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More on structural problems with academic research 27 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Not to get too cynical, but I do think it is important for librarians to be aware of ongoing research into structural (not just ‘bad actor’) problems with academic research and the validity or quality...
Designing beyond the screen 7 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
A great article from A List Apart: Designing for Services Beyond the Screen by ANDY POLAINE June 25, 2013 You redesign the website for an airline, but who is designing the check-in machines, the CRM ...
19th century online romance — and access barriers to public domain texts 1 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
Via BoingBoing, a review of a book about romance via online chat, written in the 19th century. Not a metaphor, it’s what the book is really about — telegraph style! Sweet. So you can get the book fro...
E-dissertation embargoes in the NYTimes 30 Jul 2013 | 06:06 pm
Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations By NOAM COHEN Published: July 28, 2013 the American Historical Association last week… issued a statement calling on universities to allow newly mint...
Thoughts on attending a day and a half of Bradley Manning’s trial 19 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
19 July 2013, Jonathan Rochkind I attended the Bradley Manning court martial trial on one full day yesterday, and another half day of trial a couple weeks ago. The trial is taking place at Ft. Meade,...
Categorization of user-reported broken links in SFX 11 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
Kasper Løvschall from Aalborg University in Denmark posted the following to the SFX user’s listserv. I thought it was interesting enough to deserve wider publication, so reproduce it with his kind pe...
Against universal surveillance 4 Jul 2013 | 09:26 pm
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The true cost of adding new features 2 Jul 2013 | 02:21 am
Last week I saw an essay from Kris Gale that struck a chord with me: For years, the two things that most frustrated me to hear from product managers were “how hard would it be…” and “can’t you just…”...
Comparing MRI Rails App Server Performance on Heroku 1 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
I wrote up some experimental benchmarking of various Rails app server options on heroku. I was interested in MRI 1.9.3 (yes, MRI, with the GIL), Rails 3.2 with config.threadsafe! set, so the app ca...
An aid for those developing against the Summon api 21 Jun 2013 | 02:12 am
I whipped this thing up. JSON syntax highlighting might be nice, working on it. https://github.com/jrochkind/summon_debug_proxy When developing against the Serials Solutions Summon search API, as wi...
