Posts from — April 2007

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Hulk Respect Process!:
The Hulk would be good.

FACULTY: This is intolerable! This is an affront to academic freedom! This is tyranny!

HULK: Puny human! Hulk fair! Hulk respect process! RAAR! [Hulk crumples a nearby Toyota into a wad]

FACULTY: Eep!

HULK: Hulk college budget being cut? RAAR! Where capital? RAAR! HULK LOBBY! HULK LOBBY!

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some great responses:_

U Michigan Unveils Master’s Degree in ‘Social Computing’:
The University of Michigan’s School of Information (SI) announced a graduate-degree specialization in “social computing” through a Master of Science in Information. The university said the program is the first in the country to focus on social computing, the term describing the wave of open technologies that enable masses of people to interact and exchange and sort information.

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Wow this is an interesting event. I wonder where it will lead.

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history:
The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

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The sloan foundation has funded this development. It uses scribe, which is a bookscanning system.

Online Degrees vs. Brick-and-Morter. The $100K Interview | SummitLearners – Education Online:
I hit the proverbial “glass ceiling” about 2 months ago. After working at my company for the last 3 years and steadily moving up from programming lacky to project manager, I had finally hit the point at which my bachelors degree just was not going to justify the pay raise. I suppose this happens to a lot of people, but I really had no idea what to do

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so he sends out 51 resumes with varying degrees and finds no significant differences based in hiring practice for online vs offline degrees.

LiveLeak.com – Jesus Camp and George Bush:
Jesus Camp and George Bush

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Crap that’s scary…..

iCommons » Blog Archive » Ex Libris – 10 Great Open Book Sites:
This month, 10 of the Best goes into hibernation – autumn is well under way here in Johannesburg, so we’re cocooning, with a good book and a cup of tea.
Open books are about more than just finding some free literature and escaping library fees. They represent the enormous potential of the internet and open licensing to make knowledge, great words and beautiful stories available to everyone.

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I’ve been working with project gutenberg for years through CDDC. the other ones are good too, as is sense publishing in the netherlands, which gives away electronic copies of its books.

Second Life Herald:
When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something happened that completely changed my view of the virtual world. I was walking around a Welcome Area with a helmet head of hair and a blank newbie face stumbling into other blank newbies all wearing the same Linden issued clothes when through the crowd, I saw a beautiful female avatar like I had never seen before.

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this is the funniest sl article i’ve read in a while.

Second Life Herald:
When I first came to Second Life, the idea of a virtual relationship never even occurred to me. SL was a strange landscape of bizarre places to explore where I could be anything or anyone I wanted. But then after a week something happened that completely changed my view of the virtual world. I was walking around a Welcome Area with a helmet head of hair and a blank newbie face stumbling into other blank newbies all wearing the same Linden issued clothes when through the crowd, I saw a beautiful female avatar like I had never seen before.

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this is the funniest sl article i’ve read in a while.

BookMooch:
BookMooch is a community for exchanging used books. It lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want

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bookmooch has a space in secondlife too…

AlterNet: America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters:
America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters

By Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com. Posted April 2, 2007.

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the state… of the nation