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<dateCreated>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:54 GMT</dateCreated>
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<body><outline text="This is my 800th day of blogging. Take a look in the right-hand column. It's a periodical publication, and this is number eight hundred." created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:36:57 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/2008/04/27/content-outsourcing-and-the-disappearing-personal-site/&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Zeldman&lt;/a&gt; says that the personal website is vanishing (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://adactio.com/journal/1459/&quot;&gt;Jeremy Keith&lt;/a&gt;). I think that with a whole bunch of the &quot;Web 2.0&quot; guff we all play with - microformats/Semantic Web, Fire Eagle, JavaScript (or rather JavaScript done properly), OpenID and others - we can basically move a few of the things which we've been outsourcing back home, and that the personal web page will evolve into something else. This is what I'm getting at in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2008/04/27#When:12:27:53&quot;&gt;post I made the other day&lt;/a&gt;. Personal publishing has always been an experiment - and now feels like a brief lull before something big - maybe as the Web 2.0 economy slows back down again, designers and developers will be back to working on their own sites." created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:32:54 GMT"/>
<outline text="A swift review: Writing An Assignment" created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:56 GMT"><outline text="I've been looking recently at guides on essay writing - since it's something that I will both be doing a lot more of very soon, and something I will have to assess in others if everything goes to plan. My local library had &lt;em&gt;Writing an Assignment&lt;/em&gt; by Pauline Smith (&lt;a href=&quot;http://urlb.at/4vp&quot;&gt;Amazon UK&lt;/a&gt;) in the rat nest that is their non-fiction collection.&#13;" created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:56 GMT"/><outline text="It's a very good guide - the sort I would give to someone trying to figure out how to get by in academic writing. Particularly worthwhile are the exhortations to know thyself - figuring out how one learns and manages time and then using this to reflect on how to do it better. It covers style and tone, although not quite with the level of detail I would have liked. The 'case studies' were ever so slightly grating, although not intolerably so.&#13;" created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:56 GMT"/><outline text="Until schools teach this kind of basic level of competence to pupils, this book and others like it will be necessary. I guess I'm just a traditionalist fuddy-duddy in wanting schools to adequately prepare those in their care before sending them out into the world." created="Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:23:56 GMT"/></outline></body>
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