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Barbara Lindsey

M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • “I was blogging myself, almost every day, when I was in high school, and I read the M.I.T. blogs all the time,” said Jess Kim, a senior blogger. “For me they painted a picture of what life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come.”
  • M.I.T. chooses its bloggers through a contest, in which applicants submit samples of their writing. “The annual blogger selection is like the admissions office’s own running of the bulls,” said Dave McOwen, Mr. Jones’s successor in the admissions office, in his message inviting applications.
  • “You want people who can communicate and who are going to be involved in different parts of campus life,” he said. “You want them to be positive, but it’s not mandatory.”
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  • But so far, none of the blogs match the interactivity and creativity of those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are posted prominently on the admissions homepage, along with hundreds of responses from prospective applicants — all unedited.
Barbara Lindsey

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | North West Wales | Expert says txt is gr8 4 language - 0 views

  • Prof Crystal said that texting had had a bad press, and it was merely another way to use language.
  • The panic about texting and its effects on language is totally misplaced... it adds a new dimension, enriches language, gives you a new option
  • "In the past comics such as the Dandy and Beano would have had quizzes where you had to guess a sentence from letters and pictures
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  • "The only difference now is that people are using it with mobile phones."
  • "If you ask kids if they use the same style in their work they look at you as if you are mad. "This is just a story going around, a huge urban myth," he said.
  • A linguistics expert has rejected claims that texting by mobile phone is bad for language and literacy skills.
Sam Smith

SEDONA TO LAS VEGAS VIA OVERNIGHT IN GRAND CANYON - 1 views

My wife and I just got married last week and the honeymoon we both thought of was the 2 day and 1 night guided tour of the Grand Canyon on our way from Sedona to Las Vegas. This tour could only com...

Sedona Tours

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