Erik Marshall

There’s this tourguide thing called Schmap, and they have used one of my CC licensed flickr images as an icon for the cultural center of Detroit. I don’t know if I can recommend the service as a tourbook, as I haven’t really explored it much, but you can check out the entry with my pic [...]

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Doug emailed me this from Boingboing awhile ago, and I am now finally posting it: MTV: You shot Inland Empire using digital technology. Will you ever go back to film? Lynch: Never. Digital is so friendly for me and so important for the scenes, a way of working without so much downtime. It’s impossible to [...]

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I am a little surprised about my patterns of web usage that this exercise has revealed. For example, I spend more time on facebook and myspace than I thought, and less time perhaps doing more, errr, productive things. i am also struck by the absence of blog reading, although that can be attributed in part [...]

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I haven’t been very connected this week.

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This is hard. Here is a rough estimate of my web usage for the last day and a half:

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As part of the American studies class I am teaching, I am having students keep a log of everything they do online, and I have agreed to do the same. This is going to be pretty labor intensive, because it will make me (and them) stop and think and write about what we’re doing. Like, [...]

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The faculty union at Rutgers has given up demands for raises in exchange for the creation of more tenure-track lines. One of the more interesting quotes comes at the bottom, from Amy Bahruth, president of the part-time lecturers’ bargaining unit, who says they support the deal, even though she admits they “are in the unique [...]

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My phone screen has been broken for the last several days, so if you have texted me and i haven’t responded, that’s why. It’s really quite sad to hear the little text message notification sound and no there’s no way to ever see it. They should make an alternate way to get texts, like they [...]

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The networked virtual spectator watches intermediated distributed texts.

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If you look at the bottom right of the sidebar, you’ll see a little widget with red and yellow icons, which contains recently updated posts from a few other blogs. That’s feevy, a promising technology that lets you include a dynamically updated RSS feed blogroll. It supports tags, multiple feevies for different categories/users, etc, but [...]

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