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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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.

Sherman Dorn says:

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

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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.

Glen Gatin says:

“More Town and Gown”

k says:

The Mortarboard and the Motherboard?
The Professor and the Tinker? Or the Thinker and the Tinker? (sorry, couldn’t help myself)

The Mortar Board and the Message Board

j450nk says:

The Tower and the Trenches

Inactinique says:

Athena and the Hacker

(sorry, no greek gods for hackers)

JimO says:

Many and the Professor

Tweed and the 48-bit Dreamcoat

SashaCA2 says:

The Pundit and the Public

Jacabsolute says:

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.

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