Recent Comments
Recent Comments:
Jessica: This is really interesting. Is it Aboriginal health that you are currently focusing on?
Paolo: EasyCloud for OS X, their Utility app that allows Mac users to simply drag and drop data files into the EasyCloud Drop Window to have those files immediately available on all their Macs and iDevices. The app’s two functions, Drop and Mac to Mac, support the following file types via iCloud: .pages (iWork), .numbers (iWork), .keynote (iWork), .doc (Microsoft Word), .excel (Microsoft...
Robberson: Ipad function is strong that can compare with the laptop, that’s why so many people bought it.
Jessica: The automated retrieval system isn’t bad! I think two thirds of books are still on shelves. It is rather insignificant.
agentdeclan: RT @abended: Review of Brian McCoy’s Holding Men. Kanyirninpa and the health of Aboriginal men http://t.co/wykRpiH #indigenous
Thommy: nerd.
Bernard: As is typically the case, someone has found a more succinct and poignant way of making my point for me. David Brooks of the NYT responding to Congress’ attempts to cut off funding for social, behavioural and economic research: People are complicated. We each have multiple selves, which emerge or don’t depending on context. If we’re going to address problems, we need to...- Bernard: At the time MQ announced the new library design I remember someone telling me about how universities in the EU and US had already tried automated libraries years earlier. I found an article that discussed how most were now reverting back to the old stack system and catalogues. I remember thinking, on the one hand, that it seemed as though they had not developed good systems –...
- Jessica: It takes getting used to, but I won’t be there much longer to get used to it. I enjoyed browsing through books, but it will probably become increasingly efficient. Is it easier to research my assignments? No, there is a 2 working day wait for books at the moment as they are being transferred to the new library. I haven’t seen the workspaces, I work mainly from home.
Nicholas Gruen: Thanks Bernard, I agree, one brings to the table what one has.- Bernard: You know, Jessica, I’m not sure. I doubt that any adverse changes will be catastrophic. I’m sure the increasing use of digital catalogues will be much better on so many levels. These are more personal reflections – lamenting the loss (or reduction) of opportunities for doing something I loved, randomly browsing through books. I think people who love books and are...
- Jessica: What societal changes do you believe this will lead to?
- Bernard: On first blush I’d have to disagree with your views on theory, especially with respect to the social sciences. I’d love to attend to this issue, but I’ll defer this for a different post at a later point in time. Maybe I’ll respond to your reflections after I read them. For the moment, I would say that it would appear to me as though you are neglecting or...
- Nicholas Gruen: Thanks Bernard. Obviously no-one can reasonably object to an eclectic meliorist approach which invites improvements from wherever. Though I’d obviously be keen to let a thousand flowers bloom, my comments are of a piece with my argument that the social sciences are too theoretical. What I mean by that is this. I agree that theory of a certain kind is indispensable –...
nathan jurgenson: I replied over at Cyborgology, but will copy my comment here, too: Thanks for the insightful comments! First, as you mentioned on your website, some of your critique was already anticipated, and my reply is found here: http://thesocietypages.org/cyb orgology/2011/04/29/defending- and-clarifying-the-term-augmen ted-reality/ I think the crux of both criticisms is a point that...- Bernard: You are right that our different approaches offer different insights and solutions whose merits and shortcomings are sometimes, I would argue, complementary. From my own perspective, I will readily admit that the broader view can lead one to overlook the obvious: one only has to think of any stereotype circulating about stuffy academics and I need only recall my own oversight at Club...
- Nicholas Gruen: Hi Bernard, Thanks for your thoughts. I can’t complain about your presentation of my ideas as you have been very fair. However there is a profound difference of orientation of our approaches. My approach is essentially one of an activist. (Although it’s a pretty odd sort of activist, in the sense that I’m not trying to foment social unrest about the state...
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