'Pair of hands' editing and budget development on a research tender.
Finished reading Gillian Tett's book Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets, and Unleashed a Catastrophe (New York: The Free Press, 2009). Tett's social anthropology perspective highlights the role of securitisation and financial innovation in the 2007-09 global financial crisis. Most of her sources appear to be a J.P. Morgan cohort, interviews with J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon, and industry conferences such as the European Securitisation Forum. Tett believes the J.P. Morgan cohort pioneered collateralised debt obligations in the mid-1990s and that this 'super-senior debt' had a pivotal role in the crisis. Fool's Gold is most interesting when Tett describes the cohort's original goals and the CDO innovation-to-market process; although Dimon is also portrayed as a savvy corporate philosopher and details-oriented manager.
In response to a Geert Lovink post on blind peer review in academia, Barry Saunders and academic friends tweet this process in an open ecosystem. My take? Many authors will already know who their critics are if there are clear personal agendas rather than constructive suggestions on how to improve an article. Look at the list of associate editors when applying to a 'target' journal as they will probably review your work. There are ways to handle 'rejoinder' processes - such as to show the internal inconsistencies between positive and negative reviewers. Many academic journals now use a hybrid approach.
In November, Ben Eltham and I wrote a conference paper and presentation on Twitter's role in Iran's 2009 election crisis. It's been read by Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and been heavily downloaded. Today, Ben received news that University of East London senior lecturer Terri Senft has used our paper in her coursework on digital media culture here. Check out Terri's personal site, LinkedIn profile, and LiveJournal blog.
Finished reading Gillian Tett's book Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets, and Unleashed a Catastrophe (New York: The Free Press, 2009). Tett's social anthropology perspective highlights the role of securitisation and financial innovation in the 2007-09 global financial crisis. Most of her sources appear to be a J.P. Morgan cohort, interviews with J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon, and industry conferences such as the European Securitisation Forum. Tett believes the J.P. Morgan cohort pioneered collateralised debt obligations in the mid-1990s and that this 'super-senior debt' had a pivotal role in the crisis. Fool's Gold is most interesting when Tett describes the cohort's original goals and the CDO innovation-to-market process; although Dimon is also portrayed as a savvy corporate philosopher and details-oriented manager.
In response to a Geert Lovink post on blind peer review in academia, Barry Saunders and academic friends tweet this process in an open ecosystem. My take? Many authors will already know who their critics are if there are clear personal agendas rather than constructive suggestions on how to improve an article. Look at the list of associate editors when applying to a 'target' journal as they will probably review your work. There are ways to handle 'rejoinder' processes - such as to show the internal inconsistencies between positive and negative reviewers. Many academic journals now use a hybrid approach.
In November, Ben Eltham and I wrote a conference paper and presentation on Twitter's role in Iran's 2009 election crisis. It's been read by Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and been heavily downloaded. Today, Ben received news that University of East London senior lecturer Terri Senft has used our paper in her coursework on digital media culture here. Check out Terri's personal site, LinkedIn profile, and LiveJournal blog.
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