If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.