2011 04 01 tweets
Replying to @jcmeloni
Thanks much, very belatedly!
Replying to @philnel
Most awesome; thanks!
Thanks for all the hellos to my mom. She was suitably impressed \(but wants to know how I know each of you and why you would want to say hi\).
Replying to @mlaconvention
That's hilarious. "I know them from conferences" got eyebrows raised only slightly less than "I know them from the Internet."
RT @FolgerResearch: 164 comments, 25 reviewers, 1 week left to join Shakespeare Quarterly's open review. Great performance scholarship t ...
Replying to @kdettmar
Bought the hardback, partly as collectible object. But will likely read it in ebook form.
Replying to @kdettmar
No, I didn't hear. Glad to know about Adam's review!
Fabulous trip to Louisiana, but very happy to be home. Have declared Twitter bankruptcy; if there's anything I need to know about, tell me!
Replying to @plragde
There's a great blog post out there somewhere on declaring email bankruptcy. Lifehacker, maybe?
Dear @AnthemBlueCross: your website user registration process is completely borked. Help, please.
Replying to @acavender
The third time through, it finally worked, but not without making me re-enter data again just for fun.
RT @mlaconvention: MLA Executive Council Deplores Open-Records Requests That Infringe Academic Freedom: http://www.mla.org/ec_records @A ...
Replying to @mlaconvention and @foodblogga
Ha. @kfitz has the most -ette of kitchenettes right now & would find it too painful to contemplate real cooking.
RT @nowviskie: 2 of 33 speakers at the \(very cool\!\) Digging into Data event are women. Casting no aspersions on NEH here! but I wonder: ...
Replying to @nowviskie
I was wondering the very same thing.
RT @mlaconvention: The #MLA condemns the politicized intrusion on faculty and staff members: http://www.mla.org/ec_records
Replying to @nowviskie and @reporat
Sad but true.
Two big things and a couple of small things crossed off the to-do list today. Two more deadlines ahead.
Replying to @kdettmar and @mlaconvention
The learning curve is utterly horizontal. You have an ayfone; you already know how the bigger one works.
Replying to @kdettmar
Yeah, typing takes a little getting used to. And I find the autocorrect factor annoying. But it comes pretty quickly.
Replying to @kdettmar
Back atcha! PS: I find typing in landscape mode easier than horizontal.
Replying to @academicdave
My $ is on that yutz who said "it would be silly to claim that new means of comm can affect a protest" a month ago. Gladwell?
Replying to @academicdave
Rats. It would have been awesome.
Replying to @kdettmar and @eetempleton
I'm not disappointed in the least. Maybe in part because I accidentally wound up with a 3G iPad this weekend.
Replying to @eetempleton and @kdettmar
You can activate & deactivate month-to-month.
Replying to @eetempleton
Yes, I did. I maxed out the first one, too; I like traveling with a lot of video. 32GB wd probably be plenty, but just in case.
Replying to @samplereality
More or less, yeah. The internet is exciting!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Yup!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Wow! No, I'm covered, ha ha. I'm sure somebody out there could use one.
I am now at the point of lack of motivation at which I am resorting to frank bribery. If I go to the gym, I can have a fancy coffee after.
It's pathetic, but I did make it to the gym today. \(And this coffee is really good\.\)
Attempted a return to Firefox in order to have full Zotero support. Cannot take it, not one more minute. Chrome, I'll never leave you again.
\(At least not until you do something that really annoys me and I abandon you for Opera\. So don't get too comfortable\.\)
In case you're interested, what's killing me with FF? That you can't ⌘➔ to get to the end of a line in Gmail. Cannot take it.
Replying to @savasavasava
You are so right.
Replying to @briancroxall
I just can't make the adjustment. And that ⌘➔ works everywhere else in FF except Gmail makes it worse.
Replying to @ricksva
Yes, FF4. And it's a collection of small things, but the no ⌘➔ to the end of the line in Gmail is the dealbreaker, weirdly enough.
Replying to @briancroxall
What I really want is a browser that's smart enough to absorb the stuff I like from other browsers without getting kludgy.
Replying to @jvinopal
Hmmm. I haven't been having the Zotero/PythonExt problem. But I'm running Python 2.6; wonder if that makes a difference?
Congrats, @mkirschenbaum and @johnmjones - a good day for good news!
Replying to @plragde
Control-e? I'll have to check that out. But I'm not sure it'll be able to overcome my ⌘➔ habit.
Replying to @joshhonn
Wait, really? I'm... boggled. I'd ask how they did that, but I'm not sure I want to know. Does it appear to come from me?
Replying to @joshhonn
Yeah, I'd love to see that! kfitz47 at gmail.
Replying to @plragde
Oy. I was never an emacs user; I'd have to work slowly on building this fluency...
Replying to @plragde
This is true.
Replying to @joshhonn
Wow. Just amazing.
.@joshhonn and I are imagining #spamcamp, a means by which we harness the programming ingenuity of spammers for productive use.
This got started when a tweet of mine showed up within minutes as the text of a spam comment on his blog. Imagine that put to work for good!
Replying to @mlaconvention
You. Go.
Replying to @jamesjbrownjr
Ooh, excellent! I'll look forward to hearing/reading more!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Excellent. Let me know.
Replying to @subsublibrary
Hey, excellent - I'll see you there!
