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- Subscriber-only essays
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Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
My Blog
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Update on WatchKnow Reader progress (April)
We are hip-deep in the initial building phase of the project. We’ve got a demo going (nothing suitable for public consumption yet though) and made a lot of adjustments to the plan. The
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Chapter books H. and I read
Here is our list (by request), recently updated. This includes only chapter books and a few others, excluding picture books, most science books, and little-kid storybooks, regardless how thick. I also didn’t include books
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“The Greatest Art and Music”–together
Well, it might not be the greatest, but you’ll recognize a lot of standard paintings and classical music. I’ve matched them up and these will be used as “interludes” among the slides in
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Update about the Boys – February 2011
It’s been a couple months since I updated this blog about what I’m doing with the boys, so here goes–subject by subject. The general method I’ve followed with H.’s education is unchanged: I
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Kid-friendly paintings for Reader “interludes”?
UPDATE: there are a few example “interludes” now here and here. To provide brief “breaks” in the WatchKnow Reader presentations, I’m going to display random artworks & music for a short period. I’m
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Looong interview with me by Dan Schneider in Cosmoetica
Off and on, for the last 2.5 years, I have been answering questions from poet and critic Dan Schneider, who has conducted a series of long, interesting interviews. My interview, posted a few hours ago, is
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Draft for comment: early reading survey
The almost complete lack of specific research about very early reading methods has long been bemoaned by those of us interested in the topic. For many, simply seeing other children, or our own,
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A common error of school lessons, or, why I’m homeschooling
Here is one reason why I’m homeschooling, and why I would probably never send my children to a school–even most private schools. I was looking over some instructional material recently (something I do often
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Wales declares Sanger arbiter of consensus on Wikipedia
While looking at the old Wikipedia-L archives, I came across the following deliciously ironic post from none other than Jimmy Wales: [Wikipedia-l] subpages Jimmy Wales jwales at bomis.com Mon Feb 25 23:33:51 UTC
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Jimmy Wales on advertisement
A comment in Wired UK has Jimmy Wales saying this: Sanger was absolutely adamant that Wikipedia must have ads, and it was my refusal to do so that led to Wikipedia being as
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Support the Knowledge Standards Foundation:

- An open reply to Jimmy Wales. He's wrong: Grokipedia won't necessarily be biased; and, obviously, the Trump article is badly biased. First of a series of replies to Jimmy's remarks in this Reason exposé: https://reason.com/video/2026/02/23/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]
- Made for beginners, family, friends, study group members. Most of this stuff is obvious after you use LLMs long enough. If you have more good ideas, put them in comments!