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Quick note to say that for those who are Mac users and looking for a Word Processor that doesn’t suck (yes MS Word I am talking about you), Maczot is selling Mellel at a discounted price. Mellel is by far my favorite word processor, a program designed specifically for the ways academics write. Normally $35 […]

I realize I am a Devon Think groupie, but the news that a new version is in the work for this year has me anxiously awaiting the release. In my opinion it is the best, “brain in a box” software out there. My largest complaint with Devon is the interface (it is rather dated an […]

Here is a list of things I have been collecting as of late, which may or may not be of interest to those in academia . . .

I frequently make the argument that blogs are one of the most useful “tech tools” in education. In fact I now run a class blog for each of […]

On and off for the past week I have been playing around with Evernote (still in Beta), now that the program will be available for the Mac. Like other versions of the keep your brain organized programs (Devon, Yojimbo, OneNote), Evernote promises to let you “remember everything,” indeed its icon is an “elephant” (personally I […]

Here are some things readers of Academhack might find interesting.

One of the difficulties in teaching and researching on the web, is preserving the paths of exploration, not only for one’s own purposes but so that others can traverse the same path. In this regard I have mentioned Diigo before, which allows you to bookmark, highlight, […]

I am thinking about putting together a proposal to present at the MLA on microblogging (don’t want to limit it to just Twitter). If anyone is interested send me an email dave [at] outsidethetext [dot] com. In order to have enough time to complete the polished proposal for submission to the MLA by April 1st […]

Sorry, still working on an extensive twitter post (our spring break is next week so it should come soon), but in the meantime here are some other useful things that I found around the internet that might interest you as well.

How To Teach with Netvibes: Mainly I use a blog to organize online material for […]

An editorial I wrote for Science Progress regarding digital literacy, education, and Wikipedia is now available. As those who read this blog are probably already aware I find the whole “ban Wikipedia” movement humorous. But, this article takes a slightly different track and claims banning it is actually irresponsible.

I am working on a follow up post to my recent scribe on using Twitter in Academia (for whatever reason this garnered a great deal of interest and I have received many questions which I am trying to address in one long post). At any rate in the meantime here are some places around the […]

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way […]