So after all the compromises made on the stimulus bill to get Republican support, the roll call is in. The result? Not a single Republican vote. Post-partisanism is a dream, and it always has been. It’s a fiction created by a bunch of Washington journalists who would like the parties they go to to be Continue reading

Leigh Blackall replies to my previous post using the example of working with MediaWiki (which is a boon to reuse, but requires training and formatting time — which, in turn, sucks some of the uptake out of transparency efforts). It’s a great example of something just at the edges — like Leigh, I think my Continue reading

I’ve been looking at a number of comparisons of Carnegie Mellon’s OLI resources to MIT’s OCW, most stimulated by David Wiley’s course on Open Education. The comparisons are interesting, and it’s great to see the different angles people have found on this. However, I haven’t seen what I consider to be the core difference articulated Continue reading

Cryptic note today at Federal Computer Week: General Services Administration officials are negotiating with Google’s YouTube about the rules governing posting government videos on YouTube, a GSA official said today. The negotiations focus on YouTube’s terms of service, said Tobi Edler, a GSA spokeswoman. A coalition of federal agencies led by GSA’s Office of Citizen Continue reading

I’m a Krugman/DeLong sort of guy when it comes to economics, but I do try to as read widely as my limited free time permits. Even more so since the crash.  And I do read the critiques of infrastructure spending. That’s a small reading list lately. But it’s there. Reading the Becker-Posner blog today, I Continue reading

So I read my Friday post, and it’s a mess. So here’s my point, simply stated: We are an event-driven culture. The reasons for that in the past have often been due to technical limitation. Those limitations are gone, and now we find ourselves in a world where we no longer have to pull our Continue reading

“Cohort” is a term used in sociology and education that refers to a group of people that experience a certain set of events simultaneously as they move through time.  Cohort isn’t a perfect term, but I wonder if we are coming to a point where we need a term that gets rid of the meddlesome Continue reading

We’re facing the most dire economic situation in our nation’s history, but that doesn’t prevent Inside HigherEd from printing the most uninformed analyses of the current situation. Here’s a sample. Commenting on a recent letter from 51 “presidents, chancellors, regents, and heads of university associations” asking that portions of the stimulus be spent on shovel-ready  highered Continue reading

I’d thought I was abandoning blogs and projects in a linear pattern, but history here has taken a Viconian turn: I’ve revived my Endless Lunch blog, with the purpose of using it to connect with other writers in pursuing my personal new year’s resolution — to write 52 songs and 12 short stories this year.  Continue reading