Research

The other day I was talking with a group of people who are in one way or another associated with academia, more specifically humanities. I was making the case that given the change in the way that information is archived, stored, and transmitted, academic publishing will change. Indeed, more importantly I was suggesting …..

Supposing you have time, here are some things of note.
Find a tutor: Lifehacker post on a service that helps you find a tutor, or if you are a tutor find a student. As of now the service only works Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Just as instructive though is the discussion about the …..

A couple of weeks ago two students who had recently obtained their PhDs and I (I haven’t finished yet-but close) got together and held a workshop/talk on advise about writing the dissertation. The students who were able to attend found it was useful, so I thought I would spend some time writing up the …..

I am working on a couple of longer things for the near future (tools for syllabus, some Devon notes, and writing a dissertation), but in the short span here are some useful links from around the web.
Two links on the Apple Mailing list. The first is a short review of information management software. The …..

Last week Dan Cohen had this to say about textual visualization. Basically Dan argues that textual visualization often gives you the obvious answers, and hides more nuanced analysis, like saying War and Peace is about Russia, or the Bible is about Jesus. Indeed if you run textual analysis on the New Testament, Jesus …..

I received the following email from an Academhack reader.
Here’s my situation: I work in education policy, which means I spend a lot of time reading long-ish reports and writing syntheses, papers, policy briefings, etc. What I often find is that Report A will contain potentially useful info about a variety of topics (we’ll call those …..