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Lectorat de blogue
Une réflexion qui date d’un certain temps mais cette liste (humouristique) de mensonges de blogueur (découverte grâce au podcast de Pointblog.com) me pousse à en faire un billet. Accorde-t-on de l’importance au lectorat de nos blogues?
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Play Behaviour and Performance Redux
Short version of the previous entry for all of you busy bees out there:
If people take the time to play, they accomplish more. 🙂
Play Behaviour and Performance
Wired News: DIY Tunes Turn It Up
This is weaving together a few threads.
Although the article comes from a rather specific perspective, it does offer some insight as to important issues of creativity, art, and specialization.
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Learning Strategies
Speaking of learning strategies and applying different models to academic departments…
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I Got You Babe
In my next life, I hope I’ll believe in reincarnation.
Glocal Craftiness: Coffee, Beer, Music
Was listening to the portafilter.net podcast (Episode 23) and thinking about coffee shops, cafés, brewpubs, bars, bands, venues…
Michiana Beer: South Bend Breweries
A Brief and Incomplete History of Brewing in South Bend, Indiana
Over at Indiana Beer. Link posted by Jeff Sutter on the Michiana Brew Google Group. A list of a few breweries in South Bend, especially the Muessel Brewing Company and Manitoba-based Drewrys Brewery. (“Michiana” is the informal name for a region which crosses the Michigan-Indiana border around South Bend, IN.)
In more recent history, there has been a few brewpubs and microbreweries in Northern Indiana. The following ones are currently in operation: Three Floyds Brewing Company in Munster (along with the Three Floyds Brewpub), Backroad Brewery in LaPorte, Mishawaka Brewing Company in Mishawaka, Shoreline Brewing Company in Michigan City, Mad Anthony Brewing Company, in Fort Wayneand most recently, Nine G Brewing Company, in South Bend. A more complete list of Hoosier breweries is available on the Indiana Beer website.
A Department Is Like…
Alex Golub on Academic Departments as Factory, lab, guild, studioAn interesting heuristic model. Not too dissimilar from Eric Raymond’s well-known The Cathedral and the Bazaar. More specific to academic departments but some of the same ideas. Continue reading A Department Is Like…
Bouffe et culture aux États-Unis dans les années 1950
Le dernier épisode de la balado-diffusion EatFeed, Dinner From the Oven, contient une entrevue avec Laura Shapiro, auteure d’un livre sur la cuisine au four dans les années 1950 aux États-Unis. Le livre lui-même semble assez intéressant et l’entrevue donne un résumé de certaines notions importantes, entre autres sur l’influence de l’industrie de l’alimentation et les réticences des ménagères à utiliser des mélanges préparés à l’avance. Bien que ce soit surtout une approche historiciste, ç’en dit beaucoup sur la société américaine, sur les rapports femmes-hommes, sur la perception de la nourriture, etc.