tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284181962011-04-21T23:33:52.738-04:00If my head weren't attached, I'd lose it. Ramblings from the distracted mind of a PhD student.InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-38336222043303414472007-04-27T00:30:00.000-04:002007-09-19T00:41:43.912-04:00

As the end of coursework draws ever nearer (hallelujah) and I suffer through the grinding and darn near worthless course taught by a LooseGoose in a subject that's supposed to be at or near the core of my whole phd existence, and I attempt to pull together readings that make sense on my diss topic and play 'find a theory' -- I wonder .... WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING????!!!!!"Gee, that's news!"

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-27099484113089133692007-04-05T00:23:00.000-04:002007-09-19T00:29:58.595-04:00

Do NOT ... I repeat NOT, take more than 2 grad school, PhD-y classes atthe same time, and certainly not 3, with one being at a different university, on a different academic topic, on a different academic calendar.Unless of course you WANT to lose your sanity and precious sleep when terms start overlapping and the ramp-up reading for one course coincides with the finals, presentations and whopping

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-78080879737309587502007-03-23T00:08:00.000-04:002007-09-19T00:18:49.907-04:00

Ok ... in the last post, among many ramblings, was some frustration and upset over how my annual 'review' thingie seemed to have gone and how I felt that my committee didn't feel I was on the right path, that I was in some ways 'unqualified' to be going after my stated topics.And how I didn't necessarily disagree!But I was clearly frustrated, panicked, bewildered, hurt, annoyed .... . Anyway, I

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-71709146675979406632007-03-18T00:11:00.000-04:002007-03-18T00:38:37.508-04:00

Let's see, another original post about how busy and stressed I am...Well, c'mon! I'm a grad student in a PhD program dammit...isn't being stressed and uncertain written into the acceptance letter or something?But still, it does seem like this term has been more stressful than most, if not for shear workload and feeling the grad school equivalent of some "biological clock" ticking away...hmmm,

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-7027330418501511782007-03-11T23:24:00.000-04:002007-03-12T00:03:56.316-04:00

Ahhh, it's nice to have such helpful friends.Since we're so close and talk about our research, what we're working on, directions exploring, headaches, etc it always seems like we're sending each other tidbits and info and links that might help.Got a few lately I wanted to put in one place here to remember lately... hopefully. Many thanks to Mambo for several of these.From a group of teachers in

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-52818998510796344862007-03-10T09:15:00.000-05:002007-03-09T01:32:20.112-05:00

Wired News: Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries"A suite of photo-authentication tools under development by Adobe Systems could make it possible to match a digital photo to the camera that shot it, and to detect some improper manipulation of images ... But the advent of Photoshop and its variety of tools has made it easier for photographers to tinker with images after they're captured. By the same token

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-23767972137919799242007-03-06T13:46:00.000-05:002007-03-09T01:46:47.066-05:00

"...when you're having fun", or so the quote goes.I'm not sure that's at all apt here. Since when is grad school "fun"??!!But time sure flies anyway. One minute it's a Friday, I'm having a good chat with Blue about a research project and I swear the next minute it's nearly two weeks later and I haven't gotten done half of what I wanted to, or planned to, on that research project or half of my

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-62621215334000055332007-02-23T15:13:00.000-05:002007-03-09T01:48:28.639-05:00

Slashdot: Meetings Make You DumberCheck out this link on Slashdot to a study reported on MSNBC where researchers have confirmed what many have long thought-- large group meetings are a waste of time and instead of great new ideas, you get "group think".Well, now this makes my past life make a bit more sense. And explains why so much of the advertising on U.S. TV is crap-- it's dreamt up first be

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-78523136691443169752007-02-15T02:06:00.000-05:002007-03-09T01:51:49.111-05:00

This is a link to one of the most brilliant, dead-on, scathing, and hilarious pieces I've seen written about anything lately. That it's about how we need to stop being tech-whores basically, and stop buying all the latest whizbang gadgets that ultimately suck.Here, see for your self with this dagger-esque excerpt--"And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-33197249007940305902007-01-26T13:56:00.000-05:002007-01-26T14:09:55.427-05:00

