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    <dc:date>2025-08-09T21:03:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF's call for experimental book projects. 

OBF's aim with the pilot projects is to promote the publication of experimental books. To achieve this aim, OBF wants to foster sustainable communities of authors, publishers, developers, editors, reviewers, and open-source technology providers who engage in more experimental forms of book publishing. Our focus is specifically on the publishing process and on adapting academic publishers' existing workflows and processes to accommodate better the multiple forms and formats academic long-form research can take. As part of the pilot projects, the Experimental Publishing Group works closely with the authors, presses, and technology providers to foster communities of practice that can support experimental book publishing. The pilots will further demonstrate and develop the possibilities of experimental scholarly publications thus helping to increase the recognition given to work published in non-traditional ways.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2020-01-19T13:54:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the humanities appear to be less coherent as a cluster of scholarship than the sciences are, they do share unique characteristics which lead to distinct scholarly communication and research practices. A discourse on making these practices more open and transparent needs to take account of these characteristics. The prevalent scientific perspective in the discourse on more open practices does not do so, which confirms that the discourse’s name, open science, indeed excludes the humanities so that talking about open science in the humanities is incoherent. In this paper, I argue that there needs to be a dedicated discourse for more open research and communication practices in the humanities, one that integrates several elements currently fragmented into smaller, unconnected discourses (such as on open access, preprints, or peer review). I discuss three essential elements of open science—preprints, open peer review practices, and liberal open licences—in the realm of the humanities to demonstrate why a dedicated open humanities discourse is required. View Full-Text
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    <title>Patterns for… by Richard D. Bartlett [PDF/iPad/Kindle]</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-24T15:34:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a book about working in groups, based on 7 years experience in community projects and startups.

I’m not so interested in what you’re working on together, I’m just going to focus on how you do it. To my way of thinking, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a better electric vehicle, or develop government policy, or blockade a pipeline; whenever you work with a group of people on a shared objective, there’s some stuff you’re going to deal with, some challenges. How do we decide what we’re working on? who does what? who can join our team? what are our expectations for each other? what happens when someone doesn’t fulfil those expectations? what do we do with disagreement? how do decisions get made?

I’m convinced there is not a “one size fits all” recipe, a management structure that you can take off the shelf and install in your collective or your company. But my hypothesis is that there are patterns: common design elements you can draw on as you construct a recipe that’s right for you. Each pattern in this book names a challenge that you are likely to face, and offers tools and techniques you can try in response to that challenge.

This is a book for community organisers, leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, founders... if you work with groups of humans, these patterns apply to you.

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[what are the top 3 journals you would like to see break away from their commercial publisher?

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sci-Hub is currently available at:]]></description>
<dc:subject>open-access publishing disintermediation-in-action damn-straight</dc:subject>
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    <title>Open Conference Systems | Public Knowledge Project</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-04T14:10:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Open Conference Systems (OCS) is a free Web publishing tool that will create a complete Web presence for your scholarly conference. OCS will allow you to:

create a conference Web site
compose and send a call for papers
electronically accept paper and abstract submissions
allow paper submitters to edit their work
post conference proceedings and papers in a searchable format
post, if you wish, the original data sets
register participants
integrate post-conference online discussions]]></description>
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    <title>Why is it more difficult to imagine the end of universities than the end of capitalism, or: is the crisis of the university in fact a crisis of imagination? – Jana Bacevic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T14:32:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://janabacevic.net/2017/10/11/is-the-crisis-of-the-university-in-fact-a-crisis-of-imagination/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m particularly interested in questions such as:

Qualifications and credentials: can we imagine a society where universities do not hold a monopoly on credentials? What would this look like?
Knowledge work: can we conceive of knowledge production (teaching and research) not only ‘outside of’, but without the university? What would this look like?
Financing: what other modes of funding for knowledge production are conceivable? Is there a form of public funding that does not involve universities (e.g., through an academic workers’ cooperative – Mondragon University in Spain is one example – or guild)? What would be the implications of this, and how it would be regulated?
Built environment/space: can we think of knowledge not confined to specific buildings or an institution? What would this look like – how would it be organised? What would be the consequences for learning, teaching and research?
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    <title>notes on academic alienation and mass intellectuality | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:32:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/05/05/notes-on-academic-alienation-and-mass-intellectuality/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SEVEN. What Is To Be Done?

The generation of resistances, across an intersectional set of terrains and which acknowledge issues of privilege and powerlessness, require us to move beyond the triptych of private property, commodity exchange and division of labour, to uncover the realities of alienated labour. This is to work against the reconceptualization of academic labour by advocating solidarity inside and outside universities so that academic labour, including that of students, is recognised as having the same fundamental characteristics as other forms of labour and is therefore subject to the same crises of capitalism that are the focus of other social movements. This does not argue for the militant defence of academic labour, but sees it for what it is: wage labour subject to the alienation of the capitalist valorisation process, and to be abolished. Resistance to the processes of work intensification are all the while necessary, but the discovery of new forms of social solidarity and large scale transformation (rather than reformation) of political economy are the end goals.

Here the terrain of personal narratives grounded in alienation, which have yet to reveal their root in alienated labour, open-up the possibility that we might discuss an overcoming of academic competition and overwork. However, developing a counter-hegemonic solidarity requires that such narratives are connected to both a critique of academic labour, and a focus upon social solidarity and the social strike. This situates the exploitation of academic labour against the wider exploitation of paid and unpaid labour in the social factory. Not only must the academic labourer overcome her own competition with other academics to reduce her exploitation, but she must situate this cognitively and emotionally against the abolition of wage-labour more generally.

Of course, this must be attempted in association, so that an alternative intellectual, physical and humane existence might offer new forms of sociability that are grounded in autonomy over time. This requires praxis at the level of society, rather than within specific institutions like universities or inside specific, commodified curricula. As Marx (1844/2014, 115) argues, ‘The resolution of the theoretical contradictions are possible only through practical means, only through the practical energy of man.’

