September « 2005

Day-after Downloads

By matt, on September 28th, 2005%

Over on Scripting News, Dave echoes something we’ve been saying in our house for a few weeks now:

I missed this week’s West Wing, so I fired up my BitTorrent client and downloaded the latest episode, and 25 minutes later I was watching it, without commercials. While I love the West Wing, and didn’t want to wait . . . → Read More: Day-after Downloads

Community building on the WWW

By matt, on September 27th, 2005%

As a followup to my WWW/community thread (one, two, three), I noticed that Tim O’Reilly posted a summary of the Web 2.0 from Foo Camp. I guess I’d score high on the “Do You Get The Web 2.0?” quiz in Esquire this month, because a lot of his memes were in my thread.

What did I hit . . . → Read More: Community building on the WWW

Community building

By matt, on September 26th, 2005%

I suppose I should finish the “site redesign” thread (part one and two).

My “proposed redesign” is more of a sketch than anything else. And it has rapidly evolved past any specific comments or criticisms of my own department’s web presence, and become more of a statement regarding my thoughts about how to support the community . . . → Read More: Community building

Publish or Perish

By matt, on September 23rd, 2005%

Mike points out that this piece by Philip Greenspun may be relevant to my thoughts regarding our departmental website:

http://philip.greenspun.com/research/academic-web-research.html

Sadly, I think Phillip is right: journal publications are the only thing that matter. There is no getting around publish-or-perish. You have to bring in grant money, and you can’t do that without peer review.

I wrote a bunch . . . → Read More: Publish or Perish

A modern computer science department website

By matt, on September 23rd, 2005%

I’ve received a number of responses regarding my post regarding our departmental website. These responses have either come in via email, or people have caught me in person to comment on the post. I have not yet received any comments praising the site. Instead, I have consistently received comments along the lines of “that’s exactly . . . → Read More: A modern computer science department website

Yet more Kenyon blogs

By matt, on September 21st, 2005%

Dave has one, too.

Something fishy is going . . . → Read More: Yet more Kenyon blogs

Another Kenyon Blog

By matt, on September 19th, 2005%

I need to update my blogroll. I’ve got a few I need to add, and I’ve just discovered that John Sherck has a weblog. . . . → Read More: Another Kenyon Blog

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory Homepage

By matt, on September 17th, 2005%

Update 20050923: A followup to this piece has been posted.

The University of Kent Computing Laboratory has a homepage that is completely and utterly unusable. What’s worse, it gets “tweaked” every now and then, with links and text changing in subtle ways, leaving the user to try and guess where the information they need has been hidden. . . . → Read More: The University of Kent Computing Laboratory Homepage

Hiring: from Loud Thinking

By matt, on September 11th, 2005%

Reduce the risk, hire from open source:

In the wake of open source, traditional hiring practices seem like an unnecessarily risky way to hire new employees. Especially for small teams where each hire can make it or break it. Why bet the composure of your collective on abstract indicators, hearsay, and a biased bio?

And the rest of . . . → Read More: Hiring: from Loud Thinking

Another CS-ED blogger

By matt, on September 9th, 2005%

You know how there’s little things you have to do that just keep getting swept to the side?

I have to edit the CS-ED.org site to add a link. Just one link! In fact, it’s this one. Perhaps I’ll do it today. Really. I mean that. Honest. …

Anyway, ecto makes posting a weblog entry easy, so I’ll . . . → Read More: Another CS-ED blogger

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