Finished a pass thru the copyedits on my book. Fun but exhausting. Hope to do one more read \(with view changes off\) before handing it back.
Oh! And! I just got the catalog copy from the press, which is great. With two most awesome blurbs, which I look forward to sharing soon.
Replying to @mlaconvention
So sorry to hear you're not feeling well! @dancohen and I will soldier on without you.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Ugh. Do take care of yourself!
At the NYU Humanities Initiative to hear @dancohen & Alexander Provan on digital scholarly communications.
.@dancohen beginning "Scholarly Communication the Web Way" by discussing Paleofuture.
.@dancohen interested in tracking folks who are unsatisfied with conventional ways of doing scholarly work, and how they're working around.
Layer tennis, digital journals as examples of work that can't be done in print. Desire for direct communication, interactivity. @dancohen
What might we do if we had this kind of DIY work take place in the academy? What would academic layer tennis look like? @dancohen
Part of problem: AAUP survey a year ago about digital publishing strategies stuck in conventional forms. Online work as "companion" sites.
Need to think about new, unconventional forms as actual scholarly work, not companions to "real" work. @dancohen
Examples of scholarly blogs driving conversation within a field. Shout out to @MediaCommons and The New Everyday. @dancohen
First question that gets raised: what about review? It's the wild west! @dancohen says this is a misunderstanding of how review works online
Online review is "recursive review" - cycles of commenting that are often more critical than traditional blind peer review. @dancohen
When you're out there on the open web, different but equally critical form of reviewing takes place recursively. @dancohen
Replying to @mamamusings
I was actually asked to tweet. You may want to unfollow or mute for the next hour. Sorry about that! :)
Aggregation and curation as key aspect of sorting out most important material for a community at any moment. @dancohen
Replying to @mamamusings
I'm sorry to overwhelm your stream! I'll be as judicious as possible.
Examples of blog aggregation and curation: PLoS Blogs, The Browser, Digital Humanities Now. @dancohen
Thoughts don't come in either 8K or 100K words; need to experiment with the full range of sizes of scholarship. See Tyler Cowen. @dancohen
.@dancohen showing CIBER UCL survey of importance attached to modes of scholarly communication; users of social media have radically +
different senses of the significance of those forms. This is with 7% of scholars using \(or 1991 email usage levels\). What will happen when +
we reach 50% usage? What experimentation will become possible? -
CIBER survey mentioned by @dancohen: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf, see esp. Figure 31.
Alexander Provan of Triple Canopy discussing the publication's use of digital affordances and genealogy in zines & arts magazines.
Provan asks about the problem of proliferating closed publishing platforms - the web may be open, but can we share programming resources?
Anna McCarthy opens discussion by asking Provan about choice not to have comments on Triple Canopy. Provan sees value in controlled space.
Replying to @tcarmody, @paleofuture and @dancohen
Yup - lead texts and images in his talk. Excitement in the audience, too.
.@dancohen acknowledges degree to which great editors can surface important new kinds of work, but that's not universal & can't get around.
Replying to @mamamusings and @amitorit
I completely agree. The only clients that I know allow hashtag muting I find otherwise unusable. :(
Replying to @mamamusings and @amitorit
Okay, okay, I'll cop to being a grownup. :)
Concern from artist in audience that digital humanities has left out artists - designers, perhaps, but no spaces to mix artists and writers.
Replying to @amitorit and @dancohen
interesting comment from former press editor who talked about bizarre physical constraints; pre-Amazon, her press tried+
Replying to @amitorit and @dancohen
to publish print "singles" but bookstores wouldn't take them bc their spines were too skinny to be seen on the shelves.
Replying to @tezcatlipoca
A panel at the NYU Humanities Initiative on digital humanities and new modes of scholarly communication.
Replying to @tezcatlipoca
Absolutely! Let me know if I can be of help.
Replying to @tezcatlipoca
I'll ponder names & pass them on.
Plug for #thatcamp from @dancohen as site where multiple digital communities - humanists, artists, and programmers can come together.
Replying to @amitorit and @dancohen
Absolutely! Half the humanists I know are anti- or a-.
So this whole self-bribery thing is going well; the promise of a good cup of coffee afterward has gotten me to the gym two days in a row.
Still, I'm hoping that some more internally motivated spirit might take the place of such bald manipulation.
Replying to @amandafrench
It would be fantastic to open up that conversation beyond designer-as-project-collaborator & think about digital art per se.
Replying to @jmittell
I've run up against that same problem; it was less about citing me than about awareness that there was existing work in the area!
Replying to @jmittell
What I did was name a number of other texts, acknowledging the awkwardness of including my own.
Replying to @mlaconvention
I hope your voice holds out, and that you start feeling better ASAP!
Replying to @drnels
No, I'm not in NYU housing; I've got a small furnished studio in the w. village. Pricy but fabulous.
Replying to @drnels
Getting on the NYU housing list is hard; you need a dean to intervene for you. But there are sublets to be found...
Yay, another item off the to-do list. Nobody send me anything new; I'm making progress.
Replying to @drnels
Nice! WSV gets referred to as the "faculty ghetto"; the buildings are ugly as hell outside but the apts are often nice. If possible+
Replying to @drnels
go see what they're offering you \(and don't feel you have to accept the first thing they show\). Advice from an NYU fac friend.
