Not of General Interest

If this doesn't make you wince, read it again.  Yes, we knew a while back that there'd be no credit for you in a MOOC if you're...

I've been intrigued by Claire Potter/Tenured Radical's two posts about writing in public and Historiann's recent roundup menti...

Today is Martin Luther King Day.  Among other things we need to remember on this day is that the whole controversy over establishing it, mo...

ADM has the best response to the jobs crisis: it's not a discipline issue but a labor issue.   http://anotherdamnedmedievalist.wordpre...

Dr. Virago and Miriam Burstein have posts up about Michael Berube's public Facebook post suggesting the end of the MLA conference inter...

Julian Fellowes ( Gosford Park, Downton Abbey ) on Writing “I think a lot in bed at night. When I wake up, I never try to get back to s...

Happy New Year, everyone! I don't want to reflect on this year (too little done on the Laocoon manuscript , for one thing), but here are...

Bardiac  very reasonably asks whether the job situation is worse now than it used to be.   I don't have the answer, but the MLA does:...

I hope Christmas and all holidays were and are peaceful, restful, and happy.

Wow. Ignore the interwebs for a week or so and they blow up with a new issue.  Who'd have thought it? Recently, Rebecca Schuman (you k...

1. You know how people are always warned to make hard-to-crack passwords and end up using "password" or "12345678" or ...

Aren't we all keeping the plates spinning about now, just trying to get through grading papers, or calculating grades, or turning in gra...

Historiann , Dr. Crazy , Belle , and What Now are being thankful for/expressing gratitude at this appropriate season, and so will I, knockin...

I can't stop thinking about something that Historiann said in her comments section in the post on "Death of an Adjunct": Ten...

During Sebastian Thrun's recent "aw, we were just kidding about MOOCs" statements (see Jonathan Rees and Historiann ), some...

When I was a child, I read voraciously, as most of us probably did.  What I didn't have was any kind of framework for putting these book...

Historiann weighs in on the mean-spirited review of Disregarding Henry in The Chronicle and quite reasonably wonders why the reviewer bash...

I see a lot of people, including bloggers, posting about what they are thankful for this month.  It's a nice trend, especially since the...

At NYTimes.com  today, Tim Kreider urges the slaves of the internet to unite http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-...

Over at Slate, Rebecca Schuman suggests that the "quitting academe" essay could practically constitute its own genre :  Sarah Ke...