As I have remarked before, good typography does not merely have aesthetic virtue. Importantly, it has cognitive virtue as well. Good typesetting makes your work easier to understand. A good font is but one element of typesetting, and a font may be appropriate to one context but not others. Still, font choice is one of […]
Google Book Search, a surprisingly controversial if welcome Google app, has reached a ground breaking settlement. See here. A highlight: US users—alas not me, an expatriate American—will have access to out of print but not out of copyright books as well as the ability to buy these. Of course there is more. See also the […]
sympoze is a social bookmarking site for philosophers. Currently in beta, sympoze is only open to professional philosophers and graduate students. Not only can you submit links but sympoze has the following features:
Voting on submitted links User profiles Online status Instant messaging
Looks to be an excellent online resource if enough philosophers participate—and not just because a bookmark to […]
Kieran Healey has followed my lead and posted his sociology BibTeX files on GitHub. I could only be happier if someone forked me. C’mon, baby, fork me, fork me!
Update Kieran posts about it here.
Some solutions to life’s inconveniences can be forehead-slapping obvious.
A paradigm shift in academic publishing is occurring—a move from dead tree sources to online resources. As I have had occasion to comment (here and here), this is a Good Thing™. However, the old paradigm is not without its virtues, perhaps not all of which will be […]
Stability is a precondition for the possibility of citation.
Consider direct quotation—no easy phenomena. Part of the point of citation, here, is so that the reader can read the quotation in context, to decide for themselves whether the quoted author has been misrepresented. The usual case is to quote from a dead tree source—a printed book […]
DOI numbers are increasingly important for academic bibliographies as more and more research is made available online. It is much easier to download a journal article from your office than to walk to the library only to find that the volume has been checked out. (Yes, many research libraries allow journal volumes to be checked […]
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