http://netvouz.com/fjordaan/tag/criticism?feed=rss fjordaan's bookmarks tagged "criticism" on Netvouz http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i32/32b01501.htm The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it. fjordaan Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:50:20 GMT http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-other-half-writes-in-defense-of.html Inspired in this specific instance by Maureen Dowd's brain-dead editorial in yesterday's New York Times, but also by the obvious glee with which so many people have denigrated the note-taking value of Twitter, it seemed like time to address the subject. Ever since a friend of mine once claimed – very late and after many drinks – that "Twitter is the death of humanism," I've been regularly thinking about how a simple note-taking technology could inspire such apparent dread in so many people. fjordaan Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:19:39 GMT http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,1599382,00.html fjordaan Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:46:47 GMT http://news.com.com/2102-1023-256717.html?legacy=cnet fjordaan Sun, 20 May 2001 10:26:16 GMT http://www.ibm.com/link/redirect.www.ibm.com/www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/us-cranky15/?n-us-442 fjordaan Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:31:47 GMT