I've actually gotten some good work done the past 24-36 hours and am feeling both surprised and a bit righteous.Ok...that righteous feeling will go away REALLY quickly, especially if I bother to look that the to-do list of projects I should be working on, submissions I should have ready or going, articles to read, conferences to think about, dissertation proposal pieces to work on, etc etc, ad

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-20526305700035017002007-01-25T13:00:00.000-05:002007-01-24T23:54:58.828-05:00

Formerly known as 'Recommended Reading'.Ok, that's stretching things a bit since I only had one other post with that title and thus that harldy constitutes a theme or a recuring element. And, especially given the subject of the first link, maybe this semi-regular posting should be called "More damn ways to procrastinate, or only fool yourself into thinking you're working."The other alternate

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-51431850404857315092007-01-24T00:36:00.000-05:002007-01-24T02:06:30.896-05:00

Saw this post on BlogHer, which I don't often read (but very occasionally look at the education blogroll), but caught this one because of the reference to Bitch PhD. Post is about a talk given at Emory about mentoring grad students. [conference on education was going on at same time...I thought about trying to submit for this one or go to it at some point...may do so someday-- Educause. ]I really

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-81843733237355683132007-01-24T00:24:00.000-05:002007-01-24T02:03:57.760-05:00

Tag...I'm "it". Elle tagged me with this muse to go out thou and be witty, creative and do it all in only 6 words. Well, now if that doesn't get the writing juices going, gee what will?! hmmm...Ok, what I have so far...Dark. Noises. Alone. Mom's home. Safe.Tied. No time. Throw. Caught? Joy!Glances. Whispers. Sighs. Kiss. Partners. Endure.Questions abound. Found book. Answered safely.No more hate.

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-36207190969851419312007-01-23T01:17:00.000-05:002007-01-24T23:19:45.504-05:00

State of indifference Salon.com"Bush views his State of the Union speech as another occasion for declaring what he will do regardless of what anyone thinks (with Cheney's approval). His intention is not to report on the state of the Union. It is to express his state of indifference to the Union. "Brilliant...just brilliant. Well written, well backed-up, and just scathing enough.No this piece has

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-8055939997163202032007-01-21T22:43:00.000-05:002007-01-22T00:37:25.171-05:00

Hmmm... tongue twisters for the 21st century. Say "big blog bling" ten times fast...Anyway... cool article from NY Times Tech section on 'blog bling', more commonly known as 'widgets' (and not to be confused with the kind of widgets that are desktop apps), and their growing popularity.Nice quote here on the different types or categories of 'widgets' (you know me, all about the categorization!):Ed

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-47950119359675452262007-01-18T23:43:00.000-05:002007-01-18T00:15:33.678-05:00

Yah...like academic, grad student bloggers don't already have enough in their lives to read! Sheesh. Sometimes I think the web and all its Web2.0-ness glory is just one big conspiracy to keep productivity down and keep all those little students out there from ever graduating!!That said...I'm gonna be distracted, and distracting, anyway. Ha. So there.H/T to Elle for the links to the new Carnival

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-20357868776067315362007-01-17T22:26:00.000-05:002007-01-17T22:33:54.239-05:00

Well holy s--t!! There are actually people out there reading the drek that spews from my mouth and my addled brain...on occasion at least.See, after seeing one on some other nifty (dear gawd did I really just say that??) blog, I went and added a stat meter sometime near the end of the year, mostly just for kicks. And I admit that I have paid scant little attention to it. C'mon, I'm not that

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-38954664434841938662007-01-17T18:27:00.000-05:002007-01-17T18:27:27.314-05:00

Best of Technology Writing-from 2006; assorted writings about tech issues that appeared in places such as Wired, Slate, New Yorker, New York Times, Salon, New Republic & Popular Science.-free e-copy from new imprint digitalculturebooks from U. of Michigan Press [in fact I linked to the imprint in my last post...buried deep in the 5th paragraph]

