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  • Adventures in bibliometrics – the pitfalls of Google Scholar Citations

    How do you measure the impact of research? It’s a huge question and lots of people have tried to come up with answers, but it’s kind of a pointless question. Believe me, I tried! One of the core issues is how do you define impact? If you’re looking for qualitative methods, it will be extremely…

  • The madness of trusting the consultant class and the illusion of nice things.

    I’ve been reading The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington after hearing Collington talk about it on Tech Won’t Save Us. The interview made me start to question a lot of the hype cycles I bought into throughout my…

  • It’s carbon all the way down.

    Last year I got into an argument with some colleagues about the concept of “decarbonization” for transportation. What does the term actually mean? Nowadays, the most common definition for “decarbonization” is usually something squishy that includes stopping or reducing carbon gasses in the atmosphere. It’s a soft term in this regard – perhaps because policymakers…

  • Hello Again.

    I think I kind of lost steam for blogging because I used Twitter threads to make long points. Twitter made it easier to engage with people who didn’t visit here regularly – which is pretty much most people. And why would they? The rise of platforms like Twitter and Facebook made it easy for people…

  • Working through friction towards consensus

    Anti Viet Nam Rally NYC 1969 flickr photo by Winston J.Vargas shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license Today I attended a forum for SLA 2021 Board candidates to meet and talk to members. After years of involvement and talking about the association, I’m finally standing for the board. You can read my candidate statement…