Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Here's the thing: English professors don't usually get asked to test drive and review cars. I've reviewed books, grant proposals, even web sites. Never cars.
Ah, this blessèd plot, this Internet.
Granted, I'm not an "English professor" -- I have a Ph.D. in English literature, which means that I trained ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
UPDATE 5/8/09: Facebook revised its Terms of Service, aka the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities." Here's their blog post about it, and here's the current policy.
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With today's outrage over Facebook's newly altered Terms of Service at its peak, I figured I'd do a quick comparison of their terms of ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Yesterday, Kathleen Hulser of the New-York Historical Society (yes, the hyphen is supposed to be there -- it's a historical hyphen), who is writing an article for Perspectives on History, the "newsmagazine of the American Historical Association," wrote me to ask, "How have social media blurred the boundaries between historian/institution ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Since much of the writing I've seen about digital humanities at MLA 2008 has focused on how technology (especially Twitter) enlivened the conference, I thought I'd present here as best I could what the online scholarly conversation actually looks like. This is of course chiefly from my perspective, but I ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
If you are reading this, then you're not using Internet Explorer 7. Yesterday I discovered that my pretty Twitter and LibraryThing and Google Reader javascript widgets weren't loading in IE, and so I started trying to fix things. In good news, the site parses as valid XHTML. In bad news, ...
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