Saturday, August 02, 2003

Hi, everyone. Just wanna let you know that not everyone in Japan are costuming like characters of Final Fantasy at weekends!! (I've never done it!!!) ;-)

Okay, my first blog entry: I use internet for just email, chatting, reading news and research. So I don't know much about details and systems about new technology and media. Anyway, first of all, these new technologies and media are great for me in order to keep in touch with my family and friends in my country. It fills the gaps of time and space between me and them. But I also believe that internet creates more connections with strangers at the same time. I used to go to use some chatting service for short period of time, but I've stoped using it. The reasons why I quit were that I didn't have much to talk with people I didn't know, and I always felt unsecure when I was talking to them. Many people asked me to exchange photos or voice chatting instead of typing with them, which are great to do with my family and friends, but I always refused them coz simply I didn't want them to know my face or hear my voice. Some people really enjoy talking to persons whom they don't know and spend lots of time talking to them, but it wasn't that attractive to me because they were not real to me. Sometimes I was truly myself, but sometimes I wasn't and they could be also acting something or someone else. Even the technology brings and changes things so impressively, I still want real people, real words and real connections with them and also want to see them face to face.

However, it is becoming more and more difficult to say what is real and what is not about things we consume today because of the developments of technology. New technology is able to create things which don't exist and delete things which exised before. For instance, in magazines, we see perfectly beautiful actors and actresses, and desire to be like them. But their images in magazines could have been editied with the use of new technology to reshape their faces and bodies for better. In addition, in films, we see digital images and scenes, and we excite, laugh or cry by seeing it. So things we see or hear are created by the new technology and we consume these "illusion". As Rickey pointed out; " virtual world seems to become more and more real and attractive. Sometimes it even looks better than our real life", we tend to consumer things with the way it is, no matter it's real or not.

I said that I want "real", but I consume "illusions" as well...........doesn't make sense, does it??
New technology.............it's complicated and a huge confusion to me.........but anyway, it's a great tool for better life, I guess.

(hope this is kinda what Luke expects to get.)

posted by Anonymous at 7:54 AM

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Friday, August 01, 2003

word nick... I think I dropped a bomb with the pretentious thing all. I hope that we will all write what we want without being superconcious of the way it sounds... wondering if someone is judging sucks. So does judging. I encounage us all to use as many multisyllabic words as posssible from this point on... say what you will.

Dan, please excuse the jab... this medium does not afford the necessary inflection to make statements seem not so... so... well you know.
posted by Anonymous at 9:28 PM

Hi, does anyone here playing online games like Diablo 2 or starcraft? If so, you must know battlenet. I had a lot of fun with it before I came to NZ and due to the poor linking speed here, I didn't play anymore. But It still worth being talked about.

All the Diablo or starcraft lovers would find that it is more interesting to play together with your friends than played it individually. But you can not always find your partner all the time. Internet can! As the web said, Battle.net provides an arena for Blizzard customers to chat, challenge opponents and initiate multiplayer games, at no cost to the user. You can find 165,666 users online and 62,119 current games are held at this time. You can play with the person from all over the world 24 hours a day and 365 days a year if you want, and you don't need to feel shame for your skills because nobody knows who you are and all you have to do is improve your skill and join another game. The website also provide chatroom for all the players to share their experiences and stories.

So why does Bilzzard set up this website? There is no hourly or monthly fee to use Battle.net, and there is no startup charge. The service is totally free after you bought the product and get a series number and then you can enter the game area. I think that's the Bilzzard's final aim, not just sell products but also service. Thus computer games company find a new function of internet: to provide after service to their costumers.

Another important aspect is that the company use this method to protect their product from being illegally copied because only the original one has the unique series number as the password to enter the battlenet. Until now, we still can't find a more effientive way to beat the illegally copies for software, are we?

