Numbers of Words in WSJ
adminThe Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a column devoted to statistics called The Numbers Guy by Carl Bialik, which recently talked about words. Making Every Word Count is an update…
Edge: John Brockman: Clay Shirky: Voting Republican
I love summer vacation. I get to sit and read stuff I would never "have time for" during regular work. Case in point, the Edge, an online magazine by author…
NY Times: Ambient Awareness, Digital Intimacy
Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pointed me to this NY Times article Ambient Awareness, the effects of the Facebook and Twitter on culture and psychology. A great read. Combined with…
cck08 about to start
One of the blogs I read (I think it was Robin Good's) sent me to cck08, an open online class in Connectivism. I've been curious about this concept of distributed…
Spelling needs simplified
A 102-year-old former president of the American Literacy Council and other organizations came across the blog at boing boing, pointing to a video of him using a flip-book to show…