2010 03 01 tweets
Listening the new Gorillaz album pre-release, thanks to NPR. http://bit.ly/aptYqk
Replying to @mmwwah
The word "fan" overstates the case just a bit.
Replying to @briancroxall
Knock 'em dead, Brian!
Replying to @sramsay
Showed the film to the students in my Writing Machines class today - they loved it \(as do I\).
Replying to @sramsay
Way!
Replying to @mattbucher
How far in are you? I wound up finding it really compelling, after hating everyone for the first couple of weeks.
Replying to @mattbucher
It takes a while for it really to catch up with itself. Give it a chance - I'll be curious to see if your sense of it changes.
Two class blogs, in the same WPMU installation, set to the same timezone. The same blog post in each, within a minute of each other... [1/2]
So why does the post appear in the second blog 2.5hrs after the first? [2/2]
Whoops - let me rephrase: So why does the post appear *in the RSS feed* for the second blog 2.5hrs after the first? [2/2]
Dear Nature: According to my calendar, it is not ant season. Please keep the little bastards outside. Love, Kathleen.
Am pretty sure I'm coming down with something. And am also pretty sure it's not just the hour of meeting and six hours of teaching ahead.
Replying to @ryancordell
Pearson Custom Intro Lit - and not just because I'm on the ed board! Make your own selections from the DB, in your own order...
Replying to @triproftri
Kairos?
Replying to @ryancordell
It's pretty flexible; include/ignore pedagogical apparatus, etc. Plus, much better paper & binding than most anth for less $
Replying to @foundhistory
I'm a fan of Simplenote, which syncs to the web & a range of desktop clients.
Have booked three plane tickets in the last two days. NOLA in March, NYC in April, NH in May. And more TK.
1.5 hrs into a conference call that could go as long as 5 hours. I'd be dizzy even if I hadn't unaccountably woken up at 3.30am.
Replying to @academicdave
I sense a meta-narrative at work here.
Potential 5hr conference call done in just over three. And a meeting this afternoon has been canceled. Feel as though I've hit the lottery.
Dear Earth: Enough with the quakes. You're starting to freak me out. Love, your friend on the San Andreas Fault.
Replying to @2xlp
That's AWESOME.
from @2xlp: @kfitz I always like to pull this out during meetings: http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker/
Am tweeting the Mac Heist bundle in order to get 3 cool bonus apps free. Carry on! http://bit.ly/heist-it
Took the day off yesterday: laid around reading a very, very light novel. Really want to do it again today. Might indulge for an hour or so.
Replying to @mattthomas
Not terrifically well - I have to get precariously close to exhaustion before I can accept that downtime might be the best idea.
Tonight, somewhere in Los Angeles, I like to think Gale Anne Hurd is laughing her ass off.
I hate that @Chronicle's comment system won't allow user real names; my comment on http://bit.ly/cjisnc appears to come from my dept. Grrr.
Replying to @briancroxall
No worries! I just couldn't let the "won't somebody please think about peer review!" comment go by.
Replying to @jmittell
Okay, clearly the whole "accounts" thing is just too much for me to manage today.
Replying to @amandafrench
Yes, I think, before the last big site migration...
Replying to @puellaris
Hey, you know what? That's not me. Think you may have another kfitz...
Replying to @briancroxall
Woo-hoo! I've been lastnamed!
Replying to @d_kompare and @jmittell
Hell yeah. We'll call it LA10.
Replying to @therefore
That's awfully nice! Would love to talk with the two of you.
If you were debating buying the @MacHeist nanoBundle, they've just added Tweetie - including a free upgrade to Tweetie 2 when it's released!
Replying to @jmittell and @d_kompare
Hey, the revolution begins in session N15.
Speaking of SCMS: has anybody gotten a program yet? The online version has no rooms.
I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will not freak out. I will n
Whew.
Replying to @jmittell
Don't get me started on #SCMS and technology. We'll have plenty of time to talk about that as we foment revolution.
Replying to @d_kompare
I understand that there are mechanical gizmos that will allow people to participate in events at a distance via, um, media. #SCMS
Replying to @ErikaJL, @d_kompare and @loganpoppy
Friday, 2pm, in a mystery room that hopefully we'll know the name of soon. Aux barricades, amis! #SCMS
Have just set up TwapperKeeper archives for #SCMS & #SCMS10. Sorry wasn't done sooner - this morning's discussion is too important to miss!
Replying to @d_kompare
Well, that's annoying. So maybe we'll throw molotov cocktails & then lead the committed to a new organizational structure? #SCMS
Wednesdays are my long days. My really, really long days. But spring break starts Friday, which is making this one feel manageable...