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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/04/11/on-the-alienation-of-academic-labour-and-the-possibilities-for-mass-intellectuality/">
    <title>On the alienation of academic labour and the possibilities for mass intellectuality | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:30:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/04/11/on-the-alienation-of-academic-labour-and-the-possibilities-for-mass-intellectuality/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Abstract: As one response to the secular crisis of capitalism, higher education is being proletarianised. Its academics and students, encumbered by precarious employment, overwhelming debt, and new levels of performance management, are shorn of any autonomy. Increasingly the labour of those academics and students is subsumed and re-engineered for value production, and is prey to the vicissitudes of the twin processes of financialisation and marketization. At the core of understanding the impact of these processes and their relationships to higher education is the alienated labour of the academic, as it defines the sociability of the University. The article examines the role of alienated labour in academic work, and relates this to feelings of hopelessness, in order to ask what might be done differently. The argument centres on the role of mass intellectuality, or socially-useful knowledge and knowing, as a potential moment for overcoming alienated labour.

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    <title>slides and notes on academic alienation and mass intellectuality | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:18:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/11/01/1372/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I presented at the DMU Institute for Education Futures seminar yesterday. My paper is based on a forthcoming article in a special issue of TripleC on academic labour, and underpins work that I am doing towards a monograph on the alienated academic, for Palgrave Macmillan.

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    <dc:date>2017-09-15T12:43:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jokes aside—adjuncts, graduate assistants, and all contingent and marginalized campus workers work hard, too. Those who believe they are exempt from or unaffected by the low-road administration of higher ed ought to question their educational agency, ethos, and value to the students, not to the system. Get this right: students are not customers and this is their educational opportunity and experience. Education is a public good not a value proposition or a gravy train. While some colleges and ethical administrators get this, many more opt not to.

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    <title>William Deresiewicz: The New Age of Creativity on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-25T12:01:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://vimeo.com/172646692</link>
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    <title>T3 Keynote - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-03T11:18:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFYsTc3NYlA&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=2448</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Robin DeRosa kicks off our conference by helping us look at how working “open” expands the kinds of domains that we might engage in as instructors. Through her personal experiences, she will help us conceptualize “open” as a holistic way to think about the teaching and learning cycle, while offering examples of tools and techniques that can help faculty design courses and programs that expand access to higher education, empower learners, and connect students to the world outside the college.
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/03/14/addicted-to-the-brand-the-hypocrisy-of-a-publishing-academic/">
    <title>Impact of Social Sciences – Addicted to the brand: The hypocrisy of a publishing academic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-25T19:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/03/14/addicted-to-the-brand-the-hypocrisy-of-a-publishing-academic/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If, as principal investigator, I were to advise the PhD students and postdocs in the group here at Nottingham that, in line with the three principles above, they should publish all of their work in the Beilstein J. Nanotech., it would be career suicide for them. To hammer this point home, here’s the advice from one referee of a paper we recently submitted:

“I recommend re-submission of the manuscript to the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, where works of similar quality can be found. The work is definitively well below the standards of [Journal Name].”
There is very clearly a well-established hierarchy here. Journal ‘branding’, and, worse, journal impact factor, remain exceptionally important in (falsely) establishing the perceived quality of a piece of research, despite many efforts to counter this perception, including, most notably, DORA. My hypocritical approach to publishing research stems directly from this perception. I know that if I want the researchers in my group to stand a chance of competing with their peers, we have to target “those” journals. The same is true for all the other PIs out there. While we all complain bitterly about the impact factor monkey on our back, we’re locked into the addiction to journal brand.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/14/omidyar">
    <title>The Omidyar Network and the (Neoliberal) Future of Education</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-14T11:12:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/14/omidyar</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, while in the US we see neoliberalism pushing to dismantle public institutions and public funding for public institutions, in the Global South, these very forces are there touting the “power of markets” to make sure public institutions can never emerge or thrive in the first place. Investors like the Omidyar Network are poised to extract value from the very people they promise their technologies and businesses are there to help.
Conveniently, the Omidyar Network’s investment portfolio also includes journalistic and research organizations that are too poised to promote and endorse the narratives that aggrandize these very technocratic, market-based solutions.
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<item rdf:about="https://qz.com/947480/we-need-a-slow-food-movement-for-higher-education/">
    <title>We need a &quot;slow food&quot; movement for higher education — Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-17T12:08:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://qz.com/947480/we-need-a-slow-food-movement-for-higher-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Slow teaching is not about lowering standards. Rather, it is about reducing our distractedness so that we can focus on our students and our subjects. We need to be able to concentrate on creating a convivial classroom in which our students can meet the challenges—and we can foster the joys—of learning a discipline.
Slow scholarship is about resisting the pressure to reduce thinking to the imperative of immediate usefulness, marketability, and grant generation. It’s about preserving the idea of scholarship as open-ended enquiry. It will improve the quality of teaching and learning.
In the current climate, most of us simply don’t have time for genuine collegiality. As academics become more isolated from each other, we are also becoming more compliant—more likely to see structural problems, including those of general working conditions, as individual failings. When that happens, resistance to corporatization seems futile. Collegiality, properly understood as a community practice, is about mutual support rather than works-in-progress, about sharing our failures as well as our successes, and about collaboration as well as competition. It offers solidarity.
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<item rdf:about="https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/can-coops-revolutionize-the-tech-industry">
    <title>Can Coops Revolutionize the Tech Industry? by Gabrielle Anctil | Model View Culture</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-21T10:57:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/can-coops-revolutionize-the-tech-industry</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert: I love coops.

I do more than just love them, in fact. I believe they can be something of a revolutionary tool for the greater good. Coops have democracy and horizontal decision making processes encased in their DNA. They generally have strong community values and believe in transparency. In a coop, technically, everybody has a voice. And while none of them are perfect, of course, the fact that democracy is so central to the making of a coop generally means that if somebody brings up an important issue – say, oppression – then it cannot be swept under the rug.

When it comes to the world of tech, where inclusivity is still a fight to be fought, I think worker coops can be a powerful weapon.

No wonder I work in one of them.

I started at Koumbit about a year ago, drawn to the values it embodied. But, as a full-time feminist, I was still suspicious of my new work environment: “If this place is so good for women,” I thought, “then why are there only 4 of us on a team of 12 people?”

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<item rdf:about="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1274-resources-for-the-academic-solo-artist">
    <title>Resources for the Academic Solo Artist | Vitae</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-09T18:01:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1274-resources-for-the-academic-solo-artist</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As with all else post-ac and alt-ac, a little hustle can go a long way. I’ve been away from my campus for nearly four years, and I’ve discovered lots of back-door ways to access research materials without an institutional affiliation. The following list of options for physical and digital access to academic libraries — when you don’t have an academic title — leans toward the humanities and social sciences, but feel free to add other resources in the comments.

