Thanks to all of you who participated in the Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage. We have included the results of the survey (with any identifying comments redacted to ensure confidentiality) on the OSAAC website, located here: http://rhetoricalcommons.org/OSAAC/node/22. We have done some data analysis and are also providing the raw data in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format. In the near future, we will include an analysis of these findings in a joint publication.

Once again, thank you for your participation.

Ben McCorkle, Asst. Professor of English, OSU Marion, mccorkle.12[at]osu.edu

The EFF has a handy guide to blogger rights. It's a bit skewed towards political bloggers, but is still a nice primer. The site also has some good links to EFF classics like How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else).

If you're teaching a course that uses blogs or a course that explores the use of blogs, the EFF's "new" page looks to be a nice resource for students and for class/blog discussions. If admins in your department or university are worried about blogs and legal issues then send them to EFF or summarize EFF's position and remind them of the pedagogical benefits of blogging.

Today, NPR's All Things Considered ran a report on policies in the workplace regarding restrictions on employee use of the internet. As I listened to the "expert" from the ePolicy Institute (TM) (for which I don't seem to find a website more current than 2004--someone help me out here--and which has a relatively unclear relationship to the American Management Association), I thought about what it might mean if my fellow Composition instructors and I were, as many Americans laboring in the vineyards of non-academia are, limited in our access to the internet.