You might think H1N1 is contagious, but even swine flu has a way to go before it can spread as fast as BS-information. Fox News has broken a hot story — apparently all this new found cleanliness and handwashing can have deadly consequences which we are only now learning about. According to this shocking story, [...]
I spent the last month immersed in an accreditation exercise for ALA as chair of a site team. No need to mention names but I come out at the end of this experience with determination to decline any further invitations. The process eats up the time of the chair starting several months before the visit [...]
I was asked for a few comments by the local paper on how likely it was that we would see online universities expand and how might learning occur in such environments. The story was not very detailed but it did introduce me to a new start-up with a difference, the University of the People, where [...]
Here’s a couple of interesting quotes:
“library education is too important to be left to the educators. Yes this is what has happened in the past two decades, and with disastrous results”
“A glance at recent library history helps us to understand the task that the profession faces in restoring the library community to health”
“A survey of [...]
Am in the middle of a major office move as the iSchool packs up from its current home and shifts to a new dedicated 40,000 sf space in a new building. Years of effort come down to a packing frenzy this week and in the course of it I have come to realize just [...]
I woke to read in the local paper that the “Global Language Monitor” (imagine!) had declared that Web 2.0 was now officially the English language’s one millionth word……and to add to it, this monitor is based in Austin TX!! Arg…..since when does the expression “Web 2.0″ constitute one word? And how in the Dickens do [...]
Nice ads…lots of money on terms and marketing (what’s new?) but my quick search using Bing showed nothing very different from a Google search. But then Google just gives us lots of answers, Bing gives us the means of a decision. Semantics never were so sweet….let’s pray MS has some substance behind the BS.
My interview made it in cut and paste form into the news article on last nights evening news — play the video to see it all.
It’s been a curious week. I’ve been interviewed twice already by local media and suddenly an entry on user-centered design from ages back in this blog has spiked in views for reasons that elude me. The Daily Texan called me to comment on the new Kindle and asked me why people were so resistant to [...]
I just finished reading an account of the long battle faced by Abraham Morganteler, a clinical professor at Harvard, to convince others in the medical community that testosterone treatment did not increase risk of prostrate cancer. Turns out that despite decades of teaching otherwise, the ‘basis’ for this claim was a pair of old studies, [...]