RT @mlaconvention: Time to stop thinking of diss as larval monograph, as the MLA put it yrs ago!! @JenHoward @chronicle // Indeed.
Replying to @amandafrench and @mlaconvention
No, wrong direction! The diss should serve its own purposes. Not all should be expected to become a book.
RT @mlaconvention: in other words, challenge assumpt that diss = bk = tenure. Ask what is impt scholarship instead. // This.
MT @nowviskie @mkimarnold: Shutdown solidarity.//To dear colleagues @NEHgov. Thinking of you. You're wonderful-thx for grt svcs you provide.
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @amandafrench and @mlaconvention
This is a huge part of what past MLA pres Sid Smith has been working on w/ad hoc wk group.
Undermining net neutrality while we're all paying attention to the threat of shutdown? http://nyti.ms/fYAVGD
Replying to @wynkenhimself
That's awful! My first publisher didn't go to MLA the year my book was out & sent it to lie ignored on an association table.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
But they're a small press & times were hard, so I got it. Palgrave not bringing your book the first year is not forgivable.
Replying to @mlaconvention, @samplereality, @wynkenhimself, @tcarmody and @mkirschenbaum
It really boggles the mind.
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @tcarmody, @mlaconvention and @mkirschenbaum
Increasingly so, as more & more libraries turn to patron-driven acquisition models.
It's Friday evening, I'm tired and grouchy, and so I've come to the most important decision of the day: wine or whisky?
Replying to @bighandsome
An inexpensive Malbec vs. Jameson.
Replying to @JenServenti
If only DC were closer. I'd bring them both!
Replying to @bighandsome
Good point. I should know I can count on you in this arena.
Replying to @bighandsome
Your BR friends and family would be proud.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @jenserventi
I hear that.
RT @RepWeiner: Maybe I'm just dense, but how does defunding the biggest provider of contraceptives reduce abortions?
Replying to @brendabethman
A woman after my own heart! I did start in on the whisky, happily.
Replying to @brendabethman
Oh, yes, the grouchiness is fading admirably. And yes, let's plan on a drink in Seattle!
Replying to @joshhonn
Done and done.
Everybody knows that facts have a clear left-wing bias. http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/08/kyl-walks-back-claim-about-planned-parenthoo/
RT @CapitolClio/@jaketapper: Dem & GOP sources: Deal is done and signed off on. $38.5b in cuts, no elimination of Planned Parenthood funding
Replying to @jbj
A surprising number of people in my totally bougie suburban SoCal town keep chickens, but roosters are specifically poultry non grata.
Attempting one last quick re-read of the copy-edited manuscript before I send it back.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
I'm almost done, I swear!
Replying to @fearv
Was it web ring?
I'm one of the 1 in 5 American women who has been helped by Planned Parenthood. Are you? http://RaiseYourHand.org #raiseyourhand
GAH! Glad I decided to do one last read-through; just discovered the copy-editor introduced a massive set of errors by deleting a fn ref.
Every fn from that point to the end of the chapter is misnumbered. Grrrr.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Okay, endnotes. But nonetheless! All misnumbered.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Heh. The paper my press uses isn't terribly clicky.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Nice. Better than one of those creepy video markers they were promoting a couple of years ago.
Replying to @midwinter_
This is one of about six reasons I abandoned Nike+ & went over to RunKeeper once I had a GPS-enabled smartfone.
Replying to @mmwwah
I am beside myself. It really feels like the project changed copyeditors halfway through; s/he's fab in the first half, and then +
Replying to @mmwwah
really sloppy in the second. I'm not opposed to being copyedited, but DO NOT INTRODUCE ERRORS.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Palgrave is seriously not made of win.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Imagine being able to see & hear your deceased loved one when you visit! \(Imagine being the pre\-deceased making that video\!\)
I will not combust. I will not combust.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @wynkenhimself
If only there were someone in the field writing about such issues. Maybe as part of a forthcoming book.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @wynkenhimself
Seriously, the appalling part of the Palgrave biz is that they're for-profit and not OA in any sense.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @wynkenhimself
You spend hours correcting errors introduced by your copyeditor & tell me where your snark level winds up. :)
Replying to @mlaconvention and @wynkenhimself
Done and done.
Replying to @mlaconvention
You are very kind! I've actually got all kinds of comfort food here to serve that purpose, but thank you!
Replying to @mlaconvention
A very civilized place, this. I'm covered there as well!
Done. I am now in need of either a strong drink or a really good chocolate gelato.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
You're right: it's more a which first kind of thing, I think.
Replying to @midwinter_
Only as a matter of where to begin.
Replying to @cjprender
Now, see, THAT is an efficient use of resources.
Replying to @mlaconvention
That sounds most awesome!
Replying to @cjprender
Dude.
New post: I Miss Blogging http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/i-miss-blogging/
Replying to @mlaconvention
I can absolutely imagine!
RT @urbanhumanist: Fascinating, the 9/11 memorial misuses the quotation from Virgil. http://nyti.ms/fqaqU2 // Just amazing.
Replying to @joshhonn
A teeny tiny one, perhaps, and one more un- than conscious. :)
Pondering what's lost in shifting from focused blogging to a distributed range of platforms for posting and discussion. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/i-miss-blogging/
Replying to @chutry
Exactly the kind of thing I've been thinking about.
