למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

What I discovered was that I was seeing the paper in a new light, because I was now reading from the perspective of a blogger. And some of what Mills has to say rings bells for academics who find themselves reflecting on the relationship between blogging and intellectual work.

set up a file, which is, I suppose, a sociologist’s way of saying: - keep a journal. Many creative writers keep journals; the sociologist’s need for systematic reflection demands it. In such a file as I am going to describe, there is joined personal experience and professional activities, studies under way and studies planned. In this file, you, as an intellectual craftsman, will try to get together what you are doing intellectually and what you are experiencing as a person. Here you will not be afraid to use your experience and relate it directly to various work in progress.

Wright shared several traits with the prototypical blogger—his eccentric range of interests, his resolution "to write down what I see and hear and feel daily," his use of journals to "let off" rants of "indignation," his utopian conviction that writing might change the world, and (not least) his practice of spending the "greater part of the day writing in his room."

His three children have commented to each other how much he would have appreciated the personal computer and, especially, the World Wide Web. Were it not for the frustrations of a command line interface and limited hard drive storage, he might have seen his own book published in his lifetime. He would often say that “Knowledge is like a web or a net: the more you add to it the more you can catch.”

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