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    <title>Research “parasitism” and authorship rights – For Better Science</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-23T10:42:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://forbetterscience.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/research-parasitism-and-authorship-rights/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Under these circumstances, it is less the data itself, but its authorship credits which the clinical scientists are so afraid to lose. These doctors seem to come to grudgingly terms with the new times, where authorships cannot be automatically given and taken, without any scientific contributions to the research project at hand. But they also are not prepared to be simply thanked in acknowledgements, with their paper cited in the list of references. And they are certainly not keen on seeing their high-profile published research (NEJM has a colossal journal impact factor of 56!) being plucked apart by their critical peers.

Therefore, what exactly are Drazen and his ICMJE colleagues proposing? To introduce conditions under which original data from clinical trials can be released, and demands for collaborations (meaning co-authorships)? with its “owners”? Or will ICMJE soon change its authorship criteria, to include the ownership of original published data?

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<item rdf:about="https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2014/fall/neem">
    <title>Taking It to the Streets: Preparing for an Academy in Exile | Association of American Colleges &amp; Universities</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-07T11:12:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/2014/fall/neem</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Each of the four possibilities sketched above is intended primarily to provoke thought. Each of them would face real challenges. The most important challenge from a teaching perspective would be to ensure that students still find themselves in “communities of learning” that replicate what residential campuses offer.16 The research challenge would be how to fund important scholarship in the arts and sciences. In the sciences, especially, the capital costs for cutting-edge research are substantial, and private and public funding sources would want to ensure accountability. Yet, just as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities make public grants to artists and writers both within and beyond the university, public science funding could be offered to academics or communities of academics outside universities.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/freelance-independent-contractor-union-precariat/">
    <title>Four Myths About the “Freelancer Class” | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-12T10:49:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/freelance-independent-contractor-union-precariat/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Finally, there’s a category, often underestimated, of workers who are forced into freelance work because the conditions of traditional employment have squeezed them out by refusing to accommodate workers’ basic human needs, like sick days and parental leave.

The Family Medical Leave Act, which allows some workers to take unpaid maternity leave, applies to less than 10 percent of all employers; the US and Papua New Guinea are the only countries in the world that do not guarantee any maternity leave by law.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 75 percent of full-time US workers and 27 percent of part-time workers have some paid sick days. The average full-time worker with a tenure of less than five years — the average length of employment — has eight to nine days of paid sick leave per year. This time may or may not also include vacation days, since many employers prefer a policy of “paid time off” to be used for illness or vacation.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife public-policy economics disintermediation-in-action the-postnormal-world</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d484c54489a3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-other-lesson-of-kennesaw.html">
    <title>Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Other Lesson of Kennesaw</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-25T11:52:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-other-lesson-of-kennesaw.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don’t think going back to the old ways is either desirable or possible.  Big Brother may be crowdsourced now, but that just makes him that much harder to fight.  A difficult employee may be able to manipulate enough legalisms to hamstring a supervisor, as long as the employee and the supervisor are the only parties to the conflict.  But put that difficult employee’s worst moment on YouTube, and the legalisms don’t matter anymore.

The new reality of the threat of public exposure may motivate institutions to allow managers to address problem employees with greater dispatch before the problems go viral.  After all, “looking the other way” is only an option when you control who’s looking.  If you don’t have exposure control, you need damage control.  If you don’t have either, you’ll spin entirely out of control, and in less time than it would have taken to jump through the first bureaucratic hoop.  The Kennesaw advisor wasn’t the first to act that way, but she was the first to be exposed.  The game has changed.  The rules will change, too.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture panopticonism bureaucracy rather-interesting social-norms institutional-design disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bf497d0aef97/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/">
    <title>On common educational ownership and refusing human capital | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-06T10:37:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/29/on-common-educational-ownership-and-refusing-human-capital/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can academics support both critique and the development/nurturing of alternative forms of learning and teaching that in-turn push-back against the dominant political agenda that commodifies humanity? We see such possibilities inside alternative educational forms, and through the politics of occupations, as well as in the collective resistance to austerity in Europe. Somehow, this means taking Schumpeter’s point in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, that we need to reconnect our work against the dematerialised, defunctionalised and absentee domination of our lives, which is enacted through the market. There is a need to think through how the curriculum and its organising principles might be liberated as a form of open, co-operative, common property that is itself rooted in social struggle beyond the University.

