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What Grows when MOOCs Grow? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
MOOCs scale for bankers and industrialists, not for students — You might want to read this New York Times article about Georgia Tech's new online masters degree in computer science. The article is pre...
What You Can Get is What You Can Negotiate 10 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
Advice for negotiating academic jobs. And maybe others too. — Apropos of nothing, some advice for my academic friends who do or may have to negotiate a faculty position, either on the giving or receiv...
OAuth of Fealty 1 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Resignation beyond sorrow on the Facebook Platform and beyond — In recent weeks, Facebook has been sending emails imploring me to complete a survey about how they might improve their development platf...
Rowling and Galbraith, Strangers 29 Jul 2013 | 12:07 am
The meaning of JK Rowling's attempt at pseudonymous authorship. — I did a Twitter-series on this topic this morning, and here's the Storified version of it for posterity. [View the story "Rowling and ...
YMMV 22 Jun 2013 | 09:15 pm
Sympathy without sympathy — originally published at Medium "YMMV" (Your Mileage May Vary) is among the most mistakenly noble gestures of modern online life. It seems generous on first blush. In online...
Principles for University Presses 21 Jun 2013 | 08:46 pm
My Twitter microrant sideline during the AAUP 2013 plenary — The annual American Association of University Publishers meeting is going on this week. This morning, a plenary was held on "Three Big Idea...
One Thing Materialism Hasn't Ever Celebrated 15 Jun 2013 | 11:08 pm
Bruno Latour on the missing materials in materialism — Steven Shaviro pulled a delightful quote from Bruno Latour's recent book Enquête sur les modes d'existence. Une anthropologie des Modernes, which...
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities (Part Two) 15 Jun 2013 | 08:04 pm
A roundtable at the LA Review of Books — On June 14-15, 2013, the LA Review of Books hosted a two-part roundtable on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Participants included me, Cathy N. Davidson, A...
MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities (Part One) 14 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
A roundtable at the LA Review of Books — On June 14-15, 2013, the LA Review of Books hosted a two-part roundtable on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Participants included me, Cathy N. Davidson, A...
Announcing Object Lessons 8 Jun 2013 | 10:59 pm
An essay and book series on the hidden lives of things — Earlier this week we launched Object Lessons, an essay and book series on the hidden lives of ordinary objects, published by The Atlantic and B...
