Mobile Posting on My Blog spot! (like phone novels)

Hey guys, I found out that blog spot has the option of posting via text message from cell phones. It's exactly like phone novels, so I thought I'd share. It's really simple and quick to set up. Here's how:

First go to your dashboard. Where it gives the title "Manage Blogs" there should be a little cell phone icon; click on it. Now just follow the directions given and text away! (All you have to do is send a code to the phone number provided via a text message.)

Postings may also be done via e-mail.

I may include this example in my hypertext because it's the same basic idea of phone novels, which is apparently more popular than I thought!

Blog 20-Schematic structure for web-essay

I know exactly what I want my web page to look like but it's kind of hard to know if I will be able to do that when I can't see the page I'm going to be working on. Does anyone know the web address we're going to be using? Like the program or whatever? Please, leave me a comment and let me know.

I want to do a linear with scrolling. Kind of like how Wikipedia has that little box of topics and you can click on the topic you want, taking you right to the text. All the text is on the same page, but you can scroll down or up very easily-with just one click. I also want pictures/images that appeal to my audience. I was thinking about real people instead of cartoons. I think this will be beneficial for my particular topic (phone novels).

Another idea I was thinking instead of the linear/scrolling with nodes is a page with tabs. So I would have the topics broken down into parts with a subject word on each tab. This might be too much clicking around fo rmy user so I kind of am straying from the idea. Any opinions?

I would really like to see the details of the web page I'm going to be creating, like the backround color, font, etc.

I guess I'll just wait until class tomorrow and ask Prof. Chandler to see what she says unless someone could let me know before. Until then, I'm going to try to edit my hyertext essay so it's perfect. Prf Chandler gave not so good of a grade because I wasn't really researching I guess. IDK, we'll see what happens tomorrow when I have my editted essay. I'll be posting the changed of my hypertext essay soon. Thanks.

Blog 18-Attending Patterns

1. Tpyes of media I engage/use/read on a daily basis include: my cellphone, computer, radio, and t.v. When I was 5, I watched t.v. and listened to whatever my parents wanted on the radio. The television I watched at 5, is very different than the televsion I watched today. At 5 years old, I watched My Little Pony, David the Knome, and other cartoons. As I grew older, at age 10, I upgraded my televsion programs to shows like Lassie and used the television set to play Nintendo games. I even started to listen to music on my own. Maybe I was a little older than 10, but I remember the first cd I ever bought was 311. My dad, brother, and I went into a CD store and I had no clue what was going on. I remember just following my brother around pretending to look at cds like he was. He handed me a 311 cd and said "This cd is awsome" so I asked my dad if he would get it for me and he did. At 15 or a little before then, I started to use the computer. My friend Amanda and I would go on AOL for hours. We thought it was fun to go into chat rooms and surf the web. Amanda and I also played Sonic the Hedgehog for hours. Now, I use the computer mostly for schoolwork or to pay a bill. I play Xbox, which has an Ethernet cable so I can play live. Looking back, I can see how my use of media went from playful to serious. Even with the videogames, Amanda and I would play Sega just for fun but now it seems I play Halo2 so seriously. I mean, when I was younger I watched silly cartoons but now I watch movies which have a real plot, a problem and a solution. (If that makes any sense).

2. The following is the mediums I use with the amount of time I spend using it:

cellphone-5hours/day(I have a really good Internet connection on my cell so I do some schoolwork on my phone or research I have to do. Sometimes I even blog for this class on it)

radio-2.5hours/day (whenever I'm driving)

computer-3hours/day(depending on schoolwork)

t.v.-4hrs/day

3. How I associate media with performing the following tasks:

math/calculation-based homework- sometimes I use my cellphone if I don't have a calculator handy or I may use the computer calculator.
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read assignments- I have a Shakespeare class, so I look up sparknotes to give me an analysis on the readings. I even found a modern translation on the web called No Fear Shakespeare that I read instead of my textbook. If I dont understand what I'm reading I'll look it up on the Internet. If I do not have access to a computer I'll look it up on my cellphone-either way, I'm using the Internet. When I'm reading, I usually have the t.v. on. I don't know why or what got me into the habit of having the t.v. on and my dad always yelled at me for it, but it's just something I do. I don't even pay attention to the t.v. either!
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compose a paper- definately the computer. I use Microsoft Word and the Interent to write a paper. Microsoft Word helps me with all the wonderful tools available like spell check, the types of fonts/styles, clipart, etc.
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study for an exam- I may look up some topics I don't fully understand but to study I mostly stick to my class notes, handouts the professor gives out, and text book. When I study I usually have the t.v. on. It sounds distracting but it acutally helps me focus or so I think.
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conduct research/ find references- Computer for sure. The Internet is, without a doubt, the main type of media I choose to do my research. There are so many places to look so it's definately the best and fastest in my opinion. I usually do a Google search and then explore the websites given. Next, I type in a different assimilation of words to see if anything new pops up.
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4. I use media in my everyday taks. For instance:

