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Blogger Buzz: Best Blogging Advice
The official Twitter for Google’s Blogger, @Blogger asked: What’s the best blogging advice you’ve ever received? I answered, and they posted. I also sent a tweet about the absolutely brilliant post on blogging…
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On The Use of Sources, Citations, and Links
As educators, we spend a great deal of time trying to teach students how to research, how to use sources, and, perhaps most importantly of all, how to tell a good source from…
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Bloggers As Public Intellectuals
I’m blogging another panel I heard at L.A.Con IV; this one was on blogging. Speaker(s): MaryAnn Johanson, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Kevin Drum, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Cory Doctorow (Moderator). H.L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, I.F. Stone,…
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On “Serious” Blogging
New Kid on the Hallway drew my attention to this article in Inside Higher Ed by Jeff Rice. Rice has two central points, I think, in his initial article. I say “I think”…
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Weblog Usability
Jakob Nielsen posted an article on the top ten web log design flaws. Most of his suggestions were things I’ve been doing from the start, but two of them were new to me.…
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More Academic Blogging
Henry Farrell, professor and contributor to the academic blog Crooked Timber, has an interesting essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on “The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas.” He makes a number…
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Discussions, Comments and Digital Community
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, editor extraordinaire and the creator of Making Light (one of the best blogs I’ve ever seen) is not only the author of many fine posts, she also curates a thriving,…
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Is Apple Joining the List of Corporate Bloggers?
Apple seems to be experimenting with “student blogging” on the Higher Education section of their website. Here’s the initial post: We’d like to welcome you to a new community site for students to…
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Moving to MoveableType
No, I’ve not quit blogging about Instructional Technology, I’ve just been distracted with one thing and another. I’ve returned to technical editing; one of the books I worked on, Dennis Cohen and Bob…
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Stanford does Blogging
Stanford’s ITSS is offering blogging via Moveable Type. I think they’ve made a good choice. I hope that they will continue to be smart, and think about ways of integrating blogging into existing…