Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Assorted Links

Don't judge a post by its comments - Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber responds to Ezra Klein about the relationship between quality blog posts and number of comments.

Brevity didn't start with Twitter. - from The Smart Set, via NYT's Ideas of the Day

Teaching kids Twitter and Wikipedia in school. - The Guardian reports on teaching primary school kids "modern media and web-based skills."
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    I'm all in favor. Though I'm not sure why they are downplaying calculator education at the same time...

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  2. UnknownMarch 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    Re: Teaching kids Twitter and Wikipedia in school...

    ... so long as they're teaching good netiquette too! http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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