Some of the hot news today contains references to Amazon’s plans to offer selling books by the page and Google’s release yesteraday of some of its public domain books into its common search database. The article Amazon.com To Sell Books By the Page, While Google Launches Online Book Search in Information Week is typical. If […]
A List Apart: Articles: Attack of the Zombie Copy – another good article from “A List Apart” about writing for the Web. At least one of their previous articles on writing was included in the collection of resources I put together in Writing for the Web
CNET that venerable source of news and reviews has some interesting ways to display information related to a news story. These are The Big Picture Related Stories What’s Hot Latest Headlines They’re all really nice ways to use some technology to put a news story into a context that you choose – in the case […]
A good article about writing email that helps get the job done. 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages Here’s a list of advantages and limitations of email that I use in my classes. Effective communication please!
Tagged emailI’ve been reading Welcome to Blogosphere: An Executive Blogger’s Guide that I mentioned in my post on Blog guides, tips, & tutorials. News aggregators are discussed and a few are mentioned. Here are my opinions on the ones mentioned there. Newsgator Focus on the use of blogs in business environments, and the ‘big name’ blogs. […]
Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Weblog software today. It contains a list of “developer-hosted” blog software. I’m going to make some comments about each here. This is part of some research I’ve been doing lookimg into the types of blogging software that would be appropriate for my students to use as part of the […]
Hugh Hewitt a successful commentator and blogger put this book together in 2004-2005 to explain the relation of blogs to main steam media (MSM) and to advise readers about the need to create and manage blogs. The book is a quick read and informative regardless of whether the reader is familiar with the effect and […]
A friend & colleague at Mary Washington sent me an email today that asked about the demographics of the blogosphere. It contained the following quote: ” … referred me to an article stating that bloggers are overwhelmingly white and male and implied that therefore one needs to be careful about assigning students to read blogs.” […]
On April 11 I put an entry in this blog about EFF’s “How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)” They’ve published another good guide: EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t want published. You might, for example, publish something that someone considers […]
Vigil tonight! 6:30 PM Hurkamp Park
Vigil tonight, 6:30 PM, at Hurkamp Park in Fredericksburg will mark the 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq – “A candlelight vigil commemorating the 2,000 reported American military deaths in Iraq will be held at Fredericksburg’s Hurkamp Park tonight. The vigil at William and Prince Edward streets will be one of about 400 events organized […]