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Ingesting 'Blood, Bones
People who work with information, folks like you and me, are constantly in danger of becoming obsessed with jobs that...
March Madness: Judge Denny Chin Rejects the Google Settement
When Google launched what Jeffrey Toobin called "Google's Moon Shot" - its audacious move to digitize the holdings of research...
ABC's and PhD's: Avatars - academic and otherwise
I wonder if you, savvy readers of this blog, would “recognize” me if we met outside of cyberspace. By this...
Hand-Crafted Digital Texts
With free e-books, you often get what you pay for. Scott McLemee discovers the art of making do-it-yourself editions.
Don't Phone It In
Over the past several years, I have had the opportunity to be involved with a variety of phone interviews, both...
Phones
This piece in the New York Times -- motto: No Paywall ‘til Monday! -- and this post by Tenured Radical...
Expertise and Ethics in Academics
Today writing about ethics in academics became a necessity, after all that has been happening in Japan for the past...
The NYTimes Paywall, the Book Review, and Amazon's Future
Jeff Bezos loves the NYTimes paywall. Here is what Amazon will do: 1. Create the Amazon Book Review Section: Starting...