tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75594176839106125662024-02-06T21:18:07.206-05:00Writing for the Blogosphere // Spring 2012Fear — or Don't Fear — the Blogger: 21 students, 22 blogs, 15 weeks. Learning in public at the University of Maryland. Watch what we do.Marilee Lindemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17275143625984608882noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-37744463995909155752012-05-16T00:55:00.002-04:002012-05-16T00:55:59.569-04:00Let’s get down to business to defeat the Huns….uh..I mean finalsOnce last post before the final presentations: A finals themed reinterpretation of your favorite Disney Princess songs. You're welcome.
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How do I add Featured Images? All that is showing up on the main blog page is the text of the post. When I click "Read more," it shows the image I put with the full post, but I want it to show up as a thumbnail on the main page too. I've looked it up and it seems like I have to do some kind of fancy coding stuff that I don't feel like doing. Is there an easier way?Carlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01428539179552096078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-41525331167844433342012-05-02T12:23:00.001-04:002012-05-02T14:24:54.609-04:00How to Make an Animated GIFHello fellow bloggers/classmates! This post will be dedicated to creating your very own GIF(s). Hopefully this will become useful to you and it will help to decorate your blog!<br />
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<b>Creating a GIF using an Editing Program.</b><br />
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This was the easiest method I found to creating a GIF and it's both Apple and Windows friendly.<br />
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<b>Step 1: Create or Find your Video.</b><br />
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You can use a video you've downloaded or one you've created yourself, it doesn't matter. Be aware, however, that the longer the video is the longer it will take to be imported.<br />
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<b>Step 2: Import the Video into your Editing Program.</b><br />
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Every laptop and computer (unless it's from 1997) should come with a free video editing program. Open the program up and import your footage.<br />
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<b>Step 3: Editing.</b><br />
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Once your video is all ready to go start editing. You're going to want the video to be 2- 5 seconds long or else the file will be too large.<br />
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When you have your video file edited down to 2-5 seconds export it. Windows users, you'll want the file to be an .AVI not a .WMV.<br />
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This was the trickiest part for me. There are a lot of websites dedicated to helping users create GIFs, but not all of them will work. After days of searching and experimenting I finally found a site that worked, <a href="http://www.lunapic.com/editor/">LunaPic</a>. Feel free to search around but this was by far the best site I found.<br />
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It's really simple. Upload your video to the site and set it to the image size of your liking.<br />
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500x750 worked for me.<br />
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The website will then allow you to slow down or speed up your gif, adjust the image width, and even cut your footage down.<br />
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When you finish playing with that you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and either save the Gif to your computer or upload it to the websites that are hyperlinked there.<br />
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* If you have trouble uploading the GIF to your Tumblr or Blog try uploading it to a photo sharing & video hosting site like<a href="http://tinypic.com/"> Tinypic.com</a>.<br />
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Here are some other options which involve a little more time and money.<br />
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<b>Mac users have the option of buying there own GIF editing program.</b> Judging from the customer reviews <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gifbrewery/id435989461?mt=12">GIFBrewery</a> seems to be the best option.<br />
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It's basically a Gif editing program and it only costs about $5.00. It's easier than using Photoshop and from the reviews it seems that the quality of the GIF seems to be relatively decent. <br />
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If you have access to a Photoshop program it's a really useful tool for blogging. If you want to buy the program prices can range from <a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Photoshop&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#q=Photoshop&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvnsa&source=lnms&tbm=shop&ei=wl6hT6CTO8y50QH1r8mKDg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&ved=0CDQQ_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ad2e7cd53128972d&biw=1282&bih=687">$66.00 to over $200.00</a>.<br />
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Creating a GIF using Photoshop is a longer process but the quality is usually leagues better. If you have a basic understanding of the program it shouldn't be too hard. Below are two videos I thought were the most useful:<br />
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757857122415195057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-31898886201273337952012-05-01T21:40:00.002-04:002012-05-01T21:40:48.081-04:00And the Linky is working!Thanks to Hannah for coming up with the questions! <a href="http://collegialequestrian.blogspot.com/2012/05/umd-blog-hop.html">I set up a free InLinkz account</a> so that when you put in the URL of your post, it will automatically show up on the blogs of everyone else who participates. I put up Hannah's and Briana's already, and wrote up some instructions on how to do it that will also appear automatically on each linked post.
