Category: blogs
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Student use of Wikipedia
This thread on the use of Wikipedia in the academy appeared earlier this year on the discussion list Humanist. Here is the link. This message is a request for comment (the humanities version of a RFC). 2006 appears to be the year that undergraduate students discovered Wikipedia in a big way. My colleagues and I…
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US Senator Ted Kennedy on Net Neutrality
Wow, this video from Senator Ted Kennedy in the US in interesting on a number of levels. One, he and his campaign has a profile on Youtube (which I find extrodinary), and two, he has some very interesting things to say about Net Neutrality.
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Free Speech online ‘under threat’
Bloggers are being asked to show their support for freedom of expression by Amnesty International. The human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals. The organisation said fundamental rights such as free speech faced graver threats than ever before.…
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Reporters without borders: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression. Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream…
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Why bloggers blog
(from the Age ) More than 75,000 new blogs are launched each day. David Adams finds out who's talking – and who's listening. CLAIRE ROBERTSON lives in Melbourne's east and works as an illustrator and stuffed-toy maker. Married to "Big-P", she has a 31/2-year-old-daughter, Amelia, and is pregnant with her second child. Oh, and she's…