 3" events, like a scientific theory, are demonstrably real.
hmm.
he also says the mind-body problem can be redefined as the mind-brain problem (p 37). I. Don't. Think. So.
and I think I"m getting further away from my actual JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-841596292002-11-07T16:50:00.000+10:002002-11-07T16:50:58.170+10:00meredith can see sense in what I think is a confusing list of assorted junk and random readings. I, too, will be very interested to see what comes out the other end of all this. and I'm jealous of her cartooning ability. hope to meet her at blogmeet next Wednesday.
have re-enrolled for next year, provisionally, but very disappointed that Dean is not teaching Electronic Writing next year. and JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-839916542002-11-04T16:15:00.000+10:002002-11-04T16:15:42.310+10:00geert lovinkis a net theorist who lives in Canberra. this is where he keeps his archives. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-839370632002-11-03T10:31:00.000+10:002002-11-08T11:25:51.000+10:00some lanier stuffJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-839365562002-11-03T10:14:00.000+10:002002-11-03T10:14:10.226+10:00and their Web catalogue won't let you "hold" things that are on the shelves. so I can't hold the books I find until I get there this afternoon.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-839364212002-11-03T10:09:00.000+10:002002-11-03T10:09:59.160+10:00lame as: Swinburne has scanned some reserve titles and put them on the Web. sideways. how you're supposed to read that without printing it out I don't know.
sigh.
and yes I'm annoyed today. just want things to work properlyJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-839346832002-11-03T09:13:00.000+10:002002-11-04T10:41:05.000+10:00slightly annoyed to find that Dean Kiley may not, in fact, be teaching the subject I want to do next year. don't know yet how that affects my plans; haven't yet re-enrolled, or formally had permission to work 3 days/week so I can do two subjects.
but must check. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-837399512002-10-30T09:16:00.000+10:002002-10-30T09:17:36.000+10:00how stupid is this: the library is only open from one to five on Cup Day. this is right in the middle of exam/essay period. and instead of opening in the morning and nicking off to Cup parties in the pm, they're open during the peak socialisation/racing times. so I can't pop over in the morning and grab my books. fools. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-837388942002-10-30T08:50:00.000+10:002002-10-30T08:50:47.080+10:00just a thought: could the graphics/human factor split in VR be analogous to the phenomenology/existentialist debate a la husserl V Heidegger?
and do I have the knowledge to make that point coherently? JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835881302002-10-27T20:11:00.000+10:002002-10-27T20:11:15.406+10:00books to find and look at:
Popper’s original writings on theory of three “worlds”
Jay David Bolter writing space – is it relevant to this essay?
things to find in readings and quotes :
ideas on how technology mediates presence and how vr is or is not a limitless environment.
the “there’s no there, there” quote
“consensual hallucination” – Gibson
definitions/good writing on JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835881252002-10-27T20:10:00.000+10:002002-10-27T20:10:55.690+10:00husband is nicking off with the laptop for three days, so I won't have a computer unless he spends the next two hours setting up the desktop.
so I'll just bung my latest drafty thoughts here in case I need them.
essay framework
interactivity: factors and definitions.
what is interacting with what? the human with something else (at this point at least)
we can interact with (see the theory JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835468082002-10-26T17:45:00.000+10:002002-10-26T17:45:23.440+10:00and to make an appt to see darren.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835467832002-10-26T17:44:00.000+10:002002-10-26T17:44:10.876+10:00and I need to meet up with grumpy girl sometime. she's straying into that territory of self/voice/authorship that interests me about blogs. not that that is what my essay is on; that's for a future subject, or more likely my thesis. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835467462002-10-26T17:41:00.000+10:002002-10-26T17:41:53.780+10:00I think I'll have to stop all other reading and get serious about attacking this, even if there's only half an hour or so. my new due date is November 18, and I'm assuming an e-filing is OK. so I have up to nine free days to do it. it's 3000 words, half a masters' subject. I guess that's do-able.
so this blog will henceforth be filled with all kinds of irrelevant bits and pieces, as I try to JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-835467052002-10-26T17:39:00.000+10:002002-10-26T17:39:36.620+10:00essay writing step one: panic.
step two: ask for extension
step three: waste extension period
step four: panic again
step five: sort out papers. realise there is no order
step six: hope it will work itself out.
and I really need to pass, or my employer won't refund half the course fees.
also need to apply for some leave next year so I can re-enrol in two subjects for Semester 1, 2003.
I knowJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-831480712002-10-18T12:22:00.000+10:002002-10-18T12:22:33.330+10:00reading notes: Benedikt.
strikes me that the more I read, the more different models of cyberspace and being I have to grapple with.
he's used Karl Popper's theory of "worlds" which I hadn't come across before. I think it's all a bit tenuous. plus it seems to subscribe to the "objective world" theory, and I'm much more interested in the world-as perceived. and Benedikt seems to overlook that JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829600902002-10-14T21:52:00.000+10:002002-10-14T21:52:26.340+10:00class report: got my first essay back. got a D for distinction. couldn't read the comments on account of Darren's handwriting being so awful and in red pen.
essay proposal below is apparently OK.
spent most of class supposedly being in an online virtual space, ie hanging around in a lame online "irish pub." but got to come home early. bonus. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829124272002-10-13T16:34:00.000+10:002002-10-13T16:37:24.000+10:00Hi Darren,
my essay idea is currently about four handwritten foolscap pages long and in serious need of refinement.
but basically, I think I'd like to tackle a version of question nine: "How essential is interactivity to new communications environments such as the World Wide Web?"
from an angle along the lines of "how does interactivity make it a different medium, how does interactivity JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829118212002-10-13T16:10:00.000+10:002002-10-13T16:10:52.760+10:00after a quick 45 minute brainstorm on essay topics I typed interactivity subjectivity web medium computers into Google and got this thesis page. 'nuf said.
now I just have to: sort out references. find other writings on the Web. fix my blog. write 3000 words. easy. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829041152002-10-13T11:55:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:55:59.700+10:00an interactive comic in Melbourne, also stolen from grumpygirlJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829038172002-10-13T11:46:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:46:10.596+10:00things to do on the blog: make a list of regular sites to check.
make better links to permanent resourcesJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829037872002-10-13T11:45:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:45:34.516+10:00a thought about the problems of Web research; you end up with lots of links and lists of links, but it's hard to know where to finish, and sometimes we're all just talking about the things the others are talking about.
not exactly a narrative problem, but a hypertext problem; is there/will there be a sensible way to approach hypertextual documents, of which the Web is one big document?
blogs JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829036742002-10-13T11:41:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:41:37.480+10:00some thoughts about the nature of voice and story on the web. stolen from grumpygirl, whom I really must meet sometime. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829029842002-10-13T11:17:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:17:04.703+10:00but the interesting bits are interactive. it's certainly essential to it reaching its full potential; the diy web is the good bit.
not that the e-commerce etc aren't interesting, and aren't paying for it to be built. and then there's cybersex...JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829029452002-10-13T11:15:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:15:13.000+10:00key points drawn from questions: text. what is communication really? how things compare to how they used to be. how do things compare to/interact with "reality"?
