{"id":3738,"date":"2009-06-06T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/06\/links-for-2009-06-06\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T05:00:43","slug":"links-for-2009-06-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/06\/links-for-2009-06-06\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/inversesquare.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/05\/diary-of-a-trade-book-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-7-1-rewards-and-bribes\/\">Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 7.1: Rewards and Bribes \u00c2\u00ab The Inverse Square Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[W]hen sheer love of words and sentences and ideas can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t carry you through, what can you fall back on?<\/p>\n<p>Bribery.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/levenson\">levenson<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/06\/book-launch-20.php\">Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb Book Launch 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">As someone who created a Facebook page for his dog as a way to promote a book project, I definitely appreciate this.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/marketing\">marketing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/assessing-professional-development.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Assessing Professional Development<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Since it&#8217;s looking like we&#8217;ll be short of funds for some time to come, I can foresee some pitched battles coming over what little professional development funding we haven&#8217;t cut yet. And I can guess that those battles won&#8217;t be terribly enlightening, because we haven&#8217;t really figured out what makes some professional development activities better than others.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2009\/06\/stealing_daylight.php\">Stealing Daylight : Starts With A Bang<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Ever wonder how much daylight you can gain or lose just by getting in your car and driving either West or East? &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/starts-with-bang\">starts-with-bang<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/jobs\/18pre.html?_r=1\">Preoccupations &#8211; Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Part of the problem at such meetings is that the leader has not set clear objectives or an agenda, and didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t assign pre-meeting preparation tasks. Instead, the leader seems to hope that magic will occur, producing a serendipitous solution to some of the problems addressed. Of course, that doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t happen. As a general rule, meetings make individuals perform below their capacity and skill levels.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t mean we should always avoid face-to-face meetings \u00e2\u0080\u0094 but it is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. &quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/meetings\">meetings<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter) 7.1: Rewards and Bribes \u00c2\u00ab The Inverse Square Blog &quot;[W]hen sheer love of words and sentences and ideas can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t carry you through, what can you fall back on? Bribery.&quot; (tags: writing books levenson) Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb Book Launch 2.0 As someone who created a Facebook page&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/06\/links-for-2009-06-06\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-06-06<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}