Have fun in battlenet.
posted by Anonymous at 9:13 PM

Tuxedo, Hey, i've watched that film. Yeah, that's cool and funny, but not a very interesting story. Anyway, that website (www.thetuxedo.net) is really funny. I believe If I haven't watched the film before, I would like to watch it after seeing the introduction in the website. Now, that's the problem...by Internet, the film seems to be more attractive and impressive than the film really is. How could we correctly identify our feeling about a new thing in the age of Internet? Does that mean we have to try the same thing in both world, virtual and real. But not like a movie, we can go to theatre to experience it, or something else like a hair dryer, we can try the production after we listened to any introduction of its new function, there are something we cannot really touch, but psychologically affects us. Sorry about my english, what i mean is by the technology of Internet, like 3D animation or flash, virtual world seems to become more and more real and attractive. Sometimes it even looks better than our real life. One day, people might be confused with the information around them.
Back to the website of tuxedo, as Limin said, 'we can see that differnt forms of media can interact each other!' That point is absolutly illustrated by the website. Furthermore, the interaction between the website and people who are surfing in it is a fantastic example of how technology,which is not alive, talking with people, and affecting people's mind. I believe that's a kind of power.

posted by Anonymous at 6:13 PM

I think that being pretentious is exactly what things like this are for. Having slow conversations through blog sites at least let you sit around and think about what ya gonna say rather then blurting out the usual pysco-babble that can enter into everyday conversation. using words like dope is just as pretentious as anything else as it lets everyone else know how hip with the kids you are. I think being pretentious is incredibly important, everyone needs the chance to show how intelligent they can be, and blogging's perfect for that. i mean who would use the word vernacular if they didn't have time to think about it. word power's fun.
posted by Anonymous at 4:55 PM

testing posting image this time....
posted by Anonymous at 4:11 PM

fail to post picture
posted by Anonymous at 5:26 AM

Hi, all
Assessment time
Has anyone seen the film called The tuxedo last year! I didn’t! Was it cool & funny? I hope so! Anyway, if you didn’t watch this movie like me, now it is the time to catch up by visiting this website! www.thetuxedo.net/
As luke asked us that we should consider why the website we choose is noteworthy. The answer to this website is : It’s a really an impressive website that embodies the charm of advanced new 3D animation and flash technology! In addition, this website links viewers and website interactively in order to express all the information about this movie! It would be more effective than expected to attract more audience to go to the theatre!
Furthermore, thinking about that…….. How film combines with Internet to some extent? This website is a really good example to illustrate this point! Therefore, we can see that different forms of media can interact each other!
One tip for visiting this website, when you finished watching all the introduction of the film, then please click on the red button of the cell phone shown on the screen, then enjoy it!!!!!
Tell me what your feeling is toward this website,plezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
tuxedo>
posted by Anonymous at 5:24 AM

Let's take it back to the old school:
The White Negro Revisited
Ashley makes an excellent point, no-one wants to look too pretentious online.
How then do people avoid or subvert their tendency as college students, a clearly structurally advantaged group, to sound as pretentious as their privilege would suggest? By adopting (playing at) the language of structurally oppressed groups. Get Lacanian if you need to, but Mailer put it down by law back in the day. Sho' nuff on the real.

Also check our library's hallowed stacks for "Everything But The Burden" by Greg Tate.

Holla back youngin's,
- Dan

p.s. don't get it twisted y'all! I came to learn and not to expound, so if you have a response to my previous published blog I'd dearly love to hear it :). It's not about challenging propriety to language and culture, but rather exploring together the processes of negotiation involved in their exercise ;)
Feel free to mail the D. at danieltaipua@hotmail.com
posted by Anonymous at 1:05 AM

What a spaz, I'll have to get a better photo.

Yo Ryan Shaw, if you are saying Craccum sux I agree with you. I keep meaning to write a letter defaming that bozo Garland, but am too apathetic.
I guess I'll just do my defaming online, where no one can get hurt (apart from very young children etc). Is that in poor taste?

Anyway, hello to everyone
posted by Anonymous at 12:48 AM

Trying photo.
posted by Anonymous at 12:32 AM

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Thursday, July 31, 2003

So i've been sitting staring at the blog screen for 20 minutes and this is the best that i can come up with.
Question: Why does writing anything on the internet make people feel as though they have to be either witty or knowledgeable using over the top ways of explaining what would usually be quite simple?

ooh judge judy's on. excuse me.
posted by Anonymous at 10:37 PM

Okay, so I've just been to joecartoon.com and I realised something. It was much more humorous when I was 15-16 than it is now. So If you are disgusted or not ammused by what you might have seen, do forgive me... but it is an example of early flash technology...so uhh.. yeah.
posted by Anonymous at 9:54 PM

Oops.. why the hell did that writing come up instead of the sight name?? Oh well it still works though.
posted by Anonymous at 9:34 PM