Replying to @kfitz
Yes! via @loganpoppy: We should lobby for MediaCommons to become the official online archive fo SCMS conference papers.
Trying to respond to reviewer comments in revision of my #DH2010 abstract and have wound up 400 words over the limit. Sigh.
Replying to @popthought
You should probably start downloading. The hotel's wifi is $15/day, & I've been told that's it as far as access.
No more meetings. No more requests. No more reports or events. If you're planning to ask me to do something, I politely ask that you Not.
Replying to @mmwwah
Oh, imbibing is already on the schedule; that's not a new addition!
Edit, edit, edit, edit, edit. Still 300+ words over the limit. Grr.
Replying to @bighandsome
Only problem is it's a 1500-word abstract for a paper to be given at a conference; there isn't yet a conclusion to drop.
Threw absolutely amazing exhausting event yesterday, to which 12 people showed up
Sigh.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Apparently not. I want to say "their loss" but mostly I'm just mortified about our speaker being faced with an all but empty room.
Replying to @jmittell
I've done so, too. This is one of two major lectures we're sponsoring this year. And still.
I need a plugin for Chrome that will reliably open PDFs in the browser rather than downloading half of them.
Replying to @jmittell
Doesn't work consistently for me, annoyingly enough; about half of everything downloads instead of opening in Docs.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Just spotted on the extension page that it apparently also doesn't work for anything behind a login. Ugh.
Replying to @2xlp
Gah!
Applied in the fall for something I really want. Report date is "by March 15." Haven't heard anything. Am thinking this is a bad sign.
Replying to @dooce
I have been hugged by John Krasinski. I was the huggee in this exchange. It was all I could do not to pee myself.
Replying to @j_l_r
You might be able to retrieve it from dropbox on the web; log in & click on "show deleted files."
Replying to @synch101
Yay!
Replying to @briancroxall
Fantastic! Sending all the good vibes your way.
Replying to @j_l_r
You should look into activating the packrat option - keeps deleted files forever...
Too sick to make it to #thatcampLA today, and majorly bummed about it. Please tweet - I'll try to participate from bed!
Not at all enjoying being stuck in bed today. And Twitter's being too erratic to keep up with what's going on at #thatcampLA. :(
Replying to @barbarahui
That's a convo I wish I were there for! #thatcampLA
Replying to @newkidonthehall and @mmwwah
It's way faster than Firefox, and way more lightweight. The only thing I'm missing is Zotero...
Replying to @jonathanagray
Friday, 2pm, in an as yet undisclosed room: plotting the future of the conference. Join us on the barricades!
Replying to @billiehara
You know, it never used to bother me when people got my name wrong. Now I find it insulting. Kathleen ≠ Katherine. It's easy!
I adore Things but since I've been using Chrome I've been wishing it synced to an online service I could keep open in a tab, w/Gmail & Gcal.
Replying to @mmwwah
So sorry to hear K's not well. I hope not the stummich thing I had, which was blessedly brief but No Fun At All...
Replying to @mmwwah
Ugh, so sorry to hear that!
Replying to @jonathanagray
Sure; I think we've got the torches covered.
Tweetie updates from 1.2.4 to 1.2.6, fixes several problems. Still can't handle @briancroxall's avatar, though. What gives?
Replying to @briancroxall
Tweetie just gives me a big old blank where your face should be. You, @ritaraley, and @footage.
New blog post: Shakespeare Quarterly Open Review http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/shakespeare-quarterly-open-review/
Replying to @footage
Actually, I think Twitter's got it, but Tweetie can't read it for some reason. Not at all sure what that's about.
Replying to @nowviskie
Fantastic - thoroughly looking forward to it myself!
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Any particular page? I'll look into it!
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Aha, wait - figured it out. The editor wants it set so that commenters have to register & log in in order to comment.
Replying to @mariabustillos
Woo-hoo! Congrats, Carmen!
Replying to @briancroxall
Fantastic news! I look forward to hearing more goodness soon.
Could really do without the 4am earthquakes, thanks.
Replying to @alothian
De-nerdification being the current term of art, yes?
Replying to @ironmanx28
That's it; there's revolution being fomented. See workshop, Fri. 2pm. Also http://twapperkeeper.com/SCMS when they're back up.
Replying to @jmittell
A hotel bar that has been featured in Entourage several times! See you there tomorrow.
Replying to @jenterysayers
Street parking between 2 & 5 am is illegal in my entire TOWN. Count your blessings.
Haircut, bit of work, train downtown, #SCMS! See you there.
