Monthly Archives: January 2008

engaging with online learning
Blog Writing

Sarah Boxer on blog writing as id writing: ...I think I get the superhero fixation. It's the flying. It's the suspension of punctuation and good manners and even identity. Bloggers at their computers are Supermen in flight. They break the rules. They go into their virtual phone booths, put on their costumes, bring down their personal villains, and save the world. Anonymous or not, they inhabit that source of power and hope. Then they come back to their jobs, their dogs, and their lives, and it's like, 'Dude, the ball.'
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The Life Cycle of a Blog Post

Where does a blog post go? Wired magazines' flash animation follows a blog post as it makes its way from mere post to reader via the Interweb: The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, from servers to spiders to suits to you [flash animation].
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The Future of Ideas

We can now download Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas [pdf] for free. Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School and vocal critic of the extension of the copyright term in United States, persuaded Random House to release the book under a Creative Commons license.
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