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Holidays

I’m guessing that it will be normal for me to post less often during the holidays. Hopefully 10 day breaks will not be normal. Besides the obvious Christmas festivities and work, I have been doing very good with my running…

Generalizing

Start of Series Now if I might generalize from my experience. . . I had the opportunity, during the short time while I was working towards a PhD, to help teach a class, and more importantly to construct a blogging…

What is Blogging?

Start of Series In order to substantiate my claim of what benefits blogging provides for me, I think it is important to define what I mean by when I talk about blogging. I have already indicated that blogging is more…

Benefits of Blogging

Start of Series When I started blogging, I noticed that there were a lot of people blogging about blogging, especially in the circle of educational bloggers. Very soon I began to dislike those types of postings. This leaves readers here…

Why Blog?

This is going to be short, and almost without substance, but my history of blogging comes from a background of education where the question has been asked, but never completely answered, what is the benefit of blogging? I can only…

Making a Change

I have been thinking about getting rid of comment moderation. Over the last few months the number of comments has grown, as I had hoped, but thankfully there has been no comment spam. For that reason I am getting rid…

Code for Old Blog Tools

I thought I would add the html code from some blog elements that I am putting away but which I may want to use again. Here is the html code for the election projections: <a href=”http://www.electoral-vote.com/”><img alt=”Click for www.electoral-vote.com” src=”http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2006/Icons/ev-small.png”…

Blogging or Thinking

I made a little discovery yesterday about the pattern of when I post to my blog and when I don’t. It comes down to the “Time Matrix” discussed in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. The time…

Political Polling

I have begun to wonder how people view presidential hopefuls before the heavy campaigning gets underway. To that end I have created a poll on my blog where people can vote for those people who have been identified as potential…