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Tom Blumer on the leftist "Chokepoint Charlies" of American academia.
'In university systems, the most obvious chokepoint is tenure. If you achieve it, you have a position for life; if you don’t, your career is essentially over. Not surprisingly, leftist-dominated universities have used denial of tenure as a principal means of culling promising conservative professors, or even usually reliable liberals who utter ( Read more... ) -
Stealthy blog is super-stealthy. Like a ninja in a penguin suit.
We get funding for this.
So, with the launch of a new interdisciplinary project drawing upon the knowledge and skills of numerous academics hailing from a range of different departments across six institutions and three continents, comes the apparent need for a new blog.
We get funding for this.Research. Out there in the open. Chronicled - as ( Read more... ) -
Kirk McElhearn at MacWorld.com has made an announcement.
'For a company whose unofficial slogan is "Don't Be Evil," Google has been ignoring its so-called core value with alarming frequency as of late. And because of that, I decided to delete my Gmail account, along with all other Google services that I am able to do without. I have also deleted as much personal information as possible from my Google ( Read more... ) -
In which the issue of contextual value is barely touched upon.
For those of you who were party to the discussion of "hidden" research elsewhere (paid, validated, and/or commissioned-and-subsequently-sunk), this entry by FSP on citation numbers will either make you giggle or despair ( Read more... ) -
Presumably, some typed form of unintelligible grunts will be next.
"A US study finds younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8497427.stm blogging, techie badness, the youth of today, colonials are so amusing, linksThe gentle art of blogging. (Neither gentle, nor an art.)
http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/
(The comments are spot-on, too.)
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Bonus item: If it embeds properly...
The iPad - watch more funny videos
...phew.For a few of you, in-house and out.
Top-notch (if a tad defensive) post from FSP on the perception of academics as lacking "real world" experience ( Read more... )
