It’s Not as Big as It Seems.
With a moniker like “The World Wide Web”, you can’t help but get the impression that the Internet is huge. And, it is. So large in fact that like the World, you could never see it all. Yet for all its enormity, there is a chance that in an instant, it will contract for a moment and you’ll come across someone, something or some idea which is as familiar to you as your next-door neighbor. Here’s what I mean:
I’m the editor of a blog carnival for English Language Teaching. While cruising the web looking for ESL/EFL blog posts for my carnival, I came across a list of blogs over at About.com. One of the blogs on the list is written by a Teacher in Development.I read his post about keeping an online teaching portfolio in the blog format (a practice of mine) which had a link to a blog by James Matthew. Since I found the referred post so interesting and relevant to what I’m doing at work, I took a look at his About page. On this page, James has written that he was recently given a book called, Everyday Apocalypse by David Dark. I went to college with David Dark and considered him more than just an acquaintance. Oddly enough, when we “met” in college, we realized that we had in fact met several years earlier when we were both in high school working a telethon at the local public broadcasting station trying to keep Dr. Who on the air.
How many degrees is that?
PS-While looking up the link for D’s book, I came to find out that he’s got another one published. So now I know someone who has had two books published.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Very cool stuff, man!
Thanks for the heads on the new book! Sounds great…I will be picking it up asap
by the way - to add to your ’small www’ theory: the author of “Teacher in Development” is my brother!
cheers,
jm
Comment by James Matthew — January 19, 2006 @ 7:05 pm