• Via Spinuzzi, this article on Why we remember what we write.
• A couple blog posts on Facebook and MySpace. Joseph Orosco asks if social networking sites are warping our concepts of friendship and community. Steven Krause explores the relationship of Dunbar’s number (Wikipedia) to online social networks.
• Academic freedom is (as always) in danger. Columbia invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to come and speak, and now both federal legislators and state legislators are threatening to cut Columbia’s funding. (Think Progress: here and here)
• An interview with new and out Hampshire College president Ralph Hexter.
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Hi Michael,
Why notes from the INTERBLAGS? Is this a new term I don’t know?
It’s a joke about online terminology, really. XKCD, one of my favorite webcomics, has a chart of the terms used to make fun the Internet that I stole the word from.