Category Archives: elsblogs

Last.fm is a UK-based internet radio and music community website.  Last.fm was established in 2002. Last.fm is an amazing website to show others what music you listen to, and find others with similar music interests. You can discover other bands … Continue reading →

origin – In the first chapter from this reading Menocal makes it obvious from the outset that the origins of the modern vernacular lyric has a much debated history. One in which many Europeans theorists have accounted for the rise … Continue reading →

Alright. I’ve written my first Newsvine article, Cultivating intellectual discourse on the Internet. This is largely in response to the aforementioned article. I added a huge chunk of my Urbis post to the second half of my article, but the … Continue reading →

I’m looking for the “Chaste Subjects” reading on the blog and not seeing it. Am I being a moron? Is anyone else finding it? Original post by jordan

This isn’t exactly directly related to anything discussed in class, but as it is something internet-related, I’m going to claim relevance. I was going through a long, unfruitful, and highly convoluted process to track down my ancestry (namely, which physical … Continue reading →

I’ve been perused Newsvine. The “Leaderboard” seemed to be a good place to see what other Newsviners like to read. One particular opinional, The Revolution Will Not Be Socialized — The Homogenization of Social Media by Killfile, caught my full attention. Some see Web 2.0 … Continue reading →

Alright, I’m promising myself this is the last video clip I’ll post. It’s just that when we were talking about the similarities between the arm-chopping scenes in Yojimbo and Star Wars, this clip is the first thing that popped into … Continue reading →

As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style … Continue reading →

Once again, another webgem has surfaced. Newsvine is a completely user-controlled news website. It encompasses many of the characteristics of a self-efficiency that I am interested in studying, especially those of bound structure social networking. Newsvine works like a blog in that … Continue reading →

Useless Body Parts Which body parts are useless? Go look, it’s actually pretty entertaining… well to me it is. Original post by Amanda