I wish Technorati would add a feature that would let me see the overlap between two (or more) cosmos. For example, who’s in both Seb Paqet’s Cosmos and Jonathon Delacour’s? And which of those are not in mine? Being able to do that kind of boolean logic on Cosmos sets would be really useful for finding new blogs relevant to your own interests.
Not sure if Technorati makes any of their data available, but I’d love to turn a couple of students loose on projects like this…
Have enforced a cooling-off period for myself on this topic…will respond this weekend to some of the comments, but I’m not sure there’s much that’s new to say at this point.
However, for those who have been following the discussion, here’s a link to an interesting relevant article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled “Opting Out of Academic Science.” Stories. I like stories. They show us a more multifaceted world—one where broad labels for entire groups of people (“academics,” “politicians,” “bloggers”) just don’t work.
Actually, the whole “Career Network” section of the The Chronicle is full of stuff related to this recent debate. Another one is “The Two-Year Attraction,” about the growing number of people choosing to work in community colleges rather than 4-year institutions.
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Oh, one more, specifically addressing the explotation of adjuncts, something that Invisible Adjunct raised in his/her comments here. “All Right Already, We’re Exploited.”
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