Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Monday, September 11, 2006 12:33:15 PM
Blogging creates a unique capability that I expect will one day be seen in electronic versions of text books and reference books. I am trying to exploit it.
If it is not obvious, I am trying to create building block posts that are short and easy to read, and to some degree which stand alone. I also plan to try to spread these building block posts out over weeks or months, knowing that long treatises on the same subject are both boring and unreadable, but that short blurbs hold interest. At some point, perhaps several points, I will bring these building blocks together as I did in the last post.
Forty years ago, I well remember taking science courses. At one point, I wanted to be a triple major, Chemistry, Physics, and Math, but my bad study habits and the Vietnam War got in the way. I found myself racing the draft board to get a degree, any degree, before I got drafted, which is how I ended up with a degree in business. I beat them by two weeks, by the way.
Science would have been so much easier if the courses were written as I am attempting to write my blog. Science builds on knowledge blocks. Why not create electronic texts that link back to those blocks. The technology permits it, and someone could make a fortune doing it. Just a thought.
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Oh, yes, I frequently edit, spell check, and create links for my posts after they have been published, so if you are looking at the top most post, and it has been published in the last hour (eastern time zone) it is likely to be a work in progress. Links go in last, usually.