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Stephen Downes

Personal blog · downes.ca/postotherwriting

Stephen Downes writes OLDaily, a personal blog at downes.ca about writing. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Stephen Downes: news, opinion and dialogue around learning technology, new media, open access, and related issues.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-07
  2. /blackboard_patent.htm
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. dredmorbius · 2016-09-11
    http://www.downes.ca/me/index.htm

    Comment linking /me/index.htm

    on “How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)”
  2. bemmu · 2016-09-10

    Submitted How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) as a story · 490 points

    HN discussion
  3. coldshower · 2016-09-07
    "How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly" by Stephen Downes: http://www.downes.ca/post/38526

    Comment linking /post/38526

    on “Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?”
  4. ridruejo · 2017-12-25

    Submitted How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) as a story · 337 points

    HN discussion
  5. ivan_ah · 2014-05-07
    I wonder if backboard will try to sue google like they sue everyone else based on their "Internet-based education support system" patent[1]. Watching tech is like watching the nature channel---now the bigger beast (big g) goes to bite into the market while the hyenas (bb lawyers) backs off to the side of the scene. [1] http://www.google.com/patents/US6988138 , mo info: http://www.downes.ca/blackboard_patent.htm

    Comment linking /blackboard_patent.htm

    on “Google Classroom”
  6. IA21 · 2020-04-22

    Submitted How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. fido · 2011-02-01
    I think any serious competitor is going to have a hard time since Blackboard has been known to sue on their ridiculous patents... their legal history is sickening... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc . and http://www.downes.ca/blackboard_patent.htm

    Comment linking /blackboard_patent.htm

    on “Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities”
  8. wslh · 2019-10-04

    Submitted Topics in Distributed Learning Technology as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. vaylian · 2026-05-11
    Meta-relevant xkcd: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027014324/http://xkcd.com/ Background info: https://www.downes.ca/post/50539

    Comment linking /post/50539

    on “Create a 90s GeoCities style website in seconds (Python)”
  10. vkb · 2014-10-28

    Submitted Five Choices: Or, Why I Won't Give Dave Pell Twelve Dollars (2002) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. skybrian · 2010-12-30

    Submitted Things You Really Need to Learn (2006) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. downbad_ · 2026-05-17

    Submitted How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. inetsee · 2019-06-13

    Submitted Writing Collaboration with OpenAI: Context and Constraints – Stephen Downes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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