Mandurro

Project Groups

Hey everyone, I couldn't make it to class on Tuesday, and from what I gather, many of the groups for project 1 were formed then. If this is so, then I need to find a group: does anyone need one more member for their group that I can join? Please let me know. I barely know anyone in this class so I'm a little out of the loop here.

Jason

Blogs on AIM Profiles?

A lot of people who use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) have heard of and use the popular site IMChaos.com, a site that provides *special* features for AIM (No, it's not hacking or anything illegal). The primary one is a service that records and allows you to view the screennames of everyone that clicks on links in your profile (IMChaos' servers host these services), which is only the best feature EVER, because it basically lets you have an idea of who is reading your away messages all the time. Sneaky and lots of fun. Anyway, this site is now beta testing a new service that would allow you to host blogs in your AIM profile!
Specifically, the site says: "Profile Blog: Host a blog directly in your AIM profile! Now buddies can read your blog (short for web log) while they read your away message. Best of all, you can secretly track who checks your blog out or posts comments!" While the feature is in beta testing and not open to public use yet, the concept of being able to introduce your blog into your AIM is very intriguing. I'm not exactly programming-savvy or anything like that so I don't know if this would be simpler than it looks, but if and when this service, as described, becomes open to everyone, I think it will be very interesting to see how they pull it off. Also, with blogging possibly being introduced into such a mainstream entity as is AIM, the implications would be big. Most of my friends have no idea what a blog is, but if they see these things popping up on AIM profiles, well, you get the idea. I'm gonna keep an eye on it and I'll post about this again if and when IM Chaos makes this available to all of us.

Jason

More weblog stuff

I forgot to add in my weblog questions posts that I completely echo Sugardaddy's question about the blogs, so I post this to encourage someone to answer him soon because I have that doubt too. There MUST be some way of keeping track of everyone's posts and who answered whose blog and when...

Weblog questions/confusion

I'm not clear at all about how the guidelines for the blogosphere participation work. Do our blogs have to definitely be class related to count for participation? For instance, would ranting about something in the Business School that doesn't really have anything to do with the class, but WOULD affect, concern, or interest my classmates not count? Also, I'm assuming blogging about sports or, say, the Apprentice, or cool mainstream web sites, would not count (or woud it?), but are we ALLOWED to post blogs like that just for our own fun? Or would that be like spamming the blogosphere? If people have answers and/or opinions to some of these issues, please reply.

Jason

The Sports Guy

This guy is my favorite sports columnist, he's amazing, you need to read a couple of his columns if you've never heard of him!

Packer Fan

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