Professors bought out to speak out?
From Libya With Love | Mother Jones — How a US consulting firm used academics from Harvard, the London School of Economics, and Rutgers University to rehab Muammar Qaddafi’s image.
View ArticleReasons, goals, and teamwork
@Nick Finck says: When asked to jump, there are those who ask “how high?” & then there are those who ask “why?” Be the person who asks why. I often find, in meetings with my colleagues, that I ask...
View ArticleLessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt |...
Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt | collegewebeditor.com. — Wow. Just…wow! That they were able to find the time and resources to do this, bring together all the...
View ArticleDistributed maintenance is killing your higher ed web site
The guy with the ink defines you I’ve been at this higher ed web thing for a few years now (has it really been more than 15?), and have watched the landscape slowly change, from an awe-inducing grey...
View ArticleTrimming, streamlining…
Have you heard about what’s going on at University of Nevada at Reno? Closures: The School of Social Work and related degrees, academic programs and degrees in theater and dance, the degree major in...
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Want to do web work at MIT, on OpenCourseWare? Awesome job, awesome boss. More…
View ArticleCaptioned radio?
From my friend Carole at CPB: Audio/visual: Adding captions to NPR to reach a text-based audience I find this wildly exciting!
View ArticleWhy your home page shouldn’t be redesigned by committee
What’s the first reaction most higher edders have when they hear, “Time for a web redesign”? Of course it’s often, “OK, who should be on the committee?” Consider this as an answer. “No one.” Homepage...
View ArticleNFC or QR on your campus?
Most of us know now what QR (quick response) codes are — those mysterious square “barcodes” that geeks scan with their smartphones to do interesting stuff, like go to a web page. You can do lots of fun...
View ArticleThe best…
I think it was this article about the best mechanical pencil that sent me over the edge. The best pencil. The best. Pencil. WHAT? It’s a PENCIL. IT IS A PENCIL. I suppose this is the part where I say,...
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Reasons, goals, and teamwork
@Nick Finck says: When asked to jump, there are those who ask “how high?” & then there are those who ask “why?” Be the person who asks why. I often find, in meetings with my colleagues, that I ask...
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Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt |...
Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt | collegewebeditor.com. — Wow. Just…wow! That they were able to find the time and resources to do this, bring together all the...
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Distributed maintenance is killing your higher ed web site
The guy with the ink defines you I’ve been at this higher ed web thing for a few years now (has it really been more than 15?), and have watched the landscape slowly change, from an awe-inducing grey...
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Trimming, streamlining…
Have you heard about what’s going on at University of Nevada at Reno? Closures: The School of Social Work and related degrees, academic programs and degrees in theater and dance, the degree major in...
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Job announcement
Want to do web work at MIT, on OpenCourseWare? Awesome job, awesome boss. More…
View ArticleCaptioned radio?
From my friend Carole at CPB: Audio/visual: Adding captions to NPR to reach a text-based audience I find this wildly exciting!
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Why your home page shouldn’t be redesigned by committee
What’s the first reaction most higher edders have when they hear, “Time for a web redesign”? Of course it’s often, “OK, who should be on the committee?” Consider this as an answer. “No one.” Homepage...
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NFC or QR on your campus?
Most of us know now what QR (quick response) codes are — those mysterious square “barcodes” that geeks scan with their smartphones to do interesting stuff, like go to a web page. You can do lots of fun...
View ArticleThe best…
I think it was this article about the best mechanical pencil that sent me over the edge. The best pencil. The best. Pencil. WHAT? It’s a PENCIL. IT IS A PENCIL. I suppose this is the part where I say,...
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Libraries and Tor
Disclaimer: I’m not an expert on the Tor network, although I do know enough to be a somewhat-informed user. I believe that the technical assertions I make here are fully accurate, but I encourage...
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