MSNBC's Blogspotter. Here's something interesting. MSNBC's website has a column called “Blogspotting” that talks about blogs The latest article is about the importance of Google ranking, and it mentions Denise Howell (referred to as “a conference blogging star”). It also mentions this blog because of the nice article that Jerry Lawson wrote. Too bad the […]
Read MoreHear Comes Everybloom. Did you miss Paddy Dignam's wake? Ah well, there's still time to celebrate Bloomsday — if you're in Dublin, you can (among many other delights) take a stroll across the newly-opened James Joyce Bridge. Or, if you have a spare $60,000, you could even buy your very own Ulysses first edition. As […]
Read MoreGraduate School Culture. And if I waved a magic wand and fixed all those problems, that would leave… oh, most of the people I went to school with. Some of them quit partway through, feeling like failures; some are still at it; some… [Invisible Adjunct] avoid it if you can, get a job while you […]
Read MoreGames That Should Be Remade [Dungeons And Dreamers] i agree with many on this list, especially darklands. i hope to be able to play darklands soon because i am getting a dos simulator for os x shortly.
Read MoreR.I.P., Bernard Williams. Chris is cataloging obits. Guardian Times Telegraph [A blog doesn't need a clever name] Williams was a touchstone for me in my undergraduate work in ethics and philosophy, works like Ethics and the Limit of Philosophy and his work on moral luck, came to me as virtue theory alongside Alasdaire MacIntyre, and […]
Read MoreI was away at Brian and Julie's Erbe' wedding in richmond, i was in the wedding party(i'm not much for weddings otherwise). It was a nice wedding, lots of family were there. Now I'm back, and I'll post a bit more today.
Read MoreOn his last day in office as Director of the OMB, …. On his last day in office as Director of the OMB, Mitch Daniels gave up on his attempt to let federal agencies outsource their printing jobs and bypass the Government Printing Office (GPO). This is a victory for open access to government documents, […]
Read MorePissed Off. With the world a it is and education – (thanks Dave – I don't know how to link to Blogger) [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog] Why do some people express their anger so eloquently and others just resort to expletives? Who are you more likely to listen to? [A Man with a Ph.D. – […]
Read MoreColor Me Creeped Out. Researchers Can Track Our Every Media Move “Technology is hurtling along, offering a wide assortment of Orwellian options to gauge viewing and listening preferences. As with medicine, however, those advances are coming faster than we can sort out their implications and decide how much information we all want our corporate big […]
Read MoreSimilarity. At the back of the conference are some round tables at which people are sitting, laptops sprawling. They're doing what the rest of us are doing: listening but also IM'ing, checking email from time to time, looking up links. Somehow it reminds me being at a drive-in: there's a movie playing at the front, […]
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