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-17315750865145576302007-01-16T22:00:00.000-05:002007-01-16T22:48:15.677-05:00

So, not only is my "cranium" in absentia lately... I've actually been "in absentia."Yeah, I know it's only the beginning of the damn term and I've already skipped town...oh that bodes well!! I've got whatever you call 'senior-itis' but for grad studentes who are tired of sitting in classrooms and want to be on doing something else...like, oh maybe, THEIR F---N DISSERTATION work???!!!! --big sigh

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-7178575080587278242007-01-12T01:26:00.000-05:002007-01-12T01:32:46.684-05:00

Earlier this week I posted an overly long rant...maybe screed is a better word?!... on the latest and greatest headaches in grad school. Yes! More whining! Aren't you surprised?No, I didn't think so...Well, I'm happy to report that Advocate talked me down and gave me a good "there, there" and reassured me that LooseGoose is being...well... "loose". Quacking up the wrong tree...or pond...or

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-63005539322247287452007-01-12T01:12:00.000-05:002007-01-12T01:25:01.897-05:00

Ok... instead of waiting and coming back to that list of digital history suggested readings I just posted, I started scanning...just to see if I've read any.Ha! And now I can righteously feel just the ever so teeniest bit smug...because I have read some.Ok..."some" is the operative word here. I've read at least 5 of the titles.[Linked, Sorting Things Out, Social Life of Info, Ambient Findability

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-33182052805351623082007-01-12T01:11:00.000-05:002007-01-12T01:25:42.352-05:00

Digital History Hacks: "for a student interested in pursuing digital history. For graduate students, a more useful exercise is to compile a reading list of a hundred or so books for a general / comprehensive examination. Obviously, there are very few books that are specifically about digital history (never mind a canon) so any list has to cover the space where the field is emerging."Oh brilliant.

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-30283440887298659422007-01-09T01:31:00.000-05:002007-01-09T01:59:47.298-05:00

Out here in my part of the country today that applies literally as well as methaphorically.Today was the official start of the new term and I managed to run at least 5-10 minutes behind all day it seemed. Constantly playing catch-up. Isn't that just the bitch of it?! I have no deadlines and nothing I absolutely have to do for at least two weeks, and then stuff all crashes down in one

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1231398991841639222007-01-07T00:03:00.000-05:002007-01-07T00:21:28.163-05:00

I finally decided to switch over to the 'new' blogger after getting gawd knows how many prompts and little messages or whatever. I kept waiting for them to finish it and get the glitches out. Particularly the one where the BlogThis bookmarklet was fixed. I use that quite a bit when I'm out doing work, reading, surfing, etc and find something I want to blog, and it was a pain in the butt to not

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1167897193125292622007-01-04T02:53:00.000-05:002007-01-04T02:53:13.176-05:00

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sibling Shotgun of Reasoned Discussion.Get yours.Well...that's amusing for sure! I'm late on this meme bandwagon. But that's not out of character here at all.Let's adjourn for coffee shall we?[those who understand will know...and smirk along with me](had heard of the Unitarian Jihad parody some time ago, and forgotten it, until stumbling across this post in a librarian

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1167805287103168692007-01-03T01:08:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:21:27.116-05:00

Oops...apparently it's been longer than i thought since my last reflection and post. Come to think of it though, it about corresponds to the end of the term, and "break". That wonderful artifact of educational calendars when we can supposedly let our minds turn to mush for a few weeks either at the end of a term, or between terms, or whatever. While the winter break is by far the longest, it is

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1166564966988563472006-12-21T16:49:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:24:01.423-05:00

A torch passes - Tech_Space - USATODAY.com: "The Creative Commons movement is lawyered up. Creative works with a CC license are genuinely part of the promise of user-generated content, because CC-specifying copyright owners have taken care to say exactly how their works can and cannot be remixed, reused and reproduced. That, to me, is a strong and healthy foundation for Web 2.0, or

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1166676028747781752006-12-20T23:40:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:23:28.903-05:00

