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Kevin Champion

Shelfari - Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - 0 views

  • Shelfari empowers you to show off the books you are passionate about. Build your shelf in Shelfari and then embed your shelf in your blog, website, or social networking site of choice.
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      This is how I put a bookshelf in my academic blog.
    • Kevin Champion
       
      This is how I put a bookshelf in my academic blog.
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    This is a really cool bookshelf service.  It has a lot of ajax and a lot of social networking features.  It is entirely based visually around bookcovers.  You can create a widget to put in your website or blog that show your virtual book covers on your virtual bookshelf.  It is really nice looking.  I am interested to hear from Librarything users how they think it compares.
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    I created a group called "quorum" in Shelfari. I think it would be interesting for a group of people to start using Diigo, this Shelfari thing (if people like it) and other really cool services and exploit them for all they can do. Right now it seems to me that very few services are actually used for what they can do. Very fragmented...
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    You can check out the little widget from shelfari that you can put into your blog or website. It shows my actual bookshelf, virtual book covers on a virtual bookshelf. Pretty neat if you ask me. I like the idea of moving away from straight text as I tend to get texted out on the internet. Scroll down towards the bottom, after the blog posts, where I list all the books I´ve recently read. http://taylorandmore.blogspot.com/ Oh, and here´s my "shelf" on Shelfari, if you´re interested in checking out what it looks like before you sign up. http://www.shelfari.com/bananahandsome/shelf
Kevin Champion

Ideas for research? - 103 views

Yeah, I don´t like that either. I think partially it is designed that way so that you can reply to any post on in the thread of the forum, rather than just being able to reply to the most recent. ...

Kevin Champion

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology - A Group Blog » Are our best... - 0 views

    • Kevin Champion
       
      While I have not gone to grad school, and thus I am not an authority on the matter, one very large motivation for not going is something like this fear. I do not want to put myself in a situation where I am forced to study, read, and write about things that are of little importance to me. I would much rather pursue my own interests. Thus far, I have found this approach to be rather prolific, reading a book a week and working on numerous projects. I also find it very interesting how defensive these people are in the comments to this post. They seem to disagree whole-heartedly. This raises flags for me, flags of ignorance. Perhaps they are purposefully looking the other way. What do you think?
  • It seems that while most faculty (and, I would add, many students) assume that people drop out because they aren’t up to snuff, it may in fact be that the best students are finding that it is graduate school which isn’t up to snuff. Especially women.
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