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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 Avatar
    Stephen Downes

    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 Avatar
    Sherman Dorn

    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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  4. Dominik Lukeš Avatar
    Dominik Lukeš

    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 Avatar
    Glen Gatin

    “More Town and Gown”

  6. k Avatar
    k

    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) Avatar
    Anonymous (Yes _that_ Anonymous)

    The Mortar Board and the Message Board

  8. j450nk Avatar
    j450nk

    The Tower and the Trenches

  9. Inactinique Avatar
    Inactinique

    Athena and the Hacker

    (sorry, no greek gods for hackers)

  10. JimO Avatar
    JimO

    Many and the Professor

  11. Andrea Odiorne Avatar
    Andrea Odiorne

    Tweed and the 48-bit Dreamcoat

  12. SashaCA2 Avatar
    SashaCA2

    The Pundit and the Public

  13. Jacabsolute Avatar
    Jacabsolute

    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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