tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26115554.post4196031786680691163..comments2023-10-08T07:28:47.195-03:00Comments on LEARNING WITH COMPUTERS: LWCBookmarks (weekly)Gladys Bayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10637060860005714720noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26115554.post-70278779554711132492011-08-21T22:35:32.845-03:002011-08-21T22:35:32.845-03:00The Fluent Language blog that Miss Language pointe...The Fluent Language blog that Miss Language pointed out is a clever site to see, with eleven posts in as many days (August 10-20, 2011). The deck (sentences immediately following the title of the blog, at the head of the page) is full of powerful attractors for language learners. For example, one suggests, "Fluent [L]anguage tells you which websites and which books to use to learn languages for free."<br /><br />Yet there don't seem to be links within any of the posts. In fact, those might detract from the somewhat less than apparent purpose of the blog. <br /><br />Each post begins and ends with a request to bookmark the blog in social bookmarking networks. Each page view presents three sets of choice advertisements: one just below the deck in every page view, another near the top of the sidebar, and a third between the two posts in each page view. All in all, the Fluent Language blog appears to represent a clever design for generating advertising revenue.<br /><br />Moreover, when Miss Language bookmarks posts in Diigo, what shows up in <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/Misslanguage?type=bookmark" rel="nofollow">bookmark listings</a> (11 at present, dated Aug. 19, 2011 (JST)) are the same powerful attractors from the blog deck. No post content is visible in the synopses.<br /><br />I wonder whether Miss Language has shared the same potentially revenue generating bookmarks with other Diigo groups, in particular:<br /><br />+ EFL Classroom 2.0, and<br />+ Language Learning and Technology.<br /><br />If there is more to the Fluent Language blog and its underpinning than has come to light already, I hope <a href="http://www.diigo.com/profile/misslanguage" rel="nofollow">Miss Language</a> (Diigo username), or members of those other Diigo groups, will stop by and let us know.<br /><br />Cheers, PaulPaul Beaufaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17947324521465705068noreply@blogger.com