Mar 23rd, 2009
The three articles to which I link below all came across my radar (Twitter?) screen today. I don’t see how anyone in academia can swish these three stories around in her/his mouth for a bit and not experience an entirely new taste. Newspapers fold as readers defect and economy sours (CNN) — The Rocky Mountain [...]
Been blogging less frequently lately, mostly because the tenure application deadline looms LARGE. But, I got a bit riled up after reading an article that Kevin Jarrett pointed out via Twitter. Blogging under the auspices of The Wall Street Journal (a highly respectable publication), John J. Edwards III wrote about a forthcoming book by two [...]
Jul 18th, 2008
In response to Scott McLeod’s 140-character book review contest, I submitted an entry that summarized/synthesized two books in less than 140 characters. I wrote: ORGANIZING (EVERYBODY AND/OR EVERYTHING) IS DIFFERENT NOW. That’s it. Put together “Here Comes Everybody” and “Everything is Miscellaneous” and that’s what you get. For those who read the books, those 57 [...]