Since I’m stuck with the moving frenzy, here are some notes to self for later work.

1.     Think about Danae Boyd’s entry in Apophenia about how an attention economy changes everything from a merit economy.
   

2.     Have my mom save National Enquirers for a poetry exercise for my upcoming honors creative writing/poetry class. The last time I did this exercise, it generated several very good poems, including a memorable one about the Aniston/Pitt wedding. Great images and good predictive value without being cliched.
   

3.     Java is close to completing an open source conversion (link via Slashdot).  How likely was that given the patents and different companies involved? Really cool development, and worth noting in my intro to the Teaching Composition on the Tech Frontlines collection.
   

4.     Twitter and Plurk comparison. Is Plurk truly the MySpace of microblogging?
   

5.     I’m currently reading Rebecca Moore Howard’s book, Standing in the Shadows of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators and need to finish before I move and before it needs to go back (inter-library loan, AKA Mobius). I need to not only integrate a reading from it into Teaching Rhetoric and Composition for High School/Jr. College, I also need to think some more about how blogging complicates these issues even more.
   

And now, back to our program, “Have you used this item in the last three years?” followed by a very special episode of “Know your sponge mop” sponsored by Murphy’s Oil Soap.