driving- I always have the radio on when I'm driving. Who doesn't? Sometime sI'll pop in a cd to the cd player and listen to that. Every morning however, I listen to Z100 when I'm driving to school. It's definately part of my routine. Sometimes I text or talk on my cellphone even though I know I shouldn't.
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eating a meal by myself- I always eat watching t.v. or when I'm on the computer. Mostly though, I am watchng t.v. Watching t.v. with my meal or snack makes me feel relaxed. It's great.
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eating with family/friends- When I'm with my friends we watch t.v. and eat too, usually a movie. With my family we do the same although usually it's a television show or the news. The only time I don't watch t.v. and eat is at a resturant or on a big holiday like Christmas, but even on holidays my family usually plays music or has the radio on.
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household chores- I usually have the t.v. on when I'm doing my chores and when I go into another room I'll blast the setero really loud until I come back and then I'll continue to watch the t.v. When I wash my car I blast my stereo so I can hear it from my garage. When I cook I have the t.v. on downstairs and in my room with the same channel. This way as I'm cooking I can watch what I want and when I go upstairs to eat, the t.v. is already set to what I was watching downstairs so I don't miss anything.
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5. I barely have any free time. I always seem to be busy. However, when I do have free time, I like to relax. I love to lunge out in comfortable clothes and watch a good movie. I also like to loook through clothing magazines while I watch t.v. shows like Rock of Love or I Love Money on VH1.
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Totals

School activities= 12
living/household activities= 11
relaxation activites= 7

Average of attending=10

6. I thought I would mostly likely use hyper attention doing household activities and deep attention doing schoolwork. Although I have the t.v. on, I focus only on my work. However, under analysis I realize I am focused on many things at once because the t.v. is on and I'm fliiping through my notebooks,text books, etc. I actually am pratcing hyper attention as my scoring relfects. Overall, I multitask with almost everything I do, even driving or relaxing! The only way I can explain this is that maybe with distractions around me, I tend to try to focus more on what I am trying to do. Or maybe I just get bored easily. I'm not sure.

Math calulation and writing a paper had the lowest numbers of all the activities listed. I think this is because I really have to focus when I'm doing either of those things. It's kind of hard to calculate numbers and do something else. Ironically, math is my worst subject. Mayeb I should consider multitasking to improve my grades. Lol

I definately have the most consistent style while eating. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe it's how I was brought up or maybe it's just because I really enjoy eating and watching t.v. It's kind of weird to eat by yourself or with others in silence anyway. Even at the movies people eat popcorn, candy, nachos, etc. I think it's something in the American culture really.

7. I would characterize myself in terms of pattern of attending as a hyper attentive person. I thought of myself as a deep attentive person with my schoolwork however this is not necessarily the case. I knew I was a major multitasker but I never looked at everything in this way. I can now see patterns for how I go about certain taks and see that I do them in similar ways every time. Just because someone is hyper attentive does not necessarily mean it's a bad thing. In fact i've noticed that areas where I am not hyper attentive I acually do the worst. I'm npt sp sure it has anything to do with multi taksing but it's worth a shot to experiment to see if anything changes!

Blog 19 -Free post

As you all know, I am doing my hypertext on phone novels. Well, on the phone novel website I saw that there's a $1,000 cash prize for the best phone novel with 20 chpaters due by July 2009. I just thought someone might be interested. My 17th post explains how to work the text messaging with phone novels. You could even e-mail instead of texting, not to mention use the website directly.


I've learned a lot from this class so far. Obviously, phone novels for one. I took an interest for the phone novels as soon as I saw the article. It just amazed me for some reason and I had to know more. I've learned the difference between hyperattention and deep attention as well as my habits/tendencies of attending with everyday taks such as homework, driving, and household activites. The theories from some of the articles really got me thinking and opened my eyes to perspectives I would have never, ever thought about. For example, the theory where producers become users by using their program and users become producers when they add to the program (like with myspace/facebook and Wikipedia edits). I look at Wikipedia in a different light thanks to this class. I seriously never knew that anyone could add to the Wikipedia. I really thought it was set in stone and a completely reliable refrence. Now, I check on the article refrences to be sure. The Wikipedia assignment made me feel important (since my post is still up) and smart. I think the style Professor Chandler has us doing is really cool. It's something different which is nice for a change, Instead of writing in a boring notebook, we get to post on our personalized blog and even look at each other's blog, leaving comments and such. The comments can be really useful. Instead of just getting the Professor's feedback, we can get a whole classroom full of feedback. As future educators, I think it's important to take her style into consideration as an opportunity to also do something different with our own class someday. I don't know about you guys, but my other classes are so boring. The professor talks and we talk notes. Every class. This class we get to blog, do different projects, presentations, and even create a website that we can use later on. I really like this class a lot and learned so much. I even learned about myself and how much I use media. The course homepage is really helpful too. My other professors gave us a syalbus but it doesn't even make sense anymore because things changed and it's just useless now. I guess my favorite topic in the class would be the flas mobs. Theyre just so weird and random! I loved watching people's reactions when a group of people suddenly started doing kung-fu in the middle of a park for 2minutes then stop and go about their day like nothing happened. Halirious!!! I know it can be good for a statement and what not too. Writing for Cyberspace is better than what I thought it would be. I mean I was interested in the class, that's why I picked to take it, but I really feel like I learned a lot and then class isn't even over! What do you guys think? Leave me a comment and let me know.

