Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Pleasant
Hi all, I agree with Andy (again). From a brief perusal it looks as if they are trying to use literacy to promote their own commercial interests, which is actually quite disenheartening. Wouldn't it be something if Google actually asked people working in literacy (they could start with the DDN ..

Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
Andy Carvin wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ I think this spartan simplicity is brilliant, Andy: this is just the Google

Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread karl brown
Andy Carvin wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ As far as I can tell, the only new piece of information on this literacy

Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-05 Thread Claude Almansi (BW)
judith green wrote: I second Andy Carvin's Hmmm and comments. This site does not represent state of the art work on literacy. It would be good to link that site with Google Scholar to support the intellectual basis for current research on literacy and to professional sites of the

Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site

2006-10-04 Thread Andy Carvin
Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi DDN community - google has launched a literacy web site. i haven't looked into it yet, but it looks like it might have value.