Monday, April 9, 2007

Blog Usability, Commencement at RPI and SU's Mark Rupert

Here is a link by Jakob Nielsen about the top ten mistakes people make in creating a blog:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

Found out this weekend that Thomas Friedman will be the commencement address speaker at RPI for my son Evan's graduation. We had been hoping in the initial stages of planning the Regional Read to get him as a speaker as we were able to do with Ray Bradbury but Mr. Friedman was too expensive and also booked solid. I will take good notes and report here.

Also, on my Library 2.o Ning page received a webchatter from Marcus Elmore about Syracuse University Professor Mark Rupert's critique of Thomas Friedman's work on globalization. Here is the link to that site:
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/merupert/Anti-Friedman.htm

He also recommended the following book:
William Greider's _One World, Ready or Not_ (Simon & Shuster, 1998)

Also, for those curious, here is a link to my Nin Library 2.0 page:
http://library20.ning.com/profile/BeverlyCD

1 comment:

Mkay said...

Bev,
How wonderful that Thomas Friedman will be speaking at RPI.The timing of his visit coinciding with Mid-York's Regional Read should make for a very interesting commencement address. Congratulations on Evan's graduation and enjoy the day.