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Blogs in higher education - some ideas about their benefits and downsides
I have recently been awarded a small course development grant meant to use blogs in the teaching of European studies...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Phones
This piece in the New York Times -- motto: No Paywall ‘til Monday! -- and this post by Tenured Radical...
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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...