My Classmate on CNN!!!

So remember my classmate who has been reporting about sports via Twitter? Check this out! One of his twitter reports was quoted in this CNN news story! http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/03/sport/rutgers-video-attack Scroll on down, he is "@TheQueez." (This guy: https://twitter.com/TheQueez)

Nice one, Queasy!

And so...

Well folks, I think we’ve seen enough! Stone’s meeting seems to be at 10:10, in the Library, the perfect place for an old fashioned book lover like him to have a meeting. Room AB.

And Zap’s, well, it seems like it’s at the same time and also in the library--the perfect place for a forward looking, digital information kind of guy like him! And also in Room AB apparently. That seems like a bit of double booking that could end very interestingly. 

And I’m feeling fine enough to be there myself! So I hope to see you all there!

So where is Room AB? Well, it seems apt to end with this final clue of my own: Ask a librarian!

Dr. Stone's Second Clue Part 2

So thanks to Kevin and "Anonymous" we have some pictures of the stuff one of Stone's buddies wrote on a whiteboard. I can't make heads or tails of it...and I don't think it's just because this professor has terrible hand writing.

Here's the first pic.

I think Kevin got the words right, anyway.

But then here's the second.

ANyone? Anything? Hoping to hear people's ideas. I got nuthin'.

Dr Stone's Second Clue

Here we go again. Dr. Stone writes to me:

One of my colleagues in the Papayrus, Antiquity, and Scribulous Textification, Mathematicus Abacus Division supports our cause and is helping spread the word. His students on the first floor of Armitage will be getting a special lesson on Friday. Others will want to drop by and review the notes after class ends at 12:10.

Dr. Zap's Third Clue?

Kevin Queezy just pointed out that Dr. Zap has made some interesting Tweets lately over on twitter. Check it out:  https://twitter.com/DrZap9000

Anyone have fast thumbs? I apparently left my phone on campus, and I'm still stuck at home, so...well...you get the idea.

Please let me know what you find out!

Dr. Zap's Second Clue

Oh boy. Here's another one from Dr. Zap. His email to me read:

I can be just as exclusionary as Dr. Stone. If he wants to send people into the stacks to keep digi-zap-tastic individuals like myself away from his meeting, then I will keep ancient fops like him away by going to the techno-sphere! I think you will find the location of MY meeting is the perfect place for  high-tech minds who understand the way of the future!

If you’re willing to search a bit for where you need to go

A little bird is sure to show you all you need to know.

Dr. Stone's First Clue

This is getting curiouser and curiouser. Dr. Stone writes me and email and says:

If I want to keep technologists like Dr. Zap away from my meeting, I need only use something bit-heads like him seem to know nothing about: actual books! Ergo...

There is one on Reserve from me to you 

In the place to go when you need to know!

A Meeting Place you are sure to find

If you can read between the lines.

In another iteration I spoke of “secret signs.”

Here you’ll find “tokens betwixt us of more fitnesse farre”

And when you find them, the room will be there.

I guess this is a clue to where his meeting will be. Can anyone out there help figure it out???

Another cool speaker coming!

So I just got word via email that another person applying to be the Director of the new Center for Digital Studies at Rutgers in Camden is coming to speak. This person has a PhD in Philosophy, and he studies philosophy of the mind and consciousness and language! And he’s director of the Center for Computing in Philosophy, so somehow the philosophy stuff gets mixed in with the digital stuff! Too complicated for me to understand but impressive and sounds cool.

You can read more about him on his own website here: http://bit.ly/XRNWlt

And see what he has to say in person when he comes to campus on April 9 at 12:30 in the Fine Arts Building, Room 101. It’s open to the public. Hope I’m on my feet by then and can be there.

(See how easy it is to give dates, times, and locations, Dr Stone and Dr. Zap!

Thanks for the email tip, eager reader! If anyone else here’s any neat digital news, send it my way at rabbit.szulborski@gmail.com.

Dr. Zap's First Clue!

OK...um... so I'm not sure why Dr. Zap and Dr. Stone are taking over my blog but I guess it's OK. Dr. Zap sent me his first clue and I guess he said he would send technology kinds of things, so it fits in this blog. I guess. Um...this is what he sent. Honest. This is supposed to be a clue:

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110100 01110111 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01110011 00101110 00100000 01001001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100110 01100001 01110010 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01100101 01100001 01110100 00101110

OK....sooooo...I'm not sure that's helpful. Can anyone out there explain just what the heck this supposed to mean???? Please???

One more thing!

Another girl in my class has started her assignment. She's blogging about technology stuff, and she's doing it on her Facebook page! How awesome for homework is that! Here it is! Read it! https://www.facebook.com/giselle.berkholtz

Crazy Update!

Well sorry I’ve been away folks. I travelled a bit on Spring Break and got to go skydiving! And bungee cord jumping (or dropping)! Ad underwater spelunking! And then I came home and slipped on a banana peel and broke my leg. So I’ve been kind of out of it for a while and now I’m stuck at home in a crazy cast watching old movies.

At any rate its been tough to keep up with digi-stuff on campus. Feel I’m trying to see what’s happening through a sort of electronic window instead of being there. Kinda bummed that there was never another video posted of a job applicant for the Digital Studies spot. I know some else applied and came to campus and gave a talk, but no vid! Oh well. 

