22 month ago
cameron : Experimental Poetry Class Plea - Another way to get students to sign up for your class
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22 month ago
cameron : Scholarly communication in turmoil - The competition between author archiving, institutional repositories and traditional, academic journals is heating up. Peer-reviewing has been the linchpin of the academic world; can the same science exist without it?
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25 month ago
cameron : The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) - Clifford Geertz, the influential anthropologist died a few days ago.
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cameron : Wired News: Web Journals Take On Peer Review - "The open peer review movement stems from dissatisfaction with the status quo, which gives reviewers great power and can cause long publication delays." Amen.
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27 month ago
jkottke : The 2006 crop of MacArthur "genius" fellows announced - The 2006 crop of MacArthur "genius" fellows announced. Names I recognized include George Saunders, David Macaulay, and Atul Gawande. I know I say this every year, but no web/internet folks on the list.
cameron : 2006 Macarthur fellows - Luis von Ahn (ESP game) and John Zorn among those honored
Nelson Minar : 2006 Macarthur grants - 25 recipients
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31 month ago
cameron : Fuck by Christopher Fairman - "This process of silence then enables small segments of the population to manipulate our rights under the guise of reflecting a greater community."
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40 month ago
cameron : Smart Mobs: Smart Mobs class at UC Berkeley - Howard Rheingold / Xiao Qiang on participatory media
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48 month ago
cameron : MSNBC - Dude, you can't be serious! - "The word taps into nonconformity and a new American image of leisurely success."
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48 month ago
philgyford : Tech Report: HPL-2004-216: How and Why People Use Camera Phones - If I link to it maybe I can get away without reading it?
cameron : How and Why People use cell phone cameras - 6-part taxonomy of mobile picture taking uses
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cameron : BBC NEWS | Students' steps to help clubbers - Who said that grad students never work on anything useful?
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cameron : The Scientist :: Middle-Aged Scientists are Most Potent
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Google Scholar - a new way of navigating through scholarly materials - This is pretty awesome - using keyword searches and citations to help you find academic materials from across the web. When it can, it links through to PDFs of the articles concerned. Many hours of fun to be had here...
Anne van Kesteren : Google Scholar - Cool stuff [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : google scholar - google scholar: beta, of course
cobra libre : google scholar - i've already found some lit crit articles that i wouldn't have otherwise found #
cameron : Google Scholar - citeseer destroyer
Simon Willison : Google Scholar - Search academic papers. Invaluable for degree course final year projects.
Kayode Okeyode : Google Scholar: Stand on the shoulders of giants
Philippe Janvier : Google Scholar - Mémoires de fin d'année :) "We at Google have benefited much from academic research. This is one of the ways in which we are giving back to the research community." [via] #
Linkorama : Google Scholar - Stand on the shoulders of giants
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49 month ago
Andy Baio : CiteULike - a Del.icio.us-like bookmarking tool for academic papers [via] [via]
cameron : CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers - Not sure if this will reach critical mass, but it's a great idea for rethinking authority in academics
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cameron : Online or Invisible? [Steve Lawrence; NEC Research Institute] - Online papers more than twice as likely to be cited
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50 month ago
cameron : Top Colleges, Rated by Those Who Chose Them - Chicago ranked 8 spots below where it got in USNews
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50 month ago
cameron : Rich or famous: you choose (March 2004) - business people on academics becoming business people
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