What Blogging Has Become - The Atlantic - 3 views
Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet - The Atlantic - 1 views
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85 cents of every new dollar in online advertising went to Google or Facebook in early 2016
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The developers who wrote Drupal and Wordpress, two important pieces of blogging software, both recently expressed anxiety over the open web’s future. Since so many of these social networks are operated by algorithms, whose machinations are proprietary knowledge, they worry that people are losing any control over what they see when they log on. The once-polyphonic blogosphere, they say, will turn into the web of mass-manufactured schlock.
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For all the talk of their radical openness, blogs had mostly been the domain of those with hosting space, programming experience, and the time to write them
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What Good Is Twitter? - The Atlantic - 2 views
'Voice' Isn't the Point of Writing - The Atlantic - 3 views
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Not that I think there's much actual merit in the "find your voice" theory, but you've just conflated being a good (that is, literary) writer with being an employed writer, and also your "voice" with grammatical minutiae. Read any essay by Benjamin and you'll find it unmistakable, no matter what the format of publication. Perhaps it's time to stop longing for the day you find your own voice. The second-worst kind of writing is committed by those struggling to find their voice (the worst kind being by those who think they have found it).
Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations - The Atlantic - 1 views
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Do millenials like to read? That is my question. My nephew doesn't.
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The original Pew study's worth a look; much more nuance, especially breaking down the Millennials into three distinct groups. And this interesting finding: "Millennials' lives are full of technology, but they are more likely than their elders to say that important information is not available on the internet."
Learning How to Practice Medicine-Virtually - The Atlantic - 0 views
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"virtual students will visit the campus on occasion for "intense immersions" to learn skills such as, say, suturing wounds. Online students would visit the campus during the first week or two of the program as well as at the end of their first year to learn clinical skills-training that for on-campus students happens over the course of the year. The online students would also visit the campus at the end of the clinical year to do testing and have the option of doing a rotation at the Yale New Haven Hospital, according to Van Rhee."
Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher - The Atlantic - 1 views
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From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students.
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The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn’t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there’s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students’ minds.
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As that symbol, Teller argued, the teacher has a duty to engage, to create romance that can transform apathy into interest, and, if a teacher does her job well, a sort of transference of enthusiasm from teacher to student takes place. The best teachers, Teller contended, find a way to teach content while keeping students interested. “If you don’t have both astonishment and content, you have either a technical exercise or you have a lecture.”
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