What I'd like is a selective tweet-to-blog plugin, so that some tweets would appear in the blog timeline, with room for expansion.
Replying to @joshhonn
Yes! I've got a plugin that grabs tweets that link to posts, but there isn't anything that grabs replies without links.
Replying to @chutry
Yes, exactly. The diffusion of that kind of discussion makes it very hard to reconstruct.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Perhaps. Or at least the less open the discussion is to discovery and participation by those not inside the circle.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Life was definitely simpler when I only had one site to obsessively click "refresh" on.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @mkirschenbaum
You want controversial? "Planned Parenthood: The Gestation of the Digital Humanities Research Agenda."
Replying to @mlaconvention and @mkirschenbaum
I was going to add something about federal funding in there but I didn't want to give anyone any ideas.
Replying to @jtheibault
I haven't been, but that does come up in today's discussions \(in the blog comments, here on Twitter, and on Facebook\!\)
Thanks, @JenHoward, for such a great write-up, and @jmittell @shanakimball @wynkenhimself & @readywriting for the kind thoughts!
Very excited about working with my @mediacommons and @NYUpress colleagues \(esp @moncia & @ericzinner\) on open review!
RT @JenHoward: "Taking a Closer Look at Open Peer Review" @wiredcampus post on Mellon grant to NYU Press, @mediacommons. http://bit.ly/eIYqtb
Have been offline much of the afternoon and evening, and so have many personal thank-yous to return. But generically: thank you all!
Replying to @samplereality
5 hours later: congratulations! Wonderful news.
Replying to @samplereality
\(And thanks for your good wishes earlier\!\)
Replying to @jbj
Many thanks!
Replying to @eetempleton
Huge congrats, Erin!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @karikraus
Thanks so much! We're very excited, needless to say.
Replying to @dancohen, @nyupress, @moncia and @ericzinner
Thanks, Dan!
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Thanks, Matt. I hope you'll now forgive me for my very bad and utterly unsolicited title input. :)
Replying to @pmhswe, @edmj and @joguldi
Thanks so much. We're very excited, and really looking forward to digging in.
Replying to @briancroxall
Yay, us! \(But no one made me cookies\.\)
Replying to @sleonchnm
Thanks so much. Really looking forward to seeing where this leads.
Replying to @sherah1918
Thank you!
Replying to @brettbobley
Thanks, Brett. We're very excited, needless to say!
Replying to @cliotropic
Thank you!
Replying to @mkgold
Thanks, Matt!
Replying to @sramsay
I consider it my highest duty.
Replying to @CatinStack
Thanks, Cathy! We're enormously excited about it, too!
Replying to @amandalicastro
Thanks much! We're really excited, needless to say.
Replying to @grammarsnark
Thank you - wonderful news for all of us, I hope.
Replying to @cjprender
Thanks! Gerunds rule.
New post: MediaCommons Receives Mellon ... http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/mediacommons-receives-mellon-grant-to-study-open-peer-review/
Replying to @nancybaym
Thanks! I'm so glad to know. We're awfully excited to see how things develop.
Replying to @briancroxall
I'll be right there.
Replying to @nancybaym
Ooh, that would be great. Keep me posted as you move in that direction; we've got a lot of work to do in this study yet, too.
Replying to @nancybaym
We'll do it. Let's find a time!
Replying to @CapitolClio
Thanks so much! I look forward to it, too. :)
Replying to @nancybaym
Sadly, no ICA for me. June is going to be pretty nutty, but I'm sure we can find some time around then...
Replying to @SSRN
Thank you! We look forward to sharing what we learn.
Replying to @nancybaym
Cool -- lots to look forward to!
Replying to @annettemarkham
Thanks! We're pretty fired up, as you might guess.
Replying to @annettemarkham
I would love to talk about that!
Replying to @annettemarkham
Yes, of course; you'd want the committee to approve. But it could be a good way to get broader membership buy-in for the doc
Replying to @buridan and @annettemarkham
Absolutely. And having the doc in a complete state \(or very close to complete\) is probably a good idea.
Replying to @buridan and @annettemarkham
But some kind of open discussion around that nearly-final document might help it, and help the membership.
Just a few days left to support The Open Utopia: A New Kind of Old Book. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1713881779/the-open-utopia-a-new-kind-of-old-book
Replying to @amandafrench and @moncia
Thanks so much!
Replying to @jasonrhody
Thanks, Jason; we're very excited about it!
Replying to @BGCDML
Thanks, Kimon! I'll look forward to sharing what comes out of the study.
Replying to @amndw2
Thanks, Amanda. All kinds of exciting stuff on the horizon!
Replying to @melissaterras
Thanks, Melissa! We're looking forward to digging in.
Replying to @redwards7
Thanks, Rich!
Replying to @cscannella
The Dropbox team responded to that article in the forums; I'm not sure how I feel about it, but until there's a better option...
Replying to @aperren
Thanks, Alisa! We're really excited about it.
Replying to @cscannella
I've probably got some stuff there I ought to be worried about. I wish there were a good encryption solution.
Replying to @cscannella
I'm imagining something Windows-specific, though? I'm all Mac, all the time...
Replying to @cscannella
Cool, thanks!
The tree outside my window is now covered with a very different kind of white. http://yfrog.com/hsfghtrj
Replying to @mlaconvention
It's really lovely, and it all bloomed in a matter of three days.
