There are some back end things you should do with your authorship and Google Plus if you're a blogger. The best description/ tools is on this page - http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/ -- if you've got a snowday it might be a good day to get this straight. It is a tad of a pain but if you're blogging you should make sure it is handled.
If you had $100 billion to fix our schools, what would you do? A surprisingly smart list of suggestions for the education portion of the federal stimulus money is circulating in the education policy world. A group of experts claims authorship. I don't believe committees are capable of good ideas, so I doubt the alleged origins of the list. But let's put that aside for a moment and see what they've got.
Better yet, why not come up with our own ideas? My column seeking cheap ways to improve education yielded interesting results. By contrast, think of what we could do if we had enough money to buy the contract of every great quarterback: guarantee the Redskins a Super Bowl victory. Many expensive school-fixing schemes proved just as insane and just as useless. But Barack Obama is president, and we are supposed to be hopeful.
Questions immediately arise: When was this project published? When was it finished? Who deserves credit as author? Who were the reviewers and who were the audience?
In our view, it is not that electronic publication is a panacea or an obviously superior form of scholarly communication across the board; it is that these technologies are already upon us, they are for better or worse in increasing use, and they confront us with issues and choices we need to reflect upon.
On the other hand, when certain publications are only available digitally, lacking technological resources or skills will exclude certain audiences
Electronic publishing has provided an opportunity
Is it useful to have access to tens of thousands of documents, with no reliable way of culling the few dozen that one could actually have time to read?
As a result, current conventional notions of copyright would need to be profoundly rethought.
This fourth model undoes the very idea of a journal as a unidirectional avenue for dissemination of textual information