While thinking of consolidating my chunks of eportfolio under one site, the audience issue knocked, sat on the recliner, and entered the conversation. "So what do you think," she says. "You thought the address issue was dead now that geocities and angelfire are academically disqualified? Think again. What kind of ethos do you have when your address fails to match your address, meaning your mode of discourse and chosen discourse community? Just a thought." She then left me to visit her sister Rhetorica while I sit here wondering about my response.

As part answer, I've been thinking more seriously about getting my own domain name since the web hosting service I had been using for eportfolio overflow just added cheesy side banners to my site.

Thanks for inviting me to blog at Kairosnews. I am really looking forward to it.

Wondering who is reading your blog? Well, if you are a student, you might think twice about pouring your thoughts and feelings about school, teachers and fellow students into the virtual world.

Lisa Kim Bach reports in an article called "INTERNET DIARIES: School discipline questioned" that teenagers blogging about daily student life are being reprimanded by school officials. Wesley Juhl and Angie Scaduto were both punished for the comments made on their online diaries - comments that were taken out of context.

Don't read this rambling first. Watch this with an unbiased eye and then return to read my take on it and offer up your own opinion.

Anyone who's familiar with my earlier posts is probably expecting me to bash this site with my usual vehemence. However, I've decided to replace vitriol with praise!

With this brilliant FLASH, the BSA has produced a wonderful satire of the anti-sharing movement. This is almost as great as the famous "Don't Copy that Floppy" skit. Some of my friends on the Monroeworld forums made some excellent points:

How long has the FCC been a part of the dark side? You'd think a federal organization like this would at least side with the public every once and awhile. I've been reading lots of critical theory (Horkheimer, etc.), which provides a fascinating lens through which to view institutions like the FCC and the corruption they bring to democracy.

Now, the FCC has instituted new rules to "prevent consumers from distributing copies of digital television programs over the Internet." Surely, you don't need me to point out the sole benefactors of these federal regulations--BIG, BIG business; specifically, those dollar-hoarding parasites of culture responsible for that schlock dredged up for the masses on cable TV. I'm worried about any tax-payer supported federal institution that "prevents consumers" from doing anything; especially when such preventions only benefit the insanely rich.