Feeding at the Tumblr Trough

CYBERSPACE, 11 March – in a world of 7 billion souls, is it reasonable, is it possible at all, to expect to have “unique” ideas? To be “creative?” When the Art History PhD’s helming MOMA or the Tate or the global culture institution of your choice “reblog” 20th centuriers like Jackson Pollock or 21st centurions like Mike Kelley, the trough they semi-communally feed at may be a different one than the trough of internet memes that peeps like Tumblr users reblog from, yet aren’t prestigious museum curators and ordinary public Tumblrers each reblogging from their own parallel troughs?

Full Post: http://vaneeesa.com/2012/03/11/feeding-at-the-tumblr-trough/

Coursekit Blog: Is Blogging The New Term Paper?

hahaha, can I get a degree for my tumblr then?

virtualee:

coursekit:

According to The New York Times, professors everywhere are getting sick of term papers. Their replacements? Class blogs and public essays.


Across the country, blog writing has become a basic requirement in everything from M.B.A. to literature courses. On its face, who could disagree…

I didn’t complain!