Information Science
The Aviator: Science Fiction of the Post Global Warming World
Posted by Greg Laden on October 17, 2012 The Aviator is a new book that gives you a world of post-global warming climate and interesting developments in transportation technology and artificial intelligence. It is written by New Zealand based writer Gareth Renowden. The Aviator explores a post-apocalypse world where the apocalypse is not nuclear war or a large object hitting the earth, or…
Around the Web: A victory for Fair Use, Defining critical thinking and more
Posted by John Dupuis on October 17, 2012 Fair use: a pseudo-post What Exactly Is Critical Thinking? The NPR Model for Higher Ed Why It’s Time for a Canadian Digitization Strategy Based on Fair Dealing Is Open Access Destroying Academic Publishers? Survey reveals hidden high stress levels and long-hours culture at universities The Time Has Come to Expand the Scope of Conflict for…
The Canadian War on Science: Ottawa’s dangerous unscientific revolution
Posted by John Dupuis on October 15, 2012 C. Scott Findlay, associate professor of biology at the University of Ottawa and a visiting research scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, had a sobering article in the Toronto Star a few days ago. It’s titled Governing in the dark: Ottawa’s dangerous unscientific revolution and it fits right in with my recent seemingly endless…
Around the Web: Everyone should program, Programming is hard, Both and more
Posted by John Dupuis on October 13, 2012 Everyone should program, or Programming is Hard? Both! Oh No: LinkedIn Just Went Klout On Us Can eTextbooks help save the planet? Preventing the Second Big Deal (not getting locked into big etextbook deals) Generation Y Leads in Book Buying, Says Industry’s Most Comprehensive Report Apress unveils open access book publishing program for the tech…
Friday fun: 15 Lovecraftian stories to read once you’ve read all of Lovecraft
Posted by John Dupuis on October 12, 2012 Longtime readers will know that I’m a big fan of the works of HP Lovecraft. And every once in a while it’s nice to do an eldritch, namelessly horrific take on your typical Friday Fun. I don’t know about you, but I’ve read all of Lovecraft’s original fiction (though not all the collaboration and ghost-written…
Current/Future State of Higher Education: An Open Online Course: Week 1 reading list!
Posted by John Dupuis on October 11, 2012 Well, I’ve done it. I’ve signed up for a MOOC. MOOC, of course, being Massively Open Online Courses, are all the rage in higher-ed-more-disruptingly-than-thou circles, what with their potential is greatly expand the reach of higher education beyond a campus-bound constituency. But not without criticism, of course. Coursera is a popular example of a company…
Around the Web: Becoming Internet famous, Why some academics publish more and, er, more
Posted by John Dupuis on October 4, 2012 Finding Fame, and Sometimes Fortune, in Social Media Why Some Academics Publish More Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism On Becoming a Phoenix: Encounters With the Digital Revolution (trying an online course at UPhoenix) A Pioneer in Online Education Tries a MOOC FriendFeed Turns 5. The One-Time Pioneer Is Still Here. The Financial…
Around the Web: SCOAP3: Another world is possible, The price of inequality and more
Posted by John Dupuis on October 2, 2012 Another World is Possible: Particle Physics Goes Open Access Open-access deal for particle physics 20/09/2012, SCOAP3 Article Processing Charges announced SCOAP3 Open Access Initiative launched at CERN The Cost of Not Reading “The Price of Inequality” Our Obsession with Scale Is Failing Us The Virginia Effect (UVa controversy from the summer has broad impact across…
Around the Web: SUNY Potsdam vs. American Chemical Society in chronological order
Posted by John Dupuis on October 1, 2012 The most recent controversy to whip up the library and science blogospheres revolves around SUNY Potsdam cancelling their American Chemical Society journal package because the subscription packages on offer sucked up too high a percentage of their total budget. SUNY Potsdam Library Director Jenica Rogers wrote about the decision on her blog, garnering quite a…
What Apple, Microsoft and the Rest of Them Don’t Get
Posted by Greg Laden on September 29, 2012 Apple, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, Google, all of them … the companies that make the hardware and software we use … are, it would seem, ignorant, probably willfully so, of an important thing. We use their hardware and software in our work. Many individuals are like miniature institutions or corporations. Our HR department, our payroll department,…
