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I’m not REALLY a stalker…

Meet Charles Filtaro…

His birthday is March 13, 1964.

His email is CoffeeFilter13@yahoo.com

He plays Baseball, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball and Rugby, his outdoor activities include Sailing, Hiking, and Waterskiing, he enjoys Photography and Social Dancing, and works in the Advertising industry (at least, that’s what his profile says on singlesnet.com).

Sunday night, librany, happydoralove12, and wonder2564854 all sent him emails saying that his profile “caught their eye.”

He’s interested in adopting a Beagle from nextdaypets.com, and does his grocery shopping at Village Farm and Grocery on 2nd Avenue (via delivery.com).

The last item he added to his Shopping Cart on LordandTaylor.com was a Hart Schaffner Marx Two-Button Pinstriped Suit in a 36 Long, which costs a whopping $795.00. He will later get this suit dry cleaned through MadisonClean.com for $15.98 (with no charge for pickup or delivery because of his close-by location in the Financial District).

His last three search inquiries on YouTube were “waltz basic lesson,” “baseball home runs,” and “iPod commercials.” He recently started a Xanga blog to talk about his interest in Rugby, baseball and advertising.

His social security number is–wait… why do I know all of this? Who is Charles Filtaro? and Why am I writing about him?

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From Palin to Perez…the emergence of the blogosphere

This is a little embarassing. I read perezhilton all the time. I check it more than my email, and definately more than my facebook, and rely on it for the goings on I may have missed in my hours of class. My homepage is the New York times in a forced attempt to read the important news (most of the time it works). But lets be honest, I should probably switch it to my celebrity gossip. It would save time.

So, that’s the image that comes to my mind at the mention of blogs. But Anna Notaro sees much, much more.

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Further into the Trap and the Blogosphere

Great, nice work on the trap. Let’s continue it for another (last) week:

  • Continue your journal, and go further into the web, expanding the media environment around ‘The Trap’.
  • Post to our del.icio.us tag some references that expand the discussion about the trap in the context of new media.
  • Required viewing: Battle of Ideas panel discussion
  • Recommended reading for next week: Anna Notaro, The Lo(n)g Revolution: The Blogosphere as an Alternative Public Sphere?
  • Shira & Lynn:
    • Read Anna Notero’s text
    • summarize it for us in a nicely accessible post to be published by Sunday
    • be prepared to present the article in class
    • Post to del.icio.us some links that expand the discussion either about the text or about key themes in it.
    • Enjoy.

See you all next week.

cheers,

Mushon