Replying to @PomonaHelp
The only incoming message I've received since 2.30 yesterday afternoon was a month old internal message.
Replying to @PomonaHelp
Having logged in and found global ticket 574, how do I subscribe to it?
The college's email hasn't delivered for nearly 24 hours. It was nice at first, but I'm now worried about the deluge when it starts again.
If you've emailed me in the last 24 at my .edu address, would you resend to firstname dot lastname at gmail?
Replying to @mmwwah
I assume such mockery is not aimed at me.
New blog post: The Future of Publishing? http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-future-of-publishing/
Incoming!!! \(Which is to say, email's back\.\)
On the train, headed downtown for #SCMS. Don't get to do this anywhere near often enough. \(The train, I mean, not the conference\.\)
even PAY wireless isn't available in #scms conference rooms AFAICT, which I cd survive if iPhone reception weren't also v bad! /via @j_l_r
Replying to @briancroxall
You go!
Replying to @loganpoppy
No way. What a loss! I saw him play a couple of times when I was in college.
Replying to @jmittell
Yes, please! Are you back at the Standard yet? Let me know when you're here...
Replying to @aperren
Answer to your wondering, at least: crazy-ass pollen that exists nowhere other than the southern CA coast. I hope you adjust!
Replying to @amandafrench
AAARRGH! Some day I will be able to manage multiple accounts.
Replying to @amandafrench
Oh, absolutely not! I often re-read mine, particularly heated ones, or ones I desperately need to have a particular effect. :)
My #dayofdh is beginning at my laptop, in my hotel room, waiting for breakfast to arrive. Then ms reading for an old-fashioned peer review.
Just realized that waiting on my #dayofdh breakfast means I'm also waiting on my #dayofdh coffee. This is not good.
Replying to @mmwwah
NO. This is a major negative.
Coffee has arrived. As has breakfast. With which they brought me Nutella!
Replying to @sramsay
I'm wearing a smart shirt and conductive thread gloves. You mean to say you're not?
Replying to @sivavaid and @jayrosen_nyu
Sigh. I need to send her a copy of my first book. http://www.anxietyofobsolescence.com/
New blog post: Day of Digital Humanities http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/day-of-digital-humanities/
Replying to @sivavaid
You say the nicest stuff. The good news is Vandy's just given me clearance to CommentPress the entire text, so maybe a 2nd chance.
Replying to @amandafrench
Now that's a #dayofdh celebration!
Workshop "From Paper to Blog" with @jmittell on future models of media studies publishing is well attended! #scms
Replying to @amandafrench
Precisely what I meant - something worth a spangly dress!
Boy, they weren't kidding; there's zero wireless access in here, and AT&T is super spotty. #SCMS
@jmittell on being asked when the book is coming out - why is the book still the expected outcome of media studies scholarship? #SCMS
Replying to @sivavaid and @jmittell
Though they don't do everything in all cases, is his point - not anti-book but anti-required outcome. #SCMS
Eric Faden: must demand clauses in empl contracts declaring equivalence between traditional & nontraditional publications. #SCMS #dayofdh
Brazen self-promotion: folks at the #SCMS pub wkshp might want to see my online project on digital scholarly publishing: http://j.mp/37LV7P
Duke Academic Council, in unanimous vote, just endorsed an open access policy for Duke faculty scholarship: http://tr.im/SpO8 /via @paoloman
Replying to @sivavaid
It is if you watch The Wire.
My last #dayofdh post? Not only no wifi at the conf, but the wifi at my hotel has been out all day too. Maybe I'll have a #dayafterdayofdh.
New blog post: Things Go Awry http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/things-go-awry/
Replying to @mmwwah
And that doesn't include all the stuff I expected to be freaking out about today. I may hyperventilate.
storming the barricades at 2pm Future of #scms workshop. of note: @mlaconvention has surpassed #scms in new media engagement /via @j_l_r
Replying to @ericbot
Sure. But that's not reason not to experiment. #SCMS
Replying to @kfitz
Thanks, @ironmanx28, for the fantastic tweets from the future of #scms workshop!
Replying to @zachwhalen
Yeah, 3G in that room blew. I call conspiracy!
Stop me if you've heard this one: A dean, a dept chair, and an asst prof go fishing. They row out into the middle of the lake & realize...
they left their lunches in the car. Dean turns to dept chair & says "fix this." Chair says to asst prof "go back & get the lunches"...
Asst prof walks across water, gets lunches, & walks back. Chair turns to dean & says "I told you she couldn't swim."
Ba-dum-bum.
