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Reading: With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds… and a giant middle finger to America

From With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds… and a giant middle finger to America

I probably should have mentioned this before, but Paiâ€™s leaving is a good occasion. Bullet lists are administrative faves because they appear to make factual claims.

Just as he had done during his tenure, however, Pai has mirrored the 45th presidentâ€™s approach and, rather than give an overview of actions to show a coherent drive and philosophy, has created the longest list possible. Bigger is better.

They leave out anything unwanted. Leave no room for counterpoint. Appear complete when partial. Appear cohesive when scattered.

Close relation: Take Aways.

Reading: Serving at Crossâ€™s Purposes. UW system rewards the suck ups.

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As in U Wisconsin Systerm, so MnSCU. Quid pro quo has become systematized.

Why am I not surprised? Because as anyone who has been paying attention knows, the chancellors have been carrying water for UW System President Ray Cross and the Regents for several years now. These outsized raises are financial rewards for their not having opposed or obstructed a single top-down edict from Cross and the Regentsâ€“for their having carried out his orders like good soldiers or middle managers are expected to do.

Put differently, what both the raises and the punishment reveal is that these raises are payoffs, ex post facto bribes, or quid pro quo rewards for UW System chancellors having accepted without objection the destruction of tenure and shared governance; repeated massive budget cuts; unfunded tuition freezes; and the break-up and distribution of the UW Colleges and Extension to the four-year, comprehensive, and doctoral campuses, aka the UW System merger.

Looks like students need to go further afield to find an ethical university.

on pinboard for August 9th, 2014 through August 22nd, 2014

Electronic Textbooks and University Structures – Richard A. Lanham – You didn't think either existed independently, did you? – (DH pubishing textbook )
What’s Next for Text? RICHARD A. LANHAM – A 2001 version of chap 3 of Economies of Attention. Illustrated. "ABSTRACT This article describes and illustrates the fundamental changes which alphabetic text undergoes when it moves from the printed page to the digital screen." – (DH essay textual_circulation )
Startup Board Decks: Free Templates from VCs | NextView Venture – how one VC defines the rhet sit for entrepreneurs. it's socilizaion, not education. On, let's be frank: it's a Trojan horse, a way of trying to control the agenda. – (rhetoric erhetoric business venture_capltalism )

on pinboard for July 31st, 2014

Digital Humanities Center (DHC) | Butler Library Blog – – (sente academic-workflow )
Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (3): Quick Add, Zotero Workflow, and Automated (Re)searching | Butler Library Blog – – (sente academic-workflow )
Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (2): Capturing and Organizing PDFs, Metadata, Tagging, Statuses | Butler Library Blog – – (sente academic-workflow )
Sente for PDF Management on the Mac and iPad (1): Capturing and Organizing PDFs | Butler Library Blog – – (swnte academic-workflow )
Butler Library Blog | Magna vis veritas – – (dh sente academic-workflow )
What is an Artist’s Book – – (dh book books printing )
Taking the Information Plunge With Tinderbox | Mac.AppStorm – – (app applescript business communication reviews finance games graphics hardware internet lifestyle music office os productivity security synchronization typography utilities video web dev roundups iphone photography how-to virtualization news appstories appstorm ask editor competitions interviews live coverage mactastik mactuts+ opinion screencasts sponsors weekly poll hot data information map outline tinderbox )
Tinderbox: Email and Twitter from Tinderbox – – (none)
Tinderbox: A Task Assistant – – (none)
tinderbox Visualize – – (none)

on pinboard for July 29th, 2014 through July 30th, 2014

Tinderbox Tuesday: Agents – – (agents tinderbox tuesday attributes notes prototypes timeline tutorial )
tinderbox Visualize – – (none)
BSAG » Tinderbox daybook – – (technology )
A Tinderbox Reference File – – (none)
Tinderbox: Email and Twitter from Tinderbox – – (none)
Tinderbox: A Task Assistant – – (none)
Taking the Information Plunge With Tinderbox | Mac.AppStorm – – (app applescript business communication reviews finance games graphics hardware internet lifestyle music office os productivity security synchronization typography utilities video web dev roundups iphone photography how-to virtualization news appstories appstorm ask editor competitions interviews live coverage mactastik mactuts+ opinion screencasts sponsors weekly poll hot data information map outline tinderbox )
Tips on Writing And How They’re Really Just Tips on Life — Hack / Make – – (notetaking writing dh academia2.0 blogging )
Momiji – How Bookmarking Should Be (For Mac, iPad and iPhone) – – (none)
What is an Artist’s Book – – (dh book books printing )
[toread] Chopping down the trunk of education | xED Book – – (moocs oer )
Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity – – (rhetoric corporaterhetoric fyc )
Another Argument Against The “Artist Must Get Paid” Nonsense | TorrentFreak – – (copyright dh )
Selfie-Love – The Chronicle Review – – (fyc a&e selfies )
Selfie-Love – The Chronicle Review – brief entry into the matter. is it narcism or a gesture of self-respect? – (fyc a&e selfies )

bookmarks for August 17th, 2010 through August 18th, 2010

A Framework for Teaching with Twitter – – (twitter socialpractices socialsoftware twwt )
Naked CIO: Apple’s iPad – why it’s iBad for business IT | Page 2 | CIO Insights | silicon.com – Businesses stay clear of ipad. Why? "All they care about is selling volume to pimply-faced teenagers looking for the next big thing. It is not in their business model and so it can't be in ours." Talk about a specious argument. I say, Fine. Keep ipads out of business. we spotty-faced pros do just fine without your tribe. – (business tribalism rhetoric fyc iPad )

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