associate professor

To help people soak in recent academic research and its conclusions, I wrote a paper on re-thinking Christ Anderson's seminal book "The Long Tail." As you may recall, the July issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article written by a Harvard Business School associate professor.

Lipscomb University announces that a Saturday, June 28, talk by Shaun Casey, the faith advisor to the Barack Obama campaign, and Stephen Monsma, theologian and author, will now be open to the public. The one-on-one discussion will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Gee, ya think?

A reader sent me a link to Online Fandom. It's the blog of Nancy Baym, Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She included a link to a PDF document of a Powerpoint presentation about online communities and fandom.

In a Daily Beacon article some teachers fight to have more illegals on college campuses and seem to hate the thought of making illegals have to prove legal status.

Interesting.

The collegiate campus of UC Berkeley isn’t an area usually connected to Bigfoot, but a temporary display at the Hearst Museum at the university is creating some conversation about the validity of sightings by the average Joe.

M.P. Dunleavy in the NYT details the work of Antonio Rangel an associate professor of economics at Caltech:

Given the human love affair with high-priced luxury goods, and their association with status and power, it’s possible that we’ve come to experience a cerebral shiver of delight in response to things that promise that cachet. It is as if consuming high-end goods might lead to a personal transformation that bargain-hunting can’t buy.