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Michael Pollan’s Big Idea

September 26, 2009

What critical question has Pollan asked to cause such an uproar?

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Shelved with: Reading the Table|| Food Systems
Tagged With: Relationship, UW-Madison, Food, Michael Pollan, Carbon Cycle, Criticism, food system, In Defense of Farmers, In Defense of Food, John Vrieze
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Hello world!

July 31, 2009

E Pluribus Excerpt! Vivamus faucibus, lorem a elementum sodales, felis mi sagittis lorem, in vestibulum ipsum turpis eu elit.

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Civil Rights, Community, Democracy, History, Prejudice, Race
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Better Widgets with Science!

June 24, 2009

WordPress version 2.8 was released earlier this month, and whether the developers actually read them or not, I’m glad that they seem to have implemented my suggestions for a cognitive science-based redesign for WordPress Widgets. In WordPress 2.5 Widgets: Taking the Load Off Your Mind, I argued that what a user sees on the back […]

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: WordPress, 2.8, Book Clubs, CASTLE Book Club, Daniel T. Willingham, Digital Literacy, Psychology, Scott McLeod
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: History|| Connected Worlds|| Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Afghanistan, Soldiers, Army, Twitter, Baghdad, Vietnam, Chicago Cubs, War & Peace
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100 Days Citizen Test

April 29, 2009

On President Obama’s hundredth day: five questions for citizens.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Politics, Richard Harwood, Barack Obama, Citizenship, Dialog
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For the True Book Lover

April 1, 2009

Do you miss the smell of books? This is for you!

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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: April Fool, Book Arts, e-books, ereader, Holidays, Smell of Books
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Feedburning Learning

February 12, 2009

Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins–which is to say, they are all about learning.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Digital Literacy, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Australian Red Cross, Rob Glazebrook, Blogging, Science, Christmas, Shanta Rohse, Community of Practice, Thematic Theme Framework, Dana Hanley, WordPress, Darwin Day
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Can’t Take My Joy From Me (Michelle Shocked)

January 20, 2009

On this day, I think it is O.K. to be happy…. mog.com More about this song Share

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life

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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Shelved with: The History & Future of Books|| Literacy|| Community & Time|| Civic Life|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Bookmarks, Peter Osnos, Books, Politics, Civility, RCBLinks, Dana Hanley, Reading, Digital Literacy, Reading on the Rise, digitalculture, SpinStoppers, e-books, Voltaire
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A Heritage and Future of Reading

January 12, 2009

When the books we have are no longer the books we knew, who will teach us to read?

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Shelved with: Literacy|| Hearts & Minds|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Bob Stein, Mark Bauerline, Charles Williams, Online Literacy, Connie Willis, Piers Anthony, Digital Literacy, Reading, Family, Robert Gu, Future, Susan Cooper, Institute for the Future of the Book, Virginia Woolf, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jakob Nielsen, John Crowley, Annie Dillard, Liberal Arts
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On Making the Future

January 1, 2009

To the extent that the future is shaped by human action, it is not much use trying to predict it ? it is much more useful to understand and work with the people who are engaged in the decisions and actions that bring it into existence.

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Shelved with: Mind & Society|| The Reading Life|| Margin Notes

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WordPress 2.8 – Better Widgets?

December 30, 2008

Widget management is item #1 on the list of priorities for WordPress 2.8 development. I explored the cognitive psychology behind the widget management screen design in an earlier post, WordPress 2.5 Widgets?Taking the Load Off Your Mind. Here are the takeaway design suggestions.

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| Margin Notes
Tagged With: 2.5, 2.8, Analogy, Digital Literacy, Psychology, Usability, Widgets, WordPress
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