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Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly

April 1, 2011

What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?

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Shelved with: The Reading Life|| Reading the Word|| Word in the World
Tagged With: April Fool, Bible, Civility, film, History, Holidays, Liturgy, Shakespeare
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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|| Civic Life|| Community & Time|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Voltaire, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Civility, Bookmarks, Books
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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

September 3, 2008

W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And […]

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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Election 2008, Alaska, Civility, Gender, John McCain, Politics, Race, Republicans, Richard Harwood, Sarah Palin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Women
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Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)

August 3, 2008

The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, explains why A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.

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Tagged With: Civility, Clay Shirky, Conversation, Digital Literacy, Jimmy Wales, The New York Times, Tim O'Riley, Trolls
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