around the web

I'm doing a short presentation later today on using social media as a researcher. It's part of the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies' Scholarly Communications Series. This one is titled Scholarship in the Public Eye: The Faculties of Graduate Studies and Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, along with the York University Libraries, are collaboratively facilitating a series of information sessions focused on scholarly communications intended for all graduate students and faculty members. The series will address issues related to research skills and research dissemination,…
A Library for Human Capital How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses Why libraries still matter The State of Higher Ed Social Media 2011 How To Blog a Conference The secret is to bang the rocks together: Arduino is a building block for the world to come Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy Recorded lectures take on new risk as blogger 'goes after teachers' Finding Sources with The Full Wiki Welcome to the Information Supercollider Let Them Surf Confusing Excess With Access Pressure to publish papers blamed for reluctance to share digital…
Inventing the college store of the future Stepping up to the Genius Bar Why College Is Not A Bubble (Except For The University Of Phoenix) Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One's Own How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses Future of Media: Lots of Questions, But No Easy Answers Why the term "data science" is flawed but useful Library Digital Content at the Tipping Point Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education Why people don't like us (ie. universities) The cloud is currently a question, not an answer The Association between Four Citation Metrics and Peer…
I guess it's not just the physical hits to the head that leave a lasting effect on people's brains, but the long-term effects of bad video games also can cause your brains to leak out your ears. From The Onion, Neurologists Paint Grim Picture Of 'Madden' Football's Long-Term Effect On Players' Brains. SAN JOSE, CA--In an alarming report that sheds new light on the dangers of the game, the Institute for Brain Injury Research published Wednesday the results of a five-year investigation into the long-term neurological consequences of playing Madden football. "The situation is far more serious…
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too It's Time to Realize Our Location Concerns Aren't Dumb The REAL Death Of The Music Industry What is the Future of Books? Kindle Lending Library, Piracy, and More! Achievement P o r n Should Teaching Be Outsourced? No Room for Books Libraries, IT, Reference, the Future...and Learning? Is reference service dead? Not With A Bang: The First Wave of Science 2.0 Slowly Whimpers to an End The purpose of gamification: A look at gamification's applications and limitations. (Great comment stream too, with input by Kathy Sierra and others…
How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter Geeks Are the Future: A Program in Ann Arbor, MI, Argues for a Resource Shift Toward IT "A New chapter for our Unwinders Management Book - Evaluating Candidates from their Internet Profile" Legislative Alternatives to the Google Book Settlement What Are Digital Literacies? Let's Ask the Students If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself Archive Watch: British Library Purchases Poet's 40,000 E-Mails Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders Hard economic lessons for news For-Profits and Satellite Radio Byliner Launches With A…
The 4 Stages Of Understanding Twitter 5 Myths About the 'Information Age' Presidential Doppelgängers Tweet If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself Conversation is the New Attention What are Libraries For? PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature Record Number of Women Declare CS (at Harvard) The Library and the Research Essay Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame The Five Social Media "Facts of Life" Big Blog on Campus Librarians Put Increasing…
Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success 29 Statistics Reveal How The Apple's iPad Is Changing Our Lives Building Types Study: Libraries Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy The Academic Library Impact on Student Persistence Scientists & the Social Media Retooling Libraries Indeed The Agony and the Advocacy/The Advocacy and the Apathy Collaborating with Faculty Part I: A Five-Step Program Context Matters Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving Web search reading list Going…
Academia in the age of digital reproducibility Gender Gaps (in academic librarianship) Libraries' Digital Direction The Physical Law of Extremes - The Digital Law of the Middle Data on demand "Selfless Audacity" Means Creating a Sustainable Not-a-Business Model Canadians are also hostile to paywalls, survey finds Mathematics journals: what is valued and what may change: Report of the workshop held at MSRI, Berkeley, California on February 14 - 16 2011 How To Get Tenure at a Major Research University Social Web or Tempo Web? Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal The Natural End of…
Grades and what they don't mean Would I attend my own conference? Why conferences need more diversity Thoughts on library Linked Data 'An Unwanted Consequence' This Is How--And Where--Science Dies In Our Classrooms When Content is Everywhere, Marketing is Queen Facebook Testing Instant Ads Based On Status Updates, Wall Posts Future Tense Lots of "People" You Interact With Online Are...Not Real What Forty Years of Research Says About the Impact of Technology on Learning: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis and Validation Study From Students, a Misplaced Sense of Entitlement Strictly business?…
