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What if you had blog editors?

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Blog editors? Am I serious? Yes, I am. Now put down your pitch fork and listen. Because I’m not trying to kill the democracy of the Internet, I’m trying to strengthen it.

Search your local friendly search engine for the phrase "newspaper editor". People overwhelm the results. Repeat this exercise with "blog editor". No people. […]

Creating Passionate Students

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

This piece includes excerpts from an entry in Kathy Sierra’s “Creating Passionate Users” blog. Kathy’s writing is inspired by her interest in leveraging “how the brain works … to exploit it for better learning and memory.” Kathy’s blog explores what it takes to create passionate users.

As it turns out, “what it takes” inevitably boils down to “helping users kick-ass”. (Kathy refers to the clients of a business as users. Since the business I’m focusing on is a university, I’ll be calling them students.) Students attend top-notch universities for two reasons: to (learn to) kick-ass, and to meet other people that also kick-ass.

Sometimes

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

There just aren’t any.

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Hello world!

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!