Chalk Bored

Chalk Bored
Originally uploaded by h3athrow.

This is what I saw before anyone from the class entered the room.

I encourage you to take your own pictures of the class.

Later on -- week seven (7) -- we'll discuss how to best add additional media to your blogs.


For now, if you don't already subscribe to an online photo-sharing service, sign up for Flickr, which I consider to be the best -- and which integrates well with Blogger.

A Tool for Reading Blogs

Also before next class, I'd like you to sign up for Bloglines, a Web-based RSS reader.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a tool with which you can subscribe to blogs so new posts automatically get pulled into a reader.

We'll be using Bloglines to read each other's blogs, as well as other blogs we find worth keeping up with over the course of the class.

Tools for Collaborative Browsing

Before next class, I'd like you to sign up for two services.

Medium is a service that enables friends to share presence while on the Web -- you can see where your friends are online when you're using Medium at the same time. StumbleUpon helps you bring the serendipitous browsing we experience in bookstores and other settings to your Web experience -- by randomizing the Web in a somewhat controlled manner.

You can get a sense of how we might use the two tools in class together by reading this post in my personal blog, Media Diet: "On Serendipitous Browsing."

I've already used the two tools with some of the people I work with, and I think we'll enjoy them. Let me know if you have any trouble signing up for the respective services.