Usually my Around the Web posts are full of pink fluffy bunny ain't-the-Internet-grand kind of links. Oh, sure, I do link to the occasional train wreck but that's rare. I really prefer that strategy because I tend to be an optiministic (if slightly cautious) person by nature. But everyone loves a good train wreck from time to time. And here they are. What's the purpose of this? To balance the tendency towards Web utopianism with a pinch of human nature. I think that on the whole the web is vastly beneficial to the world but I'm also not delusional enough to think there's no downside.…
The Tim Hortons School of Probability Innovation & Longevity in Digital Publishing: Surfing the S-Curve Creating a Degree for 10K Mock Rebecca Black All You Want, She's Laughing To The Bank 7 reasons people don't use twitter, and why 'It's a conversation' is the answer to all of them Why Women Rule The Internet Why don't journalists link to primary sources? A return to "bursty work" Results: What (if anything) prevents women from accepting conference invitations? A very brief history of Scholarly HTML Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make "TechShops"? To each…
Anatomy of a Twitter Screw-up: My Own What's the best way to not get invited back to dinner? (Talk about excessive corporate influence in American democracy.) Smartphone users: Beware Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation The Physics of the Imbecile: Chopra Interviews Kaku iPads: Bane or Boon to College Teaching? Mobile Content Is Twice as Difficult n00b Science Blogging 101: Part 3 - Blogging in Grad School The NYTimes: A Remembrance (What would it take for the NYT to get your money for digital content?) Mashups Reveal World's Top Scientific Cities 'Life depends on science but the…
The Tablet Wars Are On, With Big Stakes for Publishers 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years How will undergraduates navigate a post peer-review scholarly landscape? Social Network Mapping Fun with NodeXL and Science Online 2011 Authors, Readers and Discoverability in the new age of publishing Tell us something we don't know: Gladwell on the U.S. News college rankings (non-academics as public intellectuals) The digital pioneers: New forms of scholarship are transforming areas of the humanities Do Record Stores Point the Way of the Future for Bookstores? The…
The problem with online reputation E-Book Piracy on the Rise How to Use Social Media for Marketing Another Lesson About Cognition And The Web: Lara Logan And Hate Hawking contra Philosophy The 'Triumph Of The City' May Be Greener Email is Over Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by more than a third Kobo: What Do eBook Customers Really, Really Want? Optimism in reality-based reality Does the web make experts dumb? Bring on The Live Web Social innovation: a simple model Citation tools & Future of Publishing About the preservation of databases Things I Did…
Earn a Nobel Prize in your Lunch-Break! The Best "Citizen Science" Games Reviewed! Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement On Twitter and Machiavellian Intelligence Who Needs a Netbook? Tech Tools for Scholars - The Sequel From the Archives: On Blogging Letter Re Software and Scientific Publications - Nature The urgency for change In Defense of Science Blogs (yes again) Want to succeed in online content? Get small, be open, go free Science Dogme: a manifesto for science, technology and medicine exhibitions and here for the article. Citation tools…
The Edupunks are coming ... to an Edu-Factory near you! The connected company Scholarly Reportage: Fad or Movement? The Importance Of Physical Space 2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market Taking scientific publishing to the next level A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk Dumped On by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge Is Drowning Research You Can Lead Students To Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think? Social media: A guide for researchers There Is No Such Thing As A Girl Gamer Social Media Metrics What We Talk About When We Talk About…
Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking Contemporary Student Life Discovering the scientific conversation It isn't just students: Medical researchers aren't citing previous work either The Evolution of Book Publishing; or, On the Trail to Stage Five Turning vanity publishing on its head One in Three College Students Is Coasting. This Is News? What if a book is just a URL? Big Data, Big Problems Producing Academic Leaders What Degrees Should Mean Good Old Fashioned Values Seven ways to think like the web The Web: Why Users No Longer Matter How to Make a Geek Goddess Spit with Rage
Startups in the Personal Data Ecosystem Elements of an Effective Public Education Toolkit The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL How to Promote Zotero at Your Institution and Why Disruption, Delivery and Degrees Measuring Impact Beyond Academic Fame: An Alternative Social Impact Factor Character Education for the Digital Age Encouraging Scientific Data Use Time for textbook tycoons to give students a break Publishing science in a connected world Data-security horror stories In Person: Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia The Complete History of Social Networking…
Are science blogs stuck in an echo chamber? Chamber? Chamber? What's a PhD worth at the finish line? On hiring committees 'Academically Adrift' Dlib on research data E-books and Their Containers: A Bestiary of the Evolving Book Managing your scholarly identity To Library, or Not to Library Knowledge Dissemination: blogging vs peer review The journo-programmer Publishing an open access book? 10 reasons NOT to be on Twitter Heads they win, tails we lose: Discovery tools will never deliver on their promise Pirates of Perchance Science Blogging and Tenure On Science Publishing by John Wilbanks