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New York Times describes the fall of the blog
The death of the blog was announced today by the paper of record: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. I’d say more, but I’m approaching my character lim
Groundhogcalypse
I am writing this Far Too Late in the Evening, but I've set it to appear on Groundhog's Day morning. At this point, it's clear that a good part of the Midwest and Northeast is either in the midst of or facing serious prospects of being slammed by a gobsmacker storm, so I strongly suspect […]
Monday meetings and social debt
A few years ago, someone who was in a position to know said that the only day of the week to start a meeting with school leaders (especially superintendents) was Monday, before fires popped up that had to be put out. Some weeks I think the only day of the week to get work done […]
Uncouth and consequences
So USF and former football head coach Jim Leavitt settled the pending lawsuit over Leavitt's firing for $2.75 million. My flippant email to fellow union activists: "DO NOT HIT STUDENTS IN HOPES OF GETTING $2.75 MILLION!!!! … the coaching staff is different from you and me."* The St. Petersburg Times says that the payoff was a terrible […]
Humanities are behind the sciences in the promise and danger of post-publication review
So there's a small scandal because the University of Chicago Press has dished on open-access in the latest Chicago Manual of Style. Let me state clearly that the editors of the Chicago Manual of Style have it dead wrong in taking a position about open-access within a style guide. This is as smart and productive as […]