Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
James Moses posted to the SHARP-L list some interesting numbers from the Primary Research Group's new report on library and museum digitization projects. The first one was probably the most surprising to me: 60% of the funds for digitization projects come from the library's budget; in the U.S., the number ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Via the The Chronicle of Higher Education -- apparently every staff member at the University of Iowa, including faculty, will now learn how not to be a jerk. Great news! Obviously it's only ignorance of social norms that would lead a professor to offer higher grades to his female students ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Last night I read Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan Watts. It's a few years old, now -- interesting to read a book about networks, including social networks, that came out in 2003, right before the Web 2.0 explosion. Watts even added a chapter just a ...
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