02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions
The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
by 1 othernarrative+history+pictures+encyclopedia; "safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest"
28 November 2006
jlesage's reviews
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
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 Page Creator
by 4 othersgoogle tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface
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.
essay on academic blogging in Reconstruction
06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs
26 November 2006
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
22 November 2006
ArtLex on New Media
entry in big art site has many links and hypertext connections to trace out; useful
George Mason's Nonfiction Universe: a resource for nonfiction writer and nonfiction teachers
lots of material useful for documentary film, blogging, autobiography
self portraits -- imagining ourselves
you can contribute your own picture, a sketch, painting.
21 November 2006
Adding meaning and value to information
what we do with information that might make it useful and desirable to others
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
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
Research on Place and Space
by 1 otherhuge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
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
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
Conversations with Dina
post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
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"
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
