Audio and Visual Links

David McCullough

LINKS-FOR Audio WWW.PIANOGRAPHIQUE.NET AND FOR VISUAL LINKS THE DALLAS

MUSEUM AND BOOKS AT THE library video WWW.ifilm.com/vitalvideo/top100

Peace-artsmarts@sbcglobal.net

Personal Synopsis: McCullough

David McCullough 

DAN/WHY NEW MEDIA? IT IS A WAY TO COMBINE FINE ART EXPERIENCES WITH

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND POSSIBLY COMMUNICATE CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE TO A WIDER AUDIENCE. I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO EXPLORE THE POD-VIDEO CAST

SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO PRESENT AUDIO –VIDEO TONE POETRY THAT MAPS THE CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ART-MUSIC AND POETRY . JAZZ AND THE QUESTION

OF WHAT IMPROVISATION IS?OR IS THAT JAZZ?OPENS US UP TO NEW PARADIGMS.

THE IDEA IS TO LEARN HOW TO USE THESE NEW PARADIGMS IN THE QUANTUM WAY.

Basketball and Celebs Blogs

Tim Chao 

Here are two Blogs that I frequent

1. Los Angeles Lakers Blog (on LA Times website)
http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/

I enjoy this blog because I am a big Lakers fan. This blog gives the reader a more indepth behind the scenes look at the organization with – complete unedited interviews, updates on player development, scouting reports, summer league updates, etc.

2.  The Superficial
http://www.thesuperficial.com

This blog is filled with celebrity pictures taken by paparazzi. I just go on here to look at pictures and read the comments random people leave behind after a new entry is made.

Personal Synopsis: Chao

Tim Chao 

who are you guys?

i am tim chao. im an art&performance (visual arts) major. i do have a business degree from baylor (‘05). i am doing this major because i’ve always wanted to pursue some sort of profession in arts/entertainment but if it doesnt work out, i will have something to fall back on.

what are your personal interests? studies? goals?

my interests include: following professional basketball (nba), heavy metal, rap music, skateboarding, guitar, photography, anything

what’s your experience with new media?

ive had a blog for about 6 years. does that count?

how technically savvy are you?

6.5/10 – “above average”

Wikis

I had planned to start a class wiki but then decided, for various reasons, to go with the blog. Still, the wiki is valuable and we will be examining them during the semester.

Protopyped Emac wiki on PBwiki user name is admin and password is danpbw1k1 (danpbwiki)

examples

ebay’s use of a wiki.

video tutorial of wiki on jotspot.

Personal Synpopsis: Selmon

Damion Selmon 

Hey Dan, this is Damion Selmon and here is the first part of my assignment.

I am 27 years old, and I have been in the mortgage industry (on the collections side) for about 8 years or so.  I found my passion for graphic arts in high school, when I learned some basic animations, and graphic designs.  From that point forwarded, I knew that was the career field for me but life stepped in and had to take care of other things first.  I love to help people and I plan on using my degree and training to establish my own comply that caters mainly to small business with advertising, product design, web development, and anything else that I can do to help them become successful in the ever changing world of technology.  I have taken a basic media class in junior college where I learned a little flash, html, Photoshop, and sound forge.  I am ready to learn much more.  I have always been the techy in my family from the days of MacGyver to today when cell phones changing every other week.  I always figure out how to use any piece of electronics that I and put my hands on.  Therefore, my drive is endless.  I hope to learn a lot from this class because I am ready to leave this rat race and embark in the area where I truly feel I belong.  Umm I am sure I left out some more of my formal training so if I think of it I will let you know.

Standard Tech Blogs

From Vincent Visetchanvet

www.Gizmodo.com
www.Engadget.com
www.Digg.com

Personal Synopsis: Visetchanvet

Who are you?
Vincent Vipawin Visetchanvet
I have been a web developer for about 6 years now and before that I supported several different systems, one of which was the FileNet system used by the mortgage company that employed me.  The languages that I am programming in is Visual Studio C# and a little of VB.NET before that.

What are your personal interests?
I like to play sports of all types but right now I am into tennis.  I also like to play with Photoshop.  I would really like to improve my artistic ability.  But being technical and logical for so long, it is not easy to do.

What’s your experience with new media?
I have some brushing with new media but that term itself is constantly changing so it is hard to say.  What is new now can be old within several months.  I have of course seen the use of video becoming more prevalent on the Internet.  Advertisements can now be seen in video games.  And the mobile PC is coming very strong.  What I am waiting for right now is the new electronic ink to hit the market.  That should be very interesting.

How technically savvy are you?
I think I am somewhat technically savvy.  I built my first computer when I was 14 years old.  It might contribute to the fact that my brother graduated from University of Illinois as a computer engineer.  So far, I have not bought a pre-built computer yet.  It is getting close though because the price difference is diminishing greatly.  My first programming language was Turbo Pascal and I moved into C, C++, VB, and C# after that.

Suggested Reading I

Many students have asked me about reading lists. I’ve posted only one book, on podcasting, for required reading. The reason I have not posted any books on blogs is, well, many of the blog books are relatively old (2002-2004) and everything changes so fast. The books seem outdated to me.

The book I wanted to use, naked conversations, how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, may be used by Professor Terry. The book may also be a bit advanced for the beginning-level course. However, that said, I still think the book is an invaluable, and up to date, read on the importance of blogging today. Blogging is no longer just for the blogging community, so to speak, and it’s being adopted for strategic purposes by businesses of all sorts, including Microsoft, where Scoble used to work. I’ve noticed, too, that many of the blogging books that have just been released, or are going to be released in the coming months, are focused on business.

A decent “historical” book on blogging is Who Let the Blogs Out, a Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs, by Biz Stone. Stone is a bit of a character, and somewhat full of himself, but he has pedigree: He helped create the popular weblog community Xanga.com and is a senior specialist for blogging at Google.

Rebecca Blood’s we’ve got blog, how weblogs are changing our future is also a good historical read on blogs. However, it was collected and edited in early 2002, so it’s a bit old. Even so, there are many early postings collected in the edition that are worth reading.

If you want to read a somewhat different perspective on blogs, Hugh Hewitt’s Blog, Understanding the Information Revolution that’s Changing Your World is worth the effort, even if I am not a fan of Hewitt’s. Hewitt writes from a bit of a right-wing perspective, and that’s OK, for the most part, because any blog reader and writer should get both perspectives so as not to live inside the “echo chamber,” or “preaching to the choir.” Even so, I find his arguments one-sided and not very enlightening.

One of my favorite books of all time is David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joined, a unified theory of the web. You’ll either love it or hate it. I found the book to be a bit esoteric, and hard to follow at times, but it’s left a profound impact on me. It’s given me a true understanding of what’s happening, not so much in new media, but on the web in general. When we discuss in class how can we trust a blog poster, or anybody who is non-traditional media (I know, we don’t always trust non-traditional media, but that’s another posting), Weinberger offered up interesting insight. As co-author to the Cluetrain Manifesto, Weinberger, and others of his ilk, see the web as a series of conversations and that we, as humans, are able to naturally weed out what we believe and don’t believe, the same as we do listening to co-workers, the evening news, the chat at church. “We do on the web what we do in the real world: we listen to the context, allow ourselves to be guided by details that we think embody the whole, and we decide how much of what this person says we’re going to believe,” Weinberger writes.

More later.

Attendance

I will be updating the attendance after each class. In case you want to know what classes you’ve attended and missed, the attendance sheet can be found here (ATEC 3326-501 Attendance.pdf). Zoom in so you can read it.