Check out the new frontispiece on Steamer City. A little blog pride--this is what I like to see.
And the new paint job on mayback23 is so delicious I can't make myself close the browser window.
The new frontispiece on stranded in ohio beckons like a beacon, promising insight, frozen burritos and tallboy beer.

COMM 228 Assignment Clarification:
Post the This American Life episode outlines to your blog. One post for each episode you analyze; two posts total. Those two posts will count as two daily posts. You may make them on any two days between now and next Wednesday before class. They should contain links to the This American Life website, not necessarily to your classmates' blogs.

COMM 101 Extra Credit:
As those of you who were in class know already, I will give extra points to the members of the two groups who get the most responses to a free personal ad that his or her group constructs.
Here are the rules:
1) The ad must be for a guy seeking a girl. 2) You may use a picture but only of someone on campus. 3) You may not respond to messages sent to the profile (we don't want to lead anyone on).
After a month or so we will count the number of messages and determine a winner.
This is a perfect way to hone your rhetorical skills. Who is your audience? How do you build ethos for your rhetor?
Good luck, and may the best man win!
The ad must appear on Nerve.

COMM 101: Figures to Identify in SoU (Group Blogs)

You and your fellow group members may decide how you want to make this project look. But I want links from every example you find of an assigned figure in the SoU to its definition in Silva Rhetoricae. You'll have to right-click on the link to the figure and copy the URL from there, you can't just copy it from the web browser address line (because of the way Silva Rhetoricae is set up). So for example, in the case of the figure "abating" if you copied the URL from the web browser address bar you would only have the URL for the whole site: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm You need to right-click on the link to get the specific URL, which for "abating" would look like this: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/A/abating.htm Verify that the name of the figure itself is on the end of the link.

Kyle Banahan: abating, abbaser, abecedarian Jessica Bing: abcisio, ablatio, abode (figure of) Sam Bortz: abominatio, abuse, abusio Ethan Branum: abusion, acoloutha, accismus Matt Cammarata: accumulatio, accusatio adversa, accusatio Mardea Caulcrick: acervatio, acrostic, acyrologia Alex Fant: acyron, adage, adagium Pia Ghose: addubitatio, adhortatio, adianoeta Andrea Gomez: adjectio, adjournment, adjudicatio Steve Grosse: adjunct, adjunctio, admonitio Greg Haar: adnexio, adnominatio, adynata Liz Jackson: adynaton, aeschrologia, aetiologia Brie Jaquette: affirmatio, affirmation, aganactesis Ram Krishnamoorthy: agnominatio, agnomination, aischrologia Allison Lesnett: allegory, alleotheta, alliteration Sian Martin: amara irrisio, ambage (figure of), ambiguitas Matt Montgomery: ambiguous, amphibologia, ampliatio Fatima Ogunlana: anacephalaeosis, anacoenosis, anacoloutha Ivan Orsic: anacoluthon, anadiplosis, anamnesis Christine Pappas: anangeon, anaphora, anapodoton Scott Persing: anastrophe, anemographia, anesis Matt Petersen: antanaclasis, antanagoge, antenantiosis Jordan Proefrock: anthimeria, anthropopatheia, anthypophora Nate Schmidt: anticategoria, anticipation, antilogy Kai Schwertner: antimetabole, antimetathesis, antipersonification Dean Scontras: antiphrasis, antiprosopopoeia, antiptosis Seth Seymour: antirrhesis, antisagoge, antistasis Ben Stapleton: antisthecon, antistrophe, antithesis Scott Towler: antitheton, antonomasia, apagoresis Kristin Wilkinson: aphaeresis, aphorismus, apocarteresis Adam Wolford: apocope, apodioxis, apodixis

COMM 228-02 (Performance, 1:30) add Alex Moffat to your newsbrowsers. Don't forget to add the /atom.xml