Posts from — February 2005

Having winter fun like snowbody’s business.:
The problem is that in my discipline students often expect the coursework to be easy, the content be ‘common sense,’ particularly in the lower level classes. I always get a lot of students who take this sort of class their senior year hoping it will be an easy filler only to realize they’ve made a serious mistake.

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i generally get the same thing “its theory, it is just common sense”. good luck with that….. students need to ‘learn’ and they need to be graded’ on that learning….

Library Journal – Revenge of the Blog People!:
Who are the Blog People?

It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

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wow….. talk about an uninformed assumption.

Promoting the global information commons: A statement by IFLA to WSIS Tunis PrepCom2, 2005:
Finally, we invite you to our pre-Summit conference in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, on 10 and 11 November 2005 at which we will show how libraries and information services around the world are realising the global information society for all.

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i wonder, i’d prolly never get funding for it…. but…. this is before ppf, which is before…. wsis… could i go to all three?

Anonymity and Privacy :

some interesting compsci type readings on the topic

Bunny suicides:

hehehehe

Crooked Timber: Time Out of Joint :
Academia is for losers. It’s like dungeons and dragons with doctoral degrees. “You know that shit’s not real, right?”

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heh…..

Our Godless Constitution:
It is hard to believe that George Bush has ever read the works of George Orwell, but he seems, somehow, to have grasped a few Orwellian precepts. The lesson the President has learned best–and certainly the one that has been the most useful to him–is the axiom that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. One of his Administration’s current favorites is the whopper about America having been founded on Christian principles. Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones. God only entered the picture as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuously absent.

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Among the appointees to the department’s 20 member “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee” is D. Reed Freeman, the “chief privacy officer” of Claria Corporation.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/02/23/gator/index.html?source=RSS

Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom :
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i’m just glad i don’t have a weblog.

Ghosts of the Lyric | MetaFilter:

the lyric made metafilter……