Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated | Cory Doctorow | Technology ... - 6 views
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t was coined in 1913 by Wolfgang Riepl. It's as true now as it was then.
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Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling says: "The future composts the past." There's even a law to describe this, Riepl's Law – which says "new, further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and their usage patterns. Instead, a convergence takes place in their field, leading to a different way and field of use for these older forms."
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doctorow's take on why we need not just twitter and facebook and diigo but also older methods of socialmedia--blogging -
this is the best analysis on why we need the varied forms of social media in the classroom--and in life
