Last week, I was discussing with someone the ability one has to add textual comments (annotations) to the timeline of online videos, such as in YouTube and Viddler. In this way, one is commenting textually at certain points in the timeline of the video. This is rather exciting, since it breaks a lim...
Continue reading ...In response to "Are these media the ‘fitting response’ to an oral communicative exigence, that now gets expressed textually? Is this the answer to bridging geographic distance textually but using rules clearly based in orality, afforded by the new technologies?" I took this to refer to bridgi...
Continue reading ...A research buddy just turned me on to a new research tool. This one, bubbl.us, is a mindmapping tool. In this way, one creates an account (or not) and can then add a bubble thought and branch off new ideas to create an entire sheet. The sheet can then be shared with friends, emailed, exported, or (a...
Continue reading ...In past posts, I have established digital orality as relevant to the way we communicate using non-textual (largely oral), computer-mediated communication forms, such as podcasting and vodcasting. I have juxtaposed this concept to writing, noting the differences between the two and why communicative ...
Continue reading ...Parker presents a few characteristics of Powerpoint that do not seem to be as unique as she suggests. She states that PowerPoint breaks with the usual idea of a software application as a tool (instead a car, suit of clothes, or plastic surgery?) in that you can take it with you, you are judged by i...
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