Ah, techcrunch finally catches some of the Reg's attitude. The Big Deal? The AP finally catches up with the colloquial use of email, cellphone, and smartphone. One more win for the corruption of language.

Good entry point to the ongoing discussion on digital comm, education, et al. "Ultimately, putting down ways of communicating foreign to you as inherently less deep, real and worthwhile is a claim to power. It is a way to reduce the ‘other’ as less fully human and capable."

A quick commentary on decorum. Those krazy Palins.

An interesting demo of combinatory prose.

cn025Feb08.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

The OED is using the internet corpus

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summary post concerning "email makes you stupid" media reports of 2005.

use of passive