The editorial staff of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy invite your nominations for the John Lovas Memorial Academic Weblog Award for best academic weblog, and the Kairos Best Webtext Award. Both awards are presented at the annual Computers and Writing conference.

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A colleague of mine here at West Point is doing some interesting things with BlackBoard in her composition course, and she's interested in working with people who are doing things on other CMS platforms. This year was her first CCCC, and she's excited about putting together a courseware workshop proposal for next year. Anybody else out there interested in proposing a CCCC course management system / virtual learning environment / learning platform workshop on various innovative ways to deploy Sakai, Moodle, BlackBoard, Drupal, WebCT, Angel, et cetera in the classroom?

Via Metafilter, a pretty scary-sounding story at tompaine.com: Stealing the Internet. In front of a House Subcommittee, "a coalition that included Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Disney and others. . . spoke of 'tiered' service, where consumers would be charged according to 'gold, silver and bronze' levels of bandwidth use. The days where lawmakers once spoke about eradicating the 'Digital Divide' in America has come full circle.

Via metafilter, an interesting discussion of the veracity of an electronic source, an alleged e-mail home from an apparent Special Forces Major or Lieutenant Colonel in Iraq. The discussion is politically charged, as is the letter, and makes me ask, how do we address concerns about the veracity of such electronic sources when students want to bring them into the classroom and into their written work?