A Technical Guide to Anonymous Blogging: "In April of 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted its How to Blog Safely About Work and Anything Else. While the guide is rich in tips to ensure you don't reveal too much personal information while blogging, it doesn't look very closely at the technical issues associated with keeping a blog private. I decided to write a quick technical

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1166547616127268252006-12-19T12:00:00.000-05:002006-12-19T12:00:16.130-05:00

LISNews.org | This Week in LibraryBlogLand (December 17, 2006)Some great links to other blogs and web posts on digital reference, search engines, blogrolls of those doing digital ref, more about library blogs (including a tag cloud analysis), news about Google's latest attempts to digitize the world (apparently journal back runs).

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1166547069123933852006-12-19T11:51:00.000-05:002006-12-19T11:51:09.183-05:00

Wired News: Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts: "Pluggd has found a way to index podcasts, talk shows and other spoken-word content. The company's service then allows users to search the audio files for specific words."Holy cow!! What a development in information retrieval if this works. Speech--to-text searching, in context (later part of article says) searching, and the use of concept mapping and

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1166497238189394262006-12-18T22:00:00.000-05:002006-12-18T22:00:38.216-05:00

'Digital black hole' threatens your documents | Tech News on ZDNet: "The European Union is funding a project involving national libraries and digital preservation groups aimed at fighting off a looming 'digital black hole.'The black hole in question is the potential future loss of data as file formats become obsolete and inaccessible."I think I blogged on this earlier this year and have to go

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1165989851913844442006-12-15T01:01:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:24:26.833-05:00

While wasting yet more time online, ran into another quiz/meme thing, this one on learning styles. Fairly darn accurate...more so than some of the stuff on those other 'make a quiz' sites. I really need to stop playing around and doing silly quizes and finish my work for the term. Your Dominant Thinking Style: ModifyingSuper logical and rational, you consider every fact available to you.You don't

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1165987236940806412006-12-13T00:16:00.000-05:002006-12-13T00:20:36.956-05:00

Ha!This little quiz wasn't so far off...good capture of the confusion and dichotomies of my youth. I'm hard to stereotype...or was. And that confusion sometimes still lingers, although now days its more humorous and good for conversation fodder.(course some of that may be the humor that others have at even imagining me as ever being a Jock...or a wannabe Jock. For the record I did letter in 3

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1165301491804012752006-12-05T00:52:00.000-05:002006-12-05T01:53:28.063-05:00

It's that time of year again...nearing the end of a term and my brain is shutting down early. Why is it that my mental faculties never seem to match up to the calendar or last as long as the work of the term? And whatever will I do once out in the 'real world' of academia as a prof...having to teach and keep up for a whole semester??!! aaaaiieeeeSeriously...I do wonder somedays if this just

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1164345947400483742006-11-24T00:25:00.000-05:002006-11-24T00:25:47.826-05:00

The $100 laptop: What went wrong - MSN Money: "I personally would love to see these laptops save the world, as some people have suggested they might. But those holding that opinion tend to view the world from the window of a five-star hotel. In fact, this is a massive exercise in futility. And it's a shame."No, not the happiest of Thanksgiving Day posts...but since technically it's not Turkey Day

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1164167675543328312006-11-21T22:54:00.000-05:002006-11-21T23:03:52.836-05:00

Techdirt: Will Digital Archiving Difficulties Wipe Out Important Elements Of Our History?em>Even if you can store the data perfectly forever, without the right applications, it's meaningless. Matt Sullivan writes in with yet another article on the topic, this time from Popular Mechanics, that suggests we could be facing a "digital ice age" as plenty of data from this era of history are lost to

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163656819164745532006-11-16T00:56:00.001-05:002006-11-16T01:00:19.180-05:00

I do NOT have an accent, and according to this, not the one I have sometimes been accused of having, and which I swear I don't.See, that makes no sense in an online world without audio, and with a blogger trying to stay anonymous! But trust me when I say that when people ask me where I'm "from" (and that's a loaded question with no easy answer) and if I give them my birthplace, they then go "oh,

