rochelle once wrote about a pink vespa, i believe she should have written about a purple vespa with yellow polka dots. Rochelle actually has a picture of a Pink Vespa, go there to see it.

Penzeys Spices. Global spice source [Cool Tools] —- i've always liked penzey's

Promotion and Tenure. To answer George's call for blog entries explaining how an English department works, I'll start by pointing to Jimbo's entry, “The Tenure File.” I'm not yet in a tenure-track position, but from my understanding, Jimbo's suggestions illustrate the factors that… [the chutry experiment] —– some people are interested in this sort of […]

Who “manages” the Internet?. These slides present a general overview of the current organizational structure and decision making related to the international Internet infrastructure. The author also indicates that Internet stability should become top concern internationally and identifies key areas where global coordination is… [InternetPolicy.net] —– answer…. no one manages it. many people have some […]

Piedmont Blog Conference Aug. 28 – Greensboro, NC. Piedmont Blog Conference Saturday, August 28. Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro. Free. If you blog, are interested in blogs, work as a journalist or in politics, or just like hanging out in cool places with interesting people, please come. [EdCone.com] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] —– this might be […]

Disruptive technologies in scholarly communication. Susan Lafferty and Jenny Edwards, Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? Library Management, 26, 6 (2004) pp. 252-58. Only this abstract is free online: “Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of […]

Starbucker. I found this story of globalisation and soft power at charlotte street, via bertramonline. As bertram says, you can’t make this kind of thing up. I had a look at related issues in this piece [Crooked Timber] —- nice bit of glomm and link here, well worth thinking about the multitudes and manifolds of […]

Call for OA at a major humanities organization. The Vice President of the American Philological Association (APA), Barbara McManus, has called on the organization to consider open access: “I was somewhat troubled by one element in several of the candidates' statements, reflecting the opinion that electronic editions of research tools have made access 'democratic' or […]