q 9: how essential is interactivity? it is and it isn't. for those parts that are like tv and radio, it's not at all. for online gaming, it is. b/c the web is the computer of communications devices; it is a virtual space and we are JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-829027202002-10-13T11:06:00.000+10:002002-10-13T11:06:35.800+10:00HAM 517 CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
SUGGESTED ESSAY QUESTIONS
As I have suggested previously, these are merely suggested topics. I am eager for people to formulate their own topics in consultation with me. However you may choose one of these, or alternatively modify one to suit you particular interests. Regardless of which option you choose, I will be consulting with everyone in due course to JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826302842002-10-07T20:09:00.000+10:002002-10-07T20:09:49.720+10:00resources for electronic authors, via Jenny Weight (geniwate)JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826301222002-10-07T19:59:00.000+10:002002-10-07T19:59:47.413+10:00my favourite piece of net art from tonight's site: rice JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826297832002-10-07T19:39:00.000+10:002002-10-07T19:39:32.780+10:00net art thingJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826293602002-10-07T19:15:00.000+10:002002-10-07T19:15:23.563+10:00is game design obsessed by space? JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826293362002-10-07T19:13:00.000+10:002002-10-07T19:13:46.750+10:00stuffJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-826292952002-10-07T19:11:00.000+10:002002-10-07T19:11:52.450+10:00chris crawfordJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-824902012002-10-04T09:48:00.000+10:002002-10-04T09:48:44.153+10:00 The Electronic Labyrinth; looks chock-full of good stuff. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-823060412002-09-30T19:35:00.000+10:002002-09-30T19:35:23.286+10:00 have noted some pages that might be relevant to blogs; also interested that he says that in a funny way, orality, by necessitating patterns and repitition and formulae, actually created stability, whereas writing, by allowing us to put the words down and separate them, created the potential for a more flexible word-world. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-823054382002-09-30T18:58:00.000+10:002002-09-30T18:58:47.200+10:00have been reading Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy, and trying to work it into the essay based on my presentation.
many notes I should have put on my blog, because they don't fit into the essay.
blogging draft here for work in progress purposes:
This essay will attempt to draw out and make explicit the role of words in our consciousness and day-to-day lives, and how the differences between JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-819877392002-09-23T20:48:00.000+10:002002-09-23T20:48:40.400+10:00wanna see my homework? JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-819854642002-09-23T18:37:00.000+10:002002-09-23T19:43:55.000+10:00apparently we did all this cool abstract stuff last week, according to Darren.
thoughts: the difference between cybertext and text.
I think that the thing you do when you read is not the same thing as cybertext coulddo.
for a start, a read text only exists in the readers' mind.
a real cybertext should respond in that recursive, "cyber" way, so it should change and morph - or branch endlessly,JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-819848022002-09-23T18:02:00.000+10:002002-09-23T18:02:46.363+10:00HAM 517 CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
SUGGESTED ESSAY QUESTIONS
As I have suggested previously, these are merely suggested topics. I am eager for people to formulate their own topics in consultation with me. However you may choose one of these, or alternatively modify one to suit you particular interests. Regardless of which option you choose, I will be consulting with everyone in due course to JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-819698392002-09-23T10:32:00.000+10:002002-09-23T10:32:36.970+10:00
Ted Nelson
I DON'T BUY IN
The Web isn't hypertext, it's DECORATED DIRECTORIES!
What we have instead is the vacuous victory of typesetters over authors, and the most trivial form of hypertext that could have been imagined.
The original hypertext project, Xanadu®, has always been about pure document structures where authors and readers don't have to think about computerish structures of JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-818605902002-09-20T16:55:00.000+10:002002-09-20T16:55:52.500+10:00eastgate system's hypertext resources JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-818603032002-09-20T16:43:00.000+10:002002-09-20T16:45:24.000+10:00an online identity course/experiment using anonymous logons. bibliography might be useful
via jillJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-818565672002-09-20T14:37:00.000+10:002002-09-20T14:38:50.000+10:00the page with her masters plan
not quite where I'm heading; she is interested in narrative, me in identity. but there is common ground.
also would like to find out what she thinks about interactive writing/linked writing.
hmmm.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-818565192002-09-20T14:35:00.000+10:002002-09-20T14:35:30.046+10:00look! someone else in Melbourne doing a masters' around blogging.
