Educating innovators: a blogged book

25 August 2013

Just finished reading Nina Amir's How to blog a book. All in all it seems like an interesting, sound concept.

Although one would possibly question whether somebody would feel cheated in buying a book when parts of it are online, there is something about the book as a unit that is hard to describe. I noticed this when I started consulting Hadley Wickham's book on R Advanced Programming. I have probably read some of his chapters at least four times, and yet I can barely wait for the ebook to come out. Why? Perhaps it's because it will have a final touch to it, sections will be more connected than they are now. Looking back, these are probably not reasons that would justify the buying of a book, maybe I'm just trying to rationalize the need to say thanks for putting together such a fantastic resource.

Now, whether I will be blogging a book once again? Probably not for a while, but never say never ...

by Ricardo Pietrobon

About Me

My name is Ricardo Pietrobon and I am interested in big data and situated cognition applied to immersive distance education.

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