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the blog-based review form not only brings in more voices (which may identify more potential issues), and not only provides some "review of the reviews" (with reviewers weighing in on the issues raised by others), but is also, crucially, a conversation (my proposals for a quick fix to the discussion of one example helped unearth the breadth and seriousness of the larger issues with the section).

"The reputation of MIT Press, or any good academic press, is based on a peer-review model."

the experiment will provide a side-by-side comparison of reviewing—old school versus new blog

maybe to catch small errors that have slipped through the cracks.

"If, God help you, you're writing about current religious or political issues, you're going to get a lot of people with agendas who aren't interested in having a rational discussion. Some of them are just psychos."

explain it by analogy to a newspaper. Imagine that you could have a newspaper delivered to your house that had only the content you wanted

(RSS stands for either “Rich Site Summary,“ or ”Really Simple Syndication.“)

in the digital medium, writing often produces technological frustrations which, if not offset by other gains, leads to negative experiences for the students.

RSS helps to give students control over content on the web, reducing time spent navigating from site to site to see what has changed, and instead allowing them to receive updates about the content they are interested in tracking or material that is relevant to class.

What a good feed reader does is allow you to quickly scan the headlines, mark the ones you want to read, toss out the ones you don't, and return either immediately, or at a later more convenient time, to carefully read the ones you have selected.

make a mental separation between tagging items to be read, and then reading items.

productive classroom blog projects focus on teaching students how writing for the internet requires a different type of authorship

writing in the age of the digital is, as I indicated above, far more a matter of becoming a networked author, of writing a networked book.

complaints of students who have been required to blog for class is that they feel as if what they are writing does not get read by anyone except the instructor.

digital content is increasingly syndicated. Thus, writing without an awareness of how your writing may be syndicated can lead to addressing your audience in an ineffective way

advertisers have had to rethink web-based presentations.

fifteen different categories

became divided into 6 containers