Most of my reading this week was health-care. Obviously, the Supreme Court's hostile questioning of the Obama Administration's signature legislation was a big shock. Still, it was useful to see the ACA defended in ways that the Administration wasn't able to before the Supreme Court. Here's a Tumblr summary of some of the arguments I found interesting.
About a "creepy" application called "Girls Around You" and what it says about social networking, data and privacy.
John Lancaster on Marx in the London Review of Books. A wonderful piece on what Marx means to us today -- and what he was right about.
Dahlia Lithwick on the twisted idea of "liberty" that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court has. I usually find Lithwick's prose a bit too hectoring but I agree with every point she makes here.
How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners. The title says it all.
When writers have as much power as J. K. Rowling, they can transform the publishing industry single-handedly. More seriously, the Web has given writers more bargaining power w.r.t. publishers and distributors.
How much work is it to teach at a community college? Probably a lot. Henry Farrell comments.
I am very late to this really really good Ethan Zuckerman post on the blurring lines between advocacy and journalism. The Passion of Mike Daisey: Journalism, Storytelling and the Ethics of Attention, by Ethan Zuckerman.
And finally, a dense philosophical meditation on computation. Ian Horswill: What is Computation? Crossroads Magazine, March 2012, ACM
About a "creepy" application called "Girls Around You" and what it says about social networking, data and privacy.
John Lancaster on Marx in the London Review of Books. A wonderful piece on what Marx means to us today -- and what he was right about.
Dahlia Lithwick on the twisted idea of "liberty" that the conservative wing of the Supreme Court has. I usually find Lithwick's prose a bit too hectoring but I agree with every point she makes here.
How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners. The title says it all.
When writers have as much power as J. K. Rowling, they can transform the publishing industry single-handedly. More seriously, the Web has given writers more bargaining power w.r.t. publishers and distributors.
How much work is it to teach at a community college? Probably a lot. Henry Farrell comments.
I am very late to this really really good Ethan Zuckerman post on the blurring lines between advocacy and journalism. The Passion of Mike Daisey: Journalism, Storytelling and the Ethics of Attention, by Ethan Zuckerman.
And finally, a dense philosophical meditation on computation. Ian Horswill: What is Computation? Crossroads Magazine, March 2012, ACM
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