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Santi Tafarella: Why I Blog
The following was recently posted at the Antelope Valley College website, and I thought I’d put it up here as well: Santi Tafarella Talks About the Ultimate Freedom: Uncensored Thinking Recently AVC faculty member Santi Tafarella passed an amazing number. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, censorship, dialogue, English, freedom of speech, God, Prometheus, teachers, the first amendment, writing, Zeus
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Truth, Socratic Dialogue, Internet Threads, and Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was, from 1699-1741, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples, and I love the open way that he ended his speech, “On the Study Methods of Our Time” (1709). It represents well the spirit of Italian humanism that … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, dialogue, Giambattista Vico, humanism, openness, reason, rhetoric, socratic dialogue, speech, truth, vulnerability
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Why I blog
Here’s my list of reasons for blogging: Contingency. Blogging is a rather pure way of embracing contingency (chance). Like dropping a marble down a pachinko machine, I put a random thought out into the world and see what associations it provokes in me and anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged aphorism, blogging, contingency, existentialism, free speech, irony, Kafka, life, Socrates, solidarity, why i blog, writing
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A Sentence by Sentence Guide to Making a Blog Post
A brilliant deconstruction. See the full post here. Here’s how it starts: This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims … Continue reading
Memo to Self: Dance Your Life Without Worrying about What Others Might Think of You
And in what you love and dream, be free.
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Biologist Jerry Coyne and Philosopher Russell Blackford at the Atheist Alliance International Annual Convention in Burbank, Ca., October 3, 2009
I sometimes participate in threads at Jerry Coyne’s blog, and have dialogued in threads that Russell Blackford has also been in, so when I saw them sitting together at this weekend’s big atheist conference in Burbank, California, I introduced myself to them. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, blogging, evolution, jerry coyne, philosophy, russell blackford, science
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Can Columbia’s Famed Journalism School Adjust to the Times?
With traditional newpaper journalism imploding before its competition with the Internet, New York magazine asks whether Columbia’s journalism school is imploding with it. Money quote: Part of the problem is the perception that the situation is “a zero-sum game,” as one … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, columbia j school, columbia journalism school, internet, journalism, new media, news, newspapers, Politics, writing
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Link to Poe’s “Anastatic Printing” Essay (the One Where He Supposedly “Anticipates” Blogging and the Internet)
The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore posts Poe’s 1845 essay, “Anastatic Printing”, in full here. My observations here.
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Dreams of a “NEW REGIME”? Did Edgar Allan Poe Really Foresee Blogging, the Internet, and the Decline of Publishers—Or Is This Quote of His Taken Out of Context—or Even FAKE?
Andrew Sullivan today posted a striking quote from Edgar Allan Poe that seems to anticipate blogging and the Internet, and the decline of publishers! I don’t know who tipped him off to this. Did he locate it himself, or did someone … Continue reading
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Andrew Sullivan’s “Why I Blog” Atlantic Essay Has Just Been Published
You can read it here.