Too Much Information?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Jaschik: Too Much Information?, Inside Higher Ed October 11, 2005

The author highlights two professors who were denied tenure at Chicago, and while careful not to link their blogs and their denial, writes a story about it. "Asked if their blogs hurt their tenure bids, Carroll and Drezner answer in nearly identical ways: They are certain that their tenure chances weren't improved by having a blog, and while their chances might have been hurt, they don't have any certainty about that." Which to me points to the real problem - the secrecy in which such decisions are made. More...