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Ingesting 'Blood, Bones
People who work with information, folks like you and me, are constantly in danger of becoming obsessed with jobs that...
March Madness: Judge Denny Chin Rejects the Google Settement
When Google launched what Jeffrey Toobin called "Google's Moon Shot" - its audacious move to digitize the holdings of research...
ABC's and PhD's: Avatars - academic and otherwise
I wonder if you, savvy readers of this blog, would “recognize” me if we met outside of cyberspace. By this...
Phones
This piece in the New York Times -- motto: No Paywall ‘til Monday! -- and this post by Tenured Radical...
Expertise and Ethics in Academics
Today writing about ethics in academics became a necessity, after all that has been happening in Japan for the past...
The NYTimes Paywall, the Book Review, and Amazon's Future
Jeff Bezos loves the NYTimes paywall. Here is what Amazon will do: 1. Create the Amazon Book Review Section: Starting...
Drinking responsibly
I was shopping in a big box retailer recently. (I almost said "one of our local big box retailers", but...
Guest Post: Neil Verma on the First Casualty of War
My friend Neil Verma is a Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago...