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Necessary Reading

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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 [...]


Here’s Hoping

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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


Saturday Morning Procrastination—Watch My Students on The Local News

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

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 [...]


Saturday Morning Ways to Procrastinate Yet Gain Valuable Insight

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

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 [...]


Back from the Election Time Suck

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

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 [...]


Digital Humanities Jobs

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

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).


Fun For the Whole Family

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

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

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

The future of the book?


To the Blogosphere a Moment of Your Time Perhaps.

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

As many of you know, I am currently teaching a class called Digital Politics, for which this is the class blog. I need a moment of your time, to perhaps help with this class. In this class students are studying and participating in the blogosphere of Digital Politics, following and commenting upon various aspects of [...]


Obligatory Back to School Post

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Read Write Web gives a list of the top 10 web apps for students.