Smart Kid, Smart Teacher
A high school student did this terrific independent study, and I just LOVE the questions below that came out of it. Most excellent. Should note, also, as Ben does below, that he worked with a really...
View ArticleMy friend's wonderful literary cat obituary...
I was there back when my friend and poet found the young Howard, whose namesake we had just met in person at the time. People can make fun of dog and cat blogs all they like, but these little friends...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Flower Are You Quiz
I am an Echinacea What Flower Are You Link: This Garden Is Illegal: What Kind of Flower Are You Quiz. You Are an Echinacea "You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others....
View ArticleRun, don't walk over to copyblogger to read "Do You Make These Mistakes With...
Brian Clark at copyblogger has one of the most practically-focused blog how-to pieces I've seen, and the reason it excels is that it tells you explicitly what NOT to do! I'll pull out my favorite bits...
View ArticleToilet seats of the rich and famous...
Betcha never would have guessed this. Question: is it real or made up? I got it off Salon, but it's original source is actually the NY Daily News "Daily Dish." Strange bedfellows, all in a day's work...
View ArticleThe "old" Wonkette on where blogs are going
David Pogue is apparently still on vacation and recycling the transcript of an old interview on his NYTimes blog, but I found some bits in there that were worth looking at, not as Thus Sprake...
View ArticleHow to sell your soul and sell out your blog for 10 pieces... of paper?
Link: BloggerJobs :: Blogsvertise is looking for bloggers to post their ads. Egad! Should we start watching for these sell-out bloggers to appear on a spammer-scale? Will machines generate these blogs,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Blogging Snake Oil
I got to writing a comment over at Dan Greenfield's blog late last night, and something up and bit me while writing it, so I've decided to repost the lengthy comment here, with a bit from Dan's...
View ArticleAnother fascinating science fiction writer
After I posted about the death of Octavia Butler a while back, I went totally off on an Octavia Butler kick, and I must say, I now count Parable of the Sower as one of my all-time personal favorite...
View ArticleRank Revolts, or Are blog-natives getting restless?
Link: Naked Conversations: Revolting Rankings. I just started reading Naked Conversations (the book) on the recommendation of a friend, and on its companion blog (?), found this interesting thread...
View ArticleMy favorite quotation of the day
I really do thing this applies to the Blogosphere as well, so we should give it pause. Today more novels are published in one week than Samuel Johnson had to deal with in a decade. Now here's the...
View ArticleHow to take better care when writing about science
Journalism professor Michael Bugeja hits the nail on the head with this one. Link: Inside Higher Ed :: Sound Science or Sound Bite? It is my biggest complaint about science coverage in the mainstream...
View ArticleFavorite quotation of the day
"Blog is a terrible word. How else do you describe the activity of someone who has become a synapse in the emerging global brain?" Thanks to John Robb for this nugget of pithy wisdom! Link: John Robb's...
View ArticleHave You Reached CSS Zen Yet?
I was dipping my toe into CSS in a small way by the late 1990s, but the CSS movement has really caught fire lately, making it more of a religion. And I'm all for that. But for beginning bloggers who...
View ArticleNews that came late to me: one of my most influential teachers has died
Drury "Dean" Long died November 21, 2006 in Thousand Palms, California He was a high school teacher for me, and one on whom I modeled many of my own teaching techniques. The one high school teacher I...
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