around the web
jdupuis | June 7, 2011I'm doing a short presentation later today on using social media as a researcher. It's part of the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies' Scholarly Communications Series. This one is titled Scholarship in the Public Eye:
The Faculties of Graduate Studies and Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, along with the York University Libraries, are collaboratively facilitating a series of information sessions focused on scholarly communications intended for all graduate students and faculty members. The series will address issues related to research skills and research dissemination,…
jdupuis | June 1, 2011
A Library for Human Capital
How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses
Why libraries still matter
The State of Higher Ed Social Media 2011
How To Blog a Conference
The secret is to bang the rocks together: Arduino is a building block for the world to come
Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy
Recorded lectures take on new risk as blogger 'goes after teachers'
Finding Sources with The Full Wiki
Welcome to the Information Supercollider
Let Them Surf
Confusing Excess With Access
Pressure to publish papers blamed for reluctance to share digital…
jdupuis | May 12, 2011
Inventing the college store of the future
Stepping up to the Genius Bar
Why College Is Not A Bubble (Except For The University Of Phoenix)
Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One's Own
How I Talk About Searching, Discovery and Research in Courses
Future of Media: Lots of Questions, But No Easy Answers
Why the term "data science" is flawed but useful
Library Digital Content at the Tipping Point
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education
Why people don't like us (ie. universities)
The cloud is currently a question, not an answer
The Association between Four Citation Metrics and Peer…
jdupuis | May 6, 2011I guess it's not just the physical hits to the head that leave a lasting effect on people's brains, but the long-term effects of bad video games also can cause your brains to leak out your ears.
From The Onion, Neurologists Paint Grim Picture Of 'Madden' Football's Long-Term Effect On Players' Brains.
SAN JOSE, CA--In an alarming report that sheds new light on the dangers of the game, the Institute for Brain Injury Research published Wednesday the results of a five-year investigation into the long-term neurological consequences of playing Madden football.
"The situation is far more serious…
jdupuis | May 4, 2011
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too
It's Time to Realize Our Location Concerns Aren't Dumb
The REAL Death Of The Music Industry
What is the Future of Books? Kindle Lending Library, Piracy, and More!
Achievement P o r n
Should Teaching Be Outsourced?
No Room for Books
Libraries, IT, Reference, the Future...and Learning?
Is reference service dead?
Not With A Bang: The First Wave of Science 2.0 Slowly Whimpers to an End
The purpose of gamification: A look at gamification's applications and limitations. (Great comment stream too, with input by Kathy Sierra and…
jdupuis | April 28, 2011
How Libraries Can Leverage Twitter
Geeks Are the Future: A Program in Ann Arbor, MI, Argues for a Resource Shift Toward IT
"A New chapter for our Unwinders Management Book - Evaluating Candidates from their Internet Profile"
Legislative Alternatives to the Google Book Settlement
What Are Digital Literacies? Let's Ask the Students
If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself
Archive Watch: British Library Purchases Poet's 40,000 E-Mails
Video-Game Rooms Become the Newest Library Space Invaders
Hard economic lessons for news
For-Profits and Satellite Radio
Byliner Launches With…
Around the Web: The 4 Stages Of Understanding Twitter, Tweeting presidential doppelgängers and more
jdupuis | April 21, 2011
The 4 Stages Of Understanding Twitter
5 Myths About the 'Information Age'
Presidential Doppelgängers Tweet
If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself
Conversation is the New Attention
What are Libraries For?
PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature
Record Number of Women Declare CS (at Harvard)
The Library and the Research Essay
Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis
Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame
The Five Social Media "Facts of Life"
Big Blog on Campus
Librarians Put Increasing…
jdupuis | April 19, 2011
Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success
29 Statistics Reveal How The Apple's iPad Is Changing Our Lives
Building Types Study: Libraries
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
The Academic Library Impact on Student Persistence
Scientists & the Social Media
Retooling Libraries Indeed
The Agony and the Advocacy/The Advocacy and the Apathy
Collaborating with Faculty Part I: A Five-Step Program
Context Matters
Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving
Web search reading list
Going…
jdupuis | April 5, 2011
Academia in the age of digital reproducibility
Gender Gaps (in academic librarianship)
Libraries' Digital Direction
The Physical Law of Extremes - The Digital Law of the Middle
Data on demand
"Selfless Audacity" Means Creating a Sustainable Not-a-Business Model
Canadians are also hostile to paywalls, survey finds
Mathematics journals: what is valued and what may change: Report of the workshop held at MSRI, Berkeley, California on February 14 - 16 2011
How To Get Tenure at a Major Research University
Social Web or Tempo Web?
Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal
The Natural End of…
jdupuis | March 31, 2011
Grades and what they don't mean
Would I attend my own conference? Why conferences need more diversity
Thoughts on library Linked Data
'An Unwanted Consequence'
This Is How--And Where--Science Dies In Our Classrooms
When Content is Everywhere, Marketing is Queen
Facebook Testing Instant Ads Based On Status Updates, Wall Posts
Future Tense
Lots of "People" You Interact With Online Are...Not Real
What Forty Years of Research Says About the Impact of Technology on Learning: A Second-Order Meta-Analysis and Validation Study
From Students, a Misplaced Sense of Entitlement
Strictly business?…
jdupuis | March 30, 2011Usually my Around the Web posts are full of pink fluffy bunny ain't-the-Internet-grand kind of links. Oh, sure, I do link to the occasional train wreck but that's rare. I really prefer that strategy because I tend to be an optiministic (if slightly cautious) person by nature.
