Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs * † - Department of ...

Glenn, D. 2003. “Scholars Who Blog: The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of
academics,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 June; online at
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Golden, C. & L.F. Katz. 2008. The Race between Education and Technology, Harvard University
Press; publisher’s information at :
“The book argues that technological change, education, and inequality have been involved in a kind
of race. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was
higher than the demand for them. This had the effect of boosting income for most people and
lowering inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. This educational slowdown
was accompanied by rising inequality. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this, and
what might be done to ameliorate it.” Amazon.com information is at .
This book is cited by NYT columnist David Brooks (2008) in support of his claim that the “skills
slowdown” is “The Biggest Issue” facing the Nation. In Hake (2009) I argue that “The Threat to Life
on Planet Earth Is a More Important Issue Than David Brooks' Skills Slowdown.”
GOOGLE. 2008. Searches:
“A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I've got the telltale fact or pithy quote
I was after. . .” [Nicholas Carr (2008a) - Carr’s blog is listed in the present compilation].
All thanks to physicist-turned-computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
and
].
(a) Google :
On 7 March 06:55:00-0800, the following hit numbers were obtained for searches for:
[Scholarpedia Citizendium Wikipedia] (without the “[....])......5,440
Scholarpedia............................................................................57,300
Citizendium............................................................................281,000
“Encyclopedia Britannica”................................................4,570,000
Wikipedia........................................................................286,000,000
cf: Google Trends at “(i)” below,
(b) Google News ,
(c) Google Images ,
(d) Google Scholar ,
(e) Google Books ,
(g) GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH
Blogsearch hits on: 16 Jan 2009 26 Feb 2009
Science................... 85,017,508 ........ 51,578,168
Education............... 82,916,794...........48,552,918
Engineering............ 17,665,814 ....... 13,863,712
Physics..................... 8,729,910 .......... 7,082,854
Biology.................... 7,497,795............ 6,036,170
Chemistry................. 7,281,777........... 5,619,426
Geography.............................................2,211,903
Mathematics............. 3,040,180............1,527,711
Geology....................... 358,182...............390,748
Geoscience.................................................36,271
[Are the huge decreases for Science, Education, & Mathematics between 16 Jan and 26
Feb real or due to technical problems with the search engine?]
(h) Google Groups , &
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