The current issue of CCO is now live and offers an issue that highlights the richness and diversity of interests in Computers and Writing research today. In Theory into Practice Andrea Ascuena and Michael Mattison offer (Re)Wiring Ourselves: The Electrical and Pedagogical Evolution of a Writing Center, a look at an online writing center and its evolving pedagogy. The Rhetoric and Discourse of Instant Messaging by Christine A. Hult & Ryan Richins take a deeper look at IM using discourse analysis. The Virtual Classroom brings a piece by Matt Barton and Charlie Lowe. Databases and Collaborative Spaces for Composition is a helpful look at Content Management Systems for those trying to decide which of the many out there fits their particular needs. The Print to Screen section now has up-to-date abstracts of the print Computers and Composition articles. Our Professional Development section has two articles: Making Blogs Produce: Using Modern Academic Storehouses and Factories by Jen Almjeld and Chaos: An e-interview with Johndan Johnson-Eilola contributed by Robin Murphy. Finally, the Reviews section has an embarrassment of riches this time with Technology and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths Edited by James Inman and Beth L. Hewett and reviewed by James Schirmer; Podcasts, Vodcasts, and ProfCast, a software review by Paul Cesarini; The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil, reviewed by Adam Ellwanger; and Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency: From Manifesto to Modem by Jacqueline Rhodes, reviewed by J. A. Rice.
If after all that reading you are inspired to submit a piece to Computers and Composition Online, we are accepting submissions for the Fall 2006 issue. Send us your submission using the following focus areas:
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- Reviews Not only books, but sites, events, and other blended media.
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Must see: Matt Barton advocating MS Sharepoint
Not to be missed. Hard to believe this free software advocate is advocating Sharepoint for the classroom. Note that the different sections of the article have our author name(s) at the top to differentiate between who is advocating open source and who is supporting MS software ;-)
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Charlie | cyberdash
Microsoft is King
And what's unusual about this? Haven't I always complained that the one thing wrong with FOSS is that it isn't proprietary? All you need to do is take a peek at GNU/Linux to see the problem: It ain't Windows.
What I don't understand is why people will think FOSS will succeed when history proves it won't (see history of Soviet Union). All these guys giving it away for free need to wake up and smell the EULA. What does free get you? A free venereal disease (see 60s, US). And that kid that always shared his toys with the other kids? He ain't got no toys, cause those kids didn't give them back (or chewed off their heads). Or he chewed on the same toy and contracted rabies (he's dead now).
Without strong copyright and patent law, America would be a Third World Country with zero prospects for the future. We'd be on plantations harvesting our body organs for export to the Nazi colony on Mars, cause you don't win wars by giving trade secrets to the enemy.
Anyway, I gotta go. My DRM restricts my internet usage to 30 minutes a day. If you read this far without falling out of your command center, you might as well see this.
Check out Barton's other blogs at Armchair Arcade, Free Software Magazine, and Gameology.
Forecasting the future
Will there ever be a Vista? The radical new database file system from MS has been completedly dropped. MS Office is yet delayed again.
If you ask me, it's all probably just vaporware ;)
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Charlie | cyberdash