The University of Michigan announces an eleven-month postdoctoral fellowship position. The position will start September 1, 2013. Position Description The Department of Communication Studies (in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) and the School of Information are jointly offering a postdoctoral fellow position in the multidisciplinary area of “infrastructure studies.” The addition of …
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The World Financial Review has published a 'sort of' excerpt from Information Wants to be Shared. It may interest readers of this blog.
Netflix launched a new, self-produced, series, House of Cards. There are many things unique about it. First, it is exclusive to Netflix. Second, Netflix released the whole series in one block last week. It is the second bit that I believe may turn out to be a real issue. From the NYT: Netflix’s release strategy …
The Sloan Foundation is looking for a Program Associate, Economics. It is a position that will likely interest readers of this blog or their students. Here is the description. Roles and Responsibilities: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation seeks a very bright, highly motivated, and well-organized individual for the position of Program Associate in Economics starting in …
That is the contention of Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu. Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and …
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Over the last few days, many commentators, notably Daring Fireball's John Gruber, have been frustrated at, other commentators', but also the market's reaction to Apple's earning report. Basically, over the last quarter, Apple's share price has fallen around 35%. This is the same quarter that got them record iPhone sales, record iPad sales, numerous product …
This is Oswald the Rabbit. He could have been Mickey and Walt Disney wanted him to be: Oswald was created by Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks for Universal Studios in 1927 — a time when cartoons ran before every movie in the theater and sound was a luxury. The character was almost instantly a …
Yesterday I was at Oxford University presenting at a BBC Trust Seminar on the Economics of Broadcasting hosted by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. As it turned out, the discussion mainly focussed on the justification for the BBC continuing as a public entity. I hadn't given that subject much thought considering the …
Yesterday, Facebook announced "Graph Search." It's an engineering name that is accurate and communicates nothing to the general public. Nonetheless, the engineering face stops with the name as the feature itself is designed with humans in mind. Facebook's own introduction describes graph search nicely. It is basically a search engine for social networks -- in …
It is no understatement to say that the business book market is saturated. Most of it is not nearly of the quality that I would comfortably hand or recommend those books to MBA students; which is incredible since MBA students and alumni are invariably the target market for such books. Most of those books steer …
