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[Old draft of a post that I never finished writing... Started it in late February.] Been thinking about intellectuals, especially French ones. It might have been a long-standing issue for me. To this...
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Speaking of Web technologies getting together to create tomorrow’s Web. It’s all about puzzles. It’s really not that hard to visualize the completed picture of a Web 2.1 puzzle merging most of the...
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A friend posted a link to the following list of factoids on his Facebook profile: Useless facts, Weird Information, humor. It contains such intriguing statements about biology, language, inventions,...
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Compare the following two articles on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Britannica Online Encyclopedia Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At the onset of the first...
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Been attending sessions by Meri Aaron Walker about online methods to get paid for our expertise. Meri coaches teachers about those issues. MAWSTOOLBOX.COM There’s also a LearnHub “course”: Jumpstart...
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