Not of General Interest

Dr. Crazy has a good post on the job market , with lots of great advice. I haven't written a post on the job market this year for fear ...

Want to play? You have to submit your own story, though, to get the t-shirt, and it's not clear what kinds of privacy safeguards are in ...

Carol Fungaroli Sargent at Georgetown's Office of Scholarly and Literary Publications is blogging her writing process as she works thro...

It's true that some people can read conference papers at close to the speed of sound--good papers, too, though if you're taking not...

Peg Boyle Single on daily writing at Inside Higher Ed : Motivation in writing comes from prewriting, prewriting, prewriting. Motivation occu...

Like Ianqui , I've wanted to write an excuse to my blog for not updating just because things are getting busy. But one of the things I w...

Just a quick post to say that lately, if I'm in conversation with a group of people or at a conference, and we're talking about etex...

At the Chronicle , Mark Bauerlein is a little late to the party--he's just figured out that texting while driving might, just might, not...

Historiann had a food post the other day all about food and identity and political significance . This one doesn't have any of those thi...

Speaking of old television programs, there was one called The Honeymooners that has been playing on an infinite repeating loop on one statio...

Embriskenment: the act of lighting a fire under one's own prose, metaphorically speaking, while editing so that the sentences move along...

Back in the days of variety shows, there used to be some guy whose whole act was setting up poles and spinning plates on top of them, usuall...

From Washington Monthly, via Edge of the American West . The article is about Straighterline, a for-big-profits educational company. The pri...

I've been reading The Autobiography of William Lyon Phelps (1939), and while it does have some sigh-worthy features (such as having col...

From the Chronicle's "Is it a Library? A Student Center? " (behind the subscription wall--sorry). This one's at Goucher Co...

Dispatches from the same routine in a different place. I love watching students walking along campus paths and reading, standing in food li...

For the next few days, I'll be in a different place (literally) and am trying to get to a different place figuratively with my writing. ...

From the Boston Globe, with some interruptions by me. Cushing Academy (yearly tuition: $42,850) is getting rid of its books: “When I ...

Joshua Kim has an article up at Inside Higher Ed called "5 Reasons Microsoft Will Buy Blackboard." Below are Kim's points, ...

Invent your own questions. (Hint: One of these is meant to be delivered in a heavily sarcastic tone.) 1. Not as productive as I'd hoped,...