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How to Credit . . . via DesignSponge

This is a fun summary of citation options online, and makes me wonder: are new methods of publishing making scholarship better, or just more complicated?


Reposted from Shelfless. Written by Julia Martin.

Posted 13 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Holiday Data Snapshot

This is a short write-up about a month worth of pageviews on the Gottesman Libraries' Pressible site. There's a lot more one could do with the analytics, but I was just sharing a brief analysis.


Reposted from Learning at the Library. Written by Brian Hughes.

I was browsing our site analytics today and I thought it'd be fun to share a little snippet of data. Here is a table with information on pageviews over the past month (12/14/2010 to 1/13/2011), by author: Analysis Now, our Pressible publishing project isn't a contest, but... it's kind of fun to see how different …

Posted 16 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Taking responsibility for the impact of software

Here's Steve Jobs, from a recent email thread with Gawker's Ryan Tate: Do you create anything, or just criticize others (sic) work and belittle their motivations? This last missive from Job's is a nice rejoinder from a back-and-forth with Tate about Apple's iPad platform (and related technologies). And if you don't look too closely, you …

Posted 24 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Publishers as purveyors of education

In Post-Medium Publishing, Paul Graham makes the very elegant point that people have never paid for content. He explores this point from a few directions, pointing the way toward a future with low-cost distribution and high-quality "events." Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won't pay for content anymore. At …

Posted 32 months ago by Brian Hughes

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The textbook for hip introductions

I found Shmoop recently, which is a site that lures young learners with the promise of short, "hip" introductions to everything a student needs to know. It's a funny site that seems like it's meant to be a somewhat encyclopedic review of all the topics that might be in a standard curriculum (it calls itself …

Posted 39 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Awards for online learning tools

I was just perusing the great set of professional development resources our EdLab team created for the Teaching the Levees project, and I'm saddened that there are no awards for online learning resources. OK, so I'm not entirely surprised. (Would any existing award include this in anything but a minor way?) Short of finding …

Posted 48 months ago by Brian Hughes

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After Ed TV is launched

After Ed TV is the new home of EdLab's nascent web video channel. We designed this site to serve as an archive of past episodes, but also as a destination for upcoming promotional efforts. Our primary goal at this point is to see if we can get other organizations to post our multi-video player on …

Posted 54 months ago by Brian Hughes

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