Timeline and catalog of Internet Memes

For those of you exploring Internet memes with your students you might find this site useful. It compiles an interactive history of memes going back to 1982 with the emergence of the emoticon.

Other formats included within the site are a list, flipbook, and map, so users can select the view they like best.

Elit 2.0: A Guide to Literary Works on Social Software

Do you want to teach Web 2.0 technologies but need some exemplary creative texts for students to "read" as examples and/or illustrations of the tool's creative potential?

Check out ELit: A Guide to Literary Works on Social Software

"While students are still developing literacies in new technologies it is important that their adoption involves more than just accepting the software at interface value. What these technologies are and can be has yet to be decided and this set of electronic literary works offers an artistic exploration of their possibilities that will enrich the quest for software literacy."
From: WRT: Writer Response Theory: a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms

Websites as graph/art

This tool is pretty neat. Enter the url of the website of your choice, and it will graph it and display the site in a visual manner. It's really quite beautiful as the graph is generated, too, as it's an animated process.
This image is the graph for this blog, and it's still growing and taking form as I write this entry!

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags