http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/asia/13hanhan.html?pagewanted=2&ref=global-home

This is a really interesting article about a famous Chinese blogger, his blog, and censorship.  I think it's worth reading, and it goes with what we did during the first half of the semester.

 I have really been enjoying this course; I love how free and open our conversations are, and how Anne does not facilitate them in a "traditional" way. We just let our thoughts carry the conversation, and we are not constricted to as ridged a structure as I usually am in my courses. One thing that I am struggling with is writing a paper in a voice that is not as formal and directed as I have been writing. My high school was very strict about format and paper tone, so it will take me some time to get used to transitioning into a less formal writing style. 

I came into Literary Kinds with a cynical view of the internet.  I loved it and spent a lot of my time on it, but I mostly saw it as my time-waster.  I also didn't see too much benefit to blogging as I thought it was simply self-centered.  This class has really helped me to understand the full potential of information-sharing on the web, and now I also see how it can be used in the academic world.

Yesterday, The New York Times provided a great kick-off to our study of parody;
see at! once! Algebra in Wonderland.

 I think Literary Kinds has been a great class so far.  Some of the highlights have been the visitors, and I especially enjoyed Paul Grobstein's visit.  I love that we decided as a class what to study for the rest of the semester, and I think that's a method that professors should use more often-that way, students might be more excited about their work because they are the ones who chose what to study.  All in all, this has been a great class, and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.