Philip Holden (email: ellhpj@nus.edu.sg)
Edna Lim (email: elllime@nus.edu.sg)

Reading

Make sure you have the reading done before the relevant lecture in order to participate fully in active learning.

• Bood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective" <http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html>
  [Written in 2000, but a good initial insight into the evolution of weblogs]
• Geitgy, Adam. "The Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) FAQ." We've Got Blog : How Weblogs are Changing our Culture. ed John Rodzvilla. Cambridge, MA : Perseus, 2002. 89-98.
  [In your COURSE PACK--feel free to follow the controversy through the yahoo group address given if you have time]
• The first two chapters of Academic Blogging (ie. "History of Blogs" and Anatomy of a Blog" at the University of Tennessee Academic Blog Site <http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set31/toc.htm>.
  [You might want to try out the questions under "activity" 1.6 not on the blogs given on the site but on blogs that you know well.]

We'll initially move away from Singapore in discussing information technology, globalization, and the internet, before focusing on blogging and other new media technologies in the lecture.

Last updated: 4 July, 2006