The Daily Square – Pretending To See The Future Edition
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On English
“I don’t know what they call ‘English’ now. I can understand the attractiveness of it. But I don’t hold the view that reading English is a soft option, or at least it shouldn’t be. It should be a severe option, restricted to those people who are qualified to do it. I’ve been out of touch with student life for a long time. But I don’t believe that many people nowadays get many visible benefits from studying English. It doesn’t do them any harm, of course.” The ideas interview: Frank Kermode: Britain’s foremost literary critic tells John Sutherland why the study
The Daily Square – Government Center Edition
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The Thinking Piece
Once your domain name is secured, you can breathe easy. No need to worry about someone grabbing your precious name and forcing you to spend hard-earned cash on buying it back (by the way, if you do spend said cash, do not feel bad; it happens a lot…in your next life, go with an unusual name). Your inclination will be to throw something up on the Internet and wait for the traffic to start driving through. Okay, we’ll allow you to do this: throw up a blog and then come right back here. Many hosting services allow you to do
The Daily Square – The Big Royalty Check Edition
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Back To Basics
This past weekend, we were reminded that, well, oh how to say this?, that while the Internet as we know it is an unruly teenager — no, Yahoo!, you can’t borrow the car, Google? You’re far too young to know about those things. Netscape? It’s great that you’ve decided what you want to be when you grow up, but you still have to clean your room! — and many folks out there are puzzled about this magical world. Thus we going to do some basic training. Very basic. This will be a sometimes, when the mood strikes us series.
Ending The Interview With A Bit Of Why
After taking a break to set the world record for most meetings attended in a single hour (we also came close to most meetings in a single day), we return to our interview with the brilliant mind that is Booksquare. In theory, this interview covers the who, what, when, where, why, and how of character blogging. So far, we’ve touched on how, a little bit of who, and where with a bit of what. Let’s get this party started (yes, hello, caffeine!):