Authorship 2.0

The mushrooming activity generated by the Read/Write Web is truly astonishing, and its implications for education and society are breathtaking. The eagerness that vast numbers of people have demonstrated for connected authorship is inspiring. The potential some imagined years ago when the internet opened up to the general public is now being realized at [...]

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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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