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81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters — Think Traffic

Here is the hodgepodge for the week:

• 81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters — Think Traffic

• A GarageBand for Textbooks? | Inside Higher Ed

• Curated Computing: What’s Next For Devices In A Post-iPad World – YouTube

  Possibility of using EMWeblog for curating "English" stuff for "English" people–majors, interested high schoolers, former majors, literate folk, and the all important etcetera tribe.

• Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest Craze

  Thinking outside the "English" box. Why is English so maligned and so turgid a major to some folks? English should take over the Internet if English is about using ‘text’ in its broadest sense to inform, pursuade, entertain.

  • Pinterest, with only 5.3 million active users, drives more traffic to Real Simple than Facebook.

• twiducate blog – Social Networking For Schools

  Analyze this using the Rowse checklist.

  tags: checklist

  • Back in 2009, a creative teacher from Ontario, Canada decided there need to be more free online resources for educators.

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  • One of the main benefits of twiducate is it allows teachers to create a virtual classroom,

  • the New York Times Learning blog suggests

• Less Is More: Using Social Media to Inspire Concise Writing – NYTimes.com

  English majors as ideal social network gatekeepers. Why? A great blog post possibility for Seanna or for a guest blogger (Dr. Rice?)

• Freakonomics » Today’s Link Bait

• Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times | HASTAC

  Potential guest post or response by a rhetcomp person (grad student or faculty)

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Ebooks (by @baekdal) #insights

• Anthologize

• Audiobooks.com lets you fill your ears for $25 per month | VentureBeat

• Paper Rater: Free Online Grammar Checker, Proofreader, and More

  Might get someone to do a review of this and other ‘auktomatic" paper grading tools.

  tags: writing Grammar Checker paper Grader Free Online

• New York Times releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms | Poynter.

  Interesting workflow implications for collab work

• Speakpipe Is Super-Easy Way To Receive Audio Blog Comments | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

• Mark Twain’s Notice To The Next Burglar

• Flavorwire » The 10 Most Iconic Accessories of Famous Authors

• Using Your Kindle to Proofread Your Work – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education

• MAKE | Meet the Makers, MAKE Volume 29: Doug Paradis

  Perhaps a way to do ‘intellectual autobiographies’?

• LukeW | An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains

  Lots of good blogging design principles. Might bear looking over and comparing to our own blogs and blog themes.

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