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Crowdsourcing the Title of My Next Book

Already put this out on Twitter but will reblog here:

I’m crowdsourcing the title of my next book, which is about the way in which common web tech/methods should influence academia, rather than academia thinking it can impose its methods and genres on the web. The title should be a couplet like “The X and the Y” where X can be “Highbrow Humanities” “Elite Academia” “The Ivory Tower” “Deep/High Thought” [insert your idea] and Y can be “Lowbrow Web” “Common Web” “Vernacular Technology/Web” “Public Web” [insert your idea]. so possible titles are “The Highbrow Humanities and the Lowbrow Web” or “The Ivory Tower and the Wild Web” etc. What’s your choice? Thanks in advance for the help and suggestions.

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14 Responses to “Crowdsourcing the Title of My Next Book”

  1. Stephen Downes said on August 4th, 2010 at 11:24 am

    The Ivy and the Ironic
    The Campus and the Crowd
    The Campus and the Community
    The Professor and the Pundit
    The Masters and the Mob

    Though when I first started reading your post I thought tyhe best title would be ‘Ecce Adademica’ – but it does fit your rules.
  2. Sherman Dorn said on August 4th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    The Scholar and the Hacker
    The Monograph and the Blog
    The Bauerlein and the Anderson
    The Ivy and the Router
    The Ivy and the Solder
  3. The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World? | Metaphor Hacker – Hacking Metaphors, Frames and Other Ideas said on August 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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  4. Dominik Lukeš said on August 4th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    My suggestion is “The Tortoise and the Hare”. It took me a whole blog post to explain why: http://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/the-tortoise-and-the-hare-analogy-for-academia-in-the-digital-world.
  5. Glen Gatin said on August 4th, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    “More Town and Gown”
  6. k said on August 4th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    The Mortarboard and the Motherboard?
    The Professor and the Tinker? Or the Thinker and the Tinker? (sorry, couldn’t help myself)
  7. Anonymous (Yes _that_ Anonymous) said on August 4th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    The Mortar Board and the Message Board
  8. j450nk said on August 5th, 2010 at 6:58 am

    The Tower and the Trenches
  9. Inactinique said on August 10th, 2010 at 3:14 am

    Athena and the Hacker

    (sorry, no greek gods for hackers)
  10. JimO said on August 23rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    Many and the Professor
  11. Andrea Odiorne said on August 24th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Tweed and the 48-bit Dreamcoat
  12. SashaCA2 said on September 2nd, 2010 at 12:06 am

    The Pundit and the Public
  13. Jacabsolute said on September 4th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Academics are members of the public in other spheres so why not lose the separation of opposites:

    Opening the Books;

    Public Scholar;

    High thoughts in a wide world.
  14. Crowdsourcing the Academy « DH@SFU said on December 18th, 2011 at 4:46 am

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