Anglia Ruskin University is in Cambridge, but it’s not Cambridge University. It’s likely that none of us would even know of Anglia Ruskin’s existence if it wasn’t for Naomi Sugai, but she’s not interested in promoting the school.
She’s got complaints, she’s fed up, and she’s taking her case to YouTube.
Well, she took her case to [...]

Posted April 28, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Anglia Ruskin University, criticism, Naomi Sugai, student, suspended. Be the first one.

Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn:
Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2.0 they have not taken a good look at what they can’t do for our libraries. …with all this new technology we can not forget that what is the most important in our [...]

Posted September 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: criticism, good service, good service online, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, online, quality, service, web 2.0. Be the first one.

Some are calling it the Jesus phone, but Jason Chen calls it a moral quandry, Gartner Group is telling IT to avoid it (really, because iTunes is scary to enterprise), Business 2.0’s Joshua Quittner is reminding the peeps it’s just a regular phone, and Wayne Smallman is whining that it doesn’t have a flash or [...]

Posted June 26, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: criticism, haters, humor, iphone. 7 Comments.

Today I discovered (thank you Ryan) Kareem Elnahal’s speech as valedictorian of Mainland Regional High School and I discovered new hope, new faith in our country’s future. When high school students can step up and speak truth to power, as Elnahal did so well, I become a believer in the strength of human spirit. “We [...]

Posted July 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: american education, critical thinking, criticism, education, John Taylor Gatto, Kareem Elnahal, public education, public schools, speech, valedictorian. One Comment.

I wrote yesterday of Nicole Engard’s comment that the ILS was about as open and flexible as a brick wall. Today I learned that the vendor of that ILS had tried to squash her public criticism.
Not cool.
It’s pure speculation on my part, but what comes next? Surely no vendor would send Vinny over to bust [...]

Posted June 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: criticism, iii, ils, ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights, Innovative Interfaces, John Blyberg, libraries, library, Nicole Engard, squashing criticism, squelched. 6 Comments.

We’ve all heard it before, but we just can’t get it out of our heads. Today’s movies make us feel dumb. Paulina Borsook joins the chorus and condemns contemporary cinema by praising movies of the 60s and 70s:
They were movies made for adults, even if they had been mainstream movies and/or nominally rated PG. They [...]

Posted December 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: criticism, dvd rental, film, film criticism, films, good movies, greencine, movie, movie criticism, movies, netflix, old movies, paulina borsook. 10 Comments.

Conservatives hate Freakonomics, that book by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner that takes on more than a few sticky issues that most people don’t normally consider to be within the purview of economics. (See also the Freakonomics blog).
Publisher’s Weekly notes:
There isn’t really a grand theory of everything here, except perhaps the [...]

Posted October 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy. Tags: abortion, bill bennett, conservative, conservatives, criticism, economist, economy, freakonomics, harry shearer, levitt, racisim, steven d levitt, steven levitt, theory, william bennett, william j bennett. One Comment.