A His­to­ry Depart­ment Bans Cit­ing Wikipedia as a Research Source

“…the Mid­dle­bury his­to­ry depart­ment noti­fied its stu­dents this month that Wikipedia could not be cit­ed in papers or exams, and that stu­dents could not “point to Wikipedia or any sim­i­lar source that may appear in the future to escape the con­se­quences of errors.

With the move, Mid­dle­bury, in Ver­mont, jumped into a grow­ing debate with­in jour­nal­ism, the law and acad­e­mia over what respect, if any, to give Wikipedia arti­cles, writ­ten by hun­dreds of vol­un­teers and sub­ject to mis­takes and some­times delib­er­ate false­hoods.“

See full arti­cle from The New York Times

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Arts & Cul­ture — Audio Books — For­eign Lan­guage Lessons — News & Infor­ma­tion — Tech­nol­o­gy — Uni­ver­si­ty (Gen­er­al) — Uni­ver­si­ty (B‑School)

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This is a pod­cast com­pi­la­tion that we almost wish we had put togeth­er. The “Pub­lic Radio Pod­cast Cat­a­logue” amaz­ing­ly gives you access to over 900 pub­lic radio pro­grams pod­cast­ed from around the globe, all of which are bro­ken down into neat cat­e­gories – Busi­ness, Cul­ture, Lit­er­a­ture, Music, News, Pol­i­tics, etc. Quite con­ve­nient­ly, the orga­niz­ers of this col­lec­tion have pro­vid­ed a link to each indi­vid­ual pod­cast feed. So you only need to find the pod­cast you like – whether its Fresh Air, Car Talk, BBC News, or what­ev­er pod­cast exists in the pub­lic radio uni­verse – then paste the feed link into a pod­cast­ing pro­gram such as iTunes or Juice, and you’ll be on your way to down­load­ing, sync­ing and absorb­ing end­less amounts of enlight­en­ing radio con­tent.

See Open Cul­ture’s pod­cast col­lec­tions: Arts & Cul­ture;

Audio Books; For­eign Lan­guage Lessons;

News & Infor­ma­tion; Tech­nol­o­gy;

Uni­ver­si­ty — Gen­er­al; and

Uni­ver­si­ty — Busi­ness School.

We have a short inter­view air­ing today on Future Tense, an Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media pro­gram host­ed by Jon Gor­don. This pro­gram offers a dai­ly jour­nal of the dig­i­tal age, and today we’re talk­ing about the past, present and future of audio books, par­tic­u­lar­ly the pod­cast­ed kind. The con­ver­sa­tion weaves togeth­er a few things that we’ve dis­cussed here this week — H.G. Wells, Cory Doc­torow, Cre­ative Com­mons, the skewed pric­ing of audio books sold to con­sumers, etc. If you don’t catch it on the radio, you can lis­ten in here: MP3 — iTunes — Blog.

On a relat­ed note, we also talked with Future Tense not too long ago about what uni­ver­si­ties are doing on the pod­cast front. If you want to give it a lis­ten, you can access it here: Mp3 — Blog.

Final­ly, see our col­lec­tion of audio book pod­casts as well as Jon Gor­don’s blog, wavLength.

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• Arts & Cul­ture Pod­casts
• Audio Book Pod­casts
• For­eign Lan­guage Les­son Pod­casts
• News & Infor­ma­tion Pod­casts
• Tech­nol­o­gy Pod­casts
• Uni­ver­si­ty Pod­casts

Since we’re talk­ing a lot about pod­casts these days, it seemed rea­son­able to men­tion that our for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­casts got a lit­tle men­tion on the lat­est episode (#77) of Dig­gna­tion, the week­ly pod­cast put out by Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and Alex Albrecht. Our pod­cast col­lec­tion now has 1877 “dig­gs,” and so it got their atten­tion and gave them a good plat­form to goof on Kev­in’s com­mand of Ara­bic. You can check out the episode here — iTunes, Rss feed.

See Open Cul­ture’s for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­cast col­lec­tion.