Well, I was very impressed with some of the sites that Luke displayed during the week, using all that fancy flash technology and such. So I thought I would post a link to a site. Its a bit of a joke site really, but it has some neat animations which are slightly interactive, and there is a flash macromedia game where you can torpedo dolphins, and mermaids and such. This site is rather politically incorrect, some of you are probably quite familiar with it, as it was created a few years ago. But I do reccomend people check it out. Anyway, here is the link :

I hope this works as it is my first time trying to post a link.
posted by Anonymous at 9:29 PM

Last semester my group researched and wrote a paper on whether college students preferred to have awkward or difficult conversations online through instant messenger. We predicted that they would because of the emotional distance that the internet offers. But the surveys we did showed that although most college students had had a difficult conversation online in the past they would prefer not to do it in the future because of misinterpretations online. Since you can't hear the tone of the person's voice when u're talking online, it's easy to misinterpret what they are saying especially if they are being sarcastic.
While looking at previous research on this topic, we found that high school students did prefer to have difficult conversations online and predicted that it was because they are not as emotionally mature as college students and would prefer to have the emotional distance of the internet.
posted by Anonymous at 8:34 PM

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posted by Anonymous at 5:27 PM

ok, assessment time:

Afrofuturism
I'm going to jump the gun by six weeks and start talking about Diaspora Online and Race, Ethnicity and Technocultures - this way we get to sound all learned when Nabeel comes to lecture :)

The link above sends us to the official site for Afrofuturism - an eclectic movement that aims to "explore futurist themes in black cultural production and the ways in which technological innovation is changing the face of black art and culture".

The relevance of this site to the course lies in its exploration of how a specific ethnic group, here the African diaspora, interact with technology and how that interaction is expressed in black cultural production - often by engaging themes of science fiction. The reason science fiction is a recurring motif in the music of artists like Sun Ra, George Clinton, The RZA and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the Afrofuturists argue, is because it serves as an apt metaphor for the experience of abduction, displacement and alie(n-)nation.

Being an avid hip-hop fan, I really enjoy this site because it gives evidence to the history of black technological innovation. I won't use up my turntablism links yet, but I will suggest the significance of hip-hop in effacing all musical textual boundary and, much as is suggested of the tivo, reconfiguring time and generating spatial axes in our encounter with recorded sound texts.

I think it's great that a movement which is placed very much at the periphery of academia (grrr) is able to generate such strong contributions to techno-cultural theory. It's kind of hard to imagine seeing John Coltrane, Afrika Bambaataa and The Wu-Tang Clan alongside William Gibson, Paul Virilio and Felix Guattari in print form isn't it?

My encounter with another digital technology this week:
Deltron 3030 - Avantgarde hip-hop with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien.
Post-apocalyptic, Wellesian revisionistic, battle rhyming rhythmic, sitting on my hard-drive.

Alienating question for the week:
Why do people feel the sudden impulse to adopt African-American vernacular when they talk online? e.g. in this blog "peeps" "yo" "dope". Mailer, Norman (1954) ;)

Peace Out, 5000, I'm Ghost,
- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 4:33 AM

So i was figuring, now that ive argued that point...and now bored of that...i thought that i would conceed to the notion of class sociability and solidarity...right on! So heres my picture, so that i may be isolated and berated for my compulsive blogging (apparently i have nothing better to do with my time)...

But this is a one time only thing, because my dragonne is far cooler.
posted by Matt at 4:21 AM

heh sorry
posted by Anonymous at 3:54 AM

ahh I getcha...
posted by Anonymous at 3:51 AM

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posted by Anonymous at 3:39 AM

How dope will this be if it works...
posted by Anonymous at 3:29 AM

testing to see if i can edit blogs after they've been posted...
... and indeed i can :)
time bends from the gravity of my will :D
posted by Anonymous at 3:12 AM

