You will note a few site updates, things I hope will begin to make this space more useful and connective.  First, I have added user avatars (note the picture at right).  These will be added to posts and comments automatically.  If you wish to display an avatar, simply add an image to your account profile.  Click above (or at left) on "account" and then "edit" and upload a picture.  The ideal use is in putting a face to a name, etc, and so I would discourage image "icons" or cartoons, etc...unless you really look like Betty Boop...If you are concerned about privacy, this is completely optional.

Second, note the "tag cloud" below (bottom of each page).  You have seen these elsewhere to be sure, but I am growing to like these dynamic site organization methods, the "semantic web", as they say.  It is, of course, nice to be able to access pages hierarchically as normal, but it's also nice to be able to cut across that structure to places of importance.  If you have not seen these clouds before, they organize content by tags (those you add to a post or image or audio or video ,etc), showing the most used/tagged in successively larger text.

Finally (and more directly pertinent to class), I've added two new links in the "free software" section, the first a link to PD-extended for various operating systems, and the second to something called JACK which we will get to very soon.

See you all in lecture.

P.S.  One more update in process, a live chat area (joining a chat pops up a new window).  Right now the system has no invite mechanism, but you can monitor portions of the chat from the main page.  Feel free to chime in.