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David Warlick has posted a nice article about why blogs are such a radical change from traditional websites and what it means for teachers.

Web building at that time was a very technical endeavor in that we had to communicate with the technology in order to get the technology to communicate with others. Today, the technology has been refined such that it doesn’t get in the way of the human communication. You click a web button, type in your password, and then start typing what you want other people to read. Submit it, and your message is out there. It’s about information and communication, not the technology.

This is one of the things that I love about blogs. It makes the web accessible by anyone, not just geeks. If you can send an email, you can keep up a blog. If you send at least one email per day, then you have the time to update a blog at least once per day. That doesn’t mean that you’ll always have something to say, but the point is that it’s not an issue of time. Nor is there a significant learning curve to overcome. All technology should become this simple.

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