Replying to @briancroxall and @mlaconvention
I was going to recommend more of a "you oughta see the other guy" stance.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @coryb
Congratulations, George!
Replying to @roxieblog
Hey thanks, Roxie! And great post!
Maybe it's just the coffee talking. But I am really, really excited today. A small piece of writing to work on & one more in the on-deck. +
Plus a little revision that I've been stalling on, and, oh, several hundred panel proposals to read. But then! It's on to new stuff!
Bought a Groupon months ago and forgot about it. Realized it expires today. Using it feels like, hey, free pizza!
Replying to @hollykruse
I feel exactly the same. And now must experience the horror of reintroducing paper-white legs to visibility.
Replying to @fearv
Sadly, no! I'm not in Claremont this year, but in NYC. So glad to hear PHWM got grouponated!
Boy, does it feel good to cross something embarrassingly overdue off the to-do list. Now there's only one mortifyingly overdue thing left!
There is an irony in the email message announcing that the disruption in email service has not yet been fixed. More info to come via email.
Replying to @briancroxall, @academicdave and @amandafrench
Aw, you guys! I'm blushing. \(Also, the cookies are in the mail\.\)
Replying to @amandafrench
Mmmmm.
Replying to @briancroxall
Is possible someone could share it with you via other means...
I love a travel day. Everything except the fact that I got three hours' sleep and accrued 20 email messages that need to be responded to.
Replying to @mlaconvention
That's 20 after triage. 20 that require actual thought.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Ha. I'm incapable of doing that. I have to triage (delete everything that can be deleted; respond to what can be answered +
Replying to @mlaconvention
in 30 seconds or less) immediately. And then what's left... haunts me.
Replying to @mlaconvention
That actually sounds pretty healthy to me.
Replying to @dancohen and @chnm
I'm so sorry not to be able to join you for the celebration. All my best wishes to you and the rest of #RRCHNM!
Replying to @karikraus
Yeah, this was a Labs feature for a while \(called something like "don't forget Bob\) that's now gone mainstream.
Replying to @karikraus
It's got a parallel feature, too, called something like "is that the wrong Bob?"
Replying to @karikraus
One among several reasons why I never turned it on in Labs. I haven't poked around yet to see if you can turn it off now...
Replying to @mlaconvention, @bendprof and @markcmarino
I've seen several, yes! #MLA12
Replying to @markcmarino and @mlaconvention
Haven't come across it yet, but there are a LOT of proposals, so it could well be there!
Ouch. // RT @CHATemple: All humanities interdisciplinary programs cut at Temple. "Return to the Silo" -Inside Higher Ed http://fb.me/FXdTUppY
Replying to @briancroxall and @nowviskie
is particularly helpful in cases of missing luggage, even without the conductive thread.
Replying to @amandafrench and @pmhswe
Except that she apparently did get that job, according to her bio, so... anticipatory, but not misleading.
Replying to @amandafrench
I don't think so. This interview was in 2009, so that year would be long since up. & I think the denying school was a big one.
Replying to @amandafrench
Love. It.
PNS > IAD > LGA.
Replying to @kimonizer
Interestingly, it didn't. :(
Let's try that again, shall we? PNS > IAH > LGA. Four hours later than expected, but at least not TOMORROW, as @united wanted.
Replying to @mmwwah
For all values of "chillaxin" equal to 8-10 hrs a day in front of the computer, sure. Working spring break w/ R.
So we've been at the gate at IAH for 5 minutes, but there's no gate agent so we're stuck on the plane. Lots of folks with tight connex.
Replying to @nowviskie
Indeed. As a guy once said to me during a long delay, I'd rather be down here wishing I were up there than vice versa.
Replying to @mmwwah
Indeed. It was a lovely one, armed guard and all.
Replying to @drnels
Indeed. And this was B84 \(aka the bus terminal\), so the door was open & the stairs had been rolled up but we were still stuck.
It's awesome how my noise-cancelling headphones eliminate the bg roar so I can better hear the obnoxious cell convo of the woman next to me.
Replying to @nowviskie
Aaarrgh! Much empathy headed your way. Just made it to LGA, and oh the headache...
Please tell me this weekend is over.
No, seriously. What do you mean it's only Friday?
Replying to @annehelen
Congratulations, a bit belatedly!
RT @FrostDavis: looking fwd to the arrival of my new colleague @lisaspiro! Congrats on becoming director of #NITLE Labs! // Congrats all!
RT @STCollective: Politics in the Age of Secrecy & Transparency, a MediaCommons/NewEveryday cluster on Wikileaks & Anon http://goo.gl/AoHod
Replying to @lisaspiro
That's awesome. I can't wait to hear how things develop for you there!
Replying to @fearv and @ncecire
Was about to write & suggest TNE. Might be productive to put out a call for others working on related issues.
RT @mediacommons: New cluster on Wikileaks and Anonymous at The New Everyday, curated by Biella Coleman. http://fb.me/J4vRDkmE
Replying to @samplereality and @profhacker
Mwa-ha-ha.
Replying to @nancybaym
That sounded like nearly every publishing industry panel I've been to in the last three years. #buthowwillwemakemoney
Replying to @annehelen
Wow, that's awesome casting.
I hate it when I know there's a specific word for something but I can't put my finger on it.
