The U.S. has spent more than $5 billion on military and anti-narcotics aid for Colombia in recent years. In a new article for Slate, Ray Fisman points to a new paper that analyzes conflict and coca production in areas with and without Army bases t... read more

When we developed our 2010 research agenda a few months ago we could not ignore the fact that now more than ever, enterprises are being forced to manage huge amounts of data from many different and often completely new channels. The term unbounded... read more

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Wordle: Lasting Impact of Learning 2.0, originally uploaded by mstephens... read more

For some Hispanic students, navigating the college application process can be a double-whammy: Balancing high school coursework with essays and interviews, and then translating the whole system for their parents, who don't speak English. Some vene... read more

%$&#$!! got to campus by 8 and still have to park in the back 40. [cindi] Shared 500 Internal Server Error. Phrases used so far in this meeting: "paradigm shift," "online clearinghouse," "intellectual property," "university policy." [cindi] [... read more

OK, let me take a short respite from travel blogging - and break one of my cardinal rules - by posting some non-travel related pictures. On Super Bowl Sunday night my good friend Andy Burkhardt, a librarian at Champlain and one of the founding mem... read more

Shared Continuous Brand Management for Generation 10:45 — John Sviokla — Harvard Business Review. “First, they will expect a continuous brand experience… Despite the fact that some look at the 10:45ers as the poster children for attention deficit... read more

Aaron Schmidt has a column in Library Journal about user experience. Here is his first column. The ideas of design and user experience seem sometimes orthogonal to what we do in libraries. We are concerned with content not containers, you know ... read more

A few weeks ago, I received a message in the mail from Ariel Glazer at University of Buenos Aires sharing this video, which remixed some footage from the interview I gave to the producers of Digital Nation. In many ways, it captures some of my co... read more

…or something like that. I had three props to bring to my workshop about Open Source and libraries today – a bag of spaghetti, a jar of Paul Newman’s Spaghetti Sauce and a jar of “fake” Nonna’s sauce, which was actually Coles sauce with the label ... read more

Jaron Lanier has a new book, You Are Not a Gadget (NY Times review), which I have to add to my reading list and bump up a few notches. There is an excerpt from it in the February issue of Harper’s: “The Serfdom of Crowds.” He’s writing along... read more

It's time to say goodbye.This blog has been a wonderful place for me to post things I found interesting and to explore the world of Marketing and Social Media.But it is time for the blog to end.My new site is located at http://www.ejyoung.comAs th... read more

I always do better at the beginning of the year than later on, so I’m not going to crow too much about being on track for reading 50 this year, particularly since two are graphic novels that took less than 20 minutes to read. Nevertheless, here... read more

I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You'd walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it's just humiliating. Blogging has become like mahjong or needlepoint or clipping coupons out of Walgreens circulars: s... read more

From nome de guerreHistory was recently made by a group of students at Champlain. Environmental Club members: Lauren Swanson, Mike Mullins, Justine Riegel, Andrew Nordstrom, Thomson Nguyen, Jillian DelVecchio and Ryan Phillips presented at the las... read more

Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again ... read more