Archive for October 5th, 2007
Comic
When we were assigned to read a comic, i was not exactly sure what to think haha. But, while i was reading it i realized that i read it much faster and it was much more enjoyable then reading just plain text. The pictures went along with the reading and they were very helpful to understanding the text. I also really enjoyed the article and how it discussed how a simple smiley face is really just a few lines. But, everyone knows what it is and when we look at other things we can see faces too. Like the front of the car or an outlet. It is was just interesting the way things were explained in this comic. I really did like it and i was not expecting that.
-Melissa Ninni
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Tag Clouds
Lara Skolnik
By looking at the different tag clouds of the group discussions, I found that each group took their chats in different directions. In group one, the most used words were authors, authorship, publishing, internet, idea, and yeah. this group stuck to the topic of authorship. By looking at group 2′s tag cloud, it is less obvious what exactly was discussed. There are less big, bold words, which leads me to beleive that the group jumped from topic to topic because one word was not used over and over. In group 3′s discussion, they must have spent a lot of time talking about the internet, because “internet” is the biggest and most bold word in the cloud. Group 4′s discussion appears to be a more casual discussion because i see a lot of big, bold, haha’s, true’s, and yea’s. Tag clouds are a perfect way to get an overview of what a blog is about because instead of reading the whole thing, you can easily just see what words are used the most and waht words are used the least.
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