But everyone loves a good train wreck from time to time. And here they are.
What's the purpose of this? To balance the tendency towards Web utopianism with a pinch of human nature. I think that on the whole the web is vastly beneficial to the world but I'm also not delusional enough to think there's no downside.…
jdupuis | March 26, 2011
The Tim Hortons School of Probability
Innovation & Longevity in Digital Publishing: Surfing the S-Curve
Creating a Degree for 10K
Mock Rebecca Black All You Want, She's Laughing To The Bank
7 reasons people don't use twitter, and why 'It's a conversation' is the answer to all of them
Why Women Rule The Internet
Why don't journalists link to primary sources?
A return to "bursty work"
Results: What (if anything) prevents women from accepting conference invitations?
A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make "TechShops"?
To each…
jdupuis | March 22, 2011
Anatomy of a Twitter Screw-up: My Own
What's the best way to not get invited back to dinner? (Talk about excessive corporate influence in American democracy.)
Smartphone users: Beware
Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation
The Physics of the Imbecile: Chopra Interviews Kaku
iPads: Bane or Boon to College Teaching?
Mobile Content Is Twice as Difficult
n00b Science Blogging 101: Part 3 - Blogging in Grad School
The NYTimes: A Remembrance (What would it take for the NYT to get your money for digital content?)
Mashups Reveal World's Top Scientific Cities
'Life depends on science but the…
jdupuis | February 26, 2011
The Tablet Wars Are On, With Big Stakes for Publishers
5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
How will undergraduates navigate a post peer-review scholarly landscape?
Social Network Mapping Fun with NodeXL and Science Online 2011
Authors, Readers and Discoverability in the new age of publishing
Tell us something we don't know: Gladwell on the U.S. News college rankings (non-academics as public intellectuals)
The digital pioneers: New forms of scholarship are transforming areas of the humanities
Do Record Stores Point the Way of the Future for Bookstores?
The…
jdupuis | February 23, 2011
The problem with online reputation
E-Book Piracy on the Rise
How to Use Social Media for Marketing
Another Lesson About Cognition And The Web: Lara Logan And Hate
Hawking contra Philosophy
The 'Triumph Of The City' May Be Greener
Email is Over
Early results: public data archiving increases scientific contribution by more than a third
Kobo: What Do eBook Customers Really, Really Want?
Optimism in reality-based reality
Does the web make experts dumb?
Bring on The Live Web
Social innovation: a simple model
Citation tools & Future of Publishing
About the preservation of databases
Things I…
jdupuis | February 19, 2011
Earn a Nobel Prize in your Lunch-Break! The Best "Citizen Science" Games Reviewed!
Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement
On Twitter and Machiavellian Intelligence
Who Needs a Netbook?
Tech Tools for Scholars - The Sequel
From the Archives: On Blogging
Letter Re Software and Scientific Publications - Nature
The urgency for change
In Defense of Science Blogs (yes again)
Want to succeed in online content? Get small, be open, go free
Science Dogme: a manifesto for science, technology and medicine exhibitions and here for the article.
Citation tools…
jdupuis | February 17, 2011
The Edupunks are coming ... to an Edu-Factory near you!
The connected company
Scholarly Reportage: Fad or Movement?
The Importance Of Physical Space
2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 1 - Overall Market
Taking scientific publishing to the next level
A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk
Dumped On by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge Is Drowning Research
You Can Lead Students To Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?
Social media: A guide for researchers
There Is No Such Thing As A Girl Gamer
Social Media Metrics
What We Talk About When We Talk About…
jdupuis | February 12, 2011
Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking
Contemporary Student Life
Discovering the scientific conversation
It isn't just students: Medical researchers aren't citing previous work either
The Evolution of Book Publishing; or, On the Trail to Stage Five
Turning vanity publishing on its head
One in Three College Students Is Coasting. This Is News?
What if a book is just a URL?
Big Data, Big Problems
Producing Academic Leaders
What Degrees Should Mean
Good Old Fashioned Values
Seven ways to think like the web
The Web: Why Users No Longer Matter
How to Make a Geek Goddess Spit with Rage
jdupuis | February 11, 2011
Startups in the Personal Data Ecosystem
Elements of an Effective Public Education Toolkit
The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL
How to Promote Zotero at Your Institution and Why
Disruption, Delivery and Degrees
Measuring Impact Beyond Academic Fame: An Alternative Social Impact Factor
Character Education for the Digital Age
Encouraging Scientific Data Use
Time for textbook tycoons to give students a break
Publishing science in a connected world
Data-security horror stories
In Person: Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia
The Complete History of Social Networking…
jdupuis | February 10, 2011
Are science blogs stuck in an echo chamber? Chamber? Chamber?
What's a PhD worth at the finish line? On hiring committees
'Academically Adrift'
Dlib on research data
E-books and Their Containers: A Bestiary of the Evolving Book
Managing your scholarly identity
To Library, or Not to Library
Knowledge Dissemination: blogging vs peer review
The journo-programmer
Publishing an open access book?
10 reasons NOT to be on Twitter
Heads they win, tails we lose: Discovery tools will never deliver on their promise
Pirates of Perchance
Science Blogging and Tenure
On Science Publishing by John Wilbanks