"My pet Theory of Professional Academic Associations is that the discipline’s organizational life inverts its core intellectual commitments..."
Nice oped by Viviana Zelizer about why it's considered so bad to give money as a gift.
Mayo Fuster Morrell looks likely to graduate soon from EUI. I'm looking forward to reading your dissertation.
Dude. We did this EXACT experiment last night!
I could this blog post as my reading list for the next sevreal months.
More books I need to read. Things get added onto this stack a lot faster than I keep up with them.
Check out the Reducing Inequality post which were recently featured on Crooked Timber. Recommended reading.
Looks like an awesome conference, although it seems it will conflict with the Knight News conference. Damn.
Amazing review of a truly amazing article. Via AaronSw, to whom I am now in debt.
A newspaper columnist once told of her shock when, having struck up a rapport with a man over dinner, she was told at the end of the meal he had no vacancies for friends. He was operating a "one-in, one-out" policy. Six months later she received a card stating he was now available for friendship.
A quick look at some of the issues raised by computation research using FB or other social networks.