]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9f1075c1628c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model/">
    <title>The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education'</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-26T12:46:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Dorn notes, phrases like “the industrial model of education,” “the factory model of education,” and “the Prussian model of education” are used as a “rhetorical foil” in order make a particular political point – not so much to explain the history of education, as to try to shape its future.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>history education public-policy disintermediation-in-action the-unshared-narrative it's-more-complicated-than-you-think solutionism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2493446a8f2a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/16/on-learning-gain-academic-subsumption-and-performance-anxiety/">
    <title>on learning gain, academic subsumption and performance anxiety | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-20T11:56:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/04/16/on-learning-gain-academic-subsumption-and-performance-anxiety/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[THREE. This idea of the subsumption of University life under the dictates of the market is critical. It contains within it an unfolding of the relationship between academic labour, the market and the production of academic commodities. Through this unfolding, academic labour is monitored and reconfigured so that it is productive of value, rather than productive of the practice of freedom.
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<dc:subject>education public-policy disintermediation-in-action disrupted-world alas</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:89e921dd6d34/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17938">
    <title>Language Log » We play Haydn until the sun comes up</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-03T11:25:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17938</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Top management has vowed to stop what it is doing, not now but soon, soon. A chamber orchestra has been formed among the people in the newsroom, and we play Haydn until the sun comes up.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Barthelme disintermediation-in-action literature</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:861d652edc04/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://itself.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-case-for-faculty-self-governance/">
    <title>The case for faculty self-governance | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-27T12:29:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-case-for-faculty-self-governance/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Gerry Canavan has eloquently pointed out, the perpetual crisis mentality of higher ed is an indication that the very large and expensive management class that has taken over universities in recent decades is an utter failure. Well-managed universities should not need significant “flexibility” in their course offerings semester to semester, for example, nor should they be blindsided by demographic trends that were easily predictable decades ahead of time. Gerry notes, of course, that the apparent “failure” of the autonomous administration class actually reflects a success on another level: they want to destroy the traditional university, and using constant crises to force budget cuts is a great way to destroy anything.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture education administration politics public-policy disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6bf781873eaa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/06/19/on-mutual-values-and-open-co-operativism/">
    <title>on mutual values and open co-operativism | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-10T12:26:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/06/19/on-mutual-values-and-open-co-operativism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a long-read, at over 5,400 words. Why not read and listen to this lovely Frankie Knuckles’ Boiler Room set?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cooperation social-norms academic-culture disintermediation-in-action Coscience to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:38160e1e3f44/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:academic-culture"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/02/06/reflections-on-the-post-digital/">
    <title>reflections on the post-digital | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-10T12:26:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2015/02/06/reflections-on-the-post-digital/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One possibility lies in the idea of the Commons and the praxis that emerges from commoning as a global idea of socialised solidarity, rooted in mass intellectuality and open co-operativism. This is a mechanism for framing a socially-useful higher education that recognises its own alienation. Refusing the post-digital, flipped proletarianisation of the University hinges on the creation of a ‘direct form of communal manifestations of life carried out in association with others – [that] are therefore an expression and confirmation of that social life’ (Marx on Private Property and Communism). This might be realised in spaces that incorporate increasingly alienated social forces in the global North, as well as those largely ignored in the global South. It demands a more mature discussion of the possibilities for pedagogic production as a social activity that are for-society rather than for-profit.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia disintermediation-in-action public-policy defining-your-terms the-commons to-read</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:311485110644/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/dark-age-america-sharp-edge-of-shell.html">
    <title>The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-11T12:06:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/dark-age-america-sharp-edge-of-shell.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That may well happen again. Certainly today’s defenders of science are doing their best to shove a range of scientific viewpoints out the door; the denunciation meted out to Bill Nye for bringing basic concepts from ecology into a discussion where they were highly relevant is par for the course these days. There’s an interesting distinction between the sciences that get this treatment and those that don’t: on the one hand, those that are being flung aside are those that focus on observation of natural systems rather than control of artificial ones; on the other, any science that raises doubts about the possibility or desirability of infinite technological expansion can expect to find itself shivering in the dark outside in very short order. (This latter point applies to other fields of intellectual endeavor as well; half the angry denunciations of philosophy you’ll hear these days from figures such as Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I’m convinced, come out of the simple fact that the claims of modern science to know objective truths about nature won’t stand up to fifteen minutes of competent philosophical analysis.)
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<dc:subject>via:gepr politics disintermediation-in-action on-the-falls-of-academies science public-policy models-and-modes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f3bb0b3b7f05/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/">
    <title>Publish and perish at Imperial College London: the death of Stefan Grimm</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-03T09:26:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dcscience.net/2014/12/01/publish-and-perish-at-imperial-college-london-the-death-of-stefan-grimm/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I asked Martin Wilkins to comment on the email from Grimm. His response is the standard stuff that HR issues on such occasions. Not a word of apology, no admission of fault. It says “Imperial College London seeks to give every member of its community the opportunity to excel and to create a supportive environment in which their careers may flourish.”. Unless, that is, your research is insufficiently expensive, in which case we’ll throw you out on the street at 51. For completeness, you can download Wilkins’ mail.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disintermediation-in-action life-o'-the-mind postnormal worklife via:gbilder</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b3394ef76b55/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:life-o'-the-mind"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/91200:neoliberalism-and-the-academicindustrial-complex">
    <title>&quot;Neoliberalism and the Academic-Industrial Complex&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-19T12:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/91200:neoliberalism-and-the-academicindustrial-complex</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Neoliberalism plays a major role in corporatizing higher education. Neoliberalism, understood as "neo laissez faire economics," is a form of global capitalism based on the deregulation of free markets and the privatization of wealth. It subordinates government control to the interests of private profit. The government - rather than regulating the market to assure a level playing field - becomes an extension of market activity, the servant of the industries to which it is captive. Neoliberalism provides tax breaks for the rich, reduces spending on social programs and welfare, expands corporate control and eradicates labor rights, environmental protections, drug and food regulations and even national law. The basic purpose is to allow private interests to own and control every aspect of the human, social and natural world. Things like food, water, farmland, forests, health care, prisons, militaries, political processes, mass media and, of course, education, are targets of neoliberal control. Even individual thoughts, plant seeds, mothers' breast milk and human DNA are intended to be owned, controlled, bought and sold by free-market capitalists.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>laissez-faire capitalism academic-culture public-policy via:? disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:61bdd1bdf219/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bryanalexander.org/2014/10/24/how-to-adjunctivize-your-university/">
    <title>How to adjunctivize your university | Bryan Alexander</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-16T11:26:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bryanalexander.org/2014/10/24/how-to-adjunctivize-your-university/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Let me unpack that a little.  First, tenure is a way for the university to lure researchers from the private sector.  If business can’t compete with a campus, then tenure isn’t really needed.  For an example, think microbiologist versus medievalist.  We can determine which fields business doesn’t value highly, then remove tenure from them on campus.

