introduction to digital media | fdm20c

will be attempting virtual office hours tomorrow. Skype=lindsaytorte. Do not be sad if I do not answer. I might be on with someone else, or away from computer, or similar.

Friday’s attempt at virtual office hours failed due to unstable wifi.

update: yay, someone finally contacted me for office hours via skype! I will be leaving Skype [...]

A few notes provided from Andrew’s sections toward the midterm:

1.) Tactical- There is a temporary reversal of power. It is open-ended and can’t be reproduced. People trying to get a message out about a certain issue.
Examples: Activist, Hackers, street rappers

Differences between strategic and tactical:
Strategic: the overview, looking down on
Tactical: ground level

Reading: The ABC [...]

office hours next tuesday–20 Apr–are canceled.

I hope to reschedule them on Thursday but I cannot guarantee that.

I also cannot guarantee any e-mail response before class Thursday (22nd). But, I promise I will catch up at that time.

Alert student Corinne points out that Angie Waller has moved her site to a new domain name! Behold, http://www.myfrienemies.com/.

Also, a general alert that your teacher is in the middle of a family emergency, so will be slow to respond to e-mails. If you sent something other than your project, write again with a signal [...]

We will be having class on 4-20! It will be amazing. Much better than anything else you could be doing. This is what I know about traffic & closures on campus (copied directly from a campus e-mail):

•  All inbound traffic at the campus’s West entrance will be diverted beginning at 3 pm.

•  Metro buses [...]

Many of us may be wrestling with some of the questions raised by this article: http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/bullshit-artists

I really like how Robert Storr sums it up: “Some people think while they’re talking and other people don’t.”

As you are writing your statements and thinking about how to discuss your work, ask yourself if you’re thinking while you’re talking [...]

http://people.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/demo/

oh yes. glorious.

Also, I forgot to show you Patchwork Girl! I knew there was something I was forgetting. It’s not accessible online, so, I’ll show it on Tuesday if we have time, or, go check it out in McHenry Library Media Center. Should be on reserve there.

& link to .pdfs of lectures works now.

Wikipedia has a nice page including some background info & a scan of the print-format letter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

From tessa.sk (at) gmail.com: I know it’s not the first week anymore, so people have probably already found their textbooks, but if you wouldn’t mind sending this out I will sell my textbook at the best offer.  It’s in really good condition.

Thanks so much.

It looks like *maybe* everyone on our waitlist, even those who I added by hand after class, will be able to enroll. Some folks are dropping, but, I don’t know who has dropped/if they dropped on purpose/if they tried to change section & were dropped, etc., so we will have to wait until Tuesday to [...]