Category: writing / books
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One Thousand Posts
This is my one thousandth post here.1 With every post at a few hundred words, that is several textbooks’ worth of rambling. When I invented blogging circa 1995, I never thought it would go this far. Of course, blogging has also taken a step back. We now have a word for a whole category of…
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iBooks, eBooks, and Episodic Writing
Apple announced a new version of iBooks for iPad on Thursday, focusing on how it can deliver inexpensive textbooks to students. It’s being pushed as a revolution in education, but does the same update have applicability outside of the classroom? Aside from the (often gimmicky) interactive widgets and other benefits of electronic books, they offer…
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Book Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
[Very minor spoilers lie ahead] The Hunger Games tells the story of a teen girl living in a future, post-post-apocalyptic world, where an obviously-evil government keeps the people in line by throwing a handful of them into a televised fight to the death in an outdoor arena once a year. Although it doesn’t happen right…
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