Academe Links December 12, 2006

MLA Taskforce on Evaluating Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure http://www.mla.org/pdf/task_force_tenure_promotio.pdf

also; http://higheredchat.blogspot.com/2006/12/publish-or-perish-in-ever-diminishing.html

"The Averaged American' via CT

http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/11/the-averaged-american/

"Not So Merry Christmas" via Inside Higher Ed http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/12/tufts

"Blackboard Patent Celebrity Death Match" http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/blackboard_patent_celebrity_death_match/

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

http://internettime.com/?p=773

"Tuesdays with Tosi"

http://www.cba.ufl.edu/podcasts/tuesdayswithtosi/

Plagiarism

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/pla/

Tool: NationMaster

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Humor: Map of the Internet

http://www.xkcd.com/c195.html