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Blogging to Learn

I must admit, I was initially a bit befuddled by the blog-o-mania that has hit society with the sudden, formidable force of a tsunami. Why, I thought, would anyone want to journal publicly? And why, I mused, would anyone want to read the online musings of random strangers? The [...]

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The Unsung Hero of Web 2.0

Threaded discussions are where it all began. Back in the early days of the Internet (when it still had a capital “I”), Usenet newsgroups sparked great excitement about talking to other people (often previously unknown) in writing without constraints of time or place. Thanks to technical advances that have made web-based authorship as [...]

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