Podcast Lecture for Friday, October 26

wendywarrenaustin@hotmail.com (Wendy Warren Austin) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:03:00 +0000

There's a little poll at the bottom or side of the page. Could you take it, please? It ends on Oct. 31.

"Meet Joe Blog"

wendywarrenaustin@hotmail.com (Wendy Warren Austin) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:01:00 +0000

Here are the links that were discussed in Lev Grossman's article "Meet Joe Blog":

http://www.talkingpoints.memo.com/
http://drudgereport.com/
http://thememoryhole.org/
http://andrewsullivan.com/
http://justanothersoldier.com/
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
http://artsandlettersdaily.com/
http://slashdot.org/
http://bookslut.com/
http://gawker.com/
http://wonkette.com/
http://blogforamerica.com/

In addition, I had talked about a few other blogs in class on Friday. Here are those:
“A” List of Bloggers

Here are some hot shots of blogging, in no particular order –I’m sure I will leave out some here, but these are the names I most frequently run across as A-Listers:

· Jason Kottke http://www.kotke.org
· Meg Hourihan http://www.megnut.com/
· Rebecca Blood http://rebeccablood.net
· Jorn Barger http://www.robotwisdom.com
· Biz Stone http://www.bizstone.com
· Derek Powazek http://www.powazek.com
· Brad Graham http://www.bradlands.com
· Evan Williams http://evhead.com

also http://icanhascheezburger.com
http://www.dailykos.com

In fact, there’s even a web page called “Blog Elements” which features a Table of Elements like in Chemistry, except in this case, the cells are replaced with bloggers’ names. http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=elements2

If you find other good blogs that are funny or interesting enough to take a minute out of the day to scan, post them on her as a comment.