Author: Nasrin Alavi
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Keywords: blogs, persian, iran
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933368055
ISBN-13: 9781933368054
In September 2001, a young Iranian journalist, Hossein Derakhshan, created one of the first weblogs in Farsi. When he also devised a simple how-to-blog guide for Iranians, it unleashed a torrent of hitherto unheard opinions. There are now 64,000 blogs in Farsi, and Nasrin Alavi has painstakingly reviewed them all, weaving the most powerful and provocative into a striking picture of the flowering of dissent in Iran. From one blogger’s blasting of the Supreme Leader as a "pimp" to another’s mourning for an identity crushed by the stifling protection of her male relatives, this collection fun
Author: Biz Stone
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: weblogs, world, peek, hyperconnected, blogs
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0312330006
ISBN-13: 9780312330002
Author: Will Richardso
Publisher: Corwin Pre
Keywords: tools, classrooms, web, powerful, wikis, podcasts, blogs
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2008-07-16
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 1412959713
ISBN-13: 9781412959711
With updated research and links, the second edition shows educators at all levels and disciplines how to use digital tools to create relevant, interactive learning experiences.
Author: Will Richardso
Publisher: Corwin Pre
Keywords: tools, classrooms, web, powerful, wikis, podcasts, blogs
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2010-03-02
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1412977479
ISBN-13: 9781412977470
For educators of all disciplines, this third edition of a bestseller provides K–12 examples of how Web tools such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, and Twitter allow students to learn more, create more, and communicate better.
Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: business, blogs, truth, schmog, blog
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-16
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 078521576X
ISBN-13: 9780785215769
Blog Schmog takes a look at the blogging phenomenon and its impact on politics, writing, marketing, public relations, publishing, journalism, and all other forms of communication. Written from a skeptic’s point of view, Robert Bly holds blogging up to close scrutiny, giving practical, easy-to-use tips that can help you master blogging and its application. This book cuts through the hype surrounding blogging, enabling you to get a true and accurate picture of blogging’s potential as well as its limitations. Inside you’ll discover how the blogosphere operates along with real-w
Author: Tom Sumner (Other Contributor)
Publisher: William James & Company
Keywords: citizen, informed, rumsfeld, blogs, untidy
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1590280474
ISBN-13: 9781590280478
An introduction to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. A short essay provides an overview of his professional life and selected blogs provide commentary on his performance.
Authors:Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs,
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: formations, digital, blogs, uses
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0820481246
ISBN-13: 9780820481241
Uses of Blogs brings together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on current and emerging uses of blogs. Blogging is rapidly developing into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts. One reason for this is that the variety of styles of blogging—news blogs and political commentary blogs, marketing blogs, corporate dark blogs, fictional blogs, educational blogs, to name just a few—make it di
