Getting Funding Is Hard, Especially For Women—There’s a bias in favor of men in the academic peer-review process, an anonymous author writes, and it leads to women being turned down inordinately often for promotions. How do we go about fixing this? (The Guardian)
Will Digital Humanities #Disrupt the University?—No spoiler here: The humanities are suffering. Can DH, with its many definitions, save the field? Or will it kill it off for good? (Slate). See more...

By Brian Mathews. Two years ago this week I visited the Googleplex. It was a mind-stretching experience. I also went to PARC, d school, the lobby of IDEO, Facebook, a handful of startups, and a few accelerators. It was a fantastic and exhausting journey. Google stood out for its blend of hospitality and the sheer shock-and-awesomeness of the place. More...

By Konrad M. Lawson. The world of software and online services is a densely populated field of companies who want you to share your to-do list with them. We’ve reviewed some of them here, including Todoist, Gqueues, Wunderlist, Basecamp, and Got Milk?. New options are appearing all the time, but I’ve long been a fan of Omnifocus and have good friends who swear by Things, both of which grow out of the Mac/iOS ecosystem. More...

By George Williams. Back in February I asked you to share your favorite new podcasts. Today, I’d like to learn what your favorite app for listening to those podcasts. (Obviously, there are several candidates to choose from.) More...

By Tracy Mitrano. My first week on the job as Director of IT Policy at Cornell University in 2001, a manager in systems, Sarah, invited me into her office. After some meet and greet, she asked me what I knew technically about the Internet. Not much, I admitted. My husband was an electrical engineer. Forever I owe him gratitude for teaching me about it while I was in law school as well as providing me with a modem and an I.B.M. computer (while he used Apple :-). But because he worked on semi-conductors, I could better describe the gallium-arsenide atomic layering of a transistor than I could explain anything technological about the Internet. Read more...

By Tracy Mitrano. Fascinating how this vulnerability grabbed headlines. Understandable, given that it is about the SSL connection for e-commerce, that it caught attention. Intriguing because it caused users to change passwords. It is notable that the net loss of personally identifiable information was, in fact, only fractional.  Very few, if any, users are likely to have fraud committed as a result of this vulnerability. It hardly rates when compared to full-blown breaches that almost surely have each and every one of our social security numbers for sale on the black market. Read more...

The Web Literacy Learning Pathways map is a supplement to the Mozilla Web Literacy Standard. It helps users explore the skills they should work on next to improve their web literacy, based on their current competences. Web Literacy Learning Pathways. More...