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KenSmith

  1. It takes 25 seconds to read this good little short story about joining the circus, and three other miniatures follow. bostonliterarymagazine.com/spring12drabbl… 2:09 PM May 28th via Twitter for iPad
  2. A future that blurs journalism and the university: The newsonomics of News U. tinyurl.com/755cm2y 9:57 PM May 27th via Nieman Journalism Lab
  3. Just purchased @GRobinsonauthor's family memoir, The Reluctant Nazi. The opening pages look really good. Lost diary of the war years... 10:30 AM May 23rd via web in reply to GRobinsonauthor
  4. Expert culture and government bureaucracy vs. democratic exchange in the European financial crisis. Amartya Sen: nytimes.com/2012/05/23/opi… 6:03 AM May 23rd via Twitter for iPad
  5. Dictatorship is the pure case of the powerful happy to enjoy the silence of others. akakensmith.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/the… 4:33 PM May 21st via Twitter for iPad
  6. Miniature case study of the public speech of active citizens in the marketplace. twitter.com/#!/jayrosen_ny… socialaxis.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/how… #T190 10:19 AM May 16th via web
  7. Clues about healthy democracy from the chalkboard notes of a course on literacy, social media, and active citizenship: akakensmith.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/lit… 9:56 AM May 16th via web
  8. I want my classmates to find this tweet, so I will use a hashtag associated with our class. Here it comes. Watch out. #T190 5:53 PM May 15th via web
  9. Stand back! I'm about to assign my students to set up new Twitter accounts. 5:35 PM May 15th via web
  10. “I wonder whether some of the disciplinary sacred cows might not have been better left slaughtered in grad school.” akakensmith.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/re-… 8:35 AM May 14th via web
  11. Alienation 101 -- a voter discovers the insignificance of his ballot. akakensmith.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/ali… 7:36 AM May 14th via web
  12. If you respect your customers, communicate with them rather than marketing to them, says visionary Dave Winer. scripting.com/stories/2012/0… 3:27 PM May 12th via web
  13. "Consumers should play an important role in the review process, and field testing.. in real life settings, not just academic centers." 3/3 6:26 AM May 12th via Twitter for iPad