Too many topics, too little time

Googlesluts. Jan Haugland nominates David Harris for Googleslut of the century for temporarily renaming his blog Harry Potter 5 Summaries and News. Over 3000 hits this morning and counting…. [Radio Free Blogistan] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] I think this is great fun, hilarious almost.

Writing RSS 1-2-3. Faster than a speeding bullet, Alan turned out a proper trial RSS feed for the 'low threshold application' page from the TLTR group by the next morning. And in his inimitable style, offers another lesson in how to solve problems *and* educate at the same time. – SWL – from [cogdogblog] [EdTechPost] interesting stuff, this is […]

Expanding Access to Learning: The Role of Virtual Universities. Hot off the presses, a new monograph from the PEW Symposia in Learning and Technology. The monograph “assesses the current state of statewide virtual university initiatives, discusses five critical success factors derived from that assessment, and offers an alternative strategy to the predominant collaborative model that […]

marble columns. Over 2000 wealthy tax payers paid no tax in 2000. Meanwhile, states are plunging into budget deficits. Perhaps the tax cuts are meant not to spur the economy, but to defund social programs? [MetaFilter] ya think? nah, can't be{sarcasm} social programs don't work if they don't have money. motivation falls if people are […]

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What is a Labor Market?. My post on Marc Bousquet's* job market argument (ie, there is no academic job market) generated some interesting comments on what constitutes a labor market. While Chun the Unavoidable is “sympathetic to Bousquet's argument,” he does “not see the evidence”… [Invisible Adjunct] well, hmm, i did not expect to get […]

Oddmusic. Oddmusic is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments, according to the site. The gallery is full of strange instruments – some are beautiful, some are whimsical, and some are just silly. Many have samples to listen to, including the noisy-but-impressive Lego Harpsichord. [MetaFilter] where does he find such […]

Groove U. “Groove introduces Groove U, a software and service license program designed to meet the unique needs of higher education institutions. Groove U enables professors and administrators to harness the power of Groove Workspace on a course-by-course basis.“ Groove is definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it before. What I like about […]

Enough with humans. Let the flowers talk.. Katinka Matson's scanned flower art : technology lets the flowers speak. “…imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints. That is what a scanner gives you…. In her flowers one can see every microscopic […]

Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Schol …. Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group meeting at the ALA annual meeting (Toronto, June 23) is now online. [FOS News] Gerry and i talked a bit last year inregard to digital archives, he does interesting work.