Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Create accounts on my MacBook and really get a handle on securing it.
Create a custom search engine in Google that would search the sites I tend to read the most: Lifehacker, Marginal Revolution, Kevin Kelly's sites, 43Folders, Web Worker Daily, my delicious bookmarks, Ask Metafilter, etc. I created a custom ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
When I let it be known around the office back in 2006 that I was interested in going back to school, and that I'd targeted UNC's SILS, an acquaintance introduced me to a friend of hers who had just gotten her MSLS degree from there. I think we talked in ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Rachael in the elevator: "So, Mike, are you going to do a doctorate?"
Dr. Tibbo as she was leaving her office: "So, Mike, has Carolyn talked to you about joining the doctoral program?"
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Narrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches.
First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist's imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb.
"Once you've restricted yourself to information that turns up in ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
William Turkel, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Ontario, runs a great blog, "Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the infinite archive."
I first ran across his blog last year via a couple of his research-related posts, the kind of "how to succeed at grad school" material that ...
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