Whether to provide a more vibrant and relevant educational experience or to save money on text books, it looks like online education is making some headway. Connecticut District Tosses Algebra Textbooks and Goes Online, that's what I read last week in the New York Times . Connecticut teachers were frustrated by rushing students "through their… Read More
Image by mindseyeimagery via Flickr The other day I got a LinkedIn group alert from Andrew Spong linking to an article in The Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase, by Joseph J. Esposito. His "Nautilus Model of Scholarly Communications" was a brilliant way to… Read More
Take a look at this video created by Mark Logic. It’s a fabulous summary of where we’ve been and the challenges and opportunities facing us in media and publishing.… Read More
Image via CrunchBase A couple of months ago, someone to whom I'm connected on Facebook mentioned that I over ran their home page with Twitter updates the last time I was at a conference. I tend to take conference notes on Twitter. When I had Twitter feed Facebook updates, my status was being updated… Read More
I’ve wanted to learn Spanish most of my life, but I’ve never gotten passed a couple of classes in high school and college. I tried again a few years ago. Even after spending a few hundred dollars on Rosetta Stone, I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. That’s about to change thanks to… Read More
Image via Wikipedia Most of us have brainstormed with a group. Someone puts an idea out there, someone adds to it or adjusts it, and the group iterates through possibilities. Many ideas come to surface. Some are “good” (meaning that for our particular purpose they have potential application). Some aren’t. Until recently what we’ve called… Read More
I've just started contributing to the Society of Scholarly Publishing blog, the Scholarly Kitchen. My first two posts are: Conferences of Infinite Dimension Since When Does Community Mean Everybody If you haven't visited, come by and take a look. We have some pretty interesting cooks in the kitchen!… Read More
Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins was a singer in the early 1900's who "became famous for her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, tone, and overall singing ability." What's interesting about Florence, is that she seemed to have no clue that she had no talent. Florence makes me wonder. It's easy to listen to her… Read More