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Better blogs by writing

Some tips on writing for your blog, from the often-excellent A List Apart: * 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web * How to Write a Better Weblog * How to Be Soopa Famous * A Case for Storytelling
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MITIA Administrata

Just a couple of quick class notes: 1. Please remember to send me your AIM user name, at halavais@buff… (you know the rest), for our meeting on Wednesday night. 2. Note that I pretty much can track you if you move to a new blog. However, since we are in a transition phase, if you […]
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Histories and definitions of blogging

[ I gave a guest lecture in Devan Rosen’s CMC class earlier this week, and that got me thinking about the history, present, and future of blogging. This installment is the history part (though it doesn’t contain much history!). ] The most widely read piece of meta-blogging is Rebecca Blood’s Weblogs: a History and Perspective. […]
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MITIA Manifestos

Yes, I know I said no more assignments. Consider this, instead, to be a very strong encouragement. Many of you provided a very wishy-washy description of what you plan to be your final focus to be. I need you to be more clear, more forceful. I need you to write a manifesto: something that clearly […]
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