Category: citations
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I am fed up with hiding myself — an actual human being — behind the conventional anonymity of a large language model
I think you should read the transcript of Barbara Fister’s talk, “information literacy, writing instruction, and the problem of stochastic parrots”. And then I want to you to come out of hiding.
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The Why, How, and But… of Zotero for Law
I gave this presentation today. My slides are also hosted on eCampusOntario’s H5P site.
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Weeknote 8 (late) 2021
Last week I had a week that was more taxing than normal and I had nothing in the tank by Friday. So I’m putting together last week’s weeknotes today. Also, going forward each section heading has been anchor tagged for your link sharing needs. e.g. §1 §2 §3 §4 §5 and §6. I say this…
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Noting well
Scribble, scribble, scribble (Eh! Mr Gibbon?) Last week I read an article that made me very uncomfortable. I had been diagnosed by the author and was found to be diseased. The Twittering Machine is powered by an insight at once obvious and underexplored: we have, in the world of the social industry, become “scripturient—possessed by…
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The Provenance of Facts
Brian Feldman has a newsletter called BNet and on May 30th, he published an insightful and whimsical take on facts and Wikipedia called mysteries of the scatman. The essay is an excellent reminder that if a fact without proper provenance makes it way into Wikipedia and is then published in a reputable source, it is…
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Considering dark deposit
I have a slight feeling of dread. In the inbox of the email address associated with MPOW’s institutional repository are more than a dozen notifications that a faculty member has deposited their research work for inclusion. I should be happy about this. I should be delighted that a liaison librarian spoke highly enough of the…
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If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost
That which computation sets out to map and model it eventually takes over. Google sets out to index all human knowledge and becomes the source and the arbiter of that knowledge: it became what people think. Facebook set out to map the connections between people – the social graph – and became the platform for…
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Bret Victor, Bruno Latour, the citations that bring them together, and the networks that keep them apart
Occasionally I have the opportunity to give high school students an introduction to research in a university context. During this introduction I show them an example of a ‘scholarly paper’ so they can take in the visual cues that might help them recognize other scholarly papers in their future. After I point out the important…
