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Johnson-Eilola, “The Database and the Essay”
Johnson-Eilola,
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the Teaching of Composition. Wysocki et. al., eds. Logan: Utah State Univ. Press, 2004. 199-226.
Yancey, “Made Not Only in Words”
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Kathleen Blake. "Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key."
CCC 56.2 (2004): 297-328.
Custom Fields
I spent enough time on this earlier today that I figured an entry was due.
Most of the support forums were a disappointment, too, so let this serve as a reference
for desperate souls like me who are hunting around for clues about how to
integrate the Movable Type Custom Fields plugin in their weblogs. What
follows will probably only be of interest to MT users. It’s not entirely
self-serving, though. I think we’ll soon be using custom entries for
CCC Online, and I wasn’t having any luck getting it to work here until now.
Seriousness1, Seriousness2, Seriousness3…
Recovery of other seriousnesses, from Jeff Rice’s
"Serious Bloggers"
in today’s Inside Higher Ed:
Lost in this seriousness are a number of quite amazing things blogging has
provided writers: ability to create discourse in widely accessed, public
venues, ease of online publishing, ability to write daily to a networked
space, ability to archive one’s writing, ability to interlink writing spaces,
ability to respond to other writers quickly, etc.
With the time you saved on this short entry, you should go read the whole
thing.
Wall Street Journal, A6
Kevin Delaney’s article, "Big Mother Is Watching: Tailing Teens on the Web,"
ran today on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. It reports
on teenagers, families and weblogs–the blurring of public/private mixed up in
self-publishing for the variously scaled publics of the web. Sure, the
article’s premise brushes with the criminalization of teenagers and the
stepped-up police-parentals when adolescents take to blogspace (surveillance,
spying, etc.), but it balances out in that blogs are never assigned the total
burden of responsibility for teenage underlife. Probably won’t register
even faint trace on the public intellectual-o-meter, but I’m quoted in the
article (one-plus inches, fourth column). And the best part: rather than
shaking my fist and cursing the danged kids with their wily wiredness, I had
something optimistic to add.
Missed it? You can still get a copy at the newsstand tomorrow for $1.50
(weekend edition).
Added: Full text of the article available here.
Why blog?
Earlier this afternoon, I stepped up front for a brief talk about why I blog
(framed as "Blogging as a Graduate Student"). The session was part of SU’s
featured Gateway Focus on Teaching Luncheon
Series; the broader theme for the event: "Technology to Support Student
Motivation." I decided that it makes sense to share a few small details about
the talk, including my list of five motives/motifs on grad student blogging.
It’s testimonial for the most part, and perhaps it’s well-worn terrain for you
who have been keeping a weblog, but it’s also useful for me to flesh out my
talking notes and to write through some of the fuzz, the un- or under-answered
questions, and the relative merits–from my perspective–of keeping a weblog
throughout a graduate program of study. I should also be clear that these
are conversation starters and supple categories for organizing such
conversations rather than some rigid and deterministic boxes.
Upgrade
I’m dropping in MT 3.2 today and monkeying with the templates. So if the whole works appears to be coming unglued, it’s because EWM’s a-morphing.
Later on: Everything seems to be working. It looks like 3.2 allows me to keep my templates from 2.65, which means that the style sheets don’t require any urgent doctoring (except, of course, if you’re viewing this weblog in IE for Mac, in which case…quit it, it looks terrible). I still have to figure out the Stylecatcher plugin and the “Refresh Template” function. But there it is; took about 40 minutes and the weblog’s more or less revamped.
ClustrMaps
ClustrMaps
is back on the scene with a recent beta release. I don’t know that it was ever completely off the scene, but I dropped my map sometime in the spring because it didn’t seem to be updating any longer. It’s quite likely that
they’ve worked around some of the problems they had late last fall with
high-traffic maphogs, sluggish updates and so on, although my current (re-added today)
ClustrMap’s reflection of two visits since July 27 suggests there’s still a
glitch or two with the beta rollout. Or much worse, it’s accurate, meaning
that I’ve had just two visitors in 19 days (welcome to both of you, if that’s
the case). Yet another (highly likely) possibility, you actually have to
have the map showing on your site for the visits to reflect. Either way,
the beta release is available to others by invitation only from existing users.
And so, since I signed up last October, I have two invitations
available–exactly enough to pass along to both of you. No, seriously, if
you want a ClustrMap, just drop in a comment, and I’ll have one of the sign-ups
sent to your email.
Restyling
Everything I know about CSS I learned from experimenting with Movable Type.
And you may or may not care that I’ve never upgraded. EWM is vintage MT
2.65. I’ve installed new versions of MT for other folks (another install
just a few days ago, in fact), but I’ve never gotten around to upgrading my own
weblog. Could be the lag reflects my felt knowledge that the new version
would come with a slightly different set of class and id tags. No hurry to
bother with it.