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on pinboard for August 29th, 2014 through August 31st, 2014

What’s Next for Text? RICHARD A. LANHAM – A 2001 version of chap 3 of Economies of Attention. Illustrated. "ABSTRACT This article describes and illustrates the fundamental changes which alphabetic text undergoes when it moves from the printed page to the digital screen." – (dh essay textual_circulation )
Electronic Textbooks and University Structures – Richard A. Lanham – You didn't think either existed independently, did you? – (dh pubishing textbook )
Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture – – (pedagogy )
Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture – I would prefer something more anarcho-academic, but using the syllabus to demystify is a good start. "sing such a prescriptive approach to classroom culture, however, damages the social, cultural, and educative potential of formal schooling. To undo this harm, we must redefine the form and repurpose the syllabus as a space of cultural exchange. Only then can the artifact begin to enhance teaching-and-learning relationships within the classroom." – (pedagogy )

Electronic Textbooks and University Structures – Richard A. Lanham – You didn't think either existed independently, did you? – (DH pubishing textbook )
What’s Next for Text? RICHARD A. LANHAM – A 2001 version of chap 3 of Economies of Attention. Illustrated. "ABSTRACT This article describes and illustrates the fundamental changes which alphabetic text undergoes when it moves from the printed page to the digital screen." – (DH essay textual_circulation )
Startup Board Decks: Free Templates from VCs | NextView Venture – how one VC defines the rhet sit for entrepreneurs. it's socilizaion, not education. On, let's be frank: it's a Trojan horse, a way of trying to control the agenda. – (rhetoric erhetoric business venture_capltalism )

The Ecuadorian Library — Geek Empire — Medium – Sterling on Snowden, Assange, Wikileaks, NSA. Cleverness distracts from the point too often, but he might be opening a focus on an implication of all media converging, Kittler, media always being a misuse of military equipment. – (Kittler media_theory essay politics )
The Ideal English Major – The Chronicle Review – – One for FYW and print argument, making a fallacious argument about The Quality of Being an English Major. Sample: "The businessman prattles about excellence, leadership, partnerships, and productivity. The athlete drones on about the game plan, the coach, one play at a time, and the inestimable blessing of having teammates who make it all possible. The politician pontificates about unity, opportunity, national greatness, and what's in it for the middle class. When such people talk, they are not so much human beings as tape loops." And it doesn't get much better than that. One of those essays that takes back in its enactment most of what it says in it's argument. – (fyc fallacious argument )

Obama bets big on open ed — with one little catch – update on SCORM on OER. – (ple oer scorm mooc )
Communicate Like MLK and Change the World | Duarte Blog – video and line graph analysis of MLK speech. presentation form follows one dimension – what is / what can be – and so seems short on semiotic possibilities. – (rhetoric persuasion vosualization )
Science Proves You’re Stupid – light-handed synopisis and essay on cognition a d action. Too glib? might be. "Fiction is stuff you know you’re making up, and memoir is stuff you don’t know you’re making up." that is. – (cognition essay fyc )

Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past – A brief article on giving up social media for blogging and letter writing as one way of making the trace of an online life coherent. Places the blog as a space to collect one's thoughts. – (history en3177 socialmedia identity fragmentation )
the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum and other register measurements – Standards of measurement based on EU standards for fruit and pasta, double-decker buses, and the area of Wales. Yeah? And using feet, inches, or even millimeters are any different? – (standards parody EU )
Traction Software, Inc. | Blog1424: Intertwingled Work – What it says on the tin. A bang on bloggy essay (repurposing and demonstration for you en3177 people) on interconnectedness, findability, addressability, and differences between transactional systems and social systems. – (en2177 findability essay socialsystems transliteracy blogging )