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Too little has been invested in the more fruitful task, to build the institutions needed to help us sift through this grand abundance of speech, to find that and whom are worth hearing, to enable listening and learning.
Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
Glance over the structure and features of the article.
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
If professors are participating in public life less and less, that’s because there are fewer and fewer tenured professors.
Katie Rose Guest Pryal • The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career
news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
newsletter, all in Smart Brevity, that details in order of importance what we’re thinking or doing. It is blunt, fun and essential.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Berkeley is a microcosm of the intrusion of corporations into education. Education, at least an education that challenges assumptions and teaches students to be self-critical, has been sacrificed in a Faustian bargain. Charles Schwartz, an emeritus professor of physics, drew up a chart that showed that in the last fourteen years, from 1993 to 2007,
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