she may even be doing it in more depth, as my thesis is "minor" and I think she's doing a research degree. have mailed her. plus she has cool dreams. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-814360772002-09-11T13:02:00.000+10:002002-09-11T13:02:26.296+10:00should have posted how this went: fairly weirdly, as it happens. the girl before me was full of intelligent insights into the shorthands used in chat rooms. me, as I read my paper out, realised it was one of those unformed things that make sense when you write them, but to a new reader (or listener) have so many gaps. so I improvised, meaning I added in bizarre asides and examples. that room is JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803869372002-08-18T20:57:00.000+10:002002-08-18T20:57:30.753+10:00
rough draft of tomorrow night's paper:
just trying to get a handle on all this “word” stuff
first, what they are, what they mean to us and what they do to us, and second, why it matters whether we say them or write them, hear them or write them
bits from last week’s readings, this week’s readings, some stuff I picked up in philosophy classes and a few things that happened to me during the JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803869132002-08-18T20:56:00.000+10:002002-08-18T20:56:19.173+10:00reminder to self; blue sticky notes denote material to help write up paper.
also do further readings for this week in reader. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803868682002-08-18T20:52:00.000+10:002002-08-18T20:52:10.370+10:00i'm sure my seminar will be a strange and confusing thing. pleased to find derrida and socrates hanging around this week's readings.
it's occurred to me that I'm allowed to slow down, to focus carefully on, say, The Word and what it does, as a foundation for things I'll do later in the course. that I can work my way through the basic ideas of online identity and presence and databodies and blogs JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803859542002-08-18T19:32:00.000+10:002002-08-18T19:32:20.193+10:00a site that has the 19 august reading and some more on orality/literacy JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803777122002-08-18T13:32:00.000+10:002002-08-18T13:32:53.043+10:00whoa. visible darkness looks full of Big Ideas. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-803776842002-08-18T13:31:00.000+10:002002-08-18T13:31:41.310+10:00madness. have decided, in moment of coffee and exercise fuelled inspiration, to do my uni seminar tomorrow night. I have no time to write the thing and will end up blurting out a whole lot of half-formed ideas about phallocentrism, identity as manifested in the word etc. and I've left my philosophy notes at our house and will need to find out stuff about ricouer from random web sites. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-800786722002-08-11T08:37:00.000+10:002002-08-11T08:37:11.756+10:00actually started reading last night.
I think I've forgotten how to do it.
managed a whole solid hour, which is not bad for someone who lives her life in blog-sized bites these days.
of course I have a paper notebook for notes on reading, but more general stuff will go here.
so, Ong: (I bought his Orality and Literacy b/c it looked cool and was on the further reading list, and in the vain JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-792849732002-07-23T13:29:00.000+10:002002-07-23T13:29:27.386+10:00a list of internet research-related email lists.
haven't got my books yet. am annoyed that first class clashes with final ep of Sex and the City. am i taking this seriously enough?
JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-787577632002-07-10T12:36:00.000+10:002002-07-10T12:36:20.573+10:00I've forgotten where I'm putting articles about blogs: meg hourihan JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-785035442002-07-03T21:29:00.000+10:002002-07-03T21:29:57.306+10:00so they let me in.
now I have to pay $1666 or similar in three weeks.
WHY AM I DOING THIS???
oh well. it has to happenJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-776834412002-06-13T14:12:00.000+10:002002-06-13T14:12:30.723+10:00nytimes on warblogsJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-775259762002-06-09T19:06:00.000+10:002002-06-09T19:09:53.000+10:00draft of my talk. go away. I had to keep it somewhere - this way I can get at it from work/other computers.
On The Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Blog
insert cartoon.
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find a good study blog.
after each FAQ, put in a list of links to relevant places.
need: scrolling blog background with ability to bring up the actual pages I want to talk about.
30 minutes x 60 seconds x 3 words/sec = JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-774923192002-06-08T16:39:00.000+10:002002-06-08T16:39:57.180+10:00as on my other blog, I had to kill the template and start with a new one to fix that. a bit like rebooting; drastic, but usually effective. this blog's job is not to look pretty anyway. I did come here to work on my VATE presentation, but I think I've run out of steam, what with this and figuring out how to work PowerPoint (not) JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-774921912002-06-08T16:33:00.000+10:002002-06-08T16:33:58.770+10:00Ok. if you really want to see my archives, you need to take one "archives" out of the URL that pops up when you click on a month on the index page. I don't know what's happened, and Blogger won't let me get to my template to fix it. but that's how you do it. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-772785152002-06-03T16:45:00.000+10:002002-06-03T16:45:56.340+10:00test post to see if this revives my archives. bet it doesn't JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-763338802002-05-09T15:28:00.000+10:002002-05-09T15:28:16.853+10:00why do I have to do everything the nonstandard way?
