BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I am about halfway in my move to WordPress. Have run into some interesting challenges along the way, but also have discovered a couple of nifty things that help compensate for the more interesting of the interesting challenges. There’s one feature, in particular, for those of us who like to write long […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Serious questions about the integrity of Quizilla have been raised in my comments in regards to the most recent quiz, How grammatically sound are you? Jonathon Delacour put forth: Though I suspect the reason Quizilla didn’t post the correct answers is to ensure that no-one ranks below Grammar Master. Can anyone disprove […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Unmute was kind enough to point out the fact that the term “backchannel” is already a word used by linguists to designate the signals listeners give to a speaker to reaffirm that they’re still listening, and still engaged. According to unmute: What I find striking, from a language perspective, is that the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the last post I introduced the topic of accountability and freedom of expression and tied Creative Commons in with backchannels and comments, and we could even extend this association to the ethics of weblog editing. I find it ironic that some of the people who support backchannels at conferences, also support editing and deleting of […]
The recent discussions about backchannels reminds me of the discussions about comment registration and editing, which, in turn, reminds me of the old discussions we had about Creative Commons. What do all these seemingly disparate items have in common? With each, there is a tradeoff between personal freedom and accountability. I wrote about Creative Commons […]