Blog 17- Hyptertext essay editted

Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel) Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarely disclosed. Only a valid e-mail address is needed; the user can make up any name he or she desires. No further personal information is required or asked for.

Phone novels originated in 1999 by a Japanese man in his mid-late thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". “Yoshi” added a template to a website called “Maho i-Land” (“Magic Island” in English) titled “Let’s Make Novels”. More people have cell phones in Japan and China than they do computers and as a result, it was a huge hit. In Japan four out of the five best selling literary novel list were phone novels in 2007. (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear) Maho i-Land is in Japanese, but www.textnovel.com is a similar website for phone novels in English. Phone novels are particularly beneficial and appealing to young, aspiring writers. This is because there is a possibility the phone novel will be published in print or even into a movie. The phone novel "Love Sky" written by a 19 year old Chinese girl sold (along with it’s sequel) 2.6 million copies. The book was eventually turned into a movie and earned 35 million dollars at the box office. Still, keeping her identity hidden for her family's sake. In any event, phone novels gives writers a chance to explore and write freely. Not only is the content unlimited of options but the style in which the author chooses to write is as well. Sentences, words, etc. may be written normal (like the format I am writing now), very spaced out, or jumbled together (like if two people were in a fight) to portray emotion and significance. The format is the author's decision and sense of self expression. There are no rules. Today, authors of phone novels are adding video and audio clips to their novels. Even if the user does not want to write, the user can read other people's phone novels. The website allows a search by topic. Thousands of different stories are available on multiple topics of interest. Many phone novel users agree that texting is faster and easier than writing on a computer keyboard and even prefer writing this way. As soon as the thought comes up, the text message is soon to follow and a novel published. Besides, it's totally FREE! Not to mention, if desired, completely anonymous.

Anyone can write a phone novel, it’s fast and easy. Here’s how:

1. Go to the website www.textnovel.com and create an account. You must have a valid e-mail address.
(There are also directions on the website at the bottom of the page, to the far right under “How To”).

2. Go to “My Library” and select “Create a New Story”

3. Give your story a title, select a genre (action, horror, romance, mystery, etc.), a rating (G, PG, PG-13, R), and a short description (like what you would read on the back of a book).

4. Title chapter 1 and begin your story.

5. Save the story; you can choose to publish what you have done so far or keep it private. After the story is saved, a code will be given next to the story title. This is the code used to edit the novels via text message or e-mail. (Each novel you write will have a different code)

6. Add a contact in your cell phone for add@textnovel.com as “Phone Novel” or whatever name desired. Send the SMS/MMS text message to add@textnovel.com. In the subject line type your story code, colon, and chapter number.

For example, if I wanted to add text to chapter 3 to my novel titled Love at First Sight with 808 as my story code, I would address my text message to add@textnovel.com, add 808:3 in the subject line, write the text I wish to add, and send the text. If you do not specify the chapter number desired, the text will be applied to the last chapter written. If you wish to make a new chapter, use the same format with the new chapter number, colon, and new title. So the format I would use would be 808:4:The First Kiss. The same format and code applies for e-mail.


Unlike printed novels, phone novels on the www.textnovel.com have the advantage of peer reviews. Other users can also post comments on other user’s phone novels and rate them. The phone novels with the highest ratings appear on the homepage. A $1,000 prize is offered at www.textnovel.com for the author of the best phone novel of at least 20 chapters finished by July 2009. (More information is available at www.textnovel.com)

PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS!!! I could use the feedback, thanks.

Blog 16- Research hypertext rough draft, very rough

What are phone novels? Are they private? Where did they come from? How are they beneficial and why should I care?

