Scoble again: I wonder what French people say when they swear "excuse my American" ? Je m'excuse d'être grossier ?
I still wonder how to correctly translate
Excuse my french. My granma used to say mer...credi. Now she says
merde directly. Just like journalist write
merde instead of
mXXXe in articles when they want to use it. Maybe there is no direct equivalent ?
Blogging Thoughts teases with
you write differently depending on the tool you use but not much is really said, the rest is about blog. (via
JoHo)
I was expecting more of a study of the fact that taking notes with blogger or
Tinderbox or in a
Wiki would help different ideas to germinate, the same way a story is not written the same way in EditPadLite or with an outliner or with good ol'Pen'n Paper or using 50 PostIt and a Board: the different relation to space and ideas and speed influences the
thinking process. The same way
constraints change the writing style.
I should optimally link to the person that wrote his weblog using 4 sentences that have more or less the same number of syllabs, but I can't find the url right now.
Also on JoHo,
Downplaying the Internet. The part about the IM-enhanced group homework reminded me one puzzled math teachers when he discovered that everyone could have
Derive on a simple calculator: should he change his exam, or simply ban the calculator. He opted for the ban.