Right now I'm looking for the adjective that describes someone who demonstrates poor judgment.
Replying to @jcmeloni
EXACTLY.
Replying to @audreywatters
Bahahahaha!
Replying to @swarthmoreburke
Indiscreet is awfully close. Perhaps that's what I was thinking of.
Replying to @swarthmoreburke
Dude, you are a walking thesaurus. I clearly need you around when I'm writing.
Replying to @loriemerson and @ayjay
Those are mighty close. It's somewhere up in the space around injudicious, imprudent, undiscerning, and indiscreet.
I'm going to go with @swarthmoreburke's indiscreet. It's got the nuance I was after, tho it still feels like there's another word out there.
Replying to @ayjay
Well, there's the answer right there: go back to the time in childhood when everything was just "stupid."
Replying to @seth_denbo
Heh. Imprudent may well have been it...
Replying to @shanakimball
The list that comes up for "demonstrating poor judgment" is pretty funny! 1: injudicious \(okay\), 2: foul \(?\), 3: ad-lib \(???\)
Replying to @shanakimball
4. sedative \(\!\)
Replying to @RepoRat
Thanks! I think my brain was trying to come up with "indiscreet" in a more Latinate form.
Replying to @JenHoward, @tcarmody, @swarthmoreburke and @ayjay
All very good options! Ah, the range of ways people can demonstrate poor judgment.
Replying to @jasonrhody, @tcarmody and @jenhoward
Considering the sentence in question was about Ivan Tribble's view of bloggers, it most certainly was.
Trying to decide if it's a bad idea to have a whisky while I read this dissertation. Or if it's a worse idea not to.
Replying to @jcmeloni
I don't know if you have a vote but you're pretty persuasive.
Replying to @tcarmody
I kinda thought so!
Replying to @cliotropic
Oh, that goes without saying.
Replying to @sheepeeh and @cliotropic
I'm kinda thinking so!
Replying to @eetempleton
Oh, that would be a no-brainer, for me. So to speak.
Replying to @joshgreen
I always knew you were wise.
Replying to @joshgreen
Predictability where wisdom results is no vice.
Replying to @jmittell and @joshgreen
That, I'd buy.
Replying to @joshgreen and @jmittell
Half my family is Irish. I'd be on the losing side of any such argument.
Replying to @JenHoward
Surely that's the number of votes counted thus far? And will increase as the count continues?
Replying to @JenHoward
Okay, that's bad.
Replying to @JenHoward
It's rare enough you folks actually get to vote; one fears everyone's just given up.
Replying to @JenHoward
Taxation without representation is... aw, never mind.
Replying to @brettbobley and @jenhoward
It would be incredibly frustrating - and even more so to see this effect on what democratic possibilities remain.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
Not that I've come across. The Lamont that @matthomas linked to uses grant panels as a metonym for peer review.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
The only serious study of peer review in the humanities that I found was http://www.amazon.com/Peer-Review-Critical-Inquiry-Academic/dp/0742514358
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
And it's more focused on the philosophical/ethical questions that peer review raises. He acknowledges that the +
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
kind of study you're talking about really hasn't been done, as it has in sci & soc sci fields, in part bc those +
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
who care about humanities outlets aren't really trained to do the quantitative work required to study them.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @dancohen
A good question. If one were doing a study of open review processes, one might put it on the agenda!
Replying to @mattthomas
She talks about other forms of review but is really focused on the panels, probably because she could observe/ask about them.
Replying to @brettbobley
Absolutely! I'll look forward to the opportunity.
RT @BookWorld: Folger Shakespeare Library names new director http://wapo.st/idmXyI //Participant in the 1st ShQ open review at @mediacommons!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Login via command line or FTP and delete .maintenance at the top level.
Replying to @karikraus
I've had that dream before. \(Wait \- are you awake?\)
Replying to @karikraus
Fun! I'm sure the lines came together. But I really do still have the "hey, I'm in a play! Wait, what play?" dream quite often.
Cuts mean "no public historically black college in [Louisiana] will offer a bachelor’s degree in a foreign language" http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/Regents-cull-100-degrees.html
Replying to @tanyaclement
Wow, congratulations, Tanya! Fantastic news!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Nice desk space, though! Plenty of room for the chaos to spread itself out.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Straight outta Lily Tomlin.
Glasses have been making the bridge of my nose ache fiercely for several days. Switched to contacts. Eyes now unhappy. #rock #me #hardplace
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Sounds right. I'll take them in early next week, and deal with the contacts in the meantime, to let the old nosebridge rest.
Replying to @grammarsnark and @mlaconvention
Thank you! I'm thrilled, needless to say!
Replying to @nowviskie and @mlaconvention
Thanks so much, Bethany. I'm thrilled and looking forward to getting started.
Replying to @jmcclurken
Thank you! I'm really excited about what's ahead.
Replying to @briancroxall and @mlaconvention
Thanks so much, Brian. I'm super excited, needless to say.
Replying to @sshreeves
Thanks so much!
Replying to @pdahlgre
Thanks, Paul!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @mlaconvention
Thank you! We're excited, needless to say.
Replying to @veek
Yay! There's lots of good stuff ahead - I'm looking forward to getting started!
Replying to @shanakimball
Thanks, Shana!
Replying to @RepoRat
Thank you! I'm super excited, and looking forward to getting started.
