Zotero – love at first byte
This tells you something about my semester: it’s taken until this weekend for me to try out Zotero, essentially an open-source citation database system. (I do wait until others on the bleeding edge show a new tool is useful, but I try to be in the second wave of adopters of useful tools.) It’s free, […]
Technology as culture, part 1
When the Honors College asked me to teach one of their lower-division arts/humanities classes this fall, I had two thoughts: If I do run for the leadership of the faculty union chapter, it’ll be an interesting semester. (For most faculty, an Honors College class is an overload, not part of the regular load.) I’m in […]
Dabbling, and not too well
I’m trying to get a few things done today, here and there, and I think I don’t concentrate that well when my family is in the house. Evidence: “historiography literature” in an e-mail I wrote, when historiography is the history literature (when it isn’t the study of the history literature). Can I just crawl into […]
Being thankful for the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech
As FIRE‘s William Creeley notes, not only can we be grateful for Supreme Court decisions protecting speech, such as the 64-year-old West Virginia v. Barnett case on the pledge of allegiance, but we also have an interesting retrospective on the case, including the two children (now much older, of course). I need to finish editing […]
Clinton pulled towards culture
The headline for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer run of an AP story, Clinton raps teacher merit pay, is apt in one way: While I don’t think you’ll ever see Senator Clinton rapping, she is running towards her husband’s small-to-vanishing idea of focusing on culture rather than policy. She backed away from performance-pay ideas and talked about […]