{"id":735,"date":"2007-04-29T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2007-04-29T01:59:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T15:59:45","slug":"thinking-blogger-award-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Thinking blogger award meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Linn Skinner of The Embroidress<\/strong><\/a> fame for tagging me with a ‘thinking blogger’ award \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

\"thinking<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s what she said:<\/p>\n

Another blog that takes me to realms not always familiar to me is Jerry Everard’s Mindsigh Jerry has a way of making rather lofty academic approaches to philosophic thought within my grasp without “dumbing down” the concepts. It is his clarity of expression that does the trick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what’s this all about? The meme originated with The Thinking Blog<\/strong><\/a> and the idea is simple – you tag five blogs that make you think. The rules are:<\/p>\n

\n 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
\n 2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
\n 3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (there is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a great way to find out about other blogs that make you think – by getting others who people tag as ‘thinking’ to give their selections – making it a form of social bookmarking.<\/p>\n

A meme is “n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another (analogous to the transmission of biological information in a gene).” a term coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins. So the thinking blogger meme is a way of tagging someone and saying: “You’re it – pass it on”.<\/p>\n

And so to my selections. The first goes to Sharonb – my inspiriation – what more can I say? for her blog Mindtracks<\/strong><\/a> which discusses new media and visual culture.<\/p>\n

The second is Angela Thomas’ blog<\/strong><\/a> which explores issues of identity – particularly with respect to SecondLife, and the question of the new literacies required in the digital age.<\/p>\n

The third is Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel’s blog Everyday Literacies<\/strong><\/a> which is also a new media blog by a couple of wonderful educators on the subject.<\/p>\n

The fourth is Writer Response Theory<\/strong><\/a> where there is always some innovative discussion on aspects of textual arts. <\/p>\n

And the fifth… Makezine<\/strong><\/a>! These folks adapt\/re-cut\/re-mix technology to make it do stuff the designers never thought of – and the results are amazing. Build your own cloud chamber or turn your laser pointer into an optical communications device – you name it and it’s been done on Makezine. <\/p>\n

The meme is out there – pass it on….<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Linn Skinner of The Embroidress fame for tagging me with a ‘thinking blogger’ award \ud83d\ude42 Here’s what she said: Another blog that takes me to realms not always familiar to me is Jerry Everard’s Mindsigh Jerry has a way of making rather lofty academic approaches to philosophic thought within my grasp without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-new-media","category-technology","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}