j’s scratchpad

According to the Dowbrigade, Boston University fired a journalism professor because of how he referred to one of his students on a weblog.

so I’m trying to figure out whether I should get a new personal data assistant or whether I really need one at all.
The most I really used it is for ordering for large groups in restaurants.
I’ve seen so many nifty new gadgets, it just seems a shame not to have something flashy.
Since I still can’t […]

This brief Associated Press article introduces a few Massachusetts podcasters and their shows.

I stumbled across this handy post on Bokardo about how to add buttons or text to sites to communicate to people that you offer a feed and they should subscribe to it.

I noticed the Atom enabled button isn’t on the list, though some Atom buttons and links are there.

" … [E]ven though they would soon be back at work, even though they had been offered one of the least fair deals ever offered to children, the three siblings felt a little bit better. Whether it was Uncle Monty’s library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine’s library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss’s […]

A few of you remember me griping about the aggregator being stuck on a few feeds with enclosures. I noticed those two entries are gone. I hope that’s a good sign. For a second opinion, I checked the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog’s aggregator since it was clinging to more enclosures. Surprisingly, it […]

One of the scratchpad’s readers pointed me to this comic with the explicit instructions of looking in the top right corner.
hee hee hee
Thanks, JSL!

I saw a copy Tuesday. Sure enough, there I am. It’s kinda scary at the same time I should feel honored by it. Who’s there and who isn’t there still surprises me.
There’s an error in my entry they refused to fix. Honestly, it was one I made when I typed it in using only one […]

rte shares this list of job search tips from Information Wants to be Free.
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately helping one of my mentees with her job search. I told her I have a special post for her today and it’s something I wish we would have seen months ago. She asked me […]

This Chronicle of Higher Education column explains a search committee’s choice not to hire several job candidates who blog. The committee didn’t think the material people wrote on their blogs was appropriate for the institution. They also felt once they learned more about the candidates, especially the intimate details someone shared on her weblog, they […]