Second, tenure is about research, not teaching.  If we accept this, then faculty whose primary function is teaching (and this can be determined through a variety of ways) aren’t really cut out for tenure status.  This takes the two-tier structure of adjunct vs tenure-track and deepens the divide.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action academic-culture tenure worklife contingent-faculty so-it-goes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:54ff562d6f17/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone">
    <title>Stowe Boyd — Unhappy At Work? You Are Not Alone.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-08T14:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look past the rhetoric and you will find signs of the neglect of transformational learning everywhere. In the workplace as well as in many business school courses, with their emphasis on tools that can be taught in a weekend and applied on Monday morning. The learning that we privilege is the safer, incremental kind. Learning that makes us better at what we do but hardly frees us up to revisit why we do it that way or what, say, we may want to do next.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife postnormal corporatism Taylorism social-psychology disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d6b2b726a63c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/10/08/frameworks-for-understanding-the-future-of-work.html">
    <title>danah boyd | apophenia » Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-03T11:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/10/08/frameworks-for-understanding-the-future-of-work.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A group of us at Data & Society decided to examine various different emergent disruptions that affect the future of work. Thanks to tremendous support from the Open Society Foundations, we’ve produced five working papers that help frame various issues at play. We’re happy to share them with you today.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife post-normal disintermediation-in-action disruption future public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f9345826b03a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pockettactics.com/features/ownership-becoming-obsolete-lex-goes-free-day-open-sources-code-forever/">
    <title>&quot;Ownership is becoming obsolete&quot;: LEX goes free for a day, open sources code forever - Pocket Tactics</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-25T12:26:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pockettactics.com/features/ownership-becoming-obsolete-lex-goes-free-day-open-sources-code-forever/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kurt Bieg of Simple Machine has decided to wade into this debate. Actually, he’s not wading — he’s diving in head-first, and throwing his co-workers in, too. Bieg is open-sourcing all of his studio’s games, starting with word game LEX. “We believe ownership is becoming obsolete,” Bieg told me. And if you’re surprised by that sentiment, he was just getting warmed up.


]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics openness worklife Post-Normal disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b64ad22b20fd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bryanalexander.org/2014/07/07/how-can-we-reform-the-adjunct-system/">
    <title>How can we reform the adjunct system? | Bryan Alexander</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T13:44:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bryanalexander.org/2014/07/07/how-can-we-reform-the-adjunct-system/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How, then, can we improve the situation of adjuncts?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action academic-culture work life salvage-not-rescue each-according-to-who-they-know public-policy intervention</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:91fab605a9ef/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:salvage-not-rescue"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:each-according-to-who-they-know"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/07/07/true-success-is-more-than-winning-a-zero-sum-game/">
    <title>True success is more than winning a zero-sum game</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T12:30:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/07/07/true-success-is-more-than-winning-a-zero-sum-game/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I believe that people like to tell themselves simple stories about how one should succeed. Many of these simple stories are based on half-truths. Just like how fiction authors believe that they must land a competitive book deal to be a writer whereas none of us care about any of that. This status ranking game that you play… is probably much less important than you make it out to be on the long run.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife disintermediation-in-action the-postnormal-creeps-in publishing coscience moral-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:75a925ef7308/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://practicaltypography.com/">
    <title>Butterick’s Practical Typography</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-03T10:50:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://practicaltypography.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>typography book publishing disintermediation-in-action very-nice interesting to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e82435bab04c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://practicaltypography.com/why-there's-no-e-book-or-pdf.html">
    <title>why there’s no e-book or pdf</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-28T11:58:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://practicaltypography.com/why-there's-no-e-book-or-pdf.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>ebooks by:matthew-butterick publishing via:chl the-high-ground disintermediation-in-action to-emulate</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1ab190fa2f34/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:via:chl"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-high-ground"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-emulate"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/06/does-inequality-help-artists-not-so-much/">
    <title>Does Inequality Help Artists? Not So Much — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-22T10:46:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2014/05/06/does-inequality-help-artists-not-so-much/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This means, as Taylor makes clear in her Post interview, that the relationship is plausibly the reverse of the one that Yglesias postulates. Inequality, rather than benefitting artists, is instead universalizing the artist’s precarious work position, and making it into a general ideology.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>art disintermediation-in-action inequality economics public-policy post-normal</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0a4ac88d0f1f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/82198827405/socialogy-interview-jane-bozarth">
    <title>Socialogy Interview: Jane Bozarth | Stowe Boyd</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-15T12:17:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/82198827405/socialogy-interview-jane-bozarth</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jane Bozarth: One of my favorite examples is a Teaching Channel video from a moment in the workday of Sarah Brown Wessling, the US 2010 National Teacher of the Year. On this particular day, as she was being recorded, a carefully planned lesson just exploded on her: her high school students couldn’t complete an activity, became upset, everything was tense. For 16 minutes on video Wessling dissects what went wrong – the assumptions she’d made, the unusual level of emotion from the kids about an activity they’d been assigned – and then, with 5 minutes to go before the next class begins, she describes her plan to make the lesson more successful.

This kind of working out loud can affect not only organizational learning in her own school but, as it’s so public, can support profession-wide learning. I’d argue, for instance, that seeing a 16-minute overview of “what went wrong and how I fixed it” is far more valuable to a novice teacher than a 5-minute video of “let’s watch the fabulous perfect experienced Sarah at work.” (The video is available at https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/when-lesson-plans-fail . )

