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This article presents models for using blogs and offers recommendations for faculty who are considering using blogs in their courses.
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Great collection of articles/posts from 2009 on web design and writing.
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More cheatsheets - most of these look very useful.
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WordPress. TV. 'nuff said.
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I think this qualifies as a "first world problem" :) I can relate. Once you have an "audience," it changes everything. You have to stop and re-evaluate why you are doing it every so often, to check that it still makes sense. If it doesn't, stop.
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I worry that I'm snatching morsels from the information food bank without making any donations.
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Still, no matter how innocuous your individual tweets, the aggregate ends up being the foundation of a scary-deep self-portrait. It's like a psychographic version of strip poker—I'm disrobing, 140 characters at a time.
Advice from Arianna Huffington, Om Malik, and more of the Web's best pundits.
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I think the very argument here is dumb - it's like asking "how many books does the world need?" or "how many magazine and newspaper articles does the world need?" It's not up to anyone to decide this. It's up to the reader to choose their reading material, and it's a natural sorting process. Blogs, like books, editorials, articles, etc, are all created for different purposes - some highly personal, some for fun and entertainment, some to share information. The ones that become successful do so because they do what they set out to do well. So where is the "problem" here? Oh, maybe because no one HIRED the blogger to write, because the blogger is doing it out of love and passion, and not for money (sometimes)? Hmmm... I don't see that as a liability. More information just calls for better filters - better critical thinking skills, better ways to cross-check information, etc. I imagine the printing press caused similar concerns in its day.
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Add Sticky NoteThe opportunity for us all to express an opinion is wonderful. Having to read all those opinions isn't.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2008-11-23Who says you have to read them all? Do you have to read all the books in the library?
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Add Sticky NoteBut many readers may be reaching the point with blogs and websites that I reached long ago with the Sunday New York Times Magazine--actively hoping there isn't anything interesting in there because then I'll have to take the time to read it.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2008-11-24
OK, I concede this point... as an OCD reader, I can relate, but still... I mean, you don't HAVE to read them all! I guess this is an "issue" (it's a non-issue IMO) because blogs are so much more accessible than books, otherwise, the author's head would explode when he walked into a public library!
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Nice simple javascript countdown script - I used this in my political blog (http://liberalfriends.blogspot.com/ - countdown to inauguration)
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