Introductory level readings

P. Richardson writes in an article:

It is clear, though, from this study that learning to read and write introductory-level Economics is more dificult than disciplinary insiders would ever imagine it to be.
[from: Richardson, Paul: Reading and writing from tekxtbooks in higher education...]

The same fact aplies to Introduction to Linguistics and this textbook

Blogging disease

This might sound like blogging disease but there are some who got healed.

Brand Republic

Really good collection of adjectives which collocate with blogs can be found on Brand Republic.

Smarter Conversations -- blogging guideline

Excellent guideline to blogging can be found here:

Blogs are funny things. Say something smart, people pay attention. Say something dumb, you're ignored. We big media folk just can't seem to get our heads around that concept, for some reason. Regular blogging can help train you to better discern between smart and dumb. Makes it easier to extend this to the rest of one's business.

How to choose the door to close

Here is the mp3 excerpt from Barry Schwartz's talk at Pop!Tech conference. I Can't tell that I don't fully agree.

The full version of this talk is available at ITconversations website.

Note: The link to the mp3 file above seems not to work with IE.