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Wiki, Witty, Wicca
Duly noted: Wikiversity? At least they have a tutorial on Blender 3d, my technogeek readers. Michael Bérubé discusses foolish anti-Semitic diatribing on the left in the first of a promised weeklong series on the pseudo-left, with views and solidity on a level with Gitlin. (Note that this view is consistent with his being upset at […]
Frederick Mosteller, 1916-2006
ASU educational researcher and statistician Gene Glass just distributed a notice by Gale Mosteller of her father’s death yesterday. Fred Mosteller was truly one of the giants in 20th century statistics, right along with John Tukey (Mosteller’s frequent collaborator). My friend and former fellow history grad student Tim Hacsi was at Harvard several years ago […]
The Little Professor whomps on the CHE anonymous columns
Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor) whacks the anonymous dyspeptic column for 6. Best academic snark I’ve seen in a while (and I have access to high-quality academic snark).
What is fair use in blogging?
I just winced again—a blogger with plenty of witty, sharp things to say quoted 74% of an article: out of 1,047 words from the original source, 771 appeared in the blog. There were, in addition to the massive quotation, 57 words written by the blogger. Is this fair use? I ask because we seem to […]
Library of Congress takes blogs seriously
By Sherman Dorn on August 9, 2006
My friend Kathleen de la Peña McCook has received an ISSN for her Librarian blog. That’s right—the Library of Congress’s ISSN processing unit is now recognizing blogs as periodicals. So what are you waiting for? Blog and get your ISSN today!
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