Very good exchange between Berit Brogaard and Gualtiero Piccinini on philosophy blogging. Worth the read (especially if you need to feel vindicated in your philosophy blogging activities)

Really interested essay on leaving academia and doing scholarship "on the outside".

Nice article discussing the benefits (for educators) that can come from using social network sites like Facebook and LinkedIn.

I don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...

I've started to wonder whether higher education software shouldn't simple be abandoned in favor of using a wide range of Web 2.0 apps that are now available. This article is predicting this will happen.

Story claims that Wachovia is freezing the accounts of over 1,000 colleges - these are accounts they use to pay faculty and staff. Read more over on Leiter's blog.

Kvanvig discusses "oppositional and defiant disorder" noting that the symptoms look suspiciously similar to good old-fashioned critical thinking. Links to a more in depth chronicle piece.

This thread began a few months ago at Philosophers' Anonymous. It invites readers to discuss whether or not it is wrong to sell those free, unsolicited text books to the used textbook dealers that come knocking on your office door.