Site Updates

If you’ve noticed, I changed the name of the blog this week to the “YourSpace Project”. You probably get the famous web site that the name comes from, but I changed the name to better reflect the purpose of what this site is all about: additional content related to topics we’ve discussed in class, an online class repository of information, and a place for you to discuss and ask questions about various class topics. In the next week or so, I’m going to send the URL out to all my old classes and ask them for input. Now that I’ve got about two months worth of content under my belt now, it will be interesting to see what their perspectives are on all this now that they have actually completed most of these courses.

I cleaned up the links to the left, and added arrows so you can tell everything apart. The WordPress style I am using crams everything together, unfortunately, so I needed to invent something to make it more readable. Hopefully they will add some space between links or some sort of bulleting function in the future.

I’ve also added a link to the Threat Level blog run by Wired magazine. They cover online privacy and security issues, as well as politics and use (or perhaps abuse) of the Patriot Act. I know I say it a lot, and it probably sounds trite at this point, but I find these issues fascinating, and you try to become as well-informed about these subjects as you can. After all, you are just a number to your bank, and so is your bank balance. They have no way of knowing whether you really, truly have $10,000 in there or -$.10, and you need to be aware of what bad guys do online to protect yourselves.

I’m also hoping to get back to the “bad PowerPoint” subject we were discussing in the COM 110 class I taught last month. There are some more interesting avenues to explore there, and I hope they can help you as you develop your own presentations throughout your cohort program.