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163656569507540532006-11-16T00:56:00.000-05:002006-11-16T01:48:05.516-05:00

Followed a link from Elle, ABD to Seeking Academia for a different post, and then while reading, came across this one on one-word answer meme.Seeking Academia: The one word meme is harder than I thought it would be Came from elsewhere.Fascinating. May have to do this...ok, WILL do this.....feeling like channeling Yoda..."there is no try, only do"So thanks, for yet another diversion, and reason

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163641549574287452006-11-15T20:45:00.000-05:002007-01-06T21:32:15.976-05:00

Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » ALA through my eyes: One year laterBlogger had vented a year ago about why not to join, or re-up with ALA (American Library Association) and wondered if things were ever going to change. She now thinks things have changed enough that she will indeed re-up. Nice summary in post about changes ALA has made, what they mean.Also on this topic is a post

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163640082518136842006-11-15T20:21:00.000-05:002006-11-15T20:34:35.753-05:00

Saw this post from Catalogblog that says there's a 'viral posting' going around (is that like a meme?) in honor of Children's Book Week, to name your fave kids's book. I'm guessing they mean fave from your own childhood, and not one you teach with, or read to kids in a library or school, or to your own kids. But I also guess it could be one of those too...I'm not sure I can narrow it down to one.

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163479352199528432006-11-14T23:42:00.000-05:002006-11-21T23:04:29.346-05:00

Wired News: A Sneak Peek at a Fractured Web: "Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet, even as users develop savvier ways around it, according to early results in the first-ever comprehensive global survey of internet censorship."Early release of data on big study from OpenNet Initiative looking at matters of cyberlaw, freedom of speech, and censorship

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163479059562445372006-11-13T23:37:00.000-05:002006-11-13T23:37:40.203-05:00

InformationWeek Weblog: How Trustworthy Is The Web?: "When I did a reality check last Friday on some Wikipedia data my daughter had dug up about an obscure early French explorer, I found something interesting. Curious to see how Wikipedia information jibed with that from other sites, I did a--what else?--Google search, only to find that most other sites had simply copied the Wikipedia entry. Word

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163461185653475912006-11-13T18:39:00.000-05:002006-11-13T18:39:46.556-05:00

ABC News: Berners-Lee, MIT Developing 'Web Science' Field: "Nov. 2 Thursday morning, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and the University of Southampton announced The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), basically a group designed to set a research agenda for understanding the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the Web. WSRI will be headquartered

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163289169137086632006-11-11T18:52:00.000-05:002006-11-11T18:52:49.140-05:00

DigInit :: digital initiatives: "So, I’ll be attending and presenting at Internet Librarian later this week which has got me thinking about the circles we, librarians, travel. It seems we’re awfully comfortable talking to each other and that’s a good thing in small doses. But, we have to ask ourselves, “Who is listening?”"Intro to a piece from this blogger, who is very heavily into digital

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1163288747729653732006-11-11T18:45:00.000-05:002006-11-11T18:54:03.303-05:00

CogSci Librarian: "Heard another *terrific* TED Talks podcast (and no, I have NO affiliation with Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) at all -- I should be so lucky!) about the value of choice in our lives. From the TED Blog: 'Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1162189977186557402006-11-02T01:32:00.000-05:002006-11-11T18:57:59.276-05:00

Reassigned Time: Mentoring: "I've been thinking a lot about mentoring lately, in no small part because so many people have been posting about it lately. (I'm sure there are links I'm missing, too, but those are the ones that immediately jump to mind. Edited to add: Here's another link that I think participates in this conversation that seems to be cropping up all around.) Oh, and I also read

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1162245992212907562006-10-30T17:06:00.000-05:002006-10-30T17:06:32.223-05:00

The Carnival of GRADual Progress"Carnivals"... one of those Web2.0 things in the blogosphere I 'thought' I knew about, or knew what they all meant...but maybe not afterall.At least here's one that might have some direct relevancy to my current state, and status. Now if I can just figure out the semantics, culture...and oh, for pete's sake, stop using academic words...if I can wrap my head around

