June 2004

  • On the Road: Hawaii and LA

    As a newbie blogger, I still have some learning to do regarding the conventions of keeping a regular weblog. For instance, I’ve been away for the past week at the Computers and Writing conference in Hawaii but I forgot to post a "Stepped out for a bit–Back in a week" note, probably because I’m still…

  • Reflections on an In-Flight Movie

    It’s about 8:00 pacific time, and I’m somewhere just over Witchita on the way to Honolulu. The in-flight movie just ended–50 First Dates–and I’m now I feel like I’m in a different place. The last few days have been hectic and getting three hours of sleep last night got me off to less-than-perky start to…

  • Place Blogs in a Composition Reader?

    Some colleagues and I are writing a short place-based composition reader for Longman Press, and in our last meeting we began discussing what readings we could include that would address technology-related issues. I was having trouble finding appropriate essays that dealt with both technology and place, but after describing my recent experience with Ecotone bloggers,…