links: week 3

putnam-rorty video via 3quarksdaily
Little video about the Putnam-Rorty debate and the revival of American pragmatism.

Inside Higher Ed :: Call to Arms for Academic Labor
Review of Marc Bosquet's How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (book website)

Technology Review: "You Don't Understand Our Audience"
Wonderful commentary by former NBC producer on what's wrong with the media in the USA.

Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods.
Impressive use of GIS data.

Chaosradio Express - Chaosradio Podcast Network
In depth technology/hacking/programming podcast from Tim Pritlove of the Chaos Computer Club (in German).

Stanley Fish on "justifying" spending money on the Humanities
If there are blog posts on blogs.nytimes.com that get more comments, I'd be interested in seeing them. Fish's first post, Will the Humanities Save Us? had 484 comments. The second post The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two had 448.