Today, I put something approximating finishing touches on an essay that’s been on the backburner for too long, since I had never promised it to anyone and never set a deadline for myself. It about the circulation of recordings of Osama bin Laden’s voice in the western (mostly U.S.) media and I’ve been working on …
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Not Entirely Safe For Work
Instructional brochure for malls. Instructional brochure for offices. Courtesy of Zack Furness.
Needed: TV Recommendations
In a couple weeks Carrie and I will be in Mexico for a much needed vacation for a week. We will spend our days in the sun by the pool or listening to the ocean, and our nights watching TV on DVD (or off BitTorrent). Okay, there will also probably be tourism and shopping. What …
Interview Flashback
A student for whom I write recommendations has landed an interview at a doctorate-granting institution. In discussing the differences between this arrangement and others, it brought me back to my first time I had to emotionally confront the idea that I might one day supervise graduate students. I was on an interview at Michigan Tech …
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This Week I Accidentally Met a Student Life Professional
Oso Raro has an awesome post about the gap between faculty and student life professionals here. It comes at a good time because this week I had a rare encounter with that side of the university. I got an email last Friday that so-and-so, head of some series of services [1], wanted to meet with …
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More Criticism of Sage
courtesy of danah boyd. I’ve long thought about moving to only open-access journals, though a combination of vanity (there are some journals I want to place stuff in just to say I did it) and willingness to support others’ publishing endeavors will probably not let me make it an absolute.