Replying to @micahvandegrift
Thank you! I hope I can continue to bring lots of excitement to the profession as we go forward.
RT @micahvandegrift: Waking up to news of @kfitz leading an Office of Scholarly Communications for MLA makes me more excited about my jo ...
Replying to @jmittell
Yes, it is! It's an enormous opportunity.
Replying to @nancybaym
Yes, it is. I'll be moving early this summer!
Replying to @jeanburgess
Thanks! I'm looking forward to getting started.
@jeanburgess @nancybaym By the by, my #ir12 proposal was accepted, so I'm looking forward to seeing you both in Seattle!
Replying to @captain_primate
Thanks, Ethan! There's exciting stuff ahead.
New post: Moves and Updates http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/moves-and-updates/
Replying to @plragde
Thanks! I'm extremely excited, and really looking forward to getting started.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Team superawesome FTW!
Replying to @captain_primate
I know exactly what you mean! And I'll hope to talk with you & your colleagues as we go forward.
Replying to @caseyboyle
Thank you!
Replying to @shermandorn
Thanks! I'm quite excited.
Replying to @ayjay
Thanks so much - I really do think that exciting things are ahead, and I'm happy to have the chance to help build them.
Replying to @samplereality
Thanks, Mark! Exciting things, indeed.
Replying to @dancohen
Thank you so much, Dan; I'm just thrilled, and looking forward to the exciting things we'll be able to make happen.
Replying to @rschon and @mlaconvention
Thank you! I'm looking forward to getting started.
Replying to @alogemann
Thank you so much. I'm very excited about the opportunity!
Replying to @middlemiddlek
Thank you for that vote of confidence! I hope we give you lots of reason to find us even more than relevant!
RT @middlemiddlek: I'm totally going to have to rethink my suspicion of MLA's relevance now that they've hired @kfitz to head up scholar ...
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Matt. It's in the IHE quick takes, and will be on the MLA site very shortly.
Replying to @amndw2 and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Amanda!
Replying to @samplereality and @mlaconvention
The brown M&Ms are as good as gone.
Replying to @subsublibrary
Many thanks, Ben! It's a very exciting step, and I'm looking forward to being back in NYC, to boot!
Replying to @sherah1918
Thanks so much! We're all very excited about the opportunities ahead.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @mlaconvention
Thanks so much, Jason - looking forward to much excitement ahead!
Replying to @mkgold and @mlaconvention
Thank you, Matt! It's a great opportunity, for all of us.
Replying to @Scrivenings
Thank you! I think it's going to be an exciting time.
Replying to @karikraus
Yay! Thanks, Kari!
RT @karikraus: Oh wow--the brilliant @kfitz to direct the #MLA's new Office of Scholarly Communication! Makes me proud to be a member of ...
Replying to @brendabethman and @mlaconvention
Thanks so much - I'm glad you've re-joined, too, and look forward to an exciting future.
Replying to @jtheibault
Thanks so much!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @mlaconvention
Thanks, George!
Replying to @jmittell
Absolutely - I'll look forward to talking with you as they develop.
Replying to @savasavasava
Thanks! I'm looking forward to it, too.
Replying to @joshhonn
Thank you!
Replying to @melissaterras
Thanks so much, Melissa!
Replying to @janineutell and @mlaconvention
Thank you!
Replying to @surlyF
Thanks so much - there are some really exciting possibilities ahead!
Replying to @sleonchnm and @mlaconvention
Thank you! It's a phenomenal opportunity.
Replying to @annettemarkham
Thanks, Annette! Very excited...
Replying to @msbonn
Thanks, Maria - it's a very exciting moment for all of us.
Replying to @philnel
Thank you, Phil!
Replying to @ernestopriego
Hear, hear! \(And thanks\!\)
Replying to @erochest
Thank you!
Replying to @cjprender
Thanks so much. We've got lots of exciting stuff ahead.
Replying to @KeethInk and @mlaconvention
Thank you!
Replying to @alicetiara
Yay, thanks! I'm glad to be sticking around, and very excited about the opportunities ahead...
Replying to @ndrmag and @mlaconvention
Hey, I got my start at NDR, back in the day. Thanks so much!
Replying to @pbenzon and @mlaconvention
Thanks! "Looking forward" is exactly right.
Replying to @acavender and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Amy! I'm very excited about the opportunity.
Replying to @kathiiberens
Thank you!
Replying to @kathiiberens
There was a wedding?
Replying to @Musebrarian
Thank you -- that's what I'm hoping for!
Replying to @kdettmar and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Kevin!
Replying to @amyeetx and @mlaconvention
Thanks so much. We're very exciting about the possibilities ahead.
Replying to @grammarsnark and @mlaconvention
Thank you so much! I'll look forward to working with members like you to build an exciting sch comm future!
Replying to @brettbobley
Thanks so much, Brett; I'm very happy to have this opportunity!
Replying to @d_kompare
Thanks, Derek!
Replying to @edmj
Thank you! I'm looking forward to doing all kinds of cool stuff with @mlaconvention!
Replying to @ryancordell
Thanks, Ryan!
Replying to @eetempleton and @georgeonline
No kidding. WANT.
Replying to @eetempleton
Thanks so much, Erin - I'm super excited about it, and looking forward to the great things we'll be able to build.
Replying to @TCPstream
Thanks! I'm very excited about the possibilities ahead.
