I got into an interesting discussion on Twitter with Rosa Maria Torres regarding Anya Kamenetz’s graph on the cost of higher education in the U.S. She made the fair point that the graph should be labeled so that readers know the data is for the United States (which I have now done). She also asserted […]
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Why Higher Education Is In Trouble–In One Graph
Here’s a graph from a recent presentation by Anya Kamenetz: The word that comes to mind is “Yikes!” Here’s the full preso: DIY U Sungard from Anya Kamenetz
A New Job
After four and a half really interesting years at Oracle, I am moving on. As of Monday, April 4th, I will have a new job in a different company. I’d like to tell you a bit about what I’ll be doing next and how it will—and won’t—affect my blogging.
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More About the Interview Videos
I have gotten some good feedback and done some thinking regarding how to improve my interviews. I’m a bit torn, though. People seem to want shorter interviews, but I really like the long form. I hear lots of five- and ten-minute interviews, and I rarely get much of value out of them. At the same […]
The iPad and the iLabs
There’s just so much to like about the LetterMPress project: To begin with, I found it on KickStarter, a great site for crowd funding art projects that I learned about thanks to my friends at smARThistory. (There’s still one day left to donate to their project!) There’s something very satisfying about direct micro-funding of local […]