This article was originally published on The Editors’ Weekly , the official blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada .

This article was originally published in Active Voice , the magazine of the Editors’ Association of Canada .

This is the second in a series of articles on technology as it relates to editing.

This article was originally published in Active Voice , the magazine of the Editors’ Association of Canada .

This is the first in a series of articles on technology as it relates to editing.

Rating: 3/5 John Brockman (ed.), Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net’s Impact on Our Minds and Future (New York: Harper Perennial, 2011). Edge.org is a sort of think tank, and every year, John Brockman comes up with a question to ask “over 150 of the smartest people in the world.” This year’s question...

Rating: 3/5 Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010). Well I’ve decided to stop reading books about education for a while. I just get too frustrated and frankly, too hopeless. If Adele and I are ever in a...