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Rebecca Blood (via dangerousmeta) directs us to an excerpt from Cornel West’s upcoming book, Democracy Matters. In it, he writes:
Democracy matters are frightening in our time precisely because the three dominant dogmas of free-market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism are snuffing out the democratic impulses that are so vital for the deepening and [...]

There’s a goldmine of abstracts over at EuroCALL 2004. Interestingly, there’s not a single presentation in the programme on the use of weblogs in language learning. Hmmm, a CALL conference without mention of weblogs? How could that be?
via Emerging Communications
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Rave wasn’t just about electronic music, but about an alternative to a top-down music industry, economy, and social environment. Rave is an effort to generate a collective experience that still respects individual autonomy. Not an easy task. - Douglass Rushkoff via Stephen’s Web
Sounds like what we’re trying to do with personal webpublishing…bottom up, decentralized, grassroots, [...]

The less you are and the less you express your life, the more you have and the greater is your alienated life. - Karl Marx
In To Have or To Be?, Fromm defines two different human modes of existence: having and being. In the having mode, life is seen as a substance and the [...]

In Erich Fromm’s classic 1941 work, Escape from Freedom, he argues that the future of democracy depends on the realization of true individualism. He writes:
The victory of freedom is possible only if democracy develops into a society in which the individual, his growth and happiness, is the aim and purpose of a culture, in [...]

I spent a much needed week of rest in Bali last month with my family - highly recommended for those looking for a SE Asian escape. Here are a handful of pics.
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An article in the Harvard Business School publication Working Knowledge (via elearningpost) reports that the “that the approaches and outcomes of cooperating groups are not just better than those of the average group member, but are better than even the group’s best problem solver functioning alone.”
While this is no surprise, I can’t help but wonder [...]

As Will just pointed out,
it is nice to see that Manila is still being developed.  Not only
can managing editors can now delete comments and trackback pings, but
comments now have their own permalink.  I am still hesitant,
though, to leave a comment on another Manila site using a radio comment
box because, as far as I know, there [...]

Andrew Johnson just published a short piece in the Internal TESL Journal entitled Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs. It’s good to see another Kansai based colleague using weblogs in the classroom. The more practioners there are who share their work via publication (both in journals and weblogs), [...]