it seems that I'm supposed to do all four subjects before working on my thesis. but that's not the way my preferences fall, and I want to get into the thesis, and not take three years to do this.
so this is what I'll do: study normally for two semesters. defer for one, while actually doing the thesis. then do the fourth subject. then, only JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-762513972002-05-07T15:19:00.000+10:002002-05-07T15:19:34.020+10:00
Dear John,
you may remember speaking to me a month or so back about the masters' program. I've managed to get approval from work for the course, but I have a couple of things I'd still like to sort out that I was hoping you or someone could talk to me about.
Below is my hoped-for course of study. As I'm part time here (four days a week), I'm hoping to get through in two years, and it's the JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-762506662002-05-07T14:55:00.000+10:002002-05-07T14:55:04.140+10:00have got the magic letter committing them to funds.
now need to: ring Swinburne and check out that my course plan is Ok with them, and let Melbourne Uni know, I guess.
and set the video to record Media Watch and Sex and The City on Monday nights. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-760738582002-05-02T20:07:00.000+10:002002-05-02T20:07:19.433+10:00erk. have been told the form is signed off. life is only getting busier. once I get the letter outlining t & c, will have to contact Swinburne and tell them the bad news.
Dean is teaching next year. so that's something to look forward to.hJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-756704942002-04-22T12:47:00.000+10:002002-04-22T12:47:14.886+10:00well. had big think over the weekend while we were up the country.
re-read all the subject guides.
thought a lot about how I have no time at all now, how I really should be getting on with some creative writing instead, how I'm not sure I want to commit to two more years here to secure company support.
thought some more about the fact I don't know what the hell else I'd do than my current job, JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-754831872002-04-17T09:58:00.000+10:002002-04-17T09:58:37.080+10:00um, when they say they'll pay, they mean half of the total cost. which, with tax deductibility, brings it down to about 3500 for me.
am now having full-blown crisis about whether I really want to do this, the other things I could/should be doing with my time, recommitting to a job I've been in for five years already, etc.
need to go back and look through the course guide. need to actually talkJSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-754535582002-04-16T15:29:00.000+10:002002-04-16T15:29:59.090+10:00well, that went surprisingly well.
although the company will decline to pay for stuff I've already done (thereby doing me out of about $600 in course fee and book refunds) it will look very kindly on agreeing to pay, on a semester-by-semester basis, for my $10,000 masters' program.
I think I'm in shock. haven't had a pay rise for four years, travel funding has been cut back, etc, etc and I JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-754465622002-04-16T12:05:00.000+10:002002-04-16T12:05:47.620+10:00have sent polite reminder to holder of the corporate training funds purse-strings, asking just exactly how long he intends to take to decide, and hinting that I am "weighing up my options"
i guess if I was really serious, I could sell my investment flat, stop work for a whole year and just get 96 for everything. JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-754457902002-04-16T11:47:00.000+10:002002-04-16T11:47:44.030+10:00word from helen verren in the hps office:
yes, they are more reluctant to allow conversion from masters to phds these days.
her solution ! is to get a really bloody good mark - like 96-plus - in honours and go straight into the phd.
problem being that if I was part time during honours, that mark might be difficult to get. just a bit.
she was quite sympathetic to questions of balance in work/JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035208.post-754152992002-04-15T17:06:00.000+10:002002-04-15T17:06:26.836+10:00reposted from my other blog:
graduation day: now I know how a bottle of beer on an assembly line feels.
First, you wait in a line for 15 minutes. someone crosses your name off a list, takes $50 from you and hands you a bit of paper, which you must not lose. then you show the bit of paper to someone else, who hands you a gown and silk trencher thing. then you go to another desk where they check JSnoreply@blogger.com