Via text messaging to a website, users create novels or stories that may be viewed by others called "phone novels". Phone novels originated in Japan by a Japanese man in his mid-late thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". Soon, phone novels trickeld over to China and even America. Phone novels are most popular among young romantic women who often write about love affairs, love triangles, pregancy, rape, sex, etc. Japense ethos frown upon this sort of behavior so it is important especially to Japanese and Chinese users to be kept anonomous. Fortunately, phone novels give the option of being private. Much like AOL, the website of phone novels, MahoiLand, sets the user up with a username and password. No further information is necessary.
Phone novels is particulary beneficial to young, aspiring writers. This is because there is a chance the phone novel will be published in print like the phone novel "Love Sky" by a 19 year old Chinese girl. Still, keeping her identity hidden for her family's sake. In any event, phonenovels gives writers a chance to explore and write freely. Not only is the content unlimited of options but the style in which the author chooses to write is as well. Sentences, words, etc. may be written normal (like the format I am writing now), very spaced out, or jumbled togther (like if two people were in a fight). The format is the author's decision and sense of self experssion. Phone novels are said to be adding video and audio clips to their websites now as well. Even if the user does not want to write, the user can read other people's novels. The website allows a search by topic. Thousands of different stories are available on multiple topics of interest. Many phone novel users agree that texting is faster and easier than writing on a computer keyboard and prefer writing this way. As soon as the thought comes up, the text message is soon to follow. Besdies, it's totally FREE!
Getting started...(TO BE CONTINUED)

Blog 15- Wikipedia posts

Wikipedia name: Kat081685

This is the conversation I had with the editter of the Wikipedia Phone Mobile site (he included some links to look at if anyone is interested)...
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I'm trying to get more "traffic" on the page I'm currently working on so I have added a brief introduction and a link in order to do so on "Mobile Phone Novels". I'm not sure if this post will stay, but I think that mobile phone users should be aware of such a neat feature on their phone such as novel writing on cell phones. Let me know what you guys think.--Kat081685 (talk) 18:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I reverted your uncited edits per Wikipedia policy. You will have to get into the habit of sourcing any inclusion of content from here on. Please read WP:VERIFY and WP:ORIGINAL at this time. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 22:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, sorry about that. I see your point. Therefore, I posted my the topic again WITH citation this time. Also, I added factual information. Maybe if you have any ideas for me, you could help me so my stuff doesn't get deleted. I would really appreciate it. Check out the "Mobile Phone Novel" site too if you have time.
[end conversation]

If you scroll down to Blog 12, I have kept a Wikipedia posting log, in which, has all the posts I've made including my disscusions as well as my posts with links to them. They're all dated from newsest post to oldest (so the more you scroll down, the older the post was). I thought it would be easiest to kepp all my posting together in one blog and update the blog.

I made contributions to two different Wikipedia websites. One was "Mobile Phone Novels" http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_novel Where I wrote: [Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy.[1] However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities.[2] Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarely disclosed. "Net transvestities" are of the most extreme play actors of the sort.[3] Differing from regular novels, mobile phone novels may be structured according to the authors prefrence.[4] If a couple is fighting in the story, the author may choose to have the lines closely spaced and crowded. On the contrary, if the author writes a calm or soothing poem the line spacing may be further apart than normal. Overall, the line spacing of phone novels contains enough blank space for an easy read.] and under the "History" section I wrote: [The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". [9] ]

My second post was for the "Mobile Phone" Wikipedia website, in order to draw attention to my Wikipedia website (as Prof. Chandler suggested). This site's link is http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phoneshttp://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones
I wrote:
[Usage (TITLE)
A Mobile phone novel or cell phone novels are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. [12] In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".]

The first post for "Mobile Phone Novels" was not taken down, edited, nor responded to in the discussion page at all. Not even a cricket chirrped. This is most likely because people don't know about phone novels. They've never heard of them before so people aren't looking it up. I mean, it did start in China. I was wondering though..you know how at the Wikipedia homepage, there's the option for all the different languages? Well, is the Wikipedia the same no matter what language you click on? Like if I write about phone novels in English, will someone that does Wikipedia in Chinese be able to see what I posted? I'm just wondering if the Chinese Wikiepdia format has anything more on phone novels since it's so popular over there. hmm..
The second post I made for "Mobile Phones" was deleted and I got a response from some dude in the discussion page. He told me I needed to read some link he posted for me and provide better citations. If you go to the link under the discussion tab and scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see what we wrote. The title of our discussion is "Mobile Phone Novels" and my name is Kat081685. I think he was upset and having a bad day or something. In all seriousness thoguh, I think he reacted that way because he's probably been working hard on the site for mobile phones and here I come along and add a topic he thinks is irrelevant with bad citations.. so he got angry. Understandable. Buttt I still re-posted the topic with citations corrected and edited my information. I haven't had it taken down, but we'll see.