Author: Dan Dickinson

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Best Of Debated Disliked

Tribbles Need Not Apply

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education had a wonderfully misguided article entitled “Bloggers Need Not Apply“. Written by a “humanities professor at a small liberal-arts college in the Midwest” writing under the pseudonym “Ivan Tribble”, the article details how his college’s recent faculty search ended up disqualifying a lot of candidates largely because they were bloggers.

An article this misguided is not the sort of thing I’d expect out of the Chronicle. It illustrates the wrong line of thinking about blogs, the wrong line of thinking about interviewing candidates, and the wrong line of intersecting the two. This is worth picking apart. (Please click through for a full dissection.)

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Found

London Explosions Quick Coverage Links

– [BBC News summary](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659331.stm) of the bombing.
– [Guardian Eyewitness Reports](http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/) are useful.
– [Londonist coverage](http://www.londonist.com/archives/2005/07/tube_network_do.php) – all of their staff is out reporting, so it’s been particular quick and up to date.
– A [Technorati search for “london explosions”](http://www.technorati.com/search/london%20explosions) will give you all relevant blog posts.
– WikiNews has [particularly good coverage](http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Explosions%2C_%27serious_incidents%27_occuring_across_London), as [does Wikipedia proper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_London_transport_explosions)
– [London Bomb Blast pool on Flickr](http://www-us.flickr.com/groups/74918957@N00/pool/) for related photos.

My thoughts and prayers are with those in London today.

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Puzzled Over

What’s On Eric “Badland” Booker’s iPod?

In [my Nathan’s 2005 Hot Dog Eating Contest wrapup](https://vjarmy.com/archives/2005/07/nathans_famous.php), I had mused:

> Oddly, Badlands Booker had on an iPod – I’m sure the world would love to know what one listens to while bingeing on hot dogs.

The intrepid [Peter Cohen](http://www.tikkabik.com) is a man of action and quick thinking. He promptly emailed Eric, mentioning that Katie and I had seen him at the event and that I was wondering what was on the iPod. And lo and behold, a response came:

> Hello Peter, Dan, & Katie: Thanks for emailing me and for all your kind words! I apologize for responding so late. basically i can’t live without my iPod Photo. i use it as a photo album to store all my pictures from all the different eating contest and appearances, and use for image training to help me focus for an event, as far as music, i have about 3000 songs, lots of Old and New School Hip Hop from albums, mixtapes, and also instrumentals that i recite my newly written rap songs to (I store my songs on my iPod as well), R&B, Some Classic Rock, Jazz, & Gospel tracks, up tempo Dance Music for when I’m competing in a eating contest, so i can eat to the beat, and of course, Hungry & Focused and cuts off my new album Hungry & Focused II – The Ingestion Engine available this fall. Thanks again for emailing me and asking what’s on my iPod, and again for your kind words, you’re the best!

Thanks to Peter for chasing this to completion, I honestly didn’t expect to ever find out.