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New Use for Text Messaging

According to Professor John Sutherland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature: "'The educational opportunities text messaging offers are immense.

"'In the hands (or, more precisely, the thumbs) of a proficient user, texting cannot merely archive vast stores of material, it can boil that material down to its most manageable base elements.'"

Welcome to the Always-On World

Philip Agre's article kept me awake last night thinking about how unpleasant growing up would have been if my mother had been able to find me anywhere, anytime via a pager or cell phone.

Ars Technica Review of Mozilla 1.0

Kurt "Kurt" Mackey and Aeirould gave Mozilla 1.0 a 7 out of 10 and said there's no reason (aside from personal preference) to switch from IE 6.

Personally, I love Mozilla 'cause of the tabbed browsing.

The full review starts here:

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/mozilla.1/moz-1.html

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Comprehensive (up through March 2001) Computers and Composition Bibliography

Here's a great computers and composition resource I just found -- the C&C Comprehensive Bibliography. The bib includes citations from the following sources:

* Hawisher, Gail E.; LeBlanc, Paul; Moran, Charles; & Selfe, Cynthia L. (1996). Computers and the teaching of writing in American higher education, 1979