A fascinating Google Earth visualization of the wikileaks mirror sites worldwide.
Category: aa sociology of information
An Old Idea Wikileaks has Gotten Me Thinking About Again
I have been sitting on a thought experiment for some years now. Well, not exactly sitting on it — have written a bit about it
Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You?
Some rambling thoughts on a fascinating set of articles about measuring teaching. Today’s NYT carried two stories — on on page 1 — about new
Work Slowdown in Soc of Info
Readers, Have been swamped with teaching and administrative work of late, and trying to spend two days a week at the Center for Advanced Study
Closing the Loop in Practice: Does Assessment Get Assessment?
At a liberal arts college with which I am familiar, the administration recently distributed “syllabus guidelines” with 34 items for inclusion on course syllabi. Faculty
How Academic Assessment Gets it Backwards
In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
