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This has been doing the rounds, I got it from Biblioklept.

via Nick Srnicek – click on it to expand. I know this is ‘economic risks’ but interesting to see how minor a position ‘terrorism’ has. How would it have been seen ten years ago? [Update: some analysis here]

If you can get past the Harry Potter bit, this is actually an interesting discussion of modes of knowledge organisation and retrieval.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

Adrian Ivakhiv has some thoughts on “The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian“. I am someone who did a first degree in Politics and Modern history – though taught from a single department of Government – with a PhD from that … Continue reading →

If you’re interested in pursuing graduate studies at Durham or Newcastle Universities, the North East Doctoral Training scholarships, deadline 24 February 2012, have now been advertised. I’ve also just updated the list of broad areas in which I’m interested in supervising … Continue reading →

Some good suggestions here. To the first set I would add this: allow people to subscribe without receiving posts, if the list provides an RSS feed. If you read lots of blogs then putting a listserv feed into your reader … Continue reading →

Mary Beard has recently dedicated her column ‘A Don’s Life’ to a day in email, and I thought I’d do the same. After yesterday’s message ‘Evernote, Email, Organisation’ it seemed fitting. I was pretty shocked at the number that arrived … Continue reading →

I only heard about Evernote recently (via this which I stumbled upon via WordPress), and have been using it for a few weeks. It’s great, and has made a big difference to how I keep notes and lists. It takes … Continue reading →