tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post109540097785635289..comments2024-02-29T21:58:08.162-05:00Comments on Dialogic: Lewis Lapham: Tentacles of Rage; Naomi Klein: Baghdad Year Zero; Our Culture, Our ResistanceMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14256564770318269688noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-48586679375070157412013-01-29T15:43:40.422-05:002013-01-29T15:43:40.422-05:00the BEST place to find Naomi's essay, Baghdad ...the BEST place to find Naomi's essay, Baghdad Year Zero is on her new website at: http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2004/09/baghdad-year-zero-pillaging-iraq-pursuit-neo-con-utopiaChristian Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12899198102044516318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1097516634511842332004-10-11T13:43:00.000-04:002004-10-11T13:43:00.000-04:00source of reprints of articles: http://www.findart...source of reprints of articles: http://www.findarticles.com/<br /><br />also harpers is putting more and more on the web - sometimes only a month after publication. www.harpers.org<br /><br />sign up for weekly review email - hilarious - and the bottom of the message will show new postings from archives some really old great stuffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1095454680638155512004-09-17T16:58:00.000-04:002004-09-17T16:58:00.000-04:00Bill you are becoming my hero! Thanks again!
Har...Bill you are becoming my hero! Thanks again!<br /><br />Harry, to answer your question:<br /><br />I have a wide array of interests and I'm writing a dissertation. Usually what I do is read something for the dissertation, or something for pleasure, or something for what I am teaching--then I head online afterwards (If I like it and want to learn more) and search to see what is out there. The folks at MediaSquatters help me out with regular suggestions and I also have a small group of friends that make suggestions. I also visit everyone that visits my site--finding out more stuff that I didn't know (like Bill's Thoughts on the Eve of Apocalypse--Go Stats tells me what site the visitors come from, making it easy to see their site, and anyone who leaves their info in my comment section is assured a visit from me, as you know) Probably the biggest motivation is that I am teaching introductory writing/thinking course for first-year college students and I want to give them a sense of the broader vistas of information/knowledge and help them to become more critical, nomadic, hunter-gathering, information/knowledge producers (active, instead of just passive consumers). At the same time they are constantly providing me with ideas, questions and information. <br /><br />Like it or not--we are becoming reliant on the info-highway for news about the world--I want to provide examples of how to surf it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a bibliophile, with a serious book-fetish (aesthetics), but this technology, when used with an understanding of the possibilities for imagination, invention and creativity--its really off-the-wall. I'm a techno-phobic too, it took forever for interested parties to get me to use this stuff, but I recognize the possibilities... I interweave the older, deeper, book/magazine/newspaper with the newer, faster, broader computer technologies--lets face it I can't read my computer screen in the bathtub and I would always prefer to read a physical book, than on a screen. The opportunities though of dissemination and sharing and open-source collaboration--this is what keeps me interested in the Internet. <br /><br />So for anyone that wonders--I usually spend about two hours a day on average surfing and communicating on the computer (substitutes for what used to be passive TV watching). I don't have cable TV and I don't need it, this is why I get so happy when I find videos online.<br /><br />The archives that I started posting on Dialogioc are from my surfing of the web--I read about 75% of the stuff--obviously I didn't read the entire 9/11 Report or the countless activism websites--they are just to big and time-consuming--I'm building these for my students for easy access to get them started and to point them in new directions... I post them at mirror course sites and decided to also start putting them up at Dialogic for the casual browsers.<br /><br />Thanks for the comments--peace.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14256564770318269688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323968.post-1095402618132285742004-09-17T02:30:00.000-04:002004-09-17T02:30:00.000-04:00I ran across the Klein essay here, too.I ran across the Klein essay <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fauto_sol.tao.ca%2Fnode%2Fview%2F855%3FPHPSESSID%3Dd4777eac45683b631a811301840531c6">here</A>, too.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674594319750424605noreply@blogger.com