Edwards online. My first impressions of the Edwards for President Blog: it has a chance to be a real blog if it follows through on its design, which suggests some real openness without throwing away the campaign for no good reason; it invites energetic participation not just in traditional campaign activities but in writing the site; and its graphics are full of white people. [0 & P]

Bay Area Writing Project. It almost goes without saying. Click. [0 & P]

Course proposal. Here, in the form of a course proposal, is a tigher version of yesterday's post:

Less than a decade ago most web sites were static -- after visiting them once, you probably would find nothing there upon returning a month later. Writers hesitated to add new content because each change required new HTML codes and file transfers in order to be available to others in a web browser. This labor-intensive posting process has largely been discarded, however, with the advent of template and data-base driven web sites. Periodicals like the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor offer new content on attractive pages, updated several times a day, thanks to the standard formats contained in page templates and the pre-sorted documents loaded into data bases. For both writers and readers, the web now offers a huge number of dynamic sites, each one growing and changing in response to changing times. As a result, the nature of writing for the web has changed.
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