Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Like many other bloggers this week, I’ve discovered that accused rapist/murderer Joseph Duncan has been maintaining a blog for more than a year. Duncan is accused of murdering the family of eight-year-old Shasta Groene, then kidnapping and raping her and her brother before killing him as well. Reading over the blog entries, it’s clear that he’s had a lot to say about being an accused sexual predator in a variety of cases. To call the entries disturbing doesn’t do it justice. It’s truly horrifying.

Thousands of people have posted comments on the site, almost all of them in extreme disgust. I just wonder who, if anyone, was reading his blog before he was arrested in the Groene case. Is there any way we could have stopped these crimes from happening? Could the use of a few key word tags like “pedophile” and “children” and “rape” used in conjunction with each other as a Technorati RSS feed perhaps have revealed a crime waiting to happen? I’m not sure if I’m advocating that law enforcement use keyword-driven RSS feeds to trowl the Internet for potential predators, but it certainly raises some interesting, and disturbing, questions… -andy

CNN is now reporting that US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is resigning. She’s been a consistent moderate over the years, and conservatives are revving up to replace her with one of their own. No matter who replaces her, this is going to be a very, very ugly summer in Washington…. -andy

Making a Play to Bring Diversity to Video Games Abigail Tucker and Rasheim Freeman, Baltimore Sun May 18, 2005 excerpt: Nonetheless, though most modern games are three-dimensional, their portrayals of race are often one-dimensional. Part of the problem, industry experts…