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1162244720677494712006-10-30T16:45:00.000-05:002006-10-30T16:45:20.773-05:00

How Many of Me - Front PageSaw this on one of the few blogs I read that isn't hosted by an anonymous blogger. She was complaining about the 30 or so others sharing her name, granted a somewhat more unique name than my own, but still...try having more than 600 some odd people with your same combination of first and last names! And yes, I admit to occaisionally going ego-surfing and Googling myself

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1162189592336780562006-10-30T01:26:00.000-05:002006-10-30T01:26:32.336-05:00

Digital History Hacks: On N-gram Data and Automated Plagiarism Checkinganother link while i'm in this 'fight plagiarism, respect intellectual property' rant or mindset.and potentially another blog worth adding to the blogroll...if just for the title...have to check it out further.

InfoScholarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28418196.post-1162189480689877082006-10-30T01:24:00.000-05:002006-10-30T01:24:40.733-05:00

A Culture of Expectation Among Today’s Students « The Redneck Librarian: "None so far have placed the blame on technology."From a discussion, review of other blog posting on rise in plagiarism. The rant from an educator in the UK says that profs are to blame for coddling today's indulgent students who have grown up without learning, without challenge and that profs give them everything they want.

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The History EnthusiastBlog to add to the blogroll, or RSS feeds.PhD student in history; teaching, researching, angsting like the rest of us. But good link to a mind in a field I'm only going to be dabbling in.

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Post-PhD Blues: Grasping at StrawsSomeone who has been down the path, made it to the other side, and still is uncertain. Honest, refreshing, a bit depressing, and yet cautiously optimistic. A blog worth following. [good grief...how many times have I said THAT in a post?? better yet, how many times do I actually follow up? hmmm, could it be that making posts about blogs of interest is NOT the best

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InformationWeek Weblog: Deleted: What's Not Up To Snuff For WikipediaLink from here to original NYT article on how Wikipedia decides which entries stay, which go (what...you didn't think every little bit of drivel someone, or some group, writes stays up in perpetuity?? c'mon!) and who decides. Interesting research implications and behind the scenes look at social networking. We already know there

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The future isn’t what it used to be - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com: "excellent new book “Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future” (Speck Press, $19) is a lavish visual compendium of art work, advertisements, cartoons, magazine covers and government documents, all depicting just how wonderful, or occasionally terrifying, the future will be. Virtually all of the

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juggling teaching and dissertating (revisionspiral.blog-city.com)Keep this handy for 3rd Year, when hopefully I can manage teaching and research/dissertation work. And hopefuly have a life. hopefully...really...I do hope...just a glimmer of hope...all I need....hope;-)

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Easily DistractedIs this one in my blogroll?? If not, it ought to be...if just for the name!! That's so up my alley...hell, i'm distracted even now...should be doing something else... like maybe sleeping, working, etc!

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NPR : Failure Is a Good ThingI'll have to try and remember this more often as I go through grad school, do research, try and get published, and attempt tenure track some day!May need many reminders like this along the way since I have a near pathological fear of rejection......yeah, THAT's gonna go over well in this new profession of mine! Cuz academia is just known for being so accepting and

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Some youth rethink online communications - Yahoo! News: "Though he's not anti-technology, Bugeja often lectures students about 'interpersonal intelligence' � knowing when, where and for what purpose technology is most appropriate."Interesting trend worth watching and studying further. Are teens and young adults realizing that much of the social-networking phenomena is a superficial connection or

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It's all begun again...the school year, the grind, academic pressures and the race to the doctorate. A slow race at that...but it always feels like a competition. While I'd love to tell myself, and anyone who's listening (yah right...who am I kidding, the only one reading these ramblings is me!) that I'm going to be less down, less bitter, less of a cynic and a ranter.... that's just a pipe dream

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Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Zotero - is this what we’ve been waiting for?Interesting reference management tool and worth checking out further. Although I personally use RefWorks, and like the way it integrates into Word. Granted, I don't know how to use half of its features either, and I'm more patient on learning tools, watching tutorials and such than any undergrad would be.

