Follow-up note on Thursday’s “Blog Action Day 09,” CNN.com reported, “The scale of involvement in the day has been impressive. So far, over 8,000 blogs have registered in 144 countries and organizers predict that there will be around 15 million readers.” BAD ’09 organizer, Robin Beck, stated in a follow-up email, “We hit 31,000 total [...]
Am I Lazy, Overly Cautious or Just Picky?
October 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Coming back from a presentation I commented on this beautiful park and lake we were driving past. A buddy in the car said that the park was also a great place to meet girls and offered to loan me one of his dogs ’cause “girls love dogs.” I just thought that the park was a [...]
BAD09: Is It Getting Hot In Here?
October 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
I recently heard that a government representative in DC wanted to call together the whole scientific community in order to determine once and for all whether human activity had any bearing on climate change. That the man feels the need to do this would indicate that he feels that there is some question as to [...]
freedom to screw up required if one wants perfection: emdt students reflect on blogging
October 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
An open letter to my emdt co-workers, co-conspirators & creativity enablers, On one level or another I’ve been teaching communication and writing since I took my first teaching assignment 15-years ago. One thing that I learned right away was that it seemed to be a big function of the education system to take the eagerness [...]
Unexpected Restfulness in Moving
August 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
