Blogging on this personal level has been fairly light of late as most of my writing energy is directed towards work. On a side note, I find it is just …
Unlocking Korean research potential with Digital Humanities Resources
With the rise (and, in some cases, fall) of digital humanities programs in North America and Europe (and presumably elsewhere), I have haphazardly looked around to see if Korea had …
Village life in Korea circa 1991, Masatake Terauchi (and Google Books)
Since I can’t seem to get enough of archaic and often out of print books on Korea at the turn of the last century, I have another few that I …
Plants and the bizarre career path of a former English teacher
I should come clean and say what might be already obvious. I have no background in botany. I wouldn’t know a lily from an orchid, a weed from grass, an …
TED talk from Hans Rosling: Debunking Developing World Myths with Data
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI] This is an absolutely brilliant talk about data and its use in the developing world by Hans Rosling. Rosling, at least according to Wikipedia, is “Professor of International Health …
Scholarship in developing nations: INASP
Further to my previous post about the difficulties encountered by many researchers in developing nations, I feel it is necessary that the situation is not all that bleak. In fact, …
Vannevar Bush, Information Overload, and Scholarship in Developing Nations
Vannevar Bush, as quoted by Levy (PDF), described the notion occurring even in the early part of the 20th century of the various disciplinary silos rising up in higher education …