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Harrisburg University seems to be getting a small amount of press lately for announcing that it would as an experiment block all social media websites for a week (Inside Higher Education Article, Chronicle Article). Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, even AIM and chat features on Moodle will be unavailable on the University network (or more precisely the …..

The following is a summary of my talk, or more accurately, the short written version of my talk, “Burn the Boats,” which I gave a little over a month ago at the DWRL in Austin. You can read the post, or skip to the end and watch the videos (which last about 40 minutes) and …..

If you are not reading Mark Pesce’s blog The Human Network you really should start. But more importantly if you are in education you should carve out some time to read a recent series of posts he has published which all focus on education. Actually I suspect that these are the published versions of a …..

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 …..

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 …..

For those looking for a job in Digital Humanities, this list might be useful. (Thanks to Gregory for sending it.) And, we are also hiring here at UTD (my institution).

I like many of you perhaps, hate taking stupid online quizzes. But when you can take a not so stupid one, and help out fellow researchers it is worth a few moments of your time. I can say I took the few moments it took to take this quiz and I do not at all …..

The future of the book?