]]></description>
<dc:subject>pedagogy learning-by-watching social-psychology academic-culture disintermediation-in-action effective-instruction the-mangle-in-practice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a1f36265dda2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7653">
    <title>[1304.7653] Usage History of Scientific Literature: Nature Metrics and Metrics of Nature Publications</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-15T10:42:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7653</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this study, we analyze the dynamic usage history of Nature publications over time using Nature metrics data. We conduct analysis from two perspectives. On the one hand, we examine how long it takes before the articles' downloads reach 50%/80% of the total; on the other hand, we compare the percentage of total downloads in 7 days, 30 days, and 100 days after publication. In general, papers are downloaded most frequently within a short time period right after their publication. And we find that compared with Non-Open Access papers, readers' attention on Open Access publications are more enduring. Based on the usage data of a newly published paper, regression analysis could predict the future expected total usage counts.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture publishing citation news-cycle disintermediation-in-action open-access interesting consider:what-might-happen-with-updating</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6340761b6515/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pankisseskafka.com/2013/12/30/the-post-academics-guide-to-academic-professionalism/">
    <title>The Post-Academic’s Guide to Academic Professionalism | pan kisses kafka</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-01T12:26:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pankisseskafka.com/2013/12/30/the-post-academics-guide-to-academic-professionalism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Literally the last thing any marginalized academic should be worried about at any time is hurting the feelings of someone with tenure. That person already has 900 times more privileges (and much more money) than you will ever have. The fact that they also demand you treat them with awed deference should not have an effect on your behavior.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disintermediation-in-action adjuncts discourse civility-as-tactic</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:100940f6d662/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewgelman.com/2013/12/17/replication-backlash/">
    <title>Replication backlash « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-18T14:17:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2013/12/17/replication-backlash/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A result that is not sufficiently robust that it can be independently reproduced will not provide the basis for an effective therapy in an outbred human population. A result that is not able to be independently reproduced, that cannot be translated to another lab using what most would regard as standard laboratory procedures (blinding, controls, validated reagents etc) is not a result. It is simply a ‘scientific allegation’.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>publishing academic-culture community credentialing disintermediation-in-action amusing replicate-replicate</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e5d7d07e3f77/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://bryanalexander.org/2013/09/18/peak-education-2013/">
    <title>Peak education 2013 | Bryan Alexander</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-22T20:09:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bryanalexander.org/2013/09/18/peak-education-2013/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I want to try out this hypothesis as a way of thinking about many current trendlines.  Readers and listeners know I have been tracking a large number of grim developments in the American higher education world.  Synthesizing them is what I’m currently addressing.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>education disintermediation-in-action peak-everything academic-culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:aee614f80708/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/09/15/university-of-oregon-to-faculty-you-belong-to-me/">
    <title>University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me! — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-22T11:50:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/09/15/university-of-oregon-to-faculty-you-belong-to-me/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Read that last sentence carefully. Not only is the administration demanding the right to monitor and review the faculty’s UO email accounts, but it also arrogates to itself the right to monitor any emails on the faculty’s non-UO accounts (and computers) so long as those emails or documents “address work-related subjects.” So if I email my wife on my Gmail account, complaining about the action of a university administrator, or if I keep a diary on my home computer in which I talk about what that administrator did, that very same administrator can demand to read and review that email or document.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the-unwinding academia academic-culture disintermediation-in-action labor ah-well</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:66a3eb50bb28/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/subprime-students">
    <title>Subprime Students? | Inside Higher Ed</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-11T12:21:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/subprime-students</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s a convenient belief, because it lets everyone else off the hook.  If people rise or fall entirely on their own merits, then those who fell must lack merit. If they lack merit, then their failure is nothing to worry about.  After all, if they had merit, they wouldn’t have failed!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education cultural-norms disintermediation-in-action disintermediation-culture MOOCs academic-culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ffa830a03080/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/06/07/on-the-danger-posed-by-non-expert-critiques-published-to-large-audiences/#.UbMOjRWJRV9">
    <title>On The Danger Posed By Non-Expert Critiques Published To Large Audiences</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-08T13:39:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/06/07/on-the-danger-posed-by-non-expert-critiques-published-to-large-audiences/#.UbMOjRWJRV9</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Geoffrey North, the editor of Current Biology, has written a critical editorial that questions the role of social media in science (which I strongly suggest you read before continuing). In it,…]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:chapmanb amusing academic-culture publishing cultural-assumptions disintermediation-in-action I-already-said-amusing-right?</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cc1945e5cc56/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/25/branches-and-roots-2013-call-for-sponsorships/">
    <title>Branches and Roots: 2013 Call for Sponsorships</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-27T11:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/25/branches-and-roots-2013-call-for-sponsorships/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another year, another set of lessons big and small, pleasant and harsh. It’s time for the third annual call for sponsorships and backstage-peek day. If you read the 2012 and 2011 posts, you know the drill.  First, we’ll talk money, then we’ll go backstage to talk philosophy, do a little retrospective and look out at the year ahead. Things are now getting complicated enough that I need a little table of contents. If this goes on, next year I might need video. Here’s the agenda. Skip what doesn’t interest you.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>ribbonfarm worklife retrospective disintermediation-in-action interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f1400162e65b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mileshingston.com/blog/economics-and-politics/from-unemployed-to-unworking">
    <title>From &quot;unemployed&quot; to unworking | Miles Hingston</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-21T19:18:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mileshingston.com/blog/economics-and-politics/from-unemployed-to-unworking</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I want to follow up on an entry I published about a month ago regarding “jobs” and “employment”. As consumer capitalism flails and falls by the wayside with its glaringly high entropy and obsolescence, it is absolutely essential that labour is unshackled from institutionalization (i.e. “jobs”). “Jobs” are a product of industrial society, those typified by economic growth. However, as economic growth becomes untenable and businesses continually streamline their processes through automation, society is left with deep structural unemployment and wealth inequality. More people find themselves with less disposable income and so they consume less and have lower social mobility. Less consumption = less economic growth, lower social mobility (en masse) = civil unrest. The knee-jerk political reaction is “we need to create more jobs (to appease the rowdy peasants)”, and so they try and create jobs for jobs sake with policies that just kick the can down the road a bit longer without actually addressing the long-term social implications of structural issues caused by fallacious and outdated economic assumptions.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife disintermediation-in-action people-like-us</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1d41439b8d4e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1346">
    <title>The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-16T12:14:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1346</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I gave a talk last night at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco about science publishing and PLoS. There will be an audio link soon, but, for the first time in my life, I actually gave the talk (largely) from prepared remarks, so I thought I’d post it here.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia public-policy publishing disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6fe9b46b408f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:publishing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7442/full/495437a.html">
    <title>Scholarship: Beyond the paper : Nature : Nature Publishing Group</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-31T13:15:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7442/full/495437a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here we must recall first that scholarship has always been a community enterprise, driven by building consensus among experts10. So the question is not 'Should we crowdsource?' but 'How should we crowdsource?'. Second, we must dispose of the straw-man argument that hundreds of uninformed readers' opinions will count for more than one Fields medallist's recommendation. Authority and expertise are central in the Web era as they were in the journal era. The difference is that whereas the paper-based system used subjective criteria to identify authoritative voices, the Web-based one assesses authority recursively from the entire community.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia academic-culture publishing disintermediation-in-action multimodal-communication rather-good low-hanging-fruit</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:037eef66c2c4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.quora.com/Academia/How-are-PhD-programs-responding-to-the-academic-job-crisis?srid=dA&amp;share=1">
    <title>Academia: How are PhD programs responding to the academic job crisis? - Quora</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-08T21:32:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.quora.com/Academia/How-are-PhD-programs-responding-to-the-academic-job-crisis?srid=dA&amp;share=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Academia: How are PhD programs responding to the academic job crisis?

