Mon 1 May 2006
My blog is now fully entreched in the world of macadamia, I mean academia.
Check it out how – how snob-academic is this – I really should by myself a tweed jacket and sew leather on to the elbows of it. You can now see, by clicking on the link below, how to format an academic citation of this very post, because I know all of you are plagarising my shit ’cause it’s so bloody intelligent.
I got it from academicsandbox.com because I thought it was a widget that would allow you to cite other work, rather than allow people to cite me and portraying an assumption that everbody would want to.
Given that it took my unwired brain so long to figure out how to install the feature I’ve decided to keep it there. And it makes me look bloody smart.
Because looking smart is the goal [cough].
May 1st, 2006 at 19:16
Why stop at just the jacket? Get one of those old style brown leather briefcases, a pocket-protector for your pens, and a pipe that you use to make emphatic points – jabbing it at undergraduates as you demolish their arguments, before disappearing into an impenetrable fug of pipe smoke.
Anyway, the plug-in is really über-geeky – I’m jealous. Now you just need a plug-in that tracks Google Scholar and displays a count on the blog of the number of citations of said articles.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:00
Uber-geeky is right. Everyone should get it though. It’d help me if all would do it. Applying the thousand monkeys principle, we know that there are so many people like me out there that one day at least one of their posts would wind up in a univeristy paper somewhere in the world.
May 3rd, 2006 at 09:08
True. But it’s not that hard to note down what the citation for an electronic source is from the style guide, or just let software like EndNote do it for you.
The big gain would be in undergraduate essays. I’ve marked a few recently that cite blog articles and they’re pretty inconsistent with that citation – even with style guides.
You could always publish (on demand) your blog thoughts as a book too. I see that’s been done here:
http://www.lulu.com/kester
Opens up the door to those celebrity signing engagements
May 3rd, 2006 at 09:49
Ooh, me a plogger! I’ll think about that after I read your bestseller.