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What is the worth of words? - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com: "The obsessive measurement of long-form literacy is once more being used to flail an education trend that is in fact going in just the right direction. Today’s young people are not able to read and understand long stretches of text simply because in most cases they won’t ever need to do so. It’s time to acknowledge that in a truly

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Now see, given the number of little thingies I checked, I can't believe I'm this much the same. Damn.Still mulling over how good or bad this is....hmmmmmm.....You've Changed 48% in 10 YearsYou've done a good job changing with the times, but deep down, you're still the same person.You're clothes, job, and friends may have changed some - but it hasn't changed you.How Much Have You Changed in 10

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I find myself "off-topic" quite a bit in my postings. So maybe I need to revise my personal goals and objectives for this blog, or just give myself continued permission to write about whatever the hell interests me, riles me, moves me or confuses me.It's not really like I'm writing for an audience afterall, as I'm fairly certain I'm the only one reading this! But in case not, and someone out in

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Well, isn't this interesting....I'm really not so sure about this one. Yes partly, I'm the "rebel"...or more like 'rebel wannabe'. but other times....hell no, I'm conformist all the way.Course as a learned member of the academy (ok, ok, no yet, but trying dammit..) I shouldn't put much stock in silly web quizzes like this.but they're so much fun, and so often are scarily accurate.I'd also be

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Ha! And the computer gets one right, despite the serious desire for the Ferrari it still turned up this--not bad...Your Inner European is Irish!Sprited and boisterous!You drink everyone under the table.Who's Your Inner European?

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Judge Taylor got it right on wiretapping. By Erwin Chemerinsky - Slate MagazineOnce again I'm "off topic", as the topic of this blog was/is supposed to be about my grad school and PhD travails. Nonetheless, some things are too well written, too important, and too relevant to ignore. I'd like to have a link to this for a while--it's so perfectly on point as to why the current executive branch has

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A graduate school survival guide: "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!"Obviously I'm still on the same theme here (i'd say it's like a 'broken record' but that dates me a bit, since i must be the last of my generation to remember what the f--k a 'record' actually is! some kid looked at my mother-in-law funny tonight when she mentioned the word 'record'--he's never seen one, never heard one. oh boy.

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AKA "getting your shit together part 2"Goal Setting - Goals - Planning - Achievement - Graduate Students -Graduate School Admissions and Survival - Graduate LifeIn case I didn't know why I keep procrastinating... (but I largely do)Procrastination Research from CareltonIt's all about balance. Help from UCSD.And about being a "good student" ...whatever that means!More links on balance, getting

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Manage Your Time: Time Management TipsMaybe this will help me to get my act together. In the latest in grad school rantings and bitchings I'm apparently 'off track'. My words actually. Words from Astro, meant in all good care and with my best interests in mind (no, I'm being serious not sarcastic) were that I have "no drive". "You may be the most brilliant student I've ever met, but you also have

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Quindlen: Safety Is a Modern and Ultimately Vulnerable Illusion - Newsweek Anna Quindlen - MSNBC.comThis is in no way related to my academic life, and I don't generally do peronal or political screeds, but this is too important and resonant a piece to pass up.We all want to feel "safe" and have given our government a blank check in the name of ensuring our "safety" from those who might do us harm

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Most of the time I write here in a very personal way about my attitudes, emotions, reactions, etc to various events and happenings in my life as a grad student.But I've run across some interesting tidbits and morsels on the web, from other blogs, sites, etc and wanted to put them here (rather than a blog I've kept off and on for much that purpose. why the change?? who the hell knows?!!)Link to

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i may have stumbled my way (well, just a bit) to my dissertation topic!Well....I'll be damned!I know the general area I wanted to research and had narrowed the topic some, but it still didn't seem like a "research question", or I couldn't figure out where that question was in the topic. Still having trouble with that aspect of scholarly work.Anyway...I was trying not to keep chasing distractions

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Gee, thanks to the wonders of Blogthings, I have confirmation (of a sort) of my career choice and graduate pursuit.Whew. Was gettin' worried there....You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)You're a great thinker and a true philosopher.You'd make a talented professor or writer.What Advanced Degree Should You Get?

