Has anyone been able to find a blog search engine? I hate scrollin through all the webpages when I am looking for blogs... anyways i found movie blog which would probably be pretty interesting for everyone to look at because I am sure everyone likes movies...
-clint
I almost forgot. One of my fraternity brother's father mentioned something about an article by Burish where he cites himself incorrectly as an author of some other article. I was wondering if anyone has run across it, because I think it would be pretty interesting to read.
Tried finding some nice blogs, but only found this one.
For all those EAS majors or simple interest in Japan. Gives you videos of living in Japan or other cultural events
http://www.video-link.com/jpn.htm
I can see that google's success has encouraged it to expand into other fields of internet use. Before our class last week, I didnt know about scholar.google.
I tried a few searches but dont think they work too well yet (compared to resources in our library's webpage). I will check out froogle next time I plan to buy some computer equipment.
I do recommend using google mail though. I find it very convenient and useful even though it its still a beta version (and I currently have 2 gbs of space for free). I dont know how secure it is, but so far I trust it.
Hope google does try to do too much and end up with unprofitable businesses and lose out in the competition against microsoft and yahoo.
Froggle is dangerous, and I would probably be better not knowing it existed. Only kidding. I happen to love shopping online, particularly because we live in a location where in-store shopping is minimal. Froggle is really interesting in how it compares prices of items ranging from mascara to irons to mp3 players. It tells you where you can buy the item and how much it costs in addition to providing consumer ratings and reviews. I think it is just fascinating, and I'm looking forward to exploring it more the next time I make an online purchase.
I found some intersting blogs today. One is run by students from Indiana University Law School. It isn't very popular but I'm hoping to get an idea of thier interests and dialy routine from reading their postings. I also joined the blog run by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He has ridiculous opinions about everything so some of his articles are quite humorous. Plus he throws bits of basketball information in every now and then.
I've been looking around bloglines, and it's been pretty enjoyable. I hooked up the blogs of my friends (from blurty.com) and boing boing, so now I have 6 different feeds. Boing Boing is a lot of fun, and I much prefer it to endgadget, which is a bit to technical for me. I tripped over an interesting blog off of Penny Arcade, which is an online gaming comic I like to read. Sadly, the two authors appear to be splitting up. Anyway, this is the link to the blog I found.
Take a look at 4/20/2005
Tagging for Chinese-Japanese dialogue, some of which probably won't make much sense to you yet. This is another example of the it's-here-NOW world we're exploring, and sort of analogous to the sudden appearance of the Benedict XVI page on Wikipedia.
A lovely posting by one of the people I've been following for some time, with a really trenchant quotation from another of my current heroes:
I was just starting to head back to the office when Stephen Downes's formulation of information as a flow popped into my head -- not artifacts that you collect but a torrent that you try to navigate and redirect. There's a lot I like about his comparison of information to electricity and water, it intuitively fits with how I feel when I'm on top of my info-streams, and I have taken to quoting that riff regularly during presentations and workshops. Downes returned to this theme yesterday in challenging the "premise ...that campus computing is contributing to information overload, and that the solution is to turn off the computer once in a while," arguing that "this just makes information overload worse, because the information doesn't stop piling up just because you've logged off. The key (in my mind) is to stop treating information like a thing, stop treating it as though it were a pile of required reading, but to sample and filter and redirect, to taste and digest and manipulate as needed. Information management is a skill, like kayaking, and needs to be practiced."
I am an Econ/EA Studies major and wish to work in international business after I graduate. I will probably go for a MBA or JD program after graduating
I like travelling and learning about new cultures (food) and that is why I wish to work in international business. I would like to get to know more of Asia first and then move to Europe.
I am also interested in social issues (especially the differences that arise from generation to generation) and general news. I read online news (BBC) to keep track of global events.
My interst in international issues is probably because of the environment where I grew up in. I was born to Taiwanese parents but lived in Latin America for most of my life. I have always studied in American or International Schools.
Don't quite know where I will end up in 15 years from now, but I hope it will be an interesting country.
My name is Letisha, and I'm a sophomore East Asian Studies major. So far, my concentration has been on Japan...Japanese history, culture, etc. However, I would like to learn more about other East Asian countries. I am also studying in Japan next fall, so I would like to learn more about modern Japanese idiosyncrasies. I especially interested in people and cultures, which is why I am also an Anthro/Socio major.
Hey,
My name is Bret. I am a freshman and am going to be an east asian studies/business management major. I'm taking this class becasue I know I am going to have to at some point and don't have anything in particular I want to take right now. It sounds like it could be fun, but I really don't know what I am interested in yet. I like Japanese culture a lot and that is why I am an eas major. I had a lot of asian friends in high school and lived in an area of LA that was highly asian. I know that I want to work in the international field when I graduate, but I don't know how I am going to do that yet. So I geuss that I would like to research more about international relations with Japan.
My name is Allen DeBard. I'm a senior from Dallas. Next fall I will be enrolled in law school somewhere. Im interested in Business specifically how corporations are governed or not governed by our legal system. Besides the academic stuff I enjoy any type of athletic competition. I enjoy playing golf most. My favorite food is popcorn. The last two books I read were I am Charlotte Simmons and The Brethren by John Grisham.
And here I am, starting up yet another blogging environment. What am I really interested in? I guess it comes down to finding out about stuff, all sorts of stuff, covering a wide swath of time and space. I spend a lot of time exploring the frontiers of information technologies, partly because I'm a Librarian, and partly because I'm an Anthropologist. I'm professionally interested in the Organization of Knowledge, but more as a participant sport than an academic specialty.
These days I'm especially interested in sound as an information medium. I had the joy of a whole term of Cross-Cultural Studies in Music as a University Scholars course, from January to April. And I'm currently following the phenomenon of podcasting as it evolves into whatever it's becoming.
This is my last term at W&L --I'm retiring in September and moving to Maine.
Enough for starters...
Here's a link to a URL: http://www.google.com/
Currently I am a senior pursuing a degree in Sociology and Anthropology. I'm looking to move to NYC post-graduation to work at an advertising or marketing firm. While I am presently jobless, I am hoping to start the interviewing process and figure something out before I graduate.
I am from St. Louis, MO and my favorite sport is golf. I love to travel; therefore, one of my most memorable experiences has been my semester abroad in Rome, Italy with my best friend from W&L.
Thats it about me...
Kristin
My name is clint, and I currently am a junior. I am interested in East Asia because that is one of my majors; therefore, I need to know how to research for my thesis next year. Since my major deals with Asia, I have been to Japan, India, and Nepal all of which were wonderful experiences, and i recommend them(except for Nepal due to the communist revolution currently). Besides that, I like anything dealing with the outdoors like rock climbing, swimming, rafting, skiing, camping etc. I am also a business administration major, but that is pretty irrelevant. I am from Rabun County, Georgia, and I enjoy all the folk lore surrounding my area.