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Fri Jul 3

• FLOSSManuals (en): There are three basic parts to the FLOSS Manuals website - READ, WRITE, and REMIX. In the READ section you can read manuals online or download them via PDF. Here we have arranged many manuals on how to use various free software. Through the WRITE section you can write manuals. This is the 'wiki 9; part of the site. You need to register for an account and then you can start contributions. Registration is required so that we can credit you with the changes you make. With FLOSS Manuals all material is licensed so that it can be used by anyone for any purpose. In REMIX you can drag chapters from existing manuals onto a template for your own manual and change the chapter names and their look-and-feel through the browser. You can then download your newly remixed manual as HTML, PDF or embed it in a blog.

Wed Jul 1

• The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink | Rao: The hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web. If the bit is the quark of information, the hyperlink is the hydrogen molecule. It shapes the microstructure of information today. Surprisingly though, it is nearly as mysterious now as it was back in July 1945, when Vannevar Bush first proposed the idea in his Atlantic Monthly article, As We May Think.

Wed Jun 17

• Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com: empirical study, pros & cons. ... "Digital technologies, computer networks, the Web ? all of those things have led to an explosion in writing," Mr. Grabill says. "People write more now than ever. In order to interact on the Web, you have to write." ... Kathleen Blake Yancey, a professor of English at Florida State University and a former president of the National Council of Teachers of English, calls the current period "the age of composition&qu ot; because, she says, new technologies are driving a greater number of people to compose with words and other media than ever before. "This is a new kind of composing because it's so variegated and because it's so intentionally social," Ms. Yancey says. Although universities may not consider social communication as proper writing, it still has a strong influence on how students learn to write, she says. "We ignore it at our own peril."

Mon Jun 8

• The Persistence of Writing (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE: (Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. New York: HarperCollins, 2007) In her conclusion to Proust and the Squid, Wolf argues for such a "both/and " approach: "The analytical, inferential, perspective-ta king, reading brain with all its capacity for human consciousness, and the nimble, multifunctiona l, multimodal, information-in tegrative capacities of a digital mind-set do not need to inhabit exclusive realms. Many of our children learn to code-switch between two or more oral languages, and we can teach them also to switch between different presentations of written language and different modes of analysis." ;11 Let us lead?an etymological root of educate?studen ts to such richness of expression.

Sun Jun 7

• Weblogg-ed » New Reading, New Writing: But what was different in my reading of the Johnson essay as opposed to the Kelly essay was my ability to interact with it through Diigo. Over the last few months, I?ve become more and more enamored with Diigo as a tool for notetaking and bookmarking, sure, but as a platform for some interesting conversations. And, while I?m not sure Johnson even knows of its existence, it?s already bringing to fruition many of the social reading potentials we?ve been thinking of as futuristic. The idea that I can not just annotate a paragraph or a sentence or one idea on a webpage but that I can engage with others in sharing our thinking about that particular sentence or idea is at once powerful and daunting. I mean, imagine the meta conversations we might be able to have over different passages in the classics once they all get scanned and put online by Google (or someone else.)
• Wills and Imaginations « Gardner Writes: So I go to the article?a fine and unusually thoughtful article, in my view?and I?ve got Diigo and Zotero on, and I see all the annotations, and I look through a few of the comments, thinking all the while ?my goodness, I?m reading about the transformation of reading and writing in a space that?s already *itself* demonstrativel y transformed?re cursion rocks.?

Wed May 13

• Für eine unendliche Bibliothek - Stefan Heidenreich / taz.de: sehr schön. "Was haben wir nicht alles unternommen, um die gedruckten Texte wieder dem Denken zuzuführen. Die Buchseiten sind voller Unterstreichun gen, Anmerkungen an den Rändern. Alles Techniken, die einen Text wieder als aktives Wissen verfügbar machen sollen. Ich wünschte, ich hätte schon seit Jahren an digitalen Texten gearbeitet, um all diese an Büchern verrichtete Arbeit nutzen zu können ...Techniken des lesenden Schreibens und schreibenden Lesens ... Es muss an Stichworte springen, Zitate finden und verknüpfen, Textstücke kopieren. ...Notizen auch der anderen Leser ... Worum geht es mir also letztlich? Darum, dass meine Texte gedruckt werden, oder darum, dass sie gelesen werden? -- Manche Texte werden besser nicht zu Büchern. ...bezuschusst en Unfug der akademischen Sammelbände und der gedruckten Dissertation ... die nur dafür sorgen, dass die Texte nicht im Netz verfügbar sind, sondern zwischen Buchdeckeln weggesperrt in Bibliotheken stehen."

Thu Apr 30

• Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web - O'Reilly Radar: But simply putting books onto electronic devices is only the beginning. As I've said for years, that's a lot like pointing a camera at a stage play, and calling it a movie. Yes, that's pretty much what they did in many early movies, but eventually, the tools of production and consumption actually changed the format of what was produced and consumed. ... (+ own "TwitterB ook":) The web has changed the nature of how we read and learn. Most books still use the old model of a sustained narrative as their organizational principle. Here, we've used a web-like model of standalone pages, each of which can be read alone (or at most in a group of two or three), to impart key points, highlight interesting techniques or the best applications for a given task.

Fri Apr 17

• Flogos - It's Not a Bird. It's Not a Plane. It's a Flogo!
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