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Twitter Books
11.02.09 | Permalink | Comments

Cover of The Twitter Book

I just got my invitation into Twitter Lists, thus Mashable’s HowTo article on How To Use Twitter Lists comes quite handy. I’m learning from it, but also from Robert Scoble’s spicy remarks and advice.
However, I’m also reading one little great book on Twitter: The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah [...]
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Seth Godin on textbooks
06.14.09 | Permalink | Comments

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Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die {from edu.blogs.com}.
Seth Godin (author of Tribes, among others…) writes an interesting argument favoring the disappearance of textbooks. Yes, textbooks, as those used in classes, he says, by lazy professors! Read this:
The solution seems simple to me. Professors should be spending their time devising pages [...]