Here is a nice op-ed about the talent flight from Virgina Tech:( Let me see here in social aspects of IT, we've lost: Megan Boler to OISE/UToronto Maria Papdakis back to JMU Martha McCaughey to Appalachian State John Carroll and Center to Penn State. This is not to say that we do not have others […]

Well today starts the Stepping Out Festival in Blacksburg and I really want to take it off, but I have to go do some grading and write my thousand words or so. It isn't that I really want to go to stepping out, it is more that I don't want to wander through it four […]

Software Archeology. Apropos of an earlier entry of mine on software studies, Salon is running a good piece on software archeology entitled “Prowling the Ruins of Ancient Software” (Slashdotted copy here). Two choice tidbits: bq. “It's funny,” says Dave Thomas, a Dallas… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum] Umm, we do have software critics… just not many of […]

JobforJohn. This Guy in Minnesota just got laid-off and he's spending his time following around Bush's economic team on their tour of the upper midwest as they share their “upbeat outlook” on our nation's economy. He's following their tourmobile with his own tourmobile and has been chasing them around in parkinglots and at fast food […]

No More Reality Shows!. Want to create your own TV Show? So do some folks who aren't from the big lit up place we call Hollywood…. All you've got to do is click up on the site, sign up, pay $25 bucks, and you're in… Oh – and you have to have an idea, too. […]

Plastic Balls. Plastic Balls – addiction alert. Flash alert. (via random abstract) [MetaFilter] This is an fun little game, don't play it too much

Gender bias in teaching evaluations – a list of relevant readings (thanks, Eszter!) [A blog doesn't need a clever name] some interesting info here

did a good bit of work with matthew fuller's behind the blip today

so I'm a slacker and just now getting started writing major portions of my dissertation. this section is where I'll report on the topics that I've worked on this day and the word count. my goal is to add around 1000 words a day until i get a complete rough draft, sometimes the word count […]

21C. Issue to of the revived21C Magazine is now out. It used to be an Australian mag, but now Paul Miller is running it. Its online only at the moment, but he's been promising a print version for a while now… Anyway loads of good stuff, including an article by my partner in 47, [sic] […]