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This is a weird situation where I have a short idea/complaint that is too long for twitter and too short, perhaps, for this blog, but I am putting it here anyway. David Pogue reviews David Kirkpatrick’s book The Facebook Effect (which I haven’t read), in which he, Pogue, takes Kirkpatrick to task for shoddy writing . . . → Read More: All or nothing I have been struggling with the implications of the somewhat popular rebellion of Facebook users to the changes in privacy settings several weeks back, and on privacy in general. Privacy in an attention economy if fraught, as people seek publicity and community, but want to maintain privacy, a feat which has always been hard, but . . . → Read More: Privacy I am looking for a job. An academic job. A nonacademic job. Something in the middle. Everyone in academia knows the academic job market is very tight, and this is more or less off-season for a job search anyway. But still, I scour the appropriate boards and listings, looking for, ideally, a tenure-track position, or . . . → Read More: Jobs I was looking through the archives of this blog, and I found a post from four years ago entitled “Why?” in which I ask grad students, current and former, why they came to grad school and whether they still think it was worth it. A healthy discussion followed. I would like to re-ask the question . . . → Read More: Why revisited The title should probably read “How I survived my dissertation defense,” because each project is different, each committee is different, and, therefore each defense is different. Some of the advice below is from people who advised me before I defended last week, and some are from my observations once it was all over. Depending on . . . → Read More: 10 tips for surviving a dissertation defense Will the smoking ban that takes place May 1 help or hurt Michigan businesses? Hurt (59%, 58 Votes) Help (22%, 22 Votes) No effect at all (19%, 18 Votes) Total Voters: 98 Loading … Great Lakes THAT Camp was a great success. This was my first unconference, and it really suits my style. The basic premise, as Ethan Watrall said at the end, is to put a bunch of smart people in a room and see what happens. Most people proposed topics beforehand, and in the morning of the . . . → Read More: Great Lakes THAT Camp I’ve been thinking about this incident where a faculty member was suspended for remarks on her facebook page. The remarks were stupid and I won’t defend them, but this brings up the ever-present issue of the private/public divide in the workplace. Should people be punished at work for things they do on their public sites? . . . → Read More: Reputation Management Check out this provocative video by Dan Brown (not the DaVinci Code author) exhorting educators to use technology more effectively, and to basically change the structure of education, or risk losing students like him by becoming irrelevant. Towards the end, he powerfully says “I dropped out of school because my schooling was interfering with my . . . → Read More: Affordable Education and Technology Chuck Tryon has an interesting personal post about the death of Miramax. Christy Dena has an inspirational post about transitioning from the “Training Wheels” of the Ph.D. to whatever comes next. Some liveblogging about a talk by Julie Cohen about networked selves. Some of my own stuff: Have I told you I am coblogging about . . . → Read More: A few links to prove I’m not dead |
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