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Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Well, here goes…my first attempt at a formal blog entry…(Luke…im not sure if this is what is expected, could you email me if it isn’t and I’ll try again)… It would appear that the issue of personal pics is not limited in scope to just me. Luke raised some very good issues regarding internet anonymity and how it can lead to a general degradation of responsible contribution to discussion, and I am sure that those points are highly applicable to the internet in general. However, in regards to this class blog, I think that these issues fail to recognise the context in which this blog is taking place. The first point I would like to make regarding compulsory pics of people, as highlighted by several entries, is that people aren’t very flattered by these pictures taken in, lets just say, less than auspicious circumstances (my pic made me look like I had a double chin). Now this obviously leads to issues regarding self esteem and the ability to lead the way in the spotlight. Which leads me to my second point, in which the very nature of the internet promotes anonymity, and though research says it is responsible for the degradation of contribution due to a lack of accountability, lets not forget that it also helps those that wouldn’t ordinarily voice their opinions, due to fear of the limelight, do just that…speak up and contribute. There are those among us that wouldn’t truly voice their opinion if they thought that people may isolate them for their honest views, and that is made all the more easily if they are recognisable by picture (I personally don’t care, especially after Luke isolated and drew attention to me in the lecture, but it is a point nevertheless). This point can be easily backed up by the experience, that I’m sure we have all had, in a tutorial sometime or other, where no one speaks and it is entirely a silent session of tutors asking benign questions. So with anonymity, what is to stop me bad mouthing people anonymously and generally degrading the blog subject matter? And this leads to my third point, whereby the class blog requires a certain ethical responsibility to academia. This class blog provides a forum for students in this course to voice their valuable media experiences to others so that they may benefit from their experiences. Also coupled with this avenue of collaboration, is the fact that it is also a formal assessment which requires individuals to responsibly post their thoughts in a manner befitting other formal assessments (such as essays). Now, I have to admit, im not all that familiar with this technology of blogging in general, but for those others in doubt about this technology, or those who doubt my resolute stance on anonymity, brings me to my fourth point. That which highlights the issue of anonymity over the internet, or the lack thereof. Ultimately we do not enjoy any real ability on the class blog/forum to avoid accountability for our actions or views because of a number of reasons, a) Luke provides an overall position of mediation and censorship with the ability to limit, edit or delete any posts which are not conducive to the overall ethic of the site, b) posts are adjoined by the name of the person who posted the article, if there were any personal queries or grievances about the post, the individual can be contacted via email by clicking on their name, not to mention that it isn’t that hard to find out who a person is in such a small class. These issues of mediation and contacting individuals brings me to my final point, that of individual security over the net. As Luke so kindly pointed out in todays lecture, it is very easy to view the source code of the HTML of a site, which coincidentally also shows the names of every file utilised on the site, including every picture. This means that anyone visiting the site has the ability of viewing anyone who posts a picture of themselves on the internet and then matching up the picture with the source code to find out what that persons student ID is, because the picture has their student ID as its .jpeg filename. I have no idea on what possible implications this may have, but I’m sure that it would provide a useful step for those with malicious intent.

Phew…peace!

posted by Matt at 9:20 PM

Understanding the World Wide Web
WWW is surface based communication where the page is not read but rather scanned, and where you can just jump from point to point. It is seen as language of new media as Lev Manovich put it. One of the reasons it has become so popular you can say that more information became accessible to people, almost like a magazine but far advanced. You can find everything weather, political news and information and unlike the magazines the information is updated throughout the day. There is also a dark side to that you can say is linked with the World Wide Web. You can always expect technology to work perfectly and things such as phonography became more accessible with www. Let’s say there was a young girl who wanted to find a web site on the Walt Disney film the Sleeping Beauty and typed it in the search engine, she would get more than she bargained for. (I read this is a magazine) Web sites are also created that teach people how to make bombs out of household products. WWW has never had a good run and while it does inform people of daily news of all sorts and you can also find useful information, some of the information is not something that everybody should have access to.

posted by Anonymous at 7:46 PM

hmm....i'm lost..-_-;; help me!
www.cyworld.com/FTVMS <--this is the homepage of Korean students, who are studying FTVMS.. everything is in Korean -_-;;;; but visit it!
posted by Anonymous at 4:55 PM

hey whaz up guys~!
testing, testing~~ it works?
posted by Anonymous at 4:55 PM

9965597.jpg That's me. Tim from China!!
posted by Anonymous at 4:52 PM

i think its like any other forums in da net.. where u have to "makeup" ur own pics and signatures and so on...

just to let everyone know... im not goin to post up my pic.. coz when i viewed my pic.. it was really really crappy aye.. so yeah.. rather not embrass myself like tat...
posted by Anonymous at 4:51 PM

Lets see if this works...
posted by Anonymous at 4:51 PM

Wow...tested and failed lots of time...now here we go hopefully!
posted by Anonymous at 4:51 PM

Wow...tested and failed lots of time...now here we go hopefully!
posted by Anonymous at 4:46 PM

Lets see if this works...
posted by Anonymous at 4:46 PM

posted by Anonymous at 4:45 PM

let's get heuristic - checking my name, it shouldn't be too hard to identify me in class ;)
posted by Anonymous at 4:43 PM

Um is anyone else having touble putting their photo up. Given the furore in class I would have thought it would be automatic when you made the blog entry.
posted by Anonymous at 4:42 PM

hey guys n gals...
just testing tis out...
posted by Anonymous at 4:38 PM

promiseofbloodshed
I'm just testing this link thingee - but if it works it's a cool site
posted by Anonymous at 4:35 PM

Freak'n Macs suck ass
posted by Matt at 4:35 PM

Okay... lets see if my mug comes up. Just another test.
posted by Anonymous at 4:34 PM

Problems are sorted now!
posted by Anonymous at 4:30 PM

Hello, I'm Tim and nice to meet all of you!! :)

posted by Anonymous at 4:27 PM

Hello, I'm Tim and nice to meet all of your!! :)

posted by Anonymous at 4:26 PM

just testing. My photo sucked so I'm not using it (sorry Luke).
posted by Anonymous at 4:24 PM

SOME TIPS ON POSTING...

I've gone through and turned some of the links you've posted into clickable links. But to do it yourself, here is the formula. Just remember to replace the curly brackets with pointy ones:

Click {a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="blank"}here{/a} to visit yahoo.com.

[nb the target="blank" bit is optional; but it's nice because it opens the link in a new browser window rather than overwriting the page that the user is on]

Depending on the browser you're using, you may see a link button on Blogger (a globe icon) which will save you typing in the code yourself.

To include an image of yourself in your post, enter the following code into your post (but use pointy brackets instead of curly ones blah blah):

{img src="http://ftvms203.blogspot.com/yourIDnumber.jpg"}

No, the images aren't automatically generated (I attached some to early posts to demonstrate the thing) and they're optional. (Ref. the discussion in yesterday's lecture!) You can even upload your own images (cf. Matt's posts in the last few days). The code is the same as above, except you replace your ID number with the name of the file you uploaded.

To upload images, please follow the following protocols:

1) Don't upload images with huge file sizes. [The multimedia lab in which you have your tutes has software (either Fireworks or Photoshop) which easily lets you compress large files into web-friendly small ones (use the 'export' function). On the iMacs, look under the Apple menu in the top LH corner, then choose FTVMS and you'll see the shortcuts to the software. Although there isn't time to teach you how to use this software on this paper, it is there for you to explore and teach yourself if you wish.]

2) Give your image a unique filename so that nobody else is likely to choose the same one and over-write it with their file (so "image1.jpg" ain't a good ideas).

3) Don't overwrite the class photos by using your ID number as a filename.

4) Don't post anything that anyone might find offensive (cos it won't stay there for long - censorship lives on in the digital age!)

5) You take personal responsibility for the copyright status of the image!
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 3:47 PM

just try to test.......test again (edit)
posted by Anonymous at 3:22 PM

Sorry Gareth... I had typed in the wrong ID number. Now corrected, so please try again...
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 2:30 PM

hmmm well here i am weblogged.being a blog virgin, i'll probly need some warming up...
ahh well, gotta start somewhere yea...!
posted by Anonymous at 5:01 AM

Just testing this thing out. Its hard being technologically retarded.
posted by Anonymous at 12:02 AM

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Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Hey anons,

I'm blog illiterate so I'll be needing someone to school me in photo posting, uploading and general putting-upperance.
cheers,
- Dan
posted by Anonymous at 10:22 PM

Hi, I'm a Gemini, I enjoy moonlit walks on the beach, fine wine and vigorous conversation. Drop me a line, I'm sure we'll get on just swell.
(no fellas please)


posted by Anonymous at 9:52 PM

no photo :(
posted by We're Not Floating at 9:51 PM

I realise after posting my mic check that I know far less about opereating digitechnology than I realised. Is this academically irresponsible? I'm all in for technology but I still prefer real letters, real photos, and real PEOPLE. This blog thing is about as fun as craccum at the moment. But if ya gonna check out a new site today make it viceland.com. Funny, informative, dopeness from New York. Or mchawking.com, Dr.Stephen Hawking wrecks the mic with battle raps about quantum physics all on mp3.

posted by Anonymous at 9:47 PM

posted by Anonymous at 9:47 PM

checkin
posted by Anonymous at 9:47 PM

So this is it!!!! We have finally began a semester of hard work and constant studying... yeah right... :) just testing my new found freedom to express myself in the world of advanced interactive technology.
posted by Anonymous at 9:44 PM

