today Tim gave me back my draft for significant revisions, as usual, i apparently was going to do too much, which is a perpetual problem with dissertations and he wants me to focus it down a good bit. in focussing it down, i also have to provide more support for my basic positions to show the dissertation is accomplishable.

Monkey Business. Monkeys down tools . – Demand fair pay for a fair day's work.
“ Researchers taught brown capuchin monkeys to swap tokens for food. Usually they were happy to exchange this “money” for cucumber.

But if they saw another monkey getting a grape – a more-liked food – they took offence. Some refused to work, others took the food and refused to eat it. ” [MetaFilter]

COLLEGE OF THE FUTURE. Arnold Kling thinks higher ed is essentially a “holding pen” and needs to transform to survive: Education is at the center of the information age,… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY]

Technorati getinfo.

Sifry has just added a new API call to Technorati called getinfo. It lets you get information that a blogger has made available about themselves on their blog like a link to their FOAF file, LOAF file or their GeoURL. The great thing about this is if you've claimed your blog, this is a verifiable way to link your Technorati ID with your blog. LOTS of amazing things this could enable… (There will be a quiz at the end.)

[Joi Ito's Web]