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in CCR 711: Network(ed) Rhetorics
Note: Nothing much in this post. I’ve just linked some of the terms from this week’s readings to entries in wikipedia.
Among other items, we’re reading Chapter 3 and 4 from Bernardo Huberman’s The Laws of the Web on Evolution and Structure, and Small Worlds.
Huberman has figured out that despite [...]

About a month ago I started keeping the blinds open all the time in the living room. Caveat: I do live on the second floor and the nearest neighboring apartment building is quite a ways away. I don’t really feel like I’m lacking privacy.
It’s like I have more freedom and I really [...]

In Six Degrees, in the section on synchrony, Watts says, “Under what conditions will a population of oscillators start to oscillate in synchrony?” (31).
My thoughts drift to women and menstrual cycles. Women who socially interact tend to menstruate in synchrony. This has something to do with pheromones, which according to an interview with Dr. [...]

cross-posted to CCR:711 Network(ed) Rhetorics
In thinking about Six Degrees, I keep coming back to his question, “how people end up creating a network structure out of a social structure (and vice versa), what can they do with it once it’s there?” (Watts 129). When I think on this, the word that keeps coming back [...]

in CCR: 711 Network(ed) Rhetorics
I’ve seen this meme at places too numerous to link, but it finally struck me that I want to think more about this in reference to social networking.
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / [...]

in 8010 Theory and Practice via Network(ed) Rhetorics
kubernetes says something really provocative here:
Instead, I suggest, and I’m really trying on this one because I’m a champion problematizer, that we start looking at the opportunities teaching a formal academic essay presents our students. This form represents a goldmine of critical thinking precisely because it is so [...]

One of the things that I know about myself is that I am insanely curious.
Is it any surprise that I liked Weinberger’s statement:
Perhaps the Web isn’t shortening our attention span. Perhaps the world is just getting more interesting” (69).
I’m definitely on board with this. If only I had more time, as [...]

in CCR 711: Network(ed) Rhetorics
One of the questions that I am pondering about Small Pieces Loosely Joined is how writing about interests creates relationships.
It is easy to agree with Weinberger when he writes about people being joined by our interests on the web. When we participate in a group’s conversation we add to the [...]

Employers for Work – Life Balance
I’ve just got time right now to post the links and a quick quote. Will come back later and analyze.
Despite the proliferation of flexible working policies, it’s the failure of employers to recognize the place of networks and networking at work that makes balanced lives so difficult for individuals [...]

Henry has a good list of what network literacy evokes for him — it’s thought provoking, including my own place on it.
Thinking of my place in the node:
Generally speaking, there are so many passive activities that we can become involved with, and I think blogging helps ameliorate some passivity. For example, I [...]