I'm sure there's already a million of these on the intertubes this morning, but here's my word cloud for Palin's Republican convention speech. I like the few key words that seem to be falling off or floating away from the main mass of words. See the full-size image or the original Wordle creation of the… Continue reading Word Cloud for Palin’s Convention Speech
Tag: politics
Gonzales Resigns
Jack Balkin over over at Balkinization says it best: As for Mr. Gonzales, he was a disgrace to the office. There are many roles he could have competently filled-- and did fill-- in his career. The Nation's chief law enforcement officer was not one of them. He abused his office for political gain, repeatedly misled… Continue reading Gonzales Resigns
Rhetoric of the Link
Rhetorics of the Web (by Nicholas Burbules at Wesleyan University) is an often-cited overview of various kinds of hyperlinks and the rhetorical strategies that they employ. In the course of teaching a new media class this fall, I've begun to wonder whether Burbules' examples are too general, ahistorical, or even naive about the possibilities of… Continue reading Rhetoric of the Link
FOIA
Last week the New York Times did a story on Russ Kick's site, the Memory Hole, and it's been quite revealing to go through the documents on his site. Kinda like the Smoking Gun, but it's about the banal conspiracies of everyday bureaucrats instead of the dirty laundry of celebrities. I'm about to do one… Continue reading FOIA