Monthly Archives: April 2010

Avett Brothers: Talk on Indolence

By Ray Watkins | Published: April 30, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwH9csFid8
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Instant Literacy

By Ray Watkins | Published: April 28, 2010
I enjoyed this piece on Read Write Web ("Do Kids Read Blogs? New Study Aims to Confuse") becuase it does a great job of talking about the various ways that a survey can be designed and or manipulated to make the points that you want to make. In this case, it's BlogHer and iVillage 's apparent desire to make blogs seem younger and so, presumably, more marketable, than what was recently reported by Pew Internet. What I find most interesting, though, is the way these debates illustrate the role of consumerism on new communication technologies. In a general sense, blogs became the "thing" a few years back and as such were used to illustrate that these new technologies...
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