I will be holding one final web help session tomorrow (Monday, May 10) from 6:00 – 7:30 pm in our regular classroom (Eddy 4). Note that this is a slightly later time than our previous help sessions. If you cannot make the help session and need assistance with your site, let me know and we can set up an appointment earlier in the day.

Here is a final bit of interesting information for those of you who are not burnt out on thinking about technology. This week’s On the Media had two interesting stories. The first is about ROFLcon, a conference about internet memes and why they go viral (keyboard cat, David after Dentist, etc), and the second is about copyright and the Hitler internet meme—all those video parodies that take a clip from the film The Downfall where Hitler is ranting about something in German and add subtitles that have him ranting about all sorts of things such as losing his house in the mortgage crisis. The third clip is a related story about whether or not it is disrespectful to victims of the holocaust to make Hitler humorous.

I’m looking forward to a lively conversation in class today.

Below are links to some things I referenced in class Tuesday and to a a couple of new things that I heard on the radio yesterday that are pertinent to our conversations in class.

First, the Apple 1984 commercial:

Here is the link to the podcast of the interview with Fred Turner,“Designing for Democracy in the American Counterculture” that I summarized at the end of class.

Now here are two interesting podcasts form NPR’s All Things Considered. The first is a commentary about e-readers from author Eric Weiner and the second is a story about why if Jesus were alive today he would have a blog (it’s really a story about the Pope’s call for priest’s to blog).