Tenure Track Opening at USU

Although the position is open until filled, we will officially begin reviewing applications for our “Assistant/Associate professor position”:http://personnel.usu.edu/W2-123-03.htm on Friday the 15th. Personally I’m still hoping to see some applicants whose name I recongize from the blogosphere. =) With three new hires in the next 18 months or so, we’re poised to really rebuild the … Read more

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Deafening Silence

There have been a grand total of two posts to the cc.edu mailing lists (the discussion about an educational use-only option for the Creative Commons licensing infrastructure) not authored by one of the CC people. You can access the archives here “http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-education/”:http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-education/. Stephen has been vocal in his thinking that cc.edu is a bad idea, … Read more

Trackback SPAM?

As part of PITCH we are working on developing a clean growth path for comments attached to a published article to grow into a published article of their own. As we have envisioned many uses of trackback for this purpose, it occured to me: why isn’t there trackback SPAM? Couldn’t a malicious person send a … Read more

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