NY Times Textbook Publishing, Inc.
Greg Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog, 2015/02/27
This is why economists, and especially Harvard economists, have such a poor reputation. Arguing against the New York Times, Greg Mankiw maintaines that high textbook prices are justified because, if prices are too high, a competitor (like, say, the New York Times) could enter the market and undercut prices. More...
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
Tim Wu, The New Yorker, 2015/02/27
I will admit that I was both surprised and pleased by the decision in the United States to support net neutrality, "preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes." In this article Tim Wu - who coined the term 'net neutrality' in the first place - explains why we were wrong to expect the decision would go the other way. More...
Cloudy Logic
Robin James, The New Inquiry, 2015/01/30
A few talks ago I cause a twitter in the audience by comparing big data analytics to astrology. It was no more than a half-formed thought, but as it turns out I'm not the only one who has had this thought and this author - via the mediation of Thomas Adorno - has given it substance. More...
Investigating the Yik Yak attack
Alex Reid, Digital Digs, 2015/01/30
From the moment an application came into existence that allowed people in the same general area to make anonymous comments to each other it became inevitable that students would use it to criticize a professor (hence, the 'Yik Yak attack'). It is also inevitable that within a few minutes to the incident the Chronicle would publish an article lamenting the behaviour. More...
From free to fee: How U.S. dailies decide to use paywalls
Natalie Jomini Stroud, American Press Institute, 2015/01/30
Interesting report that observes that few newspapers use research of any sort (beyond asking each other whether it's a good idea) before implementing paywalls (it's a summary of a recent paper that is not available online (I searched)). More...
The Book of Life
Various authors, 2015/03/02
Another find from Doug Belshaw is this absolutely fascinating Book of Life. It's organized into Capitalism, Work, Relationships, and Self, each one with a number of subtopics. More...
What Necessary Adult Skills Were You Never Taught Growing Up?
Eric Ravenscraft, LifeHacker, 2015/03/02
Doug Belshaw flags this article in LifeHacker asking people to comment on the life skills they never learned growing up. As one commenter says, "I just realized, this entire article boils down to 'give Lifehacker ideas for future articles'." But hey, why not? In any case, the comments section is filled with ideas for good life lessons. More...
The Voodoo That MOOCs Do
Ryan Craig, Inside Higher Ed, 2015/03/02
When friends at the University of Alberta told me about their upcoming Dino 101 MOOC, I was enthusiastic. "It's going to draw a million people," I said. It went on to draw considerably fewer, still a success, but nothing like what it could have been. More...
Silicon Valley likes to promise ‘digital socialism’ – but it is selling a fairytale
Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian, 2015/03/02
One of the things I've learned over the years is to resist letting positions I hold be defined by their opponents. One of those positions happens to be socialism, and while it is true it has evolved over the years, it nonetheless resembles nothing like what is discussed by Evgeny Morozov in this column for the Guardian, or by Kevin Kelly in the 2009 article Morozov is responding to. More...
L'observatoire régional des métiers organise sa 7e journée de culture commune du Réseau régional pour l’égalité femmes-hommes sur le thème "Métiers techniques et industriels : Recruter Mixte ?", le jeudi 05 avril 2018 de 8h45 à 16h30 au Centre Canopé (salle Cézanne) 31 boulevard d’Athènes - 13001 Marseille (métro Saint-Charles).
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