[Air-l] Disseminating Research Results

Riad Lemhachheche riadlem at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 14:34:51 PST 2006


In the comments of the story, he tries to justify himself

Man, there are a lot of contradictory posts on this topic!! That said I'd
> love to go to the Google Scholar and see what's what. I can decode most of
> the BS having taken a lot of sociology in college myself. The problem is
> that almost everything in Google Scholar is locked down to everyone unless
> they are a professor from a school subscribing to the service. And I'm
> adverse to spending a lot of money to look through the library. I suppose I
> could go over to Berkeley and go on the system on campus, but that's a
> hassle. I'd love to read some of this research. Anyone with contacts or
> suggestions as to how I can get into these closed "stacks" send me an email
> at john at dvorak.org (
> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/2/1004306354/ShowPost.aspx#1004306354)
>

 Doing proper research is apparently a hassle!


On 2/24/06, natpoor at umich.edu <natpoor at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I used to work in the computer publishing industry and, since I follow
> computers, still read some of the pubs on occasion.
>
> Dvorak is... well I have nothing nice to say about him. A windbag. A
> troll (in the Internet sense). He is always right, never wrong (in his
> opinion), and although yes he knows some things many feel he doesn't do
> any research about the topics he writes on anymore, he is just cruising
> on his laurels (to mix metaphors).
>
> We may not be getting word out about our work, but once Dvorak has made
> up his mind about something, nothing else really matters. He's a
> journalist (marginally), and he refuses to even do basic research about
> the topics he covers. Shameful.
>
>
> Quoting Ingbert Floyd <ifloyd2 at gmail.com>:
>
> > It seems we're not getting the word out about our research enough:
> >
> > Dvorak, John C. Academics: Get to Work! We need sociological studies
> > about the Net and computers. February 21, 2006. http://tinyurl.com/k7vw6
> >
> > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1928970,00.asp
> >
> > Intro:
> >
> > "Universities have got to focus their attention on computers and the
> > Internet. There are far too many understudied phenomena bubbling on the
> > Net, and it's time for academia to wake up. Valuable time is being
> > wasted."
> >
> > Ingbert Floyd
> > PhD Student
> > Graduate School of Library and Information Science
> > University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
> >
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Riad Lemhachheche
Mobile Technology Solution Laboratory
Dept of Ind & Mfg Engineering
Oregon State University
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