chs h202

Usenet Culture

2004-09-26T15:54:00.000-05:00

I saw a really classic Usenet exchange recently. This was on rec.bicycles.tech in a thread about women's bicycle saddles.

J: The distance between the ischial tuberosities ("sit bones") is known as the transverse diameter of the pelvic outlet.
B: Who says they don't teach anything useful in high school nowadays?
J: ???
B: Didn't you claim to be a pimply high school nerd last week?
J: I am 30,000 lines of lisp.
B: ???
J:(loop (post (eval (read))))

Summary: B caught J out pretending to be a high school student. J now claims to be a computer program.

mobile blogging

2004-09-20T10:46:00.000-05:00

A post about mobile blogging is interesting both for the interactions among bloggers and for the assumption that blogging will become a way of easily sharing information on the internet that people will do much more casually than sitting down to write something.

Gender analysis of writing

2004-09-20T07:17:00.000-05:00

Will found one.

ways of organizing information

2004-09-10T08:05:00.000-05:00

linear
encyclopedia
matrix
tree
hypertext

The World Brain

2004-09-08T10:25:00.000-05:00

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray write that the internet as a source of information is still, when they write, not effective. Most of the world's information is still "rotting in silos."(p. 300) Do you think that is still true today? Here's a discussion of some of the problems of organizing information.

The Internet and Social Movements

2004-09-07T12:06:00.000-05:00

We mentioned the use of the internet as a source of information for people living in repressive regimes. But it facilitates extremists as well as liberation movements.

Assignment

2004-08-25T10:49:00.000-05:00

I asked everyone to go and explore the world of blogs and write a post to your blog with a link to a particularly interesting blog you found. One of my favorite miscellaneous blogs is
Caveat Lector.

I won't usually give you assignments to write about on your blog--usually you should write about whatever interests you related to this course. Go out and explore the world of the internet and tell us what you find (warn first if you link to anything offensive).

Make sure to follow the links to the right to read your classmate's blogs.

killing kittens

2004-08-25T08:42:00.000-05:00

The link on technological decisionmaking is here.

Welcome

2004-08-25T08:24:00.000-05:00

This is the course blog for CHS H202 section 300. As students email me their blog addresses I will post them. My home page is here.