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Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 9 months ago

I'd like to get some odds and ends out in the open before I proceed with the assignment.

 

1. It seems that the images on Bateson's page aren't working. Last semester, Trey made us try the assignment contained in #5 before reading it. I rendered an ASCII version of 'Figure 1' as part of my description, and so I've posted it here for your viewing pleasure:

 

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2. I added the Search Tag function to the Sidebar to make things easier. If anybody else finds that there are pages that they use a lot (you know, other than your own...) go ahead and slap it on there or order me to do it and I probably will.

 


 

Before tagging became an assignment, I noticed a few trends that have already emerged on the wiki. Basically, my process started before the assignment was rendered.

 

The first one is that people have written about themselves and their lives (often including pictures, often of naked animals). Through the introduce-yourself-to-the-class, the interview assignment and the chat assignment, there is copious information about a few people. The wiki is a social phenomenon after all, and so it fulfills a need for interaction. At first I wanted to separate appreciation (music, cars, video games etc.) and activities (football was dominant) from this category in my writing, but I realized that the list so far is only on relatively shallow things. That's not to say that anybody who likes those things is shallow because they like those things. I appreciate certain shallow things too (especially food and music), but I argue that football (spectator sports, in general) achieves (nearly) universal appreciation through its very shallowness; that is, through the fact that spectatorship equals minimal interaction (contrast with wiki, Ben's hang gliding, Farrah's mechanical skills, etc.; compare with movies, U.S. democratic system, etc.) I also noticed that some people spent very little or no time writing about themselves, which is okay too. I didn't start an antisocial tag, so that is a gutter for anyone who wants to jump in it.

 

The second trend I noticed was technical difficulties, which I expected. Last semester (I should probably stop talking about last semester in a few weeks) when Trey asked the class if anyone knew what a wiki was, my answer was "like Wikipedia?" (I usually try not to say 'like' unless I'm making a simile.) Regina and Afram were the only ones who asked me for help and I noticed that everyone else who had difficulties had a little bit of appropriate narration about their ordeals.

 

A few minor things:

 

  • Republicans are the only one who have felt the need to proclaim their party affiliation.
  • Both Johns are the only ones who have heavily organized pages. Robert's page is also nicely balanced, but not as heavily scripted.
  • I created a tag for "people who probably dropped."

 

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