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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In the previous analysis, of the 174 women from the National Women’s History Project, Wikipedia lacked articles on 23 of the women, Britannica missed …

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I have fallen out of the habit of posting updates at the beginning and the end of the semesters. (Mostly because I’m not a …

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A possible insight applicable to the FOSS and sexism controversies is the incompatibility of two worldviews.

In the first view, one aspires to a post- …

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The recent controversy about gender imbalance and sexism in open content communities has been remarkable this summer, and this week’s news about Shuttleworth’s …

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