Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

As readers know, I am quite interested in Wordles and how they challenge out understanding of texts. I thought it would be interesting to create a Wordle of the tweets posted with the #0n911 hashtag. To gather the tweets, I tried to use Yahoo Pipes so I could filter out common operation words that Twitter [...]

Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by friends [...]

Ryancordell asked me to say a few words about teaching tagging to my students and I am very happy to do so. I have been trying to figure out how to teach tagging to my graduate and undergraduate students since I began using Diigo several years ago. Actually, after I finished presenting a paper at the [...]

During Obama’s address I remarked that in just a few minutes he had subtlely but substantially rewritten, recomposed what America was for the citizens of America and the world. The Wordle of his address bears that out: