Take McLeod's survey anyway

Compare this:

Hear ye! Hear ye!

All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to...

• complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey;
• forward the URL of said survey to all other known education bloggers to ensure decent representation of the education blogosphere;
• and publicize said survey URL on their own blogs to foster greater participation in this most noble endeavor.
  

Survey results received by Sunday, January 14, shall be posted in the town square on Wednesday, January 17.

Those solicited who choose not to participate shalt be labeled both publicly and widely as dastardly scoundrels, notty-pated hedgepigs, or beslubbering, doghearted, maggot-ridden canker-blossoms! (Dangerously Irrelevant, Jan 5, 2007)

To this:

The second annual Education Blogosphere Survey is now open for business! 4 screens. 25 questions. ... Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for questions and a HUGE THANKS in advance to anyone and everyone who helps publicize this! Deadline = January 26, 11:00pm, (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) (Dangerously Irrelevant, Jan 16, 2008)

Dr. McLeod has been away from Minnesota for only a short few months, and we can visibly see a rapid decline in his creativity, humor and persuasive abilities. And the young man held such potential!

I'm giving Scott a pass this year. Moving to Iowa can be quite an adjustment. I took his survey again and urge you, my discriminating readers, to do so as well.

But if McLeod doesn't juice up his call for survey participation next year, I'm not sure if I'll be able to participate.

Despite the risk of being labled a maggot-ridden canker-blossom.

And a junior high maturity level too

Update 8/3/2017 -  the original link to the readability site is no longer functioning (site defunct). Please try Art of the Blog's Ultimate Guide to Blog Readability instead.

Check your blog's reading level.

Thanks to Stephen's Lighthouse for this link. 

Bloggers anoymous

The graphic at the left is the result of an interesting short quiz that probably has the validity of those in Readers Digest, but is fun nonetheless. Thanks, to Jeff Utecht at the Thinking Stick for the link to this site.

Having been away on vacation and out of my routine, I found myself staring at hundreds of potentially interesting and useful blog postings. I "cleaned'm up" in about an hour by skimming, scanning, and starring some for later study (yeah, right).

I started asking myself if I'm not reading more and enjoying it less. Should I read fewer blogs and if so, which ones?

Here is the short list of the blogs to which I've recently starred entries:

1. Stephen's Lighthouse
2. Web-logged
3. MA Bell's Blog about Libraries
4. From the Trenches of Public Education
5. The Thinking Stick
6. Infomancy
7. ijohnpederson
8. Around the Corner
9. 2 Cents Worth
10. NeverEndingSearch
11. California Dreamin'
12. Half an Hour
13. Dangerously Irrelevant
14. MSNBC.com: Practical Futurist
15. Assorted Stuff

That's it. That's what I'm keeping.  From 89 feeds to 15 (and a few fun ones.) I am sure the list will build again.

Here's to being out of the loop and rather relieved.