public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag personal

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 others
a basic design text for art students, complete text and exercises onlin

27 November 2006

Lists of Bests

by 5 others
again, 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 others
google 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 others
Like 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 others
a 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 others
like 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.

26 November 2006

PublicRadioFan.com

by 9 others
a radio listening site: schedule listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world

LibriVox

by 8 others
goal is to record all the books in the public domain; lots of audio-lit here

24 November 2006

FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds

by 41 others, 1 comment
search 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

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