Technical writing for the Division of IT can come in handy...Carlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01428539179552096078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-83101244741682179312012-04-30T17:27:00.001-04:002012-04-30T17:27:16.272-04:00Voila! Ze Questions are finished!The questions for our group blog endevour are finished. Thanks to Carla for getting me started! Do it soon so I can add you to my LIST OF AWESOME TERPS WHO HAVE DONE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE.
<a href="http://ezrawontshutup.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/terpquestionnaire/">Here it is!</a>EzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-72022143943939377092012-04-29T17:22:00.001-04:002012-04-29T17:22:53.693-04:00The Next Blog ChallengeHey Guys,
My poor brain is so tired from writing papers. I'm blanking on any kind of umd related questions type thingies for the blog thingy we discussed. Help? Leave a prompt or question in the comments, and I'll try and assemble them with some of my own by monday.
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HannahEzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-9553613588194099702012-04-23T11:11:00.001-04:002012-04-23T11:12:37.078-04:00Why you should be making use of Pinterest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi everyone,<br />
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This is Michael Kahane and I'll be talking to you later today about Social Network Theory and Virality (with the focus of building a blog audience). I came across this article about how awesome Pinterest is for increasing traffic: <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2018013544_pininterest22.html">Crafty bloggers use Pinterest to swap ideas, drive traffic</a>. I'll be talking about Pinterest a little bit today, but this is a good read.<br />
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See you later!</div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-56317613967497322842012-04-23T00:18:00.000-04:002012-04-23T00:18:07.229-04:00What to blog about...Well, logically I'd write about the Caps right now, being that they're in the middle of an epic seven game, first round series. Problem is I have this big problem where I don't want to jinx anything by saying a word about it, verbal or written. So I'll keep quiet, keep my thoughts to myself through Wednesday night, and try to do some sort of yoga or deep breathing exercises to help my health get back on track. I probably had higher blood pressure than 99.9% of people in the world today during that game. I can only imagine what game seven will do to me. Go Caps.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622491335168214995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-79878450839001666702012-04-19T15:19:00.001-04:002012-04-19T15:19:24.959-04:00Re-New BlogHey Everyone,<br />
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I finally decided to purchase my domain, so before I delete my blog that appears on the class blog roll, the link to my new blog is here: <a href="http://www.seaofrhymes.com/">www.seaofrhymes.com </a><br />
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YalabeYalabe Dukulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07118344686001934351noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-88027543180951845332012-04-18T02:17:00.000-04:002012-04-18T02:17:21.395-04:00A Cyborg ManifestoYes, interpreting Donna Haraway's manifesto was a challenge even for the graduate student in the class. Even after reading it multiple times! So I wanted to share with you all a helpful resource that I used in dissecting "A Cyborg Manifesto." It's a <a href="http://www.terrisenft.net/students/readings/manifesto.html" target="_blank">website</a> that was put together by an instructor trying to help her students understand Haraway's famous work. I've never used a Cliff note or Spark note or anything of the sort so I have nothing to compare it to, but I found her interpretations helpful as I reread. <br />
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As for tomorrow, take another look at the chart comparing "comfortable old hierarchical dominations to the scary new networks I have called the informatics of domination" on pages 161 & 162. It's been over 20 years since Haraway revised her manifesto and we'll be discussing this chart tomorrow. I have some powerful objections to some of the dichotomies on the chart and am wondering if any of you do as well?Laura A. Cathcarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271306571859244291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-62871427833791651412012-04-18T00:19:00.002-04:002012-04-18T00:22:10.156-04:00Harry Potter!