I recently finished two works about the “free culture” movement, each of which are polar opposites – and in a way that is unsettling. The most …

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Given my interest in Wikipedia, pseudo-science, and skepticism I’m fond of works which at least help us identify the implicit (social) concepts we invoke …

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Interdisciplines is running a forum on “Scientific Publications 3.0”, where Kathleen Fitzpatrick speaks to the implications of “Peer-to-Peer Review.” Beyond pointing out that I …

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I am indebted to the help I received on comp.text.tex in formatting my dissertation and dealing with bibliography issues. When I turned to …

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I don’t often post CFPs and I won’t be able to attend WikiSym this year, but I am looking forward to reading the …

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If only I had something like this while working on the dissertation!

— “We here at Mead understand that as students get older and wiser, they …

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I have over 1000 primary sources in my Wikipedia research mindmaps. In accumulating some of those sources, I have already been confronted with their ephemerality …

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I recently read Andrew Ross’ “No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs: Behind the Myth of the New Office Utopia” in remembrance of …

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In the spring I will again be teaching a class on conflict management. More than one colleague has expressed puzzlement as to why I would …

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I find “giving” grades as a teacher to be as troublesome as getting them when I was a student. Alfie Kohn (1999) in his book …

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