One of my former profs posted this entry not too long ago detailing instances of online syndication of an article he wrote for a print journal. Pretty interesting stuff:
"In case you haven't noticed, the web supports some pretty robust forms of syndication. Syndication disrupts how we traditionally think of authorship, in that what is on any given web page is not necessarily written by the author of that page. And I'm not talking only about something being copied from one page to another, but syndicated in the sense that content from one site is hosted on another."
I remember some discussion of forms of syndication in his class. One example we came up with was sampling in the music industry, and particularly in hip hop. I looked into that a little bit more for a project for another class using this article as a jumping off point.
The content I'm hosting below reminded me of those more interesting (at least I think) pursuits, but something about the image of John Mellencamp all like, "Dude! No!" strikes me as funny and definitely worth blogging about.
Today at school I was able to silence my "That's what she said" reflex not once, but twice. I can't believe it. And let me tell you, I had some killer opportunities.
student: "Ms. Dahlke! Can you come here? I don't know what to do with this thing. It's too long and hard!"
another student: "My locker's broke and I can't get any of my books or homework out." me: "That sucks. What's wrong with it?" him: "The thing that you pull on won't come up."
On a more professional note, I think one of the best things about teaching so far has been the large number of times I've been in a position to genuinely compliment someone. With about seventy-five students all working on independent research projects, I've been doing a lot of one-on-one conferencing. It's been great for helping me to get to know each of them, and to take notice of their progress. You know, to see them coming along well (that's what she said?).
"Together we can build a world that's just and inclusive for all."
With the tizzy that I've been in over Super Tuesday, I almost forgot about this misguided buffoon.
Moving on, or back I should say, look at us two *young* *under 30* voters communicating instantly via the Internets:
me (9:37:04 PM): haha mitt romney's fans are holding up "change" signs me (9:37:08 PM): change how? Moe (9:37:17 PM): haha Moe (9:37:24 PM): his son is named tagg me (9:37:52 PM): he said that its important to him to preserve the kind of nation that we've had because we all want our children to grow up with the kind of prosperity that we've had me (9:37:58 PM): um who's "we" motherfucker me (9:38:13 PM): tagg and mitt. boyhood games Moe (9:40:47 PM): dog names me (9:41:10 PM): ha Moe (9:41:20 PM): yes, I want my children to grow up with racism, homophobia, no separation of church and state, and with a war going on Moe (9:41:29 PM): what a motherfucker me (9:41:38 PM): mmm yes and lots of poverty, too me (9:41:43 PM): and failing schools Moe (9:41:56 PM): yes, poverty and a giant fence around our country me (9:42:00 PM): NOW that's the america i'd like to see my non-existent children grow up in Moe (9:42:04 PM): and no health care! me (9:42:05 PM): oh yes! Moe (9:42:33 PM): how can people even buy that shit? me (9:42:33 PM): and while we're at it Moe (9:42:42 PM): yes? me (9:42:43 PM): let's chain chastity belts onto our daughters Moe (9:43:00 PM): and strip away roe v. wade me (9:43:10 PM): and stop teaching evolution me (9:43:21 PM): i'm not related to a monkey! Moe (9:43:35 PM): haha Moe (9:43:57 PM): god breathed life into adam and then made eve for child bearing purposes me (9:44:14 PM): and laundry-doing purposes Moe (9:44:35 PM): [Moe's ex-boyfriend] (9:44:54 PM): u see my guy huckabee mopping up Moe (9:44:40 PM): AAHHHHHHHHHHH me (9:44:48 PM): NO WAY Moe (9:44:57 PM): huckabee is below the mason-dixon line conserv me (9:46:33 PM): he fried squirrels with a popcorn maker in his dorm in college
One more thing. I've just watched McCain's speech, and then Obama's, and something has sort of come to me. Their rhetoric is so vastly different, and it's not just a Republican/Democrat, progressive/conservative thing. McCain spoke about the campaign, and about his opponents, and about being the Republican front-runner; his speech was focused. And his audience was supportive but subdued. Obama doesn't have the focus. He talks about the abolitionists and the suffragettes and the freedom-riders and the woman in New Orleans who was told her city won't be rebuilt; and his audience speaks back to him as he speaks to them. It's dynamic. Reminds me of the call-and-response phenomenon in African American English that I looked at in a few of my classes last semester. I wonder what implications the success of Obama's campaign, which must be very much related to his inspiring speeches, might be for the status of African American English in relation to "Standard" English. Although really, he doesn't follow that many of the linguistic rules of African American English (habitual be, absent copula, etc.).
If it's not blaringly obvious to you, my dear reader/s, I've updated this post at various points during my viewing of the primary coverage. Hence the hodge-podge-ness.