<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Since I haven't read the Hunger Games yet I couldn't participate in the challenge this week. Instead I did a post on <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Pottermore</span>! Have you guys been on the site yet? If not check out my post on it </span></span><a href="http://pompandprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/merlins-beard-more-pottermore-please/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">HERE</span></span><br /></a>Marriam Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170651249926322276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-16108752777917347612012-04-16T14:38:00.001-04:002012-04-16T14:39:22.971-04:00New Post! "Trayvon Martin: The Media's Dead Marionette"Finally got around to<a href="http://ramblingbastard.blogspot.com/2012/04/trayvon-martin-medias-dead-marionette.html"> my "response" post </a>- it's on the whole Trayvon Martin fiasco. I'm not really commenting on the ins and outs of the case, but more so how members of the media, corporations, and activists have seen his passing as an "opportunity," and have warped the case into a sordid opportunity. Read it, if you've got a few minutes!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03077934914031074226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-74969049629817604982012-04-11T14:17:00.003-04:002012-04-11T14:17:31.749-04:00Laura's Video Challenge<a href="http://youtu.be/usQSG2B-eGQ" target="_blank">Checking Blood Glucose</a>Laura A. Cathcarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271306571859244291noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-92198875077111402882012-04-05T00:35:00.001-04:002012-04-05T00:36:12.795-04:00Helpful Blog Resource<a href="http://dailypost.wordpress.com">The Daily Post/</a> is put out by wordpress to help you think of new posts etc.EzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-41160948534497083442012-04-03T19:13:00.002-04:002012-04-03T19:21:02.755-04:00Arguing Against Sunstein's Republic.com 2.0In class tomorrow, Michael Venetti and I will be arguing against some of the points Sunstein makes in his Republic.com 2.0. We will be referencing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s">this</a> Ted Talk and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/01/online_echo_chambers_a_study_of_250_million_facebook_users_reveals_the_web_isn_t_as_polarized_as_we_thought_.single.html">this</a> article to demonstrate why Sunstein's argument that technology's ability to "filter" what people want to experience is a hindrance to society and ultimately our democratic system.<br /><br />Sunstein argues that this concept of "personalized news" (4) is affecting democracy. He believes the people have a right to be exposed to new information that they might not be predisposed to click on. We believe, however, that the development of technology should not make human beings lazy. Throughout history, those who have wanted to know something would seek it out. Scholars and neighborhood gossips alike had to work to get their daily dose, so why should that change now? People, as global citizens, have a responsibility to the world they have created to keep up with it's goings on. It is not the duty of private corporations to inform people, it is the duty of people to inform themselves.<br /><br />Stay tuned for this lively debate tomorrow!Marriam Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170651249926322276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-25026614645671989532012-04-03T00:48:00.000-04:002012-04-03T00:48:33.879-04:00Challenge Accepted!<a href="http://ezrawontshutup.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/ezrashair/" target="_blank">Follow Your Own Weirdness: A Tale of Ezra</a><br />
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I enjoyed Michael's foray into the personal narrative, so I broke from my "observations" and told a little story about my hair, Paris Hilton, Afros, Lord of the Rings, and horses.<br />
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Enjoy, and leave me comments pretty pumpkin please. <a href="http://ezrawontshutup.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/ezrashair/" target="_blank">Follow Your Own Weirdness: A Tale of Ezra</a>EzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-46719882843537360792012-04-02T09:13:00.001-04:002012-04-02T09:13:43.453-04:00In Favor of Sunstein's Republic.comAfter reading so many examples of why the Internet is a threat, it’s tempting to write off Cass Sunstein’s argument as overly alarmist. However, Republic.com is less of a persuasive argument than an investigative one exploring three main questions: <br /><br />“How will the increasing power of private control affect democracy? How will the Internet and the explosion of communications options alter the capacity of citizens to govern themselves? What are the social preconditions for a well-functioning system of democratic deliberation, or for individual freedom itself?" (Sunstein 5)<br />
