I knew I'd find a way to use that "resurrection" tag again. This time it has a double meaning. In a continued effort to resurrect this blog, I've given the page a bit of a facelift. I've added a link to Twitter at the left, and I've also added an image on the right. I guess this image is my new "logo." I hope you like it...I'm still undecided.

Twitter? I really don't know. I mean, do I want people to know what I am "up to" all the time?

As far as the logo goes, I found an image called "confession sign" on Flickr and changed the color scheme. But it looked choppy and blocky. Luckily, my good friend Will was sitting next to me in the lab and he suggested a great open source "vector graphics editor" called Inkscape. I was able to trace out the image and fill it in with a color that matched my site.

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Yes, I nerded out all day. I also updated my course page with a brief description of the Computers and Writing class I'm teaching in the Fall.

I did manage to read a little bit today. I reread Biesecker's essay "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Differance" and Michael Leff's "Tradition and Agency in Humanistic Rhetoric." Both of these are texts we read in Diane's Contemporary Theories of Rhetorical Agency class. I'm trying to pull together a big lit review on rhetorical agency for the diss.

Okay, back to finding another way to waste time...I'll put it on Twitter.

Since deciding to focus my dissertation on Wikipedia (a decision i continue to question every day), I am inundated with stories about Wikipedia. Friends send me links. This is great, but it is also overwhelming. Typically, these emails sit in my inbox for a day or two while I put off reading them...they scare me. Is that weird?

The problem is, I'm writing about a moving target. Now, I recognize that everyone, in some sense, is writing about a moving target - Shakespeare isn't sitting still. Nothing is. But it seems that Wikipedia is always in the news, and I think I'm going to have to keep track of this stuff here...on this blog...that I try to resurrect every sixth months or so.

So, here goes nuthin...