Replying to @kathiiberens
At least it wasn't green.
Replying to @katharine_b and @mlaconvention
Thank you!
Replying to @escapegrace
Thank you!
Replying to @triproftri and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Kathy; we're very excited about the possibilities ahead!
Replying to @amitorit
Thank you - that really means an awful lot to me.
Replying to @audreywatters
Thanks, Audrey. I'm very excited about the possibilities ahead!
Replying to @nancybaym
Wow. That would be some very odd advice.
MT @tcarmody: in my experience as a committee member, the MLA staff is among the best in the world.//Could not agree more; thrilled to join!
Replying to @tcarmody and @mlaconvention
Also, thanks! Looking forward to exploring future possibilities.
Replying to @tcarmody
It's an amazing opportunity. My head is still spinning with it.
Replying to @tanyaclement
Thanks, Tanya!
Replying to @bnreviewer
Me, too. It'll be great to be back here fer reals.
Replying to @mmwwah
Do you have a link? I'd love to see...
Replying to @mmwwah
Oh, wait - that one. Never mind.
Replying to @mmwwah
Nah, is probably for the best.
Replying to @afeeld
Thank you! I'm very excited.
Replying to @ncecire and @mlaconvention
Thanks, Natalia; we're pretty thrilled!
Replying to @amandafrench
I *love* it. Thanks, Amanda!
RT @amandafrench: VERY excited about @kfitz's new position at the Modern Language Association. Expect those languages to get REAL modern ...
Replying to @zonal
Thank you so much.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Uh, I'd be in! #mlatweetup
Replying to @ChristophrLucas
Thanks, Chris; I'm thrilled, needless to say!
Replying to @jenterysayers
Thanks so much, Jentery; lots of good stuff ahead for all of us, I hope!
Replying to @amandalicastro
Thanks, Amanda!
Replying to @amandalicastro
I'm hoping that a celebratory drink might be managed, yes!
Replying to @sheepeeh
Thanks!
Replying to @peasandpoetry
Thanks, Jen!
RT @ProfHacker: New post: @jbj's "Weekend Reading: Hail to the MLA Edition": http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/weekend-reading-hail-to-the-mla-edition/33099 // Thanks, guys!
Replying to @mattthomas
Thanks, Matt! Glad to know you've joined, and I look forward to working on things that keep you among us!
Replying to @footnotesrising
Thanks! I'll look forward to helping spread the momentum.
Replying to @MissLadyB
So sorry I won't be there to say hi! Have fun, though.
Replying to @nmhouston
Thanks, Natalie!
Replying to @mbtimney
Thanks, Meagan!
Replying to @lisaspiro
Thanks, Lisa!
Replying to @FrostDavis
Thanks! I'm very excited as well, probably needless to say!
Replying to @unsworth
Thanks so much, John - I'm excited about the possibilities ahead for all of us!
Replying to @mickimcgee
Thanks, Micki!
Replying to @sivavaid and @unsworth
Would be quite amazing indeed! I'll win you back yet...
So... this was kind of a day.
Replying to @amandafrench
Also you needed an extra suitcase for the trip, as I recall.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I for one would like to know more about that martini.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Ooh, nice. Will make a pilgrimage to hunt it down. And perhaps sometime we might actually meet up down your way for one?
I have Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" stuck in my head. This does not say much good about my #wildfridaynight.
Replying to @acavender
Just FYI, if you edit custom.css in the theme's main folder instead, it'll override the defaults without future updates undoing +
Replying to @acavender
your customizations. -
Replying to @HASTAC
Thanks so much! Looking forward to many exciting new collaborative possibilities!
Replying to @CatinStack
Thanks so much, Cathy! I'm thrilled to have the opportunity.
Replying to @amandafrench
Do you mean something like MITH's TILE \(text\-image linking environment\)? #thatcamp
One last thank-you to everyone for the kind wishes yesterday. I tried to catch everybody individually but I'm sure I missed some of you.
I'm very excited about getting some of the new #MLA experiments going; I'll look forward to talking with all of you about them!
Replying to @jmcclurken
My inst's email was down for 1/2 the faculty a while back, and the rest of us kept getting email updates about the problem. #hmm
Replying to @jmcclurken
That is a very generous interpretation of the situation! But yeah, a plan B would be a good thing, especially at crunch times.
Replying to @jmcclurken
That is precisely my sense. If there is a problem, send an email. If there is an email problem, send an email.
Replying to @alanpharvey
Thank you - it should, indeed!
This has been the slowest and most painful 1500 words I've ever produced. And I have 1000 to go. Must take a walk to try to clear my head.
Archiving ancient teaching websites \(i\.e\., 2006\-2008\) by exporting from dynamic site to static HTML. A very weird exercise.
Why does the last 10% of bean doneness take longer than the first 90%?
Replying to @acavender
That must be it!
Replying to @samplereality and @mlaconvention
Oh, but there's a huge difference between failure not being possible and not being an option!
Replying to @samplereality and @mlaconvention
Oh, okay. I didn't see it go by, but it's got the ring of #thatcamp.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @roxieblog
Can you dig it? \(Yes, I can\!\)
Replying to @JenHoward
That was quick! :)
Replying to @JenHoward
I figured as much. Frankly, it was nice having only about 20 secs of "oh, how sad!" before the resolution.