One of the last significant steps for an author is to compile an index, unless they opt to have someone else do it. Publishers often …

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Last week I traveled to Amsterdam to participate in an interesting conference on “Wikipedia and the Politics of Open Knowledge.” Videos of the presentations and …

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I just finished an excellent biography of Ayn Rand and her philosophy in the context of American political culture. While reading, I couldn’t help …

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For the most part, I wrote my dissertation and book manuscript using a simplified version of markdown complemented with biblatex citations. Because it was a …

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This week I’ve been reading the reports from camp KDE 2010 and looking forward to attending a few hours of Wikipedia Day NYC. So …

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One of my favorite blogs is MIT’s Tomorrow’s Professor, and I particularly appreciate the essay on Explaining the Reasons for Criticisms of Students …

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I have tagged a new release of Thunderdell, the Freemind mindmap to biblatex utilities. Improvements include:

• The ability to emit biblatex or BibTex.
• More consistent …

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My sense in teaching over the past four years is that I have been assessing higher grades. (I shy from the term “giving grades” as …

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In the past few weeks there’s been much discussion of news stories based on Felipe Ortega’s dissertation; the concern is that Wikipedians are …

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Successful open communities must occasionally interact with closed worlds. For example, Wikipedia’s openness and transparency sometimes conflict with their obligations to be responsive to …

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