<br />Sunstein upholds a republican self-government--one that has no sovereign acting without accountability--as the ideal we should protect. In the United States, this type of government is dependent on a deliberative democracy, in which both citizens and their representatives debate and reflect upon varied arguments on the day’s issues. It places a great deal of responsibility on representatives and citizens to seek out different points of view in our diverse country. According to Brandeis, “the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people,” which brings us to Sunstein’s main fear--that the ability to personalize media can lead to what Nicholas Negroponte of MIT called The Daily Me--a collection of media so personalized to one’s own preferences that it leads to fragmentation from the rest of society and to cascades--moving quickly to a certain point of view without deliberation (4, 84).<br /><br />An institution that must be protected to ensure democracy is the public forum, whether physical or virtual. Freedom of expression is central to democracy because it provides exposure to content that one would not seek out independently (such as newspaper editorials) and provides common experiences, which “provide a source of social glue” (Sunstein 5-6). The Supreme Court protects freedom of expression in public forums such as parks and sidewalks. These public forums offer three protections to democracy:<br />
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Virtual places for deliberation, can lead to “enclave deliberation” in which like-minded people speak only to each other. This can empower minorities, but it can also limit the pool of arguments and promote more extreme views, as shown by the 2005 study of conservatives and liberals who only became more convinced of their beliefs after speaking to like-minded people (61). Sunstein writes that “For a healthy democracy, shared public spaces, virtual or not, are a lot better than echo chambers,” because of the tendency to shield oneself from other points of view (95).<br /><br />Sunstein lauds blogs as marketplaces of ideas and giant online public forums, then goes on to poke holes in both theories. Blogs are an imperfect marketplace of ideas because there is no economic incentive--even bloggers supported by ads are not as motivated to seek the truth as an author of a book would be because there is no financial price for spreading misinformation online. Their readers may not even want an unbiased truth; for example, many political blogs mostly link to other blogs that share their views, and only link to opposing views to discredit them, which limits the number of arguments and leads to polarization. Readers rely on blogs to filter, leaving the responsibility of fact-checking on their own shoulders. This is not to say that all blogs spread misinformation, or that readers are not savvy--but the infrastructure of blogs means that they are not “an incarnation of deliberative ideals" (146) . <br /><br />Sunstein does not assume that with the advent of the Internet and blogs that public forums or people’s inherent curiosity will disappear--only that the freedom to restrict ourselves to content we agree with is not true freedom, and that we must continue to protect our deliberative democracy (12).<br /><br />What Walt Whitman would have thought of <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/blog-of-myself">The Daily Me, from McSweeney’s.</a>Carlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01428539179552096078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-31198032135341918222012-03-30T21:33:00.003-04:002012-03-30T21:33:55.513-04:00Disappearing BlogrollsI just had to carefully reconstruct my blogrolls from scratch as all of the blogs in them had mysteriously disappeared after happily residing there for over a month. I am using blogger and hope nobody else is having the same trouble.Laura A. Cathcarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13271306571859244291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-4709420054074221892012-03-30T13:07:00.003-04:002012-03-30T13:07:53.556-04:00Life and Baseball: RebirthMore personal, less baseball, more life. Plus a video of me dancing in Africa. These are the changes that have been requested for the blog, and at the very least is a cool video of me dancing.mvenettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511141156272870131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-67774850316681008962012-03-28T00:17:00.000-04:002012-03-28T00:17:02.677-04:00Presentation on Here Comes Everybody<div class="MsoNormal">This book packed a lot of information in, so it was hard to boil it down to a small, bite-sized amount. If you haven't gotten a chance to read the book or you don't want to read through this summary, I would recommend reading the italicized headings of each chapter because that will give you a good idea of his points. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The underlying assumption/claim that is necessary for Shirky's whole argument is that humans are social. <span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">“Human beings are social creatures- not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our core capabilities and it show up in almost every aspect of our lives as both cause and effect. Society in not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.”</span> The other assumption is that group formation is a natural thing for humans. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Until recently, group formation has been limited by institutional contradiction: "in a way, every institution lives in a kind of contradiction: it exists to take advantage of group effort, but some of its resources are drained away by directing that effort." Now, new social tools like email, facebook, and flikr (among many many others) are drastically altering the way groups form and what they are capable of doing once they are collected. These new social tools allow for "simple sharint to anchor the creation of new groups." New tools reshape group complexity so that it is no longer a barrier. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">"The tools are simply a way of channeling existing motivation." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tools don't change absolute difficulty, they change relative difficulty. <b>Collaborative production</b> (like Wikipedia) has always been harder than simple sharing, and it has been increasingly difficult as the number of people in the group grow (See diagram on pg 27). New technology doesn't create the desire to collaborate, but it makes it easy enough that is isn't hindered by the cost/ time it previously took. Think in terms of a group of friends who wanted to go out on a Friday. Before email and facebook, they would have all had to call back and forth to each other to arrange an event. The more people involved, the more complex and time consuming the process would have been. Now, a group email or, even simpler, a facebook message or group can be created where everyone can collaborate simultaneously. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These collaborative actions further enables <b>collective action </b>as in the story of the lost SideKick (Chapter 1) or the Catholic Church scandal (Chapter 6). Not only do these new social tool enable more collective sharing, production, and action, they allow the speed of communication and action within groups to accelerate exponentially. Although Shirky wrote his book before they occurred, this is highly suggestive of the recent Arab Spring protests that were in many ways made possible (on an effective scale) by new internet tools for social interaction. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These new tool aggregate skills, interests, and talents in valuable groupings that are almost impossible to create in the old fashioned institutional way. Shirky gives the example in Chapter 9 of a conference that was created when "Tim O'Reilly, the publisher and coference organizer, founded the conference FOO Camp (Friends of O' Reilly). This conference starts from the invite list- gather a hundred interesting people- and lest them work out the schedule and content of the conference (on a wiki, of course)." This exemplifies how the new social tools allow groups to form by first aggregating interests and then forming boundaries and functions of the group, rather than the other way around. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As publishing becomes incredibly easy and inexpensive (often free), it is shifted into the hands of the average person, and is no longer filtered through professionals. The line between personal communication and publishing is blurred. However, this means there will be a great deal of mis-information and failure in the information system in addition to the increasing amounts of correct and successful information. </div>EzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-5349007278962915452012-03-26T18:07:00.001-04:002012-03-26T18:07:07.177-04:00Aha!I finally found the link I originally tried to share with all of you a few weeks ago: <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/">Facebook Social Plugins</a>.Carlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01428539179552096078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-32169498414868452632012-03-12T08:41:00.003-04:002012-03-12T08:41:53.276-04:00Class, I will be focusing on this article.<br />
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http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/erniepyle/wartime-columns/digging-and-grousing/<br />
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Short, 2 minute read if you have the opportunity.<br />
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Best,<br />
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Mike Venettimvenettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511141156272870131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-49637098073952397072012-03-11T12:53:00.000-04:002012-03-11T12:53:14.851-04:00Matt's blog - againI don't know what happened, but I just went through the list and realized I'm not on here anymore! So, here's the link to my page.<br />
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http://barsouthpuck.blogspot.com/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622491335168214995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7559417683910612566.post-47876798121167531612012-03-07T13:36:00.001-05:002012-03-07T13:37:10.281-05:00For you my beloved classmatesHello my smart, beautiful/handsome/genderambigioustermforlooks, witty, clever, creative classmates,<br />
I've written a <a href="http://ezrawontshutup.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/wonderwomanjael/" target="_blank">splendid new post</a> about epic battles and women stabbing Richard III look-alikes in the head with tent stakes. As always there's a lovely little poll at the end. It's so nice. Why don't you look at it and comment, eh?<br />
-Hannah (Ezra)EzraWontShutUphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12910534509732982796noreply@blogger.com0