Replying to @therefore
Survivor: University. The torch rituals are a bitch.
Just got to 7Grand. Am somehow the first to arrive. Note: NOT the place on the corner labelled "7," if you're coming from Flower.
The problem with downtown LA: every Starbucks between my hotel & the conf hotel is closed Sat-Sun. No discreet ducking down for early coffee
Replying to @josh_braun
100% Not Surprised.
Between mail.app & my edu's xchange server, I'm srsly contemplating moving everything to Gmail. Local/offline archiving is an issue tho.
Replying to @samplereality and @wpwend42
Hmm. I'll have to contemplate. Do you use Tbird/Pbox as your usual client, or do you use the Gmail interface too?
Replying to @ddchamberlain
Amusingly enough, Offline Mail is not supported by my browser - Chrome. :-/
Replying to @jcmeloni
That's kinda what I'm thinking. Might test out Postbox before making the final leap, tho. \(I know it's heresy, but I hate Tbird\.\)
Replying to @jcmeloni
& I've seen indications that Gmail is moving to HTML5 local db & dumping Gears, which would eliminate my offline concern.
Replying to @eetempleton
Check to be sure the hotel you choose has reasonable in-house coffee service!
Replying to @fearv
No, you're totally not there! Yikes!
Replying to @aperren
So sorry to hear you're still sick - I guess it wasn't the wacky pollen after all. :(
Replying to @aperren
Yes, absolutely, if not somewhere sooner!
On the train back to Claremont. Farewell #SCMS - see you next time in NOLA!
Unbelievably, crazily happy to be home. Now to do all the work I wish I'd been able to do over break.
DHSoCal has just been born: http://dhsocal.blogspot.com/ //via @dhsocal & @barbarahui
Replying to @noradio
Congratulations! That's amazing!
Minor housecleaning, grocery shopping, laundry, cooking. Now ready to do some reading and call it a night. When does spring break start?
Replying to @d_kompare
Woo-hoo! Congratulations!
Replying to @crsbecker
You & me both. I'm particularly bad with travel coffee mugs; there's a weekly migration to the office; I need easy retrieval.
Replying to @amandafrench
Fantastic news -- I'm so pleased to hear!
Replying to @mmwwah
I've never heard it, not through six years of Catholic elementary school and three years of CCD.
Replying to @jwolman
http://xkcd.com/386/
Graaaaaaaaaaaadually moving everything over to Gmail. Google, don't fail me now.
New blog post: Two Bits of Recent Work http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/two-bits-of-recent-work/
Replying to @mattthomas and @amandafrench
Or that some poor research assistant's time is being wasted by the misguided IP assumptions of the author/journal.
Okay, guess I need to stay off the Twitter until #lost airs on the west coast. **sigh**
Replying to @kdettmar
Yikes! This is not an auspicious beginning.
So I've just had a user account activated that I think I'm taking as a good sign...?
So that account activation was good news after all! Thanks for the acceptance, and sorry for exposing your process prematurely, @thatcamp.
Replying to @themba
Dreamhost. I've been pretty happy with them, but I've been with them for years; I do know some more recent users are less pleased.
Replying to @acavender
t-mobile wifi seems also wiggy this morning, at least in my airport.
People are really annoying me this morning. I should not be allowed to travel before I've had any coffee.
On my way to NOLA for the #NITLE Summit. Looking forward to seeing some of you there!
UPDATE: Have had coffee; people still annoying.
Aaaand, just realized I forgot to pack the charging cable for the iPhone. I wonder if those funky airport iPod vending machines carry them.
No dice on the iPhone charging cable. Hoping someone at #NITLE will have one I can siphon off of briefly...
Replying to @wedaman
My hero. I'll find you this evening!
Replying to @kdettmar
Yeah, my next tech investment - I have duplicates of everything except that cable.
Yay, NOLA! So happy to see you again.
Replying to @BryanAlexander
Fabulous! I'm checking in & will come find you shortly.
@BryanAlexander about to begin his plenary talk at #NITLE summit.
Just heard no on something I had really high hopes for. Ah, well - I've heard a good bit of yes lately, too.
Replying to @brettbobley
Actually, Worthy's here in New Orleans at #NITLE with me.
Replying to @sramsay
This is one hell of a hologram, is all I can say.
Coffee.
Watching the #uvashape stream with no small envy...
@wedaman I have your cable - will find you between sessions.
Replying to @wedaman
My online promotion portfolio: http://machines.pomona.edu/dossier - caused a little consternation, but I dug my heels in. #nitle
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @sramsay
Except that the history of scholarship has always been conversation, just conducted at a glacial pace. #uvashape
Replying to @billwolff
Thanks! I'm hoping in the next year to be able to establish a system to help other folks who want to create such portfolios...
