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Marshall McLuhan opined that a new medium first uses the content of an old medium. For example, the first narrative films imitated theater; the pioneers of photography emulated painting.
Whatever. I’ve been thinking about the blogging which primarily uses the medium of written language, more specifically printed language. It also seems bloggers write in […]

Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]

When Roman Jackobsen identified one of the functions of language as the phatic function, it’s doubtful that he ever imagined that social media would create an environment where people communicate solely for the purpose of communicating.  Bereft of content, or riddled with cliches that render so-called information “redundancy” as Bateson would say, had turned Americans […]

The world wide web is getting more world wide. And if you live in the U.S., you should know about it. Domain names are now available to web subscribers in alphabets other than the standard “latin” alphabet (the one that goes from a to z). Domains are now available in arab script, and will be […]

If you are interested in learning a second (or third) language, never mind Rosetta Stone. Well, you could mind it, but I don’t see much of a point. There is an online service called Mango Languages that offers a full line of language learning interactive material. It can be free. Let me explain. […]

I had posed the question why is the GED administered to 850,000 people each year when only 2% of those who pass it finish just ONE year of college.  It should have been read in the hortatory mood, not the interrogative. Anyway, the best answer I can find is that it enables school systems to […]