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Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
Roy Rosenzweig
T. Mills Kelly has the best remembrance of Roy Rosenzweig today. Rosenzweig was a pioneer in digital history who began the Center for History and New Media (see the original page). (Hat tip.)
I (heart) The Little Professor
Why I love Miriam Burstein’s The Little Professor blog: If you sow dragon’s teeth in order to reap soldiers, what do you reap after sowing apostrophes? Editors, maybe? I needed that, on a day of traveling.
Bloggy bon mots
First, from Kevin Carey: [W]e’ve reached the point where people are actually arguing, with a straight face, that the real crisis in American education is the shameful neglect–the injustice–of how we educate smart white men. Next, from Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor): Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday’s department picnic consumed this afternoon: […]
Caribbean Frost
By Sherman Dorn on October 10, 2007
In the honors class I’m teaching, I’m trying some without-a-net activities each week to connect technology with social and cultural history. One recent week, I asked students to describe the aesthetics of everyday objects. In a plurality of cases, students discussed the commercial choices involved in consumer-product design–i.e., that the aesthetics are shaped as part […]
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