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Software technical writer at the moment (and for the last 20 years), also a part-time graduate student at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), going for a master’s in Information Science.

What I DIDN’T do this summer

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 engine of usability sites for [...]

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Advice to a 40-odder on re-entering school

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 January or February and I [...]

Hallway conversations

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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Links Harvest: novels, narrative, BAE

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 Google searches, you begin having [...]

Digital History Hacks

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 I continue to scarf up. [...]

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