http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:11:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/10/paideia-20/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/10/paideia-20/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:09:59 +0000 Nicolas Guilhot http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/10/paideia-20/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/10/paideia-20/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:18 +0000 Peter Brantley http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/ Paul Duguid of the UC Berkeley I-School. Prof. Duguid teaches on the topic of information quality, and recently has begun research on the history and development of trademarks and branding. As with his previous work, his talk raised issues that question the embrace of the current popular culture of open web based systems, and his commentaries are well worth sharing.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/03/04/what-shall-fill-the-void-of-the-author/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/08/meet-viridiana-jones/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/08/meet-viridiana-jones/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:34:38 +0000 Philip Mirowski http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/08/meet-viridiana-jones/ Excerpts from the first chapter of Philip Mirowski's forthcoming book, ScienceMart™: A primer on the new economics of science, to be published by Harvard University Press, will regularly appear on Knowledge Rules as The Viridiana Jones Chronicles.--N.G. It’s not easy making a living in the knowledge biz these days. Of late our heroine, the intrepid academic researcher Viridiana Jones, often feels trapped between the Scylla of Disneyfication of higher education and the Charybdis of Free EnronPrise in securing a patron to support her inquiries, and finds herself sometimes wistfully wondering what life might have been like if she had gone and gotten that law degree instead....]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/knowledgerules/2008/02/08/meet-viridiana-jones/feed/