[lg policy] 2 thumbs up? Reachers predict by 2013 we'll all be tweeting

[Dennis Baron]

yup. read the whole post. i touch on some of that
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On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Felecia Briscoe wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
>
> Thanks for the info.  I am glad it isn’t your words though.  Because  
> when neuroscientist Denis G. Pelli and graphic designer Charles  
> Bigelow (he created the Lucida font) find that the internet has  
> brought us to the brink of universal literacy, and we're also fast  
> approaching universal authorship: "Nearly everyone reads. Soon,  
> nearly everyone will publish."  It seems to be ignoring those large  
> segments of the worlds population, millions, (in which women are  
> over represented) who are not reading and who do not have access to  
> computers linked to the internet.  Are these people going to  
> continue to be marginalize, excluded, and invisibilized in our  
> discourse.
>
>
> On 10/25/09 4:13 PM, "Dennis Baron" <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>> There's a new post on the Web of Language: <http://bit.ly/weblan>
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>> 2 thumbs up? Reachers predict by 2013 we'll all be tweeting
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>> Researchers are predicting that Twitter is going global: in just  
>> four years, everyone on the planet -- some 10 billion people --  
>> will be tweeting.
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>> Writing in Seed magazine, neuroscientist Denis G. Pelli and graphic  
>> designer Charles Bigelow (he created the Lucida font) find that the  
>> internet has brought us to the brink of universal literacy, and  
>> we're also fast approaching universal authorship: "Nearly everyone  
>> reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish."
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>> To illustrate this writing revolution, Pelli and Bigelow have  
>> assembled what can only be called an "authorgraph," a chart  
>> plotting the number of book authors from the middle ages to the  
>> present, and the far greater number of authors using new media --  
>> blogs, Facebook, and Twitter -- since the year 2000.
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>> read the whole post on the Web of Language <http://bit.ly/weblan> : http://bit.ly/weblan
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>> ____________________
>> Dennis Baron
>> Professor of English and Linguistics
>> Department of English
>> University of Illinois
>> 608 S. Wright St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
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>> office: 217-244-0568
>> fax: 217-333-4321
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>> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron <http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron 
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>> read the Web of Language:
>> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage <http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage 
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