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Comment on Students to learn how to protest by John Horton

John Horton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:56:09 +0000

“There will, of course, be a compulsory module in essay avoidance displacement activity” … for which handing in an essay will demonstrate complete failure to grasp the material in the module.

Comment on UK universities in the world top 100 rankings by Best Univ

Best Univ — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:48:09 +0000

Cambridge is always the best ranked UK university in many league tables such as The Times and Guardian.

Comment on Students to learn how to protest by Vicki Stott

Vicki Stott — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:27:24 +0000

Brilliant. So who will teach the module on ‘Selling Extreme Leftist Newspapers: Vocal Inflection as Marketing Technique’? And will there be a comparative review of No.1 haircuts and DM boots as used by the left and by the right?

Comment on New league table amusement by Comparing prominent league tables « Registrarism

Comparing prominent league tables « Registrarism — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:43:43 +0000

[...] SJTU, THE and the wonderful and bizarre table from the École des Mines de Paris, covered in a previous post. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)“Pressure grows” to replace league [...]

Comment on University Targets Overweight Students by obesity definition

obesity definition — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:50:22 +0000

Great post! I love the way you wrote. It is one of the main thing that people would understand and apply in their daily life.. But the sad thing here is, students are getting fat due to lack of self confidence and they just didnt notice it..

I already added your feed to my reader, hoping to learn a lot more on your post.

However, has anyone else can suggest any other related topic for me to search on for more information?

Comment on Facebook for Scientists? by Andy Shaindlin

Andy Shaindlin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:28:26 +0000

Another site with potential in this direction is JournalFire, which acts as a publishing outlet for journal clubs, and a way for scientists and researchers to share with each other what they are reading, and where their own research stands. http://journalfire.org.

Comment on Facebook for Scientists? by Pavan K

Pavan K — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:20:39 +0000

Also to try and briefly answer the question as to whether current networks are more likely to be able to do this, and do it more efficiently – can the answer be taken seriously of I say yes but no. No references to Little Britain intended…

Yes because they have the users, the loyalty and critical mass. A niche network like the one described in your post might seriously consider building connections with those networks through Applications and therefore use them as a platform for virality. On the other hand however the user’s on those networks are not there to share their research as much as they may be on their blogs or on twitter. Do they have the data required to solve the problem?

On that basis we lead towards a no. These networks are not gathering sets of data specific to these areas of research to then organise and redistribute that data or breakdowns of that data such as connections/collaborations between researchers. I can see huge value in Institutions being able to unleash some viral sharing of their research and the scholars responsible for their contributions. I think where Social Networking and the Internet are concerned, we are just at the beginning.

Again knowledge of this project gives my research some inspiration, and I wander who else in the University is looking at solving these problems of sharing, and how do I find them?

Comment on Facebook for Scientists? by Pavan K

Pavan K — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:03:56 +0000

Very interesting post. Facebook and current networks could mine their data and build connections based on more than the six degrees of separation but are locked into their own inertia – right? Niche networks can solve specific problems that Facebook or Linkedin are too big and broad to worry about, launching a light version and seeing if enough user’s validate they value the service should give them the exit velocity that Steve Blank refers to in Four Steps to The Epiphany. Only an iterative, agile and customer centric development model, i.e the user’s will decide.

Taken some serious inspiration from this post. Thanks.

Comment on How many Honorary Degrees? by Another view on Honorary Degrees « Registrarism

Another view on Honorary Degrees « Registrarism — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:05:47 +0000

[...] an earlier post, here we have a slightly different take, this time from the Daily Mail: Degree day at a university [...]

Comment on Economist MBA league table by Best School

Best School — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:33:15 +0000

London Business School is the No.1 school for its full time MBA in the Financial Times MBA Ranking 2009. It offers the best MBA and EMBA programs in Europe.