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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Below is an expanded and revised version of the talk I gave at the South by Southwest Interactive panel Swarming Plato's Cave: Rethinking Digital Fantasies on March 16th, 2010. Talking with some folks at SXSW both before and after the panel definitely helped my thinking; thanks to all of you, ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Here's a little spreadsheet I put together about Twitter use at three conferences: Digital Humanities 2009, THATcamp 2009, and the (just-ended) Modern Language Association convention of 2009:
As you can probably see, what I did was to divide the total number of tweets during the date range of the ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
In honor of Veterans' Day (also known as Armistice Day), I'm posting here a short essay on the poem that inspired the Flanders poppy, John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields." This "essay" is actually a section of my 2004 dissertation, which concerns the 19-line poetic form called "the villanelle"; in the ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Despite what Dan Cohen averred yesterday, Steven Shavell is apparently not arguing that we should abolish copyright for academic works. His title is a question -- "Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished?" -- and it is a question that he claims to explore, not answer:
On the basis of ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
I was busy this morning seeing my mother off after a weekend in which nothing, it seemed, could go wrong, and a great many things went startlingly, unexpectedly right. Thanks to Graham "Sky" Rowat, Mama and I got to go backstage last night after Guys and Dolls, which is something ...
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