No Internet in Egypt

Check out this post.

This is crazy huge - not just shutting off the internet but the ridiculous situation that happening there and how people can't communicate about it.

Below is my screen capture of trying to look at the American University of Cairo's site:

drafting blog posts

" I may polish off a few half- or mostly-written posts from my drafts folder."

Wow, I've never thought of drafting posts then re-editing them before.  This is exciting, I'm going to do this too.

On writing...

Some sound advice:

"two reasons that you will write more if you write more. The first is professional and institutional. It is imperative to get your stuff out there in some form or another. You might have the most brilliant ideas in human history since Aristotle, but if no one knows who you are nothing will come your way. By contrast, once you begin to get stuff out there writing opportunities snowball. Suddenly people are asking you for pieces here and there, for contributions to their journals and conferences, and so on. Writing issues more writing."

from http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/advice-on-writing/

In Praise of Copying

This looks interesting.


In Praise of Copying, by Marcus Boon.

"The book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in."

http://inpraiseofcopying.wordpress.com/