Expanding Access to Learning: The Role of Virtual Universities. Hot off the presses, a new monograph from the PEW Symposia in Learning and Technology. The monograph “assesses the current state of statewide virtual university initiatives, discusses five critical success factors derived from that assessment, and offers an alternative strategy to the predominant collaborative model that […]

marble columns. Over 2000 wealthy tax payers paid no tax in 2000. Meanwhile, states are plunging into budget deficits. Perhaps the tax cuts are meant not to spur the economy, but to defund social programs? [MetaFilter] ya think? nah, can't be{sarcasm} social programs don't work if they don't have money. motivation falls if people are […]

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What is a Labor Market?. My post on Marc Bousquet's* job market argument (ie, there is no academic job market) generated some interesting comments on what constitutes a labor market. While Chun the Unavoidable is “sympathetic to Bousquet's argument,” he does “not see the evidence”… [Invisible Adjunct] well, hmm, i did not expect to get […]

Oddmusic. Oddmusic is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments, according to the site. The gallery is full of strange instruments – some are beautiful, some are whimsical, and some are just silly. Many have samples to listen to, including the noisy-but-impressive Lego Harpsichord. [MetaFilter] where does he find such […]

Groove U. “Groove introduces Groove U, a software and service license program designed to meet the unique needs of higher education institutions. Groove U enables professors and administrators to harness the power of Groove Workspace on a course-by-course basis.“ Groove is definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it before. What I like about […]

Enough with humans. Let the flowers talk.. Katinka Matson's scanned flower art : technology lets the flowers speak. “…imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints. That is what a scanner gives you…. In her flowers one can see every microscopic […]

Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Schol …. Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group meeting at the ALA annual meeting (Toronto, June 23) is now online. [FOS News] Gerry and i talked a bit last year inregard to digital archives, he does interesting work.

Candidate Kucinich gets a blog.. Candidate Kucinich gets a blog. Dennis Kucinich has jumped into the weblog arena, making his own posts and accepting comments. He even has an RSS feed. Kucinich's campaign is drawing the largest crowds of any candidate and is expected to perform well in the MoveOn Primary. Kucinich faces tough opposition […]

Dave Snowden: Cynicism and Serendipity. I've never heard Dave Snowden speak before so I was excited to finally get a chance and he did not disappoint.  His good reputation is certainly well earned; Normally the idea of listening to someone speak for 90 minutes at a conference would fill me with icy dread but Dave held […]