Archive for November, 2008

Boston College takes the important step of not providing incoming freshmen with email addresses. I have argued this before, but, I simply don’t understand why campuses spend so much money trying to maintain and provide students with email addresses. There are so many free services out there, ones which students who are coming into the …..

It may not be this company but sooner or later something like this is going to happen legally.

One of the local channels here in Dallas did a short news piece on one of my classes as part of their election coverage. Their player does not let you embed the video so you have to click the image below. The video is only two minutes and you can see my students as well …..

My favorite academic article last week appeared in The Chronicle, a defense of academic blogging.
The more complicated questions I get, that I usually cannot answer, revolve around copyright. Now I happen to be lucky and have an older brother who works in intellectual property law, so I can seek advice from him. But, for those …..

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit, that I had no idea about this handy tip from the Google Blog and finding versions of articles which initially appear to be behind a paid subscription database. Now usually I am within the campus network so getting to a paid article database is not a problem. But this …..

Now that the election is over, and my digital politics class will require less time, hopefully I can return to blogging here more. So to start here is a list of things I have been collecting over the last few weeks that just got placed in the “to blog about” pile. (Incidentally, if the local …..