They are so 2004. According to Paul Boutin, in the November 2008 issue of Wired, personal blogs should be retired. With the dominance of professional blogs, trolls, and time limitations, Twitter seems the obvious choice for the 2008 blogger. He explains: When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top [...]
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New Media’s Golden Mean; Or, How Do I Post to the Blog, Again, Dr. Lucas?
At times knowledge brings merely an enlightened impotence or paralysis. One may know exactly what to do but lack the wherewithal to act. (Winner “Mythinformation” 594) Janet H. Murray, in her work Hamlet on the Holodeck, discusses the future of narrative within digital environments, and she suggests the importance of “author” to narrative in particular [...]
Writing Excellent Blog Entries
Lloyd Lemons links to B. L. Ochman’s “How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments” on her What’s Next Blog. Ochman’s advice is some of the best I’ve read lately, suggesting the deliberate nature of blogging and stressing audience expectations. I can’t follow all of her advice all of the time, like limiting [...]
Blogging in Primary Education
Prototype points to Stephen Downes’ “Educational Blogging” on Educause Review. It looks at the yet unspoiled attitudes of primary schoolers on blogging and the Internet. One student states: The blogs give us a chance to communicate between us and motivate us to write more. When we publish on our blog, people from the entire world [...]
Blogging Advice
Since my students are using a blog this semester, I have posted a couple of entries that might be useful to others: “How to Blog” and “How to Comment.” These are by no means meant to be definitive, but are just general guidelines about blogging as well as specifics meant just for my students. In [...]
