50 million
I really enjoyed seeing this on Slashdot Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier. It was also fun to go to Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000 and watch as the counter shows that another 44,000 plus downloads have taken place in the six…
Day April 29, 2005
Peeling Away
This will only make sense with the background information that I never wanted to buy a minivan. I love my minivan. That statement, and the rest of this post, is less about my minivan and more about me – and…
Proposal
In a discussion board for my Using Technology to Enhance Learning class I made a proposal (on March 18th this year) based on teachers having a scarcity of time and the fact that teachers are underpaid partially because they are…
Only Fair
I think it’s only fair after posting about Feeling Useless that I give a little update on the calling thing. I have been called (about a month after I posted that) as the assistant executive secretary and I will be…
Classifications
Get comfortable. This is going to be along one. I have been thinking about this subject for a while, but suddenly in the last 24 hours I have changed my position. I was fully behind Will when he posted Blogging vs Journaling again as he argued: Xanga is not a blog site. It’s an online journal site. There is nothing inherently wrong with journaling online (provided it’s done with the proper precautions.) But there is something wrong with calling that blogging. And that’s what’s happening more and more. And the problem comes when parents and principals equate Xanga and other such sites with blogging, which in turn predisposes them negatively toward efforts to use blogs the way we know they can be used. Not so anymore. After reading The Horseless Carriage by Tom Coates I have changed my stance on the subject.