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Banning Picture Books: Is Dr. Seuss Doomed?

Is Dr. Seuss in danger of becoming irrelevant in our children’s reading lives?  Have we finally forsaken the craven image for the sanctified word?

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Ten Ninety-Eight

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The DOJ Forces ADA Web Accessibility

The Department of Justice is the governmental agency tasked with enforcing compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and strangely enough, the DOJ are now proposing “Web Standards” for ADA compatibility.

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Textual Semiotic and the Word as Image

I run another blog called Urban Semiotic and over there we look at issues rotting the urban core.

This WordPunk blog concerns writing about words in the wilds. 

We are textual. 

We are not the image.

Is it possible for text to be semiotic?

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Or is the word always text — even as an image?

Text is Tricksy and I am Not Kidding

Know this universal warning:  Beware of words and their meaning!  Words are tricksy.  Text is culturally malleable!

A UK associate and I exchanged email the other day.  I live in the USA.  He lives in the UK.

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