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In yesterday’s NYTimes, Matt Richtel has an article entitled “Blogs vs Term Papers,” in which he sketches a debate about college writing. Cathy Davidson responds brilliantly, talking at length about her own experience with teaching methods that stray from the traditional academic writing still taught in many places. Even Richtel’s piece points out the false . . . → Read More: Blogs in class It’s been over a week since Hastac 2011, which was an invigorating and eye-opening experience. First, some highlights, and then my reflections. Highlights The day before the conference officially started, there was a workshop on alternative academic careers (or alt-ac, as it is popularly called). This workshop was quite informative and well-attended, given the tight . . . → Read More: Hastac 2011 reflections 
The Washington Post has a good roundup and discussion of some of the funnier Rick Perry “Strong” ad parodies. To those, I would add this (NSFW) ad from funny or die, and the Bad Lip Reading ad:
The article points out that the ad is aimed at the Christian conservative base, and . . . → Read More: DIY Political Parody 
1. I often have people tell me they don’t understand Twitter. That’s ok. The same people sometimes say they don’t follow current events because they don’t know how to sift through the information to find what’s important. Well guess what? The two issues are related. More on that in #4. 2. I subscribe to hundreds . . . → Read More: Twitter as Social RSS 
Three episodes into Allen Gregory, I am not sold, but I still hold out hope. Reviews of the show have ranged from lukewarm to hostile. Take, for example this, from AfterElton.com: Ugh. What a terrible show. Allen Gregory is described by the show’s creators as “precocious”. A more appropriate word would be “obnoxious”. They . . . → Read More: Allen Gregory Digital Humanities Now has established a new hierarchical system for peer reviewing articles. There is the raw feed, which is everything published in DH, based on things like RSS feed and twitter searches. This alone is a valuable resource, but the editors also pick noteworthy articles: Out of the sea of scholarly production, this site . . . → Read More: DHNow peer review Most readers here are probably familiar with NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, which started yesterday. Well, a few people have decided to co-opt or adapt it into something else. Charlotte Frost at Phd2Published suggests AcBoWriMo for Academic Book Writing Month and James Smith at MITH suggests NanoDHMO for a digital humanities project. I like the spirit . . . → Read More: SomethingSomethingMo Sometimes I click on links from twitter and other places, keeping them in unread tabs for a time, and then, when I get to them, I forgot where they came from. Here are two that deal with political/social awareness in clever ways. Thanks to whoever pointed them out. The first is Phone Story, . . . → Read More: Phone Story and Slavery Footprint: Two sites for social awareness Prompted by Jeffrey Eugenides’s new book The Marriage Plot (which I have begun and am enjoying so far), Steven B. Johnson ruminates in the NYTimes book review and on his blog about his own prose style in college at Brown in the heyday of semiotics and deconstruction. Although he points to some positive practices that . . . → Read More: Difficult writing Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is shutting off access to many social media outlets in order to “inspire thinking about how, when and where the University community uses social media as well as awareness about uses and/or abuses of social media.” This is the second time they’ve done this, and, according to this IHE . . . → Read More: Social blackout |
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