Archive for September, 2008
Presidential Debate 1 – Reaction
Hope all of you got to see the Presidential Debate this evening between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. I thought Obama did a much better job in the debate from the perspective of argumentation and debate principals. Here are a few thoughts: Strategic Concessions I thought Senator Obama did an excellent job pointing out agreements [...]
LD in California: Make it Hot!
Greetings LD, I just returned from the UK last night and was hit with some interesting news on my arrival, LD will not be held at our Northern California Season Opener due to a withdraw of entries. I wanted to take a moment to remind the community that in order the gain the maximum of [...]
Finding articles
Google news provides an excellent service of ‘alerts.’ These are automatic emails to any email account based on certain keywords. Right after the Cuba topic was announced I setup an alert for Cuba and everyday Google sends me a email with major articles about Cuba. It’s great for debate because you can setup tons of [...]
Supplies!
I recognize this is a rather odd topic to bring up, but we’ve never discussed it on this page. What kinds of supplies do L/D debaters need to bring to tournaments? I’ll share a couple of ideas, and then members of the community can flesh this out. For files – My debaters use a small [...]
Delicious.com Project – tag with Cuba-LD
Recently I have been enamored with the social bookmarking site Delicious. The way the site works is that you tag websites with keywords that are then saved as bookmarks in a database. To access your bookmarks you then go to the delicious web page (or various browser plugins – here is one for firefox). But [...]
SoCal-LD.net Philosophy
Hey everyone! Commenting on a previous post here Sydne observed that people were probably not sharing case ideas because we will be competing against each other this year. I certainly respect that approach and do not intend the rest of this post as an attack on Sydne or any schools who would rather not disclose [...]
