Aggregated here are what I feel are my ten best posts from the past semester in chronological order.
Eve of Evolution – Internet theory meets Art theory. I like the way Benjamin’s ideas still apply in many ways to Internet theory.
Image/Illusion – How web authors (re)present themselves. I like this post because it examines how we usually don’t look for a face on a website, but perhaps we should.
Pilgrim or Tourist? pt. 2 – It’s like heaven inside your mind… Chosen because it’s probably the toughest question I tackle this semester.
Why, share! – Data-basics on user-created databases lend insight to the everevolution of information.
Transmissions – Poetry from the pre-life noetry
Blogger’s Block – Potshot to Sullivan: Everyone’s lazy. Chosen because it’s my ass-saving cop-out post.
Bioluminescent Mushrooms - Like totally heady man. I like how this post challenges presumptions.
How to Risk it pt 1 – The build-up and my best effort at creating suspense.
How to Risk it pt 2 – Like Van Halen’s “Jump” playing in your mind (almost heaven). My action-adventure post.
Speed Reading – Fix your column width. I like the idea of engineering the internet to people.
Thanks for a great final semester, those of you who were more or less forced to read my blog for class. You provided some very insightful and funny comments to my posts.
Blog posts were very helpful. From virtually any computer, virtually, I could publish my thoughts briefly. The theoretical backgrounds were at times tedious and it shows as they are often my shortest entries. As a writer, I think I am best suited to this style of writing, though as I mention in Blogger’s Block, I do get lazy from time to time. In fact the extreme mutability of the internet almost begs more writing than pen and paper, and in turn more “blocks” to imagination. The only suggestion for improvement of ENG 494 would be to encourage students to seek out their own ‘net theories. That, and urge a linearity of topics for the blogs.
