It’s an issue that keeps coming up peripherally but never seems to be addressed head on. There was something at Christmas I think but I got distracted by other worries then and now it’s come up again in The Decimal Divide by Joshua and even in Christopher’s “addition of beauty products to a porcine companion” [...]

Basically, anyone who is thinking of getting a graduate degree online needs to read this post with the comments. It describes my own experience much better than I ever have. Online learning really does change from teacher to teacher. There was one class that was wonderful because the professor could somehow read the text chat [...]

Why wireless carriers should be forced into neutrality Tim Wu, a copyfightin’ net-neutrality-advocatin’ law prof at Columbia, has posted a draft of a new, stunning paper on net neutrality as it might apply to mobile carriers. In “Wireless Network Neutrality,” Wu demonstrates the way that the wireless carriers have adopted the same bad practices that [...]

Podcasting Extensive article useful for anyone who hasn’t actually created their own podcast or is trying to explain it to non-tech colleagues.

ILS Data Series I’m not trying to cover many details, provide spec sheets or serve as comparison shopping. I’m just documenting some ILS users’ experiences using their data to see what the landscape looks like.

OA because it supports mirrors, mashups, and mining The Creative Commons Attribution License under which open access articles are made available by both BioMed Central and PLoS allows others to create sites that incorporate the content of these articles, so long as the original source is clearly acknowledged. Two ways to do this are mashups [...]