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Capitalism, the Stimulus Package, and the Intellectual Blogosphere

It was with some excitement that I noticed David Harvey decided to post his class lectures openly on his own website a few months back. I was such a fanboy I even created an aggregated Reading capital site (which has been recently overhauled) that would allow anyone who was discussing this lecture to share their [...]

Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse

World Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this [...]

Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation

Marx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is [...]

Reading Capital, Part 1

The D.I.Y. Lego Karl Marx (Image courtesy of Dunechaser)
So while I am waiting for my very own copy of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 to arrive in the mail, I figured I ‘d get to work (in the spirit of Frank Sobotka) on some ideas I have been playing around with for a while now. [...]




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