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		<title>Mend it, don&#8217;t end it (email, that is)</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/mend-it-dont-end-it-email-that-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blissfully went through the first half of my life without electronic mail, and yet I cannot imagine living without it now. There are specific tasks for which mail (narrowly defined here as the transmission of text written by the sender, to one or more recipients) is simply irreplaceable. People have corresponded in that way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7758&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education disadvantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a cash-strapped province or state had to make painful cuts to public services, the immediately noticeable effect would be the outright elimination of some of them. One would not think of, say, laying off a fraction of all bus drivers and asking the remaining ones to work longer hours, in order to keep all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7744&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double whammy</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/double-whammy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all understand that, sometimes, financial hardship is simply a fact of life. And I do believe that most of us are willing to endure painful sacrifices, in the pursuit of a common good. What exasperates people, is the perception of a general lack of vision, of a concrete, well thought out crisis management plan, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7727&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7713&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the year is finally upon us, and an appropriate post must accompany it. Memes are lame, which is why I never rarely do them. Thus, I am going instead to wrap up this very eventful year by offering ten bold predictions for the one that is about to begin. My hallmark boldness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7687&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can you share this ?</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/can-you-share-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Massimo, Here is how the Wikipedia fundraiser works: Every year we raise just the funds that we need, and then we stop. Because you and so many other Wikipedia readers donated over the past weeks, we are very close to raising our goal for this year by December 31 &#8212; but we are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7680&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the road again</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/on-the-road-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long and tiring term is coming to a close. Time to celebrate the holidays, then head out to Vancouver for a few days, to end 2011, and then it will be a new year and a new term. The Winter term of 2012 is also going to be very intense, but for different reasons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7668&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Customers</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the following, hypothetical situation: the owner of a small high-tech company needs all of his employees retrained, in view of the adoption of a new, company-wide software system. He decides to send a few of them to a week-long course with a private firm, specialized in offering short courses on the particular software that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7633&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A simple criterion</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/a-simple-criterion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agreement seems lacking, among researchers, on the question of which citations to a scientific article are &#8220;legitimate&#8221;, i.e., worthy of being included among the total number of hits received by that particular article (typically for the purpose of evaluating one&#8217;s h-index). Should one include a cite to an article, if that cite appears in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7630&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Scholar Citations</title>
		<link>http://expbook.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/google-scholar-citations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Bee of BackReaction, I have become aware of a new feature of Google Scholar, called Google Scholar Citations. It is essentially a free alternative to Web of Science (WoS), allowing researchers to create a public profile, with a list of all of their publications, including the citations garnered by each article. (This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=expbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5895285&amp;post=7611&amp;subd=expbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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