Hi everyone...i guess now i'll be on the net a lot more than usual thanks to this blog system. All i can say is i hope this worked and that oh well....i can't mock the system till i've tried it. The best thing is to be open minded and why not life is far to short to complain all the time.....lol :)

posted by Anonymous at 9:43 PM

do the pictures come out automatically? And if not why did they the first time?
posted by Anonymous at 9:40 PM

**testing** hey i'm finally in the blogger world!
http://www.yahoo.com

posted by Anonymous at 9:39 PM

checking......
posted by Anonymous at 9:39 PM

HI. I like www.scoop.co.nz for good local news and important international. http://www.donniedarko.com
is fun and interactive.
posted by We're Not Floating at 9:28 PM

Just testing!!
posted by Anonymous at 9:26 PM

Mic check 1-2-1-2. Yo is this thing on?

posted by Anonymous at 9:25 PM

This is my last test to see what I can do.
posted by Anonymous at 3:38 AM

Fully concur wit the girl about this being a new media. Never joined a blog or whatever before over the internet. Well sorta, anyway here's to a jolly second semester (please,please,please, PLEASE be a good semester) & c evry1 in class ;)
posted by Anonymous at 12:45 AM

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Monday, July 28, 2003

I'm finally in the world of the BLOGGERY, after much anguish trying to log in from hotmail! If any one else is having problems with accepting their invitation through hotmail use Lukes copy and paste technique! It works!
posted by Anonymous at 10:28 PM

Isnt faceless anonmity what the internet and blogging is all about? The very nature of the medium is to provide a forum that is bereft of consequences, with the only mediating force being the administrator who is aware of any given individuals identity anyways. Maybe im a cynic, and the only reason im belabouring the point is because that pic made it look like i had a double chin :)
posted by Matt at 9:52 PM

Not if you really object! But the point is to avoid the faceless anonymity often associated with this sort of online forum, which tends to encourage less respectful and constructive dialogue (that's what the research says - I'm not saying it would apply to you personally, of course). Incidentally, the picture of you took up about half the number of pixels and about a tenth of the disk space (20kb versus a whopping 180kb). So yes, it would be good to keep images lean in terms of both screen space and file size - if you can compress large files using some form of image programme, that'd be good. But hey-ho, it's your call - I just think it's healthy for people to be able to put names to faces in this kind of situation. Whaddya think? What do others think?
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 9:45 PM

does it have to be a pic of ourselves? couldnt i just resize it so that it loads faster?
posted by Matt at 9:38 PM

C'mon Matt... keep with the spirit of things. (It was a fine picture, in any case...) You want to upload a better one instead, rather than playing upload-overwrite Pong for the next few weeks?!
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 9:34 PM

Now we're up and running...
posted by Matt at 9:30 PM

Btw, sorry if I got mismatched any photos to names... let me know asap!!
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 8:52 PM

So here's the thinking. In the name of solidarity I took a crappy photo of myself, just like the ones you took of each other the other day ;-) If this works, we should all be able to include an image of ourselves in our posts (no need to do so on every post if you've made several posts in a short space of time). This way, we all start to put names to faces on the paper. I'll bring along the camera to this week's lectures again, so anyone who's not been snapped yet can be so. The code for including a picture of yourself is as follows (except you must replace the curly brackets with pointy brackets - I can't use pointy brackets here because Blogger would read that as HTML code and all sorts of mess would ensue... or it just wouldn't print it - one or the other):
{img src="http://ftvms203.blogspot.com/yourIDnumber.jpg"}

i.e. you fill in your ID number before the .jpg bit and replace the curly brackets with triangular brackets. (Sorry if it sounds like I'm labouring the obvious.)
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 8:33 PM

Just a tip - remember to hit the 'publish' (or 'post and publish', depending on your browser) button when you're done. Otherwise your post won't appear on the site until yours truly logs on and republishes the blog. Keep the posts coming!
posted by Technoculture and New Media at 5:28 PM

Just testing to see if its going.
posted by Anonymous at 4:41 AM

..................checking
posted by Anonymous at 3:07 AM

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Sunday, July 27, 2003

Wow, this is a new media to me! My first entry to the blog- what intelligent thing can I think of to say? How about a quote instead.

Vision without Action is merely a dream, Action without Vision simply passes time, Vision and Action can change our world - Joel A Barker

Simple but true!!!

posted by Anonymous at 5:27 PM

Got the invite, guess it worked.
posted by Anonymous at 1:52 AM

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