My wife and I were at brunch not too long ago with a couple of friends, one of whom is a teacher. She was telling us how her students are learning to type as early as Kindgergarden. It makes sense – my father still types with one finger. I learned to type in seventh grade. Why shouldn’t they learn to type? It’s a hell of a lot more useful than learning cursive. Why the hell do we still teach our kids to write in cursive? It’s useless.
Which got me thinking… do you think blogging will become a part of the junior high or high school curriculum? What University will be the first to shut down its newspaper in favor of an official blogging network? Will English teachers now start developing lesson plans around good blogging etiquette? Will it replace a week or two of poetry?
I ask because I would love someone to teach me how to blog well. Where do I put the links? How do I cleverly insert images to further the story? If you’re one of the 4 people reading my blog (thanks Jesse), you’ll see what I mean. It’s painful. I need some blogging lessons.
Maybe I can hire a blogging tutor.
There’s a business idea in here somewhere. Not to become a blogging tutor, but replacing the existing school newspapers by powering sanctioned high school and university blog networks with a rev share against ads served. I’m sure it exists. I’m just reading the wrong blogs.
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