My friends over at Racialicious tweeted a link to an interesting story from New York Magazine: In the article author Kevin Roose takes aim at the unrestrained enthusiasm among venture capitalists for “dumb” internet investments. Kevin’s ideal form of this stupidity can be summed up, apparently, in one site in particular: But Silicon Valley, likeRead More “The Logic of ‘Dumb’ Investments in Curly Hair”
Monthly Archives: July 2012
The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast
For as long as I have been aware of the college narrative there has existed this boogeyman: some people go to college and end up as JANITORS! The horror! Janitors now join baristas and occasionally strippers as cautionary tales of bloated, out-of-touch higher education run amok. Today’s story, “Janitors With College Degrees and the HigherRead More “The Apocryphal Janitors with College Degree Narrative Persists in Daily Beast”
MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation
You have been warned about my unicorn killing habit, right? Good. Let’s dive in. By the nature of the work I do on for-profit colleges, I also closely follow online education. For many years the two have been conflated and in many important ways that conflation continues in both research and the greater cultural imagination. WhileRead More “MOOCs, Coursera, Online Education and Performing Innovation”
New Comment Policy: No Country For Ignoratio Elenchi
I have been engaged on the internet for a long time. I’m no erudite n00b who is shocked by how wonderfully, brilliantly, disgustingly horrible this space can be. Despite that I have always maintained an open comment policy. If you weren’t going on a fag/nigger/cunt rant (I don’t abide by those) or trying to sellRead More “New Comment Policy: No Country For Ignoratio Elenchi”
Very Inspiring Blogger Award: I Taketh & I Giveth
Social media has been good to me. During a difficult stretch in life, graduate school, and life social media has connected me with friends, peers, colleagues and mentors. One of my favorite e-people is Ashley. We met on Twitter and we continue to grow our offline friendship footprint. Today, Ashley shared the wealth by payingRead More “Very Inspiring Blogger Award: I Taketh & I Giveth”
Trickle Down Feminism Redux: The Nation Knows I’m Alive!
Look, I sit through pictures of people’s children, cats, dogs, and ferrets in little berets. If I want to take a moment to share the ultra cool moment I had today then let me live, OK? I saw a link to an article on Twitter about Yahoo’s new CEO. You may not have heard butRead More “Trickle Down Feminism Redux: The Nation Knows I’m Alive!”
Alt-Ac? How are post grads living and working in a new world? Take the Survey
I have explored this idea of what it means to be “Alt-Ac” (alternative to academic track, for the uninitiated) on this space and others before. Today a tweep reached out to me about a survey being conducted by The Scholarly Communication Institute. The survey: The Scholarly Communication Institute (http://uvasci.org/) is conducting a study on careerRead More “Alt-Ac? How are post grads living and working in a new world? Take the Survey”
Reviews of ‘Beasts of Southern Wild’ Prove Blackfolks Aren’t A Monolith!
Talk about something I could not disagree with more! If you follow me on Twitter it is no secret that I was deeply affected by this film. Clay’s review is evidence that we are, indeed, not a monolith. 🙂 I also loved the movie. It was not unlike Eve’s Bayou or a Gloria Naylor bookRead More “Reviews of ‘Beasts of Southern Wild’ Prove Blackfolks Aren’t A Monolith!”
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting In For-Profits? Now With Pictures!
Like most people I tend to privilege my own learning style in my communication of ideas. As a result, I rarely have cool pictures or video for my ideas. I am an aural learner and a verbal thinker. I listen, read, and write to process information. I don’t know nuthin’ bout no multimedia. That’s fineRead More “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting In For-Profits? Now With Pictures!”
The Shock Doctrine treatment of the private take-over of New Orleans public education post-Katrina is the subject of this blog post from Diane Ravitch. My former professor Kristen Buras has been working in this vein for quite some time.