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Another legit break from blogging as the term ended, I was away with DH and family on vacation, without computers or the Web ("Horrors!!"), and dammit, it was supposed to be vacation afterall.Not that I wouldn't have loved to vent and blog my way through the vacation, but since they don't know I do this, and I'd like to preserve some privacy, anonymity, and oh yeah, my SANITY, I was NOT going to

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Great, I can't even stay on the blog-wagon a full month!but legit reasons... first was mental-health-escape week with best friend to Warm, Sunny Beach place; then it was hell of last week of term, followed on heels by go-to-a-conference-same-week-as-finals-due, which ended 2 days before go-on-vacation-with-in-laws.See, very valid reasons not to get my thoughts committed to cyber-paper. Hell, it's

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I pretty much took the weekend off from school work.Given the amount of work I have to do, the tardiness of a good deal of it, and the degree of anxiety I currently feel-- not bright. Brave, perhaps, but not bright.But dammit, necessary.Because you only get one shot at life and you have to live it right the first time. No matter what movies and tv shows may lead us to believe, time travel is not

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...that come back to bite you in the a$$. I'm on the College's shit list because I have some forms missing from my erstwhile file apparently. I thought everything was in there and all was copacetic...but no....Frustrating and very embarassing because this Black List goes to all the faculty and it will be discussed at the next College Faculty Mtg in a few weeks and I so do not need more crap

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More time-sucks.......after finding the 'gay childhood icon quiz' this too was a hoot. and unsettingly close to reality. hmmmmm...I really must do some actual work at night instead of surfing, reading, and goofing. I am never going to get anywhere if I keep this up.My, what would Bert do?You Are BertExtremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them!

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Ok...quick post cause I'm already up way too damn late...again.Anyway, I think it only fair to 'apologize' for trashing Majesty in anticipation of the appearance as sub for my stats course on Monday night. Granted, I should've figured that ANYONE other than Prof. Lame-duck could have taught a better class.It's not that he's evil, or mean, or harsh---he's actually quite nice-- just clueless and

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Nice list of academic oriented blogs. Some personal, some professional-- some anonymous, others named. Beware, some links and blogs are NOT active, no recent posts or have 'gone off air'.Few worth pursuing (and not otherwise linked to or added to blogroll) are:Epistemographer, Blogscholar (also a collection of academic blogs/news), Barely Tenured, College Freedom (academic freedom), InBetween (

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I've always been nocturnal, but grad school is making things a bit crazy and extreme. This is nuts, I'm not even really doing work right now, or for the past few hours, to keep me up this damn late. Doesn't help that DH is outta town, but to be real, I've been staying up this late for a long time now. Not real good for the social life, my awareness level the next day, getting things done during

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Red Leader to Gold Leader.... drifting off target...stay on target!Oh crud, it is fast approaching the end of the term and already my brain has gone on vacation. Oops, a few weeks too soon.Have been crunching so hard at this PhD thing for many months (ok, it seems like longer than it has been-- but still!), and that coming straight off the MS, that my brain is boling. I can't concentrate and I

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You may not be the person you think you are: "We all have a picture in our head of who we are and what we are capable of. What if that picture is wrong? What if your story of yourself is missing key facts and evidence? "Wow.Wow. As one of the comments said, the hallmark of a great writer is that you feel they are telling "your story". So much of this incredibly well written post resonated so

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The first rumblings of a personal nature from a severly distracted, over-worked, over-wrought academic wannabe. While I've tried maintaining a blog the past year with more professional leanings, and to attempt to collect my scattered 'thoughts', I've since found better ways (read: cool new tech toys) to organize my digital self.Well, attempt to in any case...But an outlet for my personal musings

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