Stephen Fry on Linguistic Pedantry
In the words of Mr Stephen Fry: There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love...
Category: Writing
Good and Bad eLearning
It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the &l...
A Paean to Linearity
Carmen-Maria Hetrea, Director of the Information Architecture and Management team at Encyclopaedia Britannica, has penned an odd little piece for the Britannica...
Writers Teaching Writing
Euan Semple has a knack for short posts that force me to confront some assumptions. A recent one is a case in point, entitled Mass Illiteracy: Are those who esp...
From Electric Typewriter to the World Wide Web
In view of the possibility for developments of this machine, therefore, there would seem to be no reason why a man sitting at his Zerograph in London, may not, ...