I’m hoping to be on my feet and back in time for the New Approaches to the Text Conference. The deadline passed to submit proposals. I wonder who got in???? If you conference people are out there, let me know! I’ll post your program here!

Dave Szulborski

Someone messaged me saying she was concerned I was using someone else’s name to get my own project out. I didn’t really understand because I was just blogging about digital stuff on campus, right? Well it turns out there was someone named Dave Szulborski who I’m not related to at all, but he did A LOT of really amazing digital stuff of his own--creative, groundbreaking, and honestly inspiring stuff. He made Alternate Reality Games that amazed people who got to play them. People still talk about them years after the games ended. He wrote books about them, too. Anyone who works with ARGs these days owe a debt to Dave Szulborski.

Dave Szulborski died of leukemia 4 years ago. He is as fondly and respectfully remembered for who he was as for what he did. I never knew him, but I share that admiration of his work and respect his memory. As someone learning about working in the digital medium, I’m honored to have the same name, and would never want to sully it. I think of this sort of online story telling of my own as a tribute to him, if only a very very modest one.

New Approaches to the Text

Just caught word of a conference happening here in a little over a month. It's all Rutgers-Camden students and faculty, which is cool, and the general topic is "New Approaches to the Text." "new" text and "old" text and stuff like that. I thought it fit in with the digital news on campus because surely a digital text would be a "new" text, right? Things are really happening around here!

Unless...well...is digital already "old"? Does anyone still wear a "digital watch"?

Anyway, here's the link: New Approaches to the Text. They're still taking ideas until March 15. Maybe I'll write something about digital journalism?

Kimon Keramidas II

Here's the talk Kimon Keramidas gave about Digital Studies when he visited, partly dealing with what he'd like to do on our campus. Keramidas

What do you think--does he have The (kera)Midas Touch? ha ha ha...

Kimon Keramidas

OK, I mentioned the Center for Digital Studies is hiring someone to...well...to be in charge of the Center for Digital Studies. Three people who want the job will visit our campus to meet people and have interviews and stuff. But they will also give talks that everyone can go to. It seems interesting to know who these people are since they will be the ones Directing the Center for Digital Studies, so they’ll be pretty important in all this digital stuff.

The first one to come is named Kimon Keramidas, and his website is here: http://bit.ly/12tjCLj.

You can see he runs the Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center in NY, which is cool, but then get this: his PhD is in...Theatre! Crazy! And now he does digital stuff? 

And he thinks about games in education! He wrote this http://bit.ly/X5yeOC called “What Games Have to Teach Us About Teaching and Learning: Game Design as a Model for Course and Curricular Development.” Not sure what that means except I want to take his class!

Anyway, anyone who wants can hear him talk on campus when he comes. The schedule I got says he’ll be discussing his vision for the Digital Studies Center. So find out what the digital technology, theatre, and games in class guy want the new Center on our campus to be like! Find out at 2:00pm on Thursday, Feb 14 in the Fine Arts building, Room 110.

Oh, and for the assignment we also have to follow each other's news things and mention them in our own, so here are a couple of other digital journalism thingies that people in my class are doing.

Kevin Queezy: http://bit.ly/U6IRE6 Reporting on news through Twitter...as befits his attention span.
Molly Bang http://bit.ly/YoDUmZ Reporting on something, but only using pictures to do it! Should be pretty cool!

I'll let you know if anyone else bothers to do their homework--I mean, when other people get started. ;)

Digital News!

Well so here’s what I came up with. Since this whole class is supposed to be digital journalism and digital reading and writing and all that, and it’s supposed to be all the rage and everything, I figured there probably is something in the news about digital stuff that I could follow. Sure enough, I starting googling and found out that Rutgers is actually starting a Center for Digital Studies right here in Camden. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I guess that’s what I’m going to find out.

I do know that they already starting hiring someone to run it. (Apparently, they decide to have a center before they even have someone to be in charge of it, so that’s a little weird.) Here’s the link to job: http://bit.ly/14LNSnP (You have to scroll down a little.)

I figure I’ll try to find out who is putting this Center together and maybe interview them about it or something. Like find out what they’re going to do and all that. 

So look at that! Digital news in digital news! This is easier than I thought!

First Post

Well, hi everyone! Welcome to my new blog. I’m basically doing this for an assignment. I’m a journalism major at Rutgers and I’m this course on Digital Journalism. We have to pick  a topic and blog about it, I guess sort of cover a news story but in a digital way instead of on old fashion paper. And so this blog is supposed to be both newsy and, well, bloggy. SO here goes...

Like I said, I’m doing this for an assignment. I should probably explain, though, I’m calling this “The Rabbit Hole” because my name is Rebecca but when I was little, my little brother Dave couldn’t pronounce Rebecca and when he tried it kept coming out as “Rabbit.” Well it just stuck and ever since then my family has called me Rabbit. Now some of my friends call me that too! And so basically this is where Rabbit hangs out: The Rabbit Hole!

Right now I’m just figuring out this blogger thingie. Pretty cool that you can do this for free. I hope I think of something to say. I’m going to try to figure out what news story I want to cover in this thing but for now just wanted to get it set up. So watch this space for...whatever! I don’t even know!