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In the spirit of ethical behavior and transparency, its time to reveal who the me sockpuppet known as “First 50” really is. (I wouldn’t want to be compared with the now famous sockpuppet of the Whole Foods CEO that I wrote about on BlogHer.) My name is Virginia DeBolt. I’ve written some books for teachers about using the writing process with children, and I’ve linked to them on amazon.com on the page How First 50 Words Works, which might result in a few cents of income for me if one of you buys a book using the links here. I’ve also written two books about making web sites. These books are prominently displayed on both my Home Page and my blog Web Teacher. Links to those sites are in the blogroll on this blog. Again, I have links to my books on amazon.com on both those sites. If you buy them using those links, I make a few cents. In ethical terms, I could profit as much as five or ten dollars a year from readers of this blog.
But that’s not why I’m blogging here. My books are technical. Most of my other blogging efforts are rather technical, too. I’m doing this for fun. It gives me a chance to play and forces me to be just a bit creative each time I post. I just want to have fun, to misquote Sheryl Crow. I do not intend to hoodwink you with my alternate persona “first 50.”
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