Proliferation of researcher profiles
As a research active academic I publish papers and engage in other research activities that hopefully have some impact. Just what that impact is and how to measure it will…
Happy New Year! (again)
A custom of this now nearly dormant weblog is a post at new year. The first such post that I could find was for 2002. Back then I was using…
Where will the money for MOOCs come from?
The thing that caught my eye about this report in the Chronicle of Bill Gates’ keynote at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit was: “In the Q&A, Mr. Gates predicted that…
Goodbye Google Reader hello Feedly
The retirement of Google Reader has forced me like many others to look for an alternative service to manage my RSS subscriptions. I’ve tried a number of services and apps…
Bulletproof blog
I’ve had an interesting few weeks fixing my blog. It was hacked. I suspect – though I have no direct proof – through my domain host CPanel account. Reading around…
Trying Pixel Pumper
Interesting new app and alternative to MarsEdit. Curious name.