The ratio of tenure track jobs to new PhDs has dropped dramatically, and while it might improve, it probably will never get back to the point where most PhDs have a chance of obtaining one.  Are there any academic PhD programs which are responding to this crisis in innovative ways?]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia academic-culture jobs worklife disintermediation-targets disintermediation-in-action Coscience</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:05e50476c12b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:jobs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-targets"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/the-magic-rubric/">
    <title>The magic rubric. | More or Less Bunk</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-25T23:50:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/the-magic-rubric/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Does Koller actually believe that the magic rubric exists or is she fooling herself because that serves her narrow self-interest?  I don’t know.  However, I do know that every English or history professor at every Coursera partner school who has any teaching experience at all knows in their heart of hearts that the magic rubric is a complete fantasy.  They also know that turning the grading function entirely over to computers or students is a wholesale abandonment of their pedagogical responsibilities. Karen Head is an assistant professor putting a composition MOOC together at Georgia Tech, so I think she deserves a little slack here:

Discussion and peer assessment are central to our traditional instructional approach, but may not be possible in the ways they currently use them.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>MOOCs academia academic-culture disintermediation-in-action pedagogy teaching economies-of-scale-fallacy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:439ce12397ce/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:teaching"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://newescapologist.co.uk/2013/02/23/work-less/">
    <title>Work Less | New Escapologist</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-25T22:26:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://newescapologist.co.uk/2013/02/23/work-less/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One day, I hope, the proposal that we work fewer hours won’t seem so revolutionary. Why don’t we decrease our working hours with every passing year of human civil development? With today’s technology and such a massive workforce at our disposal, that part-time employment isn’t a worker’s normal circumstance is insane.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife disintermediation-in-action public-policy cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9cc75740ad01/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2013/01/11/apres-le-perturbation/">
    <title>Apres Le Perturbation | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-12T16:32:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2013/01/11/apres-le-perturbation/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[3) In the 20th Century, we accepted the institutionalized, routinized use of people with ostensibly high-value professional training for tasks that didn’t require their expertise. Or well before the intrusion of certain kinds of rationalizing economies, the professions devalued their own work. Professors moved to marginalize and massify teaching before their administrations required them to do so, doctors moved to minimize contact with patients before insurers asked it of them, law firms assigned young lawyers to mechanically process large bodies of documentation in the discovery phase of litigation, and so on. The professions cleared the way for their own reorganization and mechanization largely to create more privileged terms of labor for the most senior or powerful professionals. This was a brief moment in the history of the professions, especially marked in the 1960s and 1970s, but it opened the way for what came later. If the current disruption has positive value, it might be to spur professionals to identify far more sharply what kinds of labor require extensive credentialing and training and to understand where there is a mismatch between the needs of the professions and the training they have insisted upon to this point. Some of this has already happened, either under duress or as a creative response to changed circumstances. More needs to happen.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>credentialing professionalism publishing medicine authority disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dcc9acae5cf5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:medicine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:authority"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/on-the-decline-and-maybe-fall-of-venture-capital.html">
    <title>On the Decline and (Maybe) Fall of Venture Capital « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-12T13:10:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/on-the-decline-and-maybe-fall-of-venture-capital.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, venture capital is romanticized as one of the drivers of the American economy, when entrepreneurship expert Amar Bhide has ascertained that only about 1% of new ventures are funded by VC. A story today the Mercury News (hat tip bob) on how the poor performance of VC this year is part of a longer decline, raises bigger issues about the trajectory of the economy and the role of venture funders in it. It may simply be that (contrary to the McKinsey VC’s forecasts) funding levels have not fallen in line with the industry’s performance, and it needs to shrink further so that there aren’t too many investors chasing too few of the hot deals. It may also be that the VC industry is a casualty of the global financial crisis, in that individual investors remain skittish about the market, and their reservations are reinforced by high frequency trading, which leaves the little guy at a disadvantage. But predictably, even though the article makes it clear that the problems with VC are long-standing, many of the fund operators want to blame it on “uncertainty,” which at least on this coast, means the government.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>startup-culture-must-die venture-capital financial-crisis disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a94ca69c842b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.digitopoly.org/2012/11/10/what-are-publishers-afraid-of-with-device-restrictions/">
    <title>Digitopoly | What are publishers afraid of with device restrictions?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-11T13:37:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.digitopoly.org/2012/11/10/what-are-publishers-afraid-of-with-device-restrictions/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That brings me back to the culprit. It is my impression that Apple does not limit devices for iBooks purchases. They are always synced now on iCloud and can be downloaded to your devices now and in the future. (Apple haven’t been so kind for computers with music and videos but on mobile devices they are open). Amazon gives publishers the option to limit. Because the option is there, the publishers take it. So the difference between Apple and Amazon is that Apple do not believe this should be an option and it will interfere with the consumer experience and will play to non-existent fears. Amazon, on the other hand, want to wipe their hands clean of it. But the problem is that Amazon products are crimped as a result. More critically, consumers do not know what restrictions are actually in place when they buy a book. So they may or may not be buying a crimped product. I didn’t know when buying my own book for goodness sake."]]></description>
<dc:subject>ebooks publishing disintermediation-in-action DRM piracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a24c94a5c7a1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:DRM"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:piracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://studentactivism.net/2012/09/15/cuny-administration-declares-war-on-rebel-faculty/">
    <title>CUNY Administration Declares War On Rebel English Department « Student Activism</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-15T19:08:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://studentactivism.net/2012/09/15/cuny-administration-declares-war-on-rebel-faculty/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When I first read this, I assumed that there must be some spin involved — surely the administration wouldn’t be so brazen as to explicitly state that they were prepared to essentially eliminate a college’s English department over a credit-hour dispute.

But they are. It’s all there in black and white. (PSC, the CUNY faculty union, is filing a labor grievance, threatening a federal lawsuit, and urging the department to stand strong.)"]]></description>
<dc:subject>so-it-begins academic-culture disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f6cc14a93e6d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ingenesist.com/general-info/hacking-the-financial-system.html">
    <title>Hacking The Financial System</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T12:31:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ingenesist.com/general-info/hacking-the-financial-system.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With 21st Century technology and social media, we are witnessing the emergence of what we can only now call “social currency”; such as reputation, referrals, vouches, influence, SEO, community, groups, and various other domains.  These are all black market currencies because they are used for the storage and exchange of the value that people create…what they lack is the rest of the “system”.

