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Tweets
- @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
- Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
- This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: Scholarly Communication
What do my colleagues know?
This morning at MiT6 Kathleen Fitzpatrick presented a chapter from her upcoming book (linked here, that examines the role of peer review in new networked publishing, and argues that it may be getting in the way. While it may be getting in the way, I worry that the perception that online publishing, and particularly open [...]
Scholarly mavens and curators
Talk to people for a while about what makes for good large-scale collaboration and they will eventually mention someone who is a connector: a kind of modern saloniste. Who led you to meet someone. I can think of several cases where this occurred. Where someone has said “Alex, you are working on X1. That’s a [...]
We are awesome, trust us
I was curious what folks would make of a list of the “The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs.” KF writes about it here, and yes (phew!) I made the cut. But it seems to be the perfect mutual admiration society, and the only credence the list receives is in the quality of its in-links. [...]
Lecture notes & copyright
I have an admission to make. When I was an undergraduate, I bought a lot of notes. And I did far better in the courses in which I did. The process was easy. Show up to class the first week to get the syllabus. See if the university library or any other local libraries had [...]
Wiener on the Ph.D.
I’ve written my own advice to students seeking a Ph.D. Here is Norbert Wiener’s, from 1954 (The Human Use of Human Beings, p.133-4): Properly speaking, the artist, the writer, and the scientist should be moved by such an irresistible impulse to create that, even if they were not being paid for their work, they would [...]
Boycotting closed journals?
danah boyd has posted a short manifesto declaring her intention to no longer participate in the production of journals that publish “locked down” content. First, let me recapitulate my comments on her site. If we take a cynical view–and that is a very good idea when looking at academic publishing–journals are in the business of [...]
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