May 2013
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Anyone whose life is affected by the activities of an organization has a stake...
– R. Edward Freeman
January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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Barack Obama Being Adorable with Adorable Children
This is totally adorable.
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October 2012
22 posts
A U.S. Department of Education analysis found that students in fully online...
– The Blended Learning Toolkit: Improving Student Performance and Retention (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) — www.educause.edu — Readability from readability.com via Findings.
Once, readers came to the book: The first printed folios were chained to...
– Reading in Place - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education from chronicle.com via Findings.
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But the example they set by talking to someone they disagree with is a valuable...
– Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly Debate: Inside the Hilarious Rumble | Entertainment | TIME.com from time.com via Findings.
One student found a scholarly article defending God to be unpersuasive, but when...
– Habits of Mind: Lessons for the Long Term - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education from chronicle.com via Findings.
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September 2012
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This woman was a therapist who billed by the hour, and she assumed that when you...
– Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 2012
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His key suggestion was to name someone or a team of people to be the...
– Startup Thinking In Higher Ed: a conversation with Eric Ries - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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The only reason anyone uses the word evil about Google, is because Google asked...
– The Case Against Google
The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its...
– Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
January 2012
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We cannot say it often enough. The intellectual work for scholarly publications...
– Breaking technology | Scholarly Communications @ Duke
December 2011
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Tea (Modern Marvels) (by H2)
October 2011
4 posts
Barnes & Noble, with a tablet of its own to nurture, did not like this one...
– Bookstores Drop Comics After Amazon Deal With DC - NYTimes.com
Talk about focusing on content rather than containers!
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A weary cynicism, a belief that justice will never get served, has taken over...
– Confronting the Malefactors - NYTimes.com
September 2011
5 posts
Goldilocks Reviews the Sunshine Mary Jane Pump on...
You might like this: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/goldilocks-reviews-the-sunshine-mary-jane-pump-on-zappos
There are ideas that can literally put you in physical danger, which this one...
– Jonathan Safran Foer to appear at Festival of Dangerous Ideas
If you rank the largest classes for each school by size, the top ten graduating...
– Is the United States Training Too Many Librarians or Too Few? (Part 1) | In the Library with the Lead Pipe
This is COMPLETELY fascinating to me. I expect/hope to see a lot of discussion of the field/retention/retirement/graduate in the near future.