AARON SWARTZ. GUERILLA OPEN ACCESS MANIFESTO
By Aaron Swartz. July 2008. Reposted to honor his goals, to remember him, and to motivate change in the justice system that failed him. His suicide is…
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Thesis Defended. Issue #2: Public Anthropology
A few weeks have gone by, flowers have bloomed, the snow is gone, and I’m far less agitated then I was immediately after the thesis defence experience. In…
Thesis defended. Issue #1:representing anthropology & being cynical.
How was it? Brutal [even if it was accepted with minor revisions!] !!! I’ll do my best to summarise the experience, and issues raised, over the next few…
Open Access – Books & Journals
[This post is a reply to a reader’s question, “What about books?”] Discussions related to Open Access often focus on journals, but as one thesis reader has asked…
Making anthropology accessible online (some conclusions)
Another thesis version has been submitted and this project is finally coming to a long drawn out close. In the end I’ve created a rather ugly beast. It’s…
Concentration and the Internet
A few tips to quickly share. I am easily distracted, and easily inspired. As a result I’ll be in the middle of a thesis paragraph when I’ll jump…