Replying to @billwolff
Yup!
In #NITLE session on digital humanities & the liberal arts; Worthy Martin leading off discussing IATH & its mission at UVa.
Worthy Martin: how could IATH collab w/ the #NITLE community? \(Oh, do I have ideas about this: SLAC fac desperately need DH center support\!\)
Worthy advertises the NEH FDHC program. But... there just aren't anywhere near enough of those fellowships to meet the need! #NITLE
Digital Humanities initiative at Hamilton College - incubator for faculty research projects! Can I have one? #NITLE
Totally fired up about #du10 w/ @foundhistory @brettbobley @epistemographer @sivavaid @s2ceball + others! Reg opens Mon #du10 \(via @mkgold\)
Insanely loud band playing next to/under #NITLE session on digital humanities. You gotta love New Orleans.
Very excited by the SLAC student-oriented DH projects being presented... but still need support for faculty DH research at SLACs. #NITLE
Replying to @triproftri
Fantastic! Will talk more with you about this soon.
@KathrynTomasek on strategies for convincing funders to support DH initiatives at SLACs and other inst other than R1s. Go, Kathryn! #NITLE
"On the Death of the Digital Humanities Center": http://bit.ly/dAi31u \(Just in time for \#NITLE and \#UVAShape\) \(via @samplereality\)
Replying to @BryanAlexander
Twitter! #NITLE
Replying to @kdettmar
Congratulations -- fantastic news!
Replying to @brettbobley
Undergraduate research might well be a place where #uvashape could learn from #NITLE. R1s, talk to SLACs! We've got that down.
About to leave the stream for my #NITLE keynote. Catch up with you all afterward.
Replying to @GardnerCampbell
Very good question! Absolutely not - tho my emphasis is on faculty b/c their jobs often require publication. #NITLE
Thanks to the #NITLE twitter stream for the awesome comments on my talk!
Replying to @wedaman
Thank you - for this and for the power \(cable\)! Will look forward to talking more.
Replying to @phdaisy
Congrats from NOLA!!!
Replying to @phdaisy
You have much to celebrate! Here for a conf; the place misses you.
Have spent much of today recovering from the awesomeness of #NITLE. Will now spend the rest of the day doing the same.
NOLA Marriott seriously dimmed the light for Earth Hour - both atmospheric & impressive!
Over the last week, I've migrated 17 years worth of archived email to Gmail, and still have tons of space remaining. Amazing.
Replying to @sramsay
My personal impulse would be to call it the Birkerts, but that may be too field specific. http://bit.ly/dxHK82
Am having one of those WHY DO I HAVE CATS??? moments. It will pass once I figure out whether the damage to the floor is permanent.
Replying to @loganpoppy
Apparently. Hmph.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Mine will be forgiven. But they wreaked a little more havoc this weekend than was necessary.
Replying to @tmcphers
Mine knocked over their water bowl on my wood floors while I wasn't home; water sat there long enough to get under the finish.
A new blog post, about The New Everyday: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/the-new-everyday/
Replying to @kdettmar
Now *there's* a spectator sport.
RT @mkgold: Registration now open for The Digital University conf at CUNY GC \(NYC 4/21\). @sivavaid keynotes http://is.gd/b5cI4 #du10 Pls RT
Replying to @pdahlgre
WHOO-HOO!!!
Replying to @davidmsilver
Wow, that's fantastic!
Replying to @mariabustillos
First, WOW! Congrats! Second, difficult choices ahead...
Replying to @triproftri
Fantastic news -- congrats!
On getting myself back to work, 30 minutes at a time: http://bit.ly/aWKABM
Replying to @samplereality
Thanks - that really means a lot to me. It's scary to have that out there, and hard to realize how much I still wrestle with.
Replying to @pmhswe
My pleasure! I hope it works for you; so far, it's working well for me.
Replying to @samplereality
Congratulations! Fantastic news!
Maybe I'm not reading the press release right - but was there really only *one* FDHC fellowship given by the NEH this year?
Replying to @sarah_haskins
Absolutely loved it! Fantastic project - thanks for making it available!
Replying to @mariabustillos
Whoa - fantastic! As fabulous as Emerson is, I'm all pro-small liberal arts college. Wonderful news.
Replying to @jwolman
Not even an allowance for time zones? Really, give us on the west coast a fighting chance.
New blog post: This Is Just to Note http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/this-is-just-to-note/