Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

(beware…my frustration leads to the blatantly horrible mixing of metaphors)

I’m beginning to feel like my social bookmarking crusade is turning into the continued beating of a dead horse who sure as hell doesn’t want to drink the damn water. I was a huge fan of Furl for years. And as I got more interested in the “social” aspects of bookmarking, I’ve become a devote delicious user. And it seems like I’m always finding new and cool things (firefox plugins, greasemonkey scripts, etc.) that work with delicious. So after being rejected for the main line up of presentations at CCCCs, I decide to apply to present at the Computer Connection. Since I firmly believe that all scholars and students should have a social bookmarking account, I figured I’d try to spread the word to my rhet/comp brethren.

I copied Educause’s “7 things” series and made my handout. My audience…the other people from my session, and one person who stayed from the panel before. How am I supposed to convert the masses if they won’t come? At home I’ve been doing more general “web2.0” workshops, advertising blogs and wikis, and smacking the workshop participants over the head with social bookmarking. Maybe I’ll have to do that with my rhet/comp colleagues as well.

This does make me realize that the question for my multi-modal blogging at Computers & Writing 2007 http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/cw07/ will be about social bookmarking.

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