LET'S BLOG!

Because blogger is lame, I can't give a title to my post. But that won't impede me from my official duties, which are dictating official duties to you guys. For this weekend I want you to start blogging using the specified tags in the blogging assignment instructions, and produce at least one post (two if you feel inspired), as well as comment and read each others' posts and comments. Get your post done by Sunday so people have time to comment.

Don't forget to TAG your post at the top with 1-2 approved tags in parentheses. This post, for example, would be tagged: (Paper, Values).

My suggested topic for at least one post is, while you are reading up on your paper topics, to link to some good, general articles you have found and discuss the VALUES of the major stakeholders--determine, that is, what outcomes or "social goods" they desire, and ask yourself: why do they want these things? This will get you started on the anti-bias, "walking a mile in someone else's shoes" part of this course, where we all try to understand where people who are different from us are coming from, so to speak. Its hard! This also means being respectful in the comments, though polite, fact-backed disagreement is encouraged.

(post edited to lessen workload!)