Jason Schmitt
Boing Boing
Fort Covington, NY, United States
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Past articles by Jason:
Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Why For-Profit Academic Publishers Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank → Read More
Technology and Topspin: Will Connected Tennis Harness the Crowd?
Tennis could be witnessing one the most important technological evolutions in its history: connected tennis. The new digital connection and associated apps allows players with a connected tennis device such as Babolat Play. → Read More
Moving Beyond the PDF: The RG Format Leads Scholars Into the Social Age
If all goes as planned, and the RG Format delivers on promises as grand as expected, we might find that Madish is in a holding pattern and just waiting to land for his vision of success to be realized... → Read More
Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History
The music business was killed by Napster; movie theaters were derailed by digital streaming; traditional magazines are in crisis mode--yet in this digital information wild west: academic journals and the publishers who own them are posting higher pro... → Read More
Communication Studies Rise to Relevance
It is clear that Communication Studies has more students and fewer faculty positions than many of its humanities peers, many of whom are experiencing significant decline.... → Read More
#Existence_Error: How I Refreshed the Page
As technology has evolved, every iteration has made the data more rich and real-time based. In turn these advancements give more dimensionality to the device in our pocket and make ignoring it a personal affront.... → Read More
How the NSA Halted My Rise as a Vermont Drug Lord
I smelled pot. Walking along a stream that outlined our newly purchased property in Vermont, I came toward a field that abutted the water. It was there I noticed I was standing in the middle of twelve marijuana plants, each nearly six feet tall. Quickly I realized that (a) I... → Read More