Robert Reich Warns Against Graduate School. Both the AccidentalAdmin at the Financial Aid Office and King at SCSUScholars are linking to this opinion piece by Robert Reich: This spring's college graduates are entering the worst job market in 20 years. With few good jobs on the… [Invisible Adjunct]

yep, well, this has always been the case now hasn't it. the market is bad, and getting worse, I wonder how much mist Reich is going to make off this next big tax cut…

i think that if we are going to keep cutting taxes then we should start a new form of tuition, if you make more money then you pay more money, alot more money. this would at least make up for the loss of tax revenues in state schools.

PopTech Speakers' List Announced. The speaker list for this year's Poptech (October 16 – 19) is quite a roster again, including Larry Lessig, DeWayne Hendricks, Virginia Postrel and Moira Gunn.   After last year's Conference (which I blogged) I was so blown away that I immediately signed up for the 2003 meeting.  I can see that I won't be disappointed.  The theme for this year is “The Impact of Technology on People.”

 

[Ernie the
Attorney]

It's too bad that poptech occurs during the same time the immensely more fun and interesting Association of Internet Researchers conference or I might try to go to it, but then the 4s conference is then too:(

Let's Hope This One Goes Somewhere.

Special Interest Group About Library Use of eBooks

“From the announcement, 'The Open eBook Forum (www.openebook.org), the trade and standards association for the eBook industry, today announced the creation of a Library Special Interest Group (SIG). The group was formed to enable publishers, eBook resellers, DRM, software and hardware companies to communicate directly with librarians to better appreciate the opportunities and challenges of service for libraries and their patrons. The group meets on a weekly basis via conference calls and maintains communication through an email list. Participation in the group is currently open to the public and further information can be found on the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) website at: http://www.openebook.org/oebf_groups/library.htm' ” [The ResourceShelf]

Don't you think this group needs a blog??

[The Shifted Librarian]

I remember way back when, oh gee prolly 3 years ago now, when i was working on ebook materials and eventually decided that it was going no where more or less, but times change, and this might go somewhere. I'm no longer on the openebook list though:( so i haven't been paying attention.

Leaving academia. Some alternately wrenching and hopeful but always brilliant writing on leaving academia by Invisible Adjunct and the Happy Tutor (see also comments to this post—he’s just knockin’ ’em outta the park today). While Rana talks about the ludicrous jobhunting assumptions she’s run into. If you’ve been there too, drop by… [Caveat Lector]

hmm, well there is no reason necessarily to stay, but keep in mind, it isn't better outside necessarily, unless you think money makes things better. Most of the work and most workers, people that do things, are not highly prized in this society, we seem to think that only the people that make money off of other people are worth praising, and only the top say 5% of any given profession ever gets any major recognition outside of an occasional raise. In short, the huge middle class, which is growing larger every day, is quite normal, and I don't think that academia is any different. contrarily, it is the academic service class that we should be worried about, the people teaching 4 classes a semester without tenure or hope thereof… if we can stop them from doing that and encourage them to find better employment of their skills, I think it would be a great shock to the system.