The difference now – and perhaps this is the first time in human history – should the so-called black market currency become systemized to the same extent and actually perform better than the currency that it hedges,  “a flip” will occur and the old system will fail to re-boot back to it’s current form as it has after every preceding economic crisis.

That’s the hack."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics disintermediation-in-action via:sebpaquet</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:82c86be5b565/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:via:sebpaquet"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-the-future-of-the-novel">
    <title>China Miéville: the future of the novel | Books | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-22T19:00:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/21/china-mieville-the-future-of-the-novel</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[Y]ou will all be able to buy them," Durrell says of those novel-writing kits, addressing not the other writers, who didn't need them, but the public, "and write your own."

That's a telling elision - he starts by kvetching about writing by machine, by no one, and segues instantly to doing so about writing by the public, by everyone. That's apocalypse. That, apparently, is a nightmare future.

The worst anxiety is not that the interfering public will ruin your work if they muck about with it, or that they'll write a terrible novel, but that they'll improve it, or write a great one. And once in a rare while, some of them will. How wonderful that will be.

You don't have to think that writing is lever-pulling, that anyone could have written Jane Eyre or Notebook of a Return to my Native Land to think that the model of writers as the Elect is at best wrong, at worst, a bit slanderous to everyone else. We piss and moan about the terrible quality of self-published books, as if slews of god-awful crap weren't professionally expensively published every year.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>books literature China-Miéville publishing disintermediation-in-action keynote</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/53544-doubling-down-on-drm.html">
    <title>Doubling Down on DRM</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-14T11:25:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/53544-doubling-down-on-drm.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I know of at least one large agency that has told Hachette that it will not market books to them so long as this policy is in force. And Hachette’s authors should pay attention because, in the end, it is they who will suffer from the effects of DRM. Readers probably won’t remember who published the book that nuked itself due to a DRM misfire or was lost due to a platform switch. But they’ll remember the writer whose book they paid for and to which they lost access. And remember this: the phone is fast becoming an e-reader of choice, and readers usually cycle out phones with their cellular contracts every 12–18 months. This is going to be a hell of a ride."]]></description>
<dc:subject>DRM intellectual-property publishing disintermediation-in-action openness</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/179555/journatic-staffer-takes-this-american-life-inside-outsourced-journalism/">
    <title>Journatic worker takes ‘This American Life’ inside outsourced journalism | Poynter.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-01T10:40:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/179555/journatic-staffer-takes-this-american-life-inside-outsourced-journalism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you’ve never heard of Journatic, that’s kind of the idea. The company, which was founded in 2006, has a website that doesn’t appear on at least the first five pages of Google search results. Job openings, often posted on Craigslist or JournalismJobs.com, once mentioned the company’s name, but no longer.

Journatic currently works with “dozens” of media companies, Timpone said, though he declined to name them. He’s spoken before of the real estate section Journatic produces for the San Francisco Chronicle. He said more are signing up all the time."]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action journalism worklife outsourcing exposé</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5a050f2901ff/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/24672137322/state-of-the-news-media-2012-pew-research">
    <title>Stowe Boyd</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-08T12:53:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/24672137322/state-of-the-news-media-2012-pew-research</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The new media folks desperately want to write for some hypothetical audience, one they can find the center of. They are like border collies, wired to herd sheep and frantic if they can’t find any."]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action journalism public-policy pollsters cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2027d07a019c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://emergentcities.sebpaquet.net/a-100-day-journey-into-the-emerging-creative">
    <title>A 100-Day Journey into the Emerging Creative Economy - EMERGENT CITIES</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-05T12:16:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://emergentcities.sebpaquet.net/a-100-day-journey-into-the-emerging-creative</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is promise on that front - I've already found several imaginative people who seem to believe in themselves, as well as in me. All of them seem to be sensitive to the multitude of non-monetary flows that exist in a truly human economy, and ready to engage to some degree on a new economic path similar to mine. 

My dearest hope is to end up embedded in a creative network - an Emergent City! - where thick value is flying fast in all directions, including into and out from the commons, as a matter of daily routine. Where work feels right most of the time, and can be made right when it feels wrong."]]></description>
<dc:subject>disintermediation-in-action worklife parallel-economies seb-paquet the-made-world</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Ann Arbor Chronicle | Milestone: Integrity – and a Sense of Place</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-02T16:36:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/06/02/milestone-integrity-and-a-sense-of-place/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>journalism froghat localism disintermediation-in-action newspapers credentials</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4616326cd3c6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html">
    <title>What Amazon's ebook strategy means - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-14T22:34:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If the major publishers switch to selling ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety of outlets and move away from the walled garden of the Kindle store. They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to "disrupt" them, and whose chief executive said recently "even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation" (where "innovation" is code-speak for "opportunities for me to turn a profit").

And so they will deep-six their existing commitment to DRM and use the terms of the DoJ-imposed settlement to wiggle out of the most-favoured-nation terms imposed by Amazon, in order to sell their wares as widely as possible.

If they don't, they're doomed. And all of us who like to read (or write) fiction get to live in the Amazon company town."]]></description>
<dc:subject>monopoly-and-monpsony-sittin-in-a-tree Amazon eBooks disintermediation-in-action corporatism redisintermediation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d08a220d5024/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/03/27/the-last-enclosures/">
    <title>The Last Enclosures | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-28T11:58:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/03/27/the-last-enclosures/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think it’s fairly simple. You know the classic “First they came for the X, then they came for the Y, and I did nothing, and then they came for me?” schtick? This is one of those stories. In fact, it’s the end of one of those stories. They already came for the doctors and the psychiatrists. They already came for the lawyers. They already came for the accountants and auditors. They already came for all the professions. Professors are the last to be broken on the wheel, the last to be put at their station in the new assembly lines of the 21st Century Service Economy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture cultural-assumptions disintermediation-in-action universities social-norms corporatism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/">
    <title>» An efficient journal The Occasional Pamphlet</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-06T20:18:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nonetheless, the success of JMLR does provide a clue that the cost of running a premier journal might be far less than publishers imply, if they were to rethink the process substantially — maybe not $10 per article, but surely far less than the $5,000 average revenue per article that scholarly publishers currently receive. This expectation is borne out by the several non-profit and commercial open-access journal publishers that are able to operate in the black with publication fees a fraction of that average."]]></description>
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