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Are you an academic with a tight research budget? Do you have no research budget at all? I’m going to throw Android Applications like Shop Savvy and Compare Everywhere into the mix as one of the ways the Google Phone can be useful for academics.
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I just got my T-mobile G1 (google phone), and I’m using it to write this post. Typing is quick and easy. The keyboard layout is great. Now I can blog about philosophy - while on the go. In other news: I am now the technology associate for our professional development center. Because of this, you [...]
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I just added a new feature to Sympoze called an External Vote Button, and I’m hoping that Sympoze users and philosophy bloggers will help me start testing it. This should make submitting and voting up philosophy blog posts way easier and more efficient for Sympoze users. You can see it just under the title of [...]
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Here’s a good article about Ubuntu (and its founder Mark Shuttleworth) in the New York Times. Here’s an interesting quote. The often quirky software remains in the realm of geeks, not grandmothers. If the machine is built on hardware that is known to be Ubuntu compatible, then I’m not sure the above quote applies. My [...]
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Many months ago I presented an objection to a view called musical perdurantism. Now I want to discuss a different objection. First a refresher. Ben Caplan and Carl Matheson define musical perdurantism as follows. According to musical perdurantism, a musical work is a fusion of performances. On this view, works persist by perduring: that is, [...]
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John Basl has compiled a list of Philosophers using Twitter. This list keeps growing, and I just wanted to help John spread the word. If you don’t know what Twitter is check out his follow up post here. In that second post he discusses the issue - Why would a philosopher want a Twitter account? [...]
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I just discovered what promises to be a cool plugin for Word Press. It’s called Twitter Updater. If it works, every time I publish a blog post, Word Press will automatically update my Twitter status with something that says “Published a New Post: [Title]“. This is a test post to see if it works. UPDATE: [...]
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There were two parts of the debate tonight where I honestly can’t figure out what McCain was thinking. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I’m saying that, as a matter of fact, I do not know what was going on in McCain’s head - and I’m genuinely curious to find out. Does McCain [...]
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I’ve been posting about the controversial law suit that Thomson Reuters (EndNote makers) have filed against the makers of Zotero here and here. Ironically, I just received a request from Thomson Reuters to participate in Market Research today. I thought it was worth reminding other academics who might receive this request that Thomson Reuters is [...]
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