Disappointment

I just wanted to say that I am very disappointed with my grade. 500 is a lot, and I tried my hardest to reach it. I came short, but I spent more hours blogging than did studying for other classes. I thought that I was going to get a really good grade, infact I thought most of the class was going to get a good grade. I guess I was wrong…or maybe it’s just me…

I had to write this because I wanted to be heard!!

i love that even now with class having been over for a week, i can still procrastinate by coming to this site and have new posts to read, some less than an hour old :)

apparently some of us are going to miss the ole class blog (me included)...

G-mail

Sup. I just wanted to say hi, and tell you I’ve been going through blog withdrawl since I don’t look @ this site 20 times a day anymore. The good news is, I now have a G-mail account, and I can give out an invitation to someone else. Because most people in this class would appreciate the gesture more than any of my friends or family, I’m giving you first crack at it. Does anyone want me to invite them to use G-mail? If not, that’s okay, but just in case I wanted to throw that out there. Hope finals are going great for you all…thanks for a fun semester!

Blogger

I don’t know if anyone will be back here, but Blogger redesigned.

check it out

Amy, Charmaine, Susan and Matthew – think we sparked something? The UW wants to redesign their site.

Na

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.

Posting

You guys are free to keep posting as long as this site exists, and just so you know the stuff you guys entered here will probably always exist somewhere (via backups etc).

I mean you collectively typed an approximately 2,000 page long paper this semester… I can’t see throwing that away.

(I figured one word processed page weighs in at about 5kb, and all of the text you guys typed this semester weighed in at about 9,947kb — so it was really 1989 pages, but close enough right?)

I won’t be giving out more points this semester, everything’s a zero from now on. Not because it’s worthless, but because I said I’d be done grading on Thursday and I just can’t “punish” people who decided never to look at this site again after that day. I’d leave them blank, but there’s a small OCD part of my brain that cannot rest until every single post has been tallied… <sigh>.

You guys are more than welcome to continue any sort of discussion you like here. I’ll be around as well.

summer reading

any suggestions?

stress relief

this link was on my site all semester, and i hope you all clicked on it .. if not, here’s another chance .. makes me smile every time :) let me see that thong

If anyone is still checking this please HELP

All of a sudden in the past like 3 days my computer has been really slow at openning things. Not like internet slow, but like my screen saver will be on and I will hit the mouse and it will take a few minutes to register and for the screen to come up. Also when I hit the start button at the bottom it takes a minute or two before it pops up.
I called DoIt and they told me to download spybot and adaware which I did, but it is not any better. The computer is only 4 months old and I had not changed or downloaded or added anything to it right before it started being slow….Any advice?

General Feeling

I enjoyed this class so much this semester and actually learned more in this class than any other I have taken here as far as learning “new stuff” goes. I found some of the topics in this class really facinating. The way in which material we learned was applied to our everyday lives almost immediately was tremendous for me. Even though my number of posts was well well below the class average, I still feel like I participated a lot, props to you guys that were above the average…wow! If you guys could post some of your overall feelings towards the class that would be cool, and I also want to use some of your quotes in an article I am writing on weblogs for my final reporting assignment.

Don’t be evil?

I’m not sure I understand googles policy for advertisements. They advertise this site but wouldn’t some people find it offensive (evil)?

copyright?

Nick, I keep forgetting to ask this… should we put a statement on our blogs regarding copyright? ie, like Jason has? Does this help readers understand that the material presented are ideas and thoughts of the author?

Wikis

Here’s my wiki presentation. :)

Last goodbyes

Sorry i had to run out of class early today, but i had a final and needed some last minute time to review. I kind of ran out in haste but i really wanted to say goodbye to all of you and say that i had a lot of fun getting to know you all this semester.
On a brighter note, i dont know why we never did this before, but how would you all like to meet up one night next week for a drink somewhere on state street? I feel like we all know eachoter and we should have done this a long time ago, but why not?

Ali’s presentation

Macromedia
M online forum
“Blogs are huge”
Wired article
Dave Winer’s approval
Megnut is critical
Mike Chambers – Flash
Mike Downey – Flash evanglist
Bob Tartar’s director blog
Matt Brown
John Dowdell – News for MX devs
Sean Corfield – an architect’s view
Jeremy Allaire
Christian Cantrell server community manager
Brandon Purcell
Nigel Pegg – component dev
Kevin Lynch – chief software architect
Ben Forta – very personal
Waldo Smeets
Macromedia XML News – blog aggegator
Fullasagood: related aggregator
flog flash news – aggregator
Mena’s Corner
Team Macromedia

goals

are we going to self-evaluate our goals? or how is that going to be figured out?

presentation

I promise mine will not run long

today’s presentations

good luck today, everyone! i just wanted to say that i do not care about the order for today, but mine can be smushed if we’re pressed for time. also, i am scheduled to meet with someone at 1:00 so i can’t really stay late … sorry! (but hopefully that won’t be an issue)

trail journal

A good friend of mine is leaving tomorrow to hike the PCT… Matt, I thought you especially might be interested in his trail journal.

Blawgs

Blawgs, the name assigned to legal blogs, are Web pages for attorneys who post diary-like entries, commenting on everything from legal decisions to news events related to the legal field – or not. The blogs also link to other blogs, allowing for more viewpoints. Most blogs allow viewers to e-mail their own comments or responses, which are sometimes posted.

yeah, i definitely have issues with the name

Keeping my blog…

I will be home for part of the summer but always here for a bit. I definitely wanted to keep my blog next year, so in order to keep the address I will need to continue paying typepad. I think that’s worth it. But do you guys think I will lose a lot of credibility if I do not post for some long periods of time over the summer?

More on broadband

Broadband use continues to rise.

Susan -

will you be in class on R? If so, would it be possible to get the copies of the wisc.edu 532 project files from you if you still have them?

google goes scholarly

google teams up with universities to begin testing a scholarly search engine to be used by researchers.

Presentations

I just want to say to everyone else that presented today in class that you all did a very good job. I was really unsure about what to expect from everyone elses presentation. Not that i thought that they would be bad. What i mean is that i had nothing to compare my presentation to while i was making it. I think that those of you who are going on Thursday had a great advantage today of seeing what everybody else did and i think your reports will be better becasue of it, see you thursday.

media matters

pbs.org has this site welcome to the blogosphere i very much enjoyed looking through it (and i am using it for my presentation)

typepad message

In an effort to combat malicious comment posting by scripts, I’ve enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience.

a warning/protective measure against spammers … thought it was kinda interesting …

My link added

My link was added to the links page at Newenglandskiers.org. I didnt even send them a link, I think they just found me and put it up.

computer viruses

Sorry I missed class today everyone – I had to deal with the w32.sasser.b.worm. This is a level 4 security alert (5 being the highest) Luckily we weren’t infected – just needed some patches and updates from MS.

I highly recommend that those with computers with MS Op systems (98, NT, 2K, XP) make sure that your virus definitions are up to date AND that you have all of the latest updates.

Greater than the Sum of its Parts

Check out the stuff from topic 5. Be thinking about how linking adds to the conversation.