Brilliant. Thanks Mark. I'm part of an ICT in English Forum over here in NZ, so will promote linebuzz once i've got something concrete in place on either my school wikis or blogs. Looking forward to letting you know how it goes. Ray

Hi Reson8rs, Definitely. LineBuzz works on any web page, in any browser and on any operating system. We don't require any browser plugins or extensions and we aren't tied to blogs or blog hosting platforms. So to answer your question, LineBuzz would definitely work on a wiki. In fact you've given me an idea. We run our own LineBuzz wiki at wiki.linebuzz.com. I think I'll install LineBuzz there to make it more interactive. I'm the founder of LineBuzz, so I'm obviously not an objective source of info. But what I love about our product is that it adds context to a comment. Rather than having to re-describe which part of a blog entry or web page you're referring to, people know exactly what you're referring to when you post an inline comment. Regards, Mark Maunder.

Hey Tellio, Have used blogs successfully as a presentation space for my Junior and Senior English students. Just realised the implications of being able to comment inline on a student's piece of creative or formal writing! Thanks for the idea - it's got the potential to be a real winner in the classroom. In theory, could linebuzz be adapted for Wikis?

Hi tellio! Watch for a major release in the coming weeks. We're doing a big site redesign and adding some features that I think are going to make a lot of people happy. Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions, either here or email me at mark at linebuzz.com. Mark Maunder LineBuzz Founder & CEO

I meant to write 'find' here but 'mind' is quite better.

I love the undertow of escape inherent in this poem. This implies imprisonment as well. Yes, our teaching is what we do while they pass their lives away in jail or on the curriculum's endless circuit.

Ahhh, that steel band of habit that Wm James spoke of. Beware of what you want then.

The question is this: which task is the most important? Writing, meditating, walking, or a combo that is all or nothing.

Have I? My online life is rather marginally long.

Is it? Somebody try this out yet?

"Goods" is a pun here on the commerce of the day. I speak of common goods here--personal, actionable Truth that arises from living in the world.

This may seem to be a disturbing image, but I think such are needed to jolt me and by extension from a world that doesn't care much for ideas and thinking and the creative process.

I feel Roethke's poem is an important signifier. In this case it acknowledges how in a world of creativity almost all that is conventional is dead or dying.

Imagine adding money for this to all school budgets to pay these folks.

Will definitely use this idea in my online course.

Remember that this is 1970. How much easier this is now. Illich's vision raced far ahead of his time.

Are you checking this out Stephen Downes?

See nonfiction work, The Black Swan. The necessity of confronting what we do not know--an impossibility? Is there a connection I need to make here the impossibility of the teaching and the improbability of the black swan?

That is for damn sure!

We need to reroute the connection between teaching and learning. Perhaps it is by devaluing teaching as we know it. Perhaps if we say that teaching is impossible then we can sidestep the old way and traipse a new path not yet worn.

I feel this and reasonably think this as well quite often while I teach. So...I do as Bettelheim suggest and ask myself whether what I do is good enough. Most of the time I think it is, but...

Thanks, I will keep plugging your stuff. Useful and fun. I think my students will love it.

When in Peru...I raised guinea pigs as a kid, but if you need to eat, so it goes. Thanks for the post.

Who sez?

So why is the future forward and the past backward in relation to line of sight? Why is time forward from out eyes?

I just got linebuzz too. I am not sure 'higlight; is the correct word here, ; ).

just so long as you don't get rid of the good stuff. this is a powerful tool and I plan to use it with my composition classes at university in the fall.

Reminds me of the old commercial, "Dont mess around with Mother Nature."