Submitted by Stephen Downes (not verified) on September 13, 2007 - 15:41.
Well, this just came into my email this evening (Thursday, Septenber 13):
"Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for
Internet Interaction"
It seems to me that the use of the phrase 'Top Ten' kind of belies this:
"Remember, though, that this list was meant to be nothing more than what the headline implies: Edublogs We Love. I wouldn’t read any dark jingoism into the selections."
And I would add, in response to this:
"But I'd say that the primary reason international blogs didn't pop up was that, frankly, we can’t fairly judge blogs whose language we don’t understand"
that hundreds of millions of people outside the United States speak English, and so language is utterly no reason to fail to consider international blogs.
Well, this just came into my
Submitted by Stephen Downes (not verified) on September 13, 2007 - 15:41.
Well, this just came into my email this evening (Thursday, Septenber 13):
"Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for
Internet Interaction"
It seems to me that the use of the phrase 'Top Ten' kind of belies this:
"Remember, though, that this list was meant to be nothing more than what the headline implies: Edublogs We Love. I wouldn’t read any dark jingoism into the selections."
And I would add, in response to this:
"But I'd say that the primary reason international blogs didn't pop up was that, frankly, we can’t fairly judge blogs whose language we don’t understand"
that hundreds of millions of people outside the United States speak English, and so language is utterly no reason to fail to consider international blogs.