Innovation is the turning of ideas into concrete realities. To the extent that this process is an economic one, it must also be subject political decisions and these determine which ideas are to have resources made available for their innovation. The Politics of Innovation by William Kingston

Why is there a Nobel Prize in Economics?. Next week, the Swedish Academy starts handing out Nobel Prizes, which guarantees for the recipients a wave of international publicity… [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] —— there isn't see http://www.nobel.se/economics/

You've come a long way, baby….. Classic Feminist Writings : an archive [MetaFilter]

The curriculum vs. the personal learning network. George Siemens on learning communities and learning networks: Courses work in an environment when knowledge/information is fairly static and developing slowly. The more rapidly information develops, the more quickly courses cease to serve the needs of learners. The information is outdated before the ink is dry. […] learning […]

since i was reminded last night of the good old days of the internet boom, and since it is job season. I though i'd post some of what i worked on those years: in 1998, i helped found a small company, and we never decided what we wanted to do, so we closed it shortly […]

Picasso: Nearly 7,000 Images Online. The On-Line Picasso Project offers 6,893 works for your ogling pleasure, plus an obsessively documented chronological bio. I'm stunned. (please read the user's manual, inside.) [MetaFilter] ——- nifty, all in one place

I just recovered this from my email archives.

Merton's Democratic Norms of Science 1) Universalism, 2) Communism, 3) Disinterestedness, 4) Organized Scepticism now there are norms and there are anti-norms, but when i see someone say that democracy does not require communism, i get really bothered, because democracy requires an informed and knowledgable public, and knowledge requires sharing, ie communism., there can be […]

The Practical Nomad. Long-term global travel [Recomendo] —— this looks like it would be a good book to have….

Economics of scientific research publishing. Here are some more details on Economic Analysis of Scientific Research Publishing report released today by Wellcome Trust. (The cover date is January 2003, but the report was released today.) On its web site the Trust says that “[t]he findings of this report contributed to [its] position statement in support […]