Intercepts
A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.

I’m not a technophobe, but I am a very late adopter. I’m used to feeling behind the times when it comes to Blackberrys, Facebook, texting, cell phones, Kindle and any device with a small-i in front of it.

I worried we could be reaching the stage where expecting people to fire up a computer, launch a browser and point it to your blog was getting to be unrealistic. I should at least tweet people “I’m writing a blog post!!!” while I’m writing a blog post, then tweet again with a tiny url when I’m finished.

So imagine my surprise to discover that people are launching new education blogs like it’s 2002. This is heavy.

Over at the Education Writers Association we have Ed Beat.

Education Week added Sara Mead’s Policy Notebook to its considerable stable of blogs (rivaled only by the Hechinger Report).

Andy Rotherham of Eduwonk fame launched Education Insider, which you can read for the bargain price of $4,900 a year. This answers the age-old question: Can you make a living blogging for 10 readers?

Over at Bellringers, they’re trying to bring back the Carnival of Education, but calling it Education Buzz.

Even the late Al Shanker started a blog – well, his eponymous institute did, anyway.

I anxiously await NEA’s plans to bring back OWL.org or NEA Online.

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