2011 05 01 tweets
Replying to @wgthomas3
Thank you! I'm quite excited about it.
Just back from fantastic brunch at the Brooklyn home of some old friends. I could once eat brunch without needing a nap after, but no more.
Folks, do you remember which study it was that ranked the reasons scholars choose their publication venues? \(Audience, prestige, etc\.\)
Replying to @surlyF
Yes, that's it; thanks!
Thanks, @surlyF: it's the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey 2009.
Replying to @surlyF
I could see it clearly as well; I just couldn't remember where it was!
Replying to @shanakimball
**brain explodes**
Replying to @shanakimball
$8385 for a departmental license \(up to 10 users in one office\)!
Boy, do I stink at final sentences.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Maybe that is how I should end the article!
Any bets on what we're not going to be allowed to carry on airplanes tomorrow? #nationalsecurityannouncement
Okay, I have now turned on my television for the first time since the Oscars. Please don't make me listed to Wolf Blitzer for long.
Listen, that is. But you get the point.
Replying to @surlyF
No kidding.
Oy, with the speculating. I wouldn't want to speculate, but there's been a lot of speculation. As has been widely speculated.
Replying to @jmittell
I know, right. The set in my apt this year is awful enough I'd rather download & watch on my computer.
Replying to @mlaconvention
I still have very fond memories of Wolf from Gulf War I. But he's a shadow of that rugged former self, alas.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Oh, man, you and me both.
The White House is saying that I have behaved SO responsibly by not speculating. Other Twitterers are wildly speculating, but not me.
Replying to @surlyF
As long as I have multiple sources to go with this. The world will know very soon.
John King, on the other hand, not so much afraid of the speculating. Poor Wolf!
Replying to @surlyF
So curious about the choice to let John King say it and keep Wolf Blitzer pure...
And now Wolf gets to say it out loud? What's that all about?
Yeah, I'm not sure I'm going to remember that I was sitting in front of my computer when John King announced that Osama bin Laden was dead.
Wolf apparently pretty upset about having his evening interrupted.
Replying to @budtheteacher
You are not kidding.
Replying to @jeanburgess
I know, right. A little spoiler alert might have been nice.
Poor Barack. He's now going to come in and say "look, forget it. It was gonna be a surprise, but it's ruined now."
Ah, Wolf. They must already be plotting retaliation -- because CNN must have something to freak us out about.
So is this a lot of Blackberry product placement on CNN, or what?
Replying to @jeanburgess
Indeed.
Actionable: John King, I do not think that word means exactly what you think it means.
CNN may be infuriating, but at least they're surreal.
Replying to @hollykruse
This is true.
Replying to @hollykruse
True. And I should probably switch. But it's like watching a slow-motion car crash. I'm horrified, but I can't quite turn away.
RT @McLemee: It sure seems like Obama's job as secret Muslim operative imposing Sharia law on the US just got a whole lot harder.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Indeed. He needs a much better stage manager.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @mlaconvention
Absolutely - but those contacts should have happened before the announcement. Really badly mistimed.
RT @maddow: A huge night for the country and the world, but particularly for post-9/11 US military vets and intelligence personnel.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @mlaconvention
Wolf had some weird story about Obama being out somewhere this morning and getting called back to the WH...
Dude, if the New York Times has already published it, this announcement has taken too long. http://nyti.ms/ldiAZg
Apparently the Fox News crawl says that "Obama Bin Laden" is dead. Nice.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Friend posted a shot of it on FB.
RT @acavender: I can't say I'm sorry to see him gone. But celebration doesn't sit right either. A necessary evil may be the best descrip ...
RT @CapitolClio: Thank you Mr. President for not turning announcement into a xenophobic pep rally.
Replying to @jeanburgess and @katecrawford
NYT's "how it leaked" story: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/how-the-osama-announcement-leaked-out/
Replying to @jeanburgess
Me too.
Okay, horrible television turned off again. Feeling better already.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @cjprender
Oy. I had to shut it off about 5 mins ago.
You know, I never did finish writing that last sentence. Dammit.
Replying to @roxieblog
Friend of mine standing in an airport not long after 9/11, next to a guy staring at news reports showing ground zero. Guy shook +
Replying to @roxieblog
his head and said "First Dale [Earnhardt], and now this."
RT @NYCAviation: RT @NBCNewYork: Added checkpoints and patrols tomorrow in NYC by FBI and NYPD, per @Jonathan4NY.
Alright folks. I do have the MLA Program Committee starting tomorrow at 9, so I'm off to force myself to sleep.
Replying to @jasonaboyd
Thanks! I'm looking forward to getting started!
RT @FordhamDH: Thrilled that @kfitz will be keynoting for Fac Tech Day ... http://fordhamdh.blogspot.com/2011/05/noted-digital-scholar-kathleen.html?spref=tw
Replying to @cjprender
I have a longstanding argument that Irish + Italian is as close to Jewish as one can get.
MLA Program Committee meeting, day 1, now done. A long and exhausting day, but it'll pay off wonderfully in January!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Um. Wow. Closer than I thought, but still no cigar.
Replying to @CaseyBrienza
Thanks for the link; I'll look forward to pondering the possibilities!
Replying to @BendProf
Will look forward to seeing you on the committee next year!
Replying to @BendProf
We will make a point of it.
Replying to @CaseyBrienza
Oh, excellent!
RT @mlaconvention: Att #MLA members: go to mla.org, take 5 mins to read proposed amenmnt + resolution, then vote. It's impt that a great ...
Unbelievable. Lufthansa just refunded the full purchase price on our Dublin-Prague tickets \(which were undone by the European blizzard\).
Replying to @moncia
Ooh, I hadn't thought of it that way!
Replying to @mlaconvention
I'm amazed. I assumed they'd come up with some cancellation fee that would eliminate any refund...
Replying to @wynkenhimself
No kidding.
Hey, folks! So, totally hypothetically: say you've been tweeting both professionally and personally for several years now. +
& say you take a job working for a very public organization & you *know* that your tweets will be taken by some as the Voice of the Org. +
Do you start a new "org" account, or a new private account? Do you eliminate the personal from your tweeting? Do you handle some other way?
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Ha!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
That's more or less what I'm thinking. Though there are a number of tweeps who might be around due to the new position...
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Anyhow, yes, it's obvious that everything is public, so needs to be cautious.
Replying to @nancybaym
That's the direction I'm leaning, I think...
Replying to @clioweb, @chnm and @scholarslab
Fair enough - caution seems in order there!
Replying to @caseyboyle
Oh, you know. One is popular on one's own account. :)
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Hmmm. Good point.
Replying to @dancohen and @sheepeeh
Oh, this is my own scruples, not the hypothetical org's.
FYI, this is really my own worry & not the org's. And I don't worry about much, except perhaps the occasional rant about a certain novelist.
Replying to @dancohen
Oy. I can only imagine.
Replying to @dancohen
That is a very good point.
A social media policy that, to quote @nowviskie, boils down to "We're all grown-ups here. Just don't be stupid" sounds like a good thing.
Replying to @RepoRat
Nice! Though I'm way less worried about the org claiming I'm representing them than a publication thinking I am.
Replying to @pmhswe
That's a huge part of why I went to Twitter with the question. Research!
Replying to @roxieblog
Thanks, on both counts!
Thanks for the insight, all. I was quite curious what the thinking out there was. Seems a fair division between maintaining one acct & +
starting a new org account, while keeping the current account as "me."
Replying to @karikraus
You are too kind!
Replying to @dancohen
Don't tempt me!
Replying to @tcarmody and @dancohen
Will start swearing like a sailor posthaste. But do you read the consensus as sticking solely with @kfitz, or +
Replying to @tcarmody and @dancohen
adding an org account but keeping @kfitz alive? Seems split to me.
Replying to @jmittell
Oh, do I have a line I want to use in response!
Replying to @tcarmody and @kfitz
lives on regardless. I'm thinking that I'll just do all my tweeting, official and un-, until it seems prudent to change.
Replying to @dancohen
This is a most persuasive point.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @jmittell
Al? I don't remember him having opinions on students. But then he's pretty down on everyone.
Replying to @nowviskie
Probably there should be a generic org acct anyhow, one not associated with, say, one's orgconvention.
Replying to @swarthmoreburke and @publishdifferentyouidiots
is the PERFECT handle.
Replying to @brettbobley
You are totally my model in this, btw. Personable, friendly & fun, and yet professional & discreet. Plus separate org acct.
Replying to @brettbobley
I certainly hope so!
Replying to @JenHoward
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Um. I mean. Hmm.
Replying to @brettbobley
Absolutely. But given the intimate \(some might say fishbowl\) environment of a SLAC, work/life blend has been long on my mind.
Replying to @JenServenti, @brettbobley and @jasonrhody
Now I'm really intrigued.
Thanks, all. A most interesting conversation. Like @pmhswe, I hope someone is doing research on personal/professional identity on Twitter!
Replying to @JenServenti and @jasonrhody
Only if they say "resistance is futile in my neighborhood" in Latin.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @jenserventi
Won't you be my federal granting agency program officer?
Replying to @patrick_mj
Ha!
So sorry not to have made it to #cunydhi tonight; had an appointment that ran too long to make it. My best to @noctambulate!
Replying to @cunydhi
Presses have collab model, but hasn't their outward field-based focus caused problems with support for the press at home? #cunydhi
.@cunydhi Exactly. Unis provide so little bc they don't see how they benefit. How to balance svc to field & uni interests? #cunydhi
Replying to @ernestopriego
Thanks so much - I'd love to see your response! And thanks for the link... I hadn't heard about it, but fascinating!
A most awesome un-NewYorky super New York day, which I'm just superstitious enough about not to post details until they're finalized.
Replying to @boone
Oh, hey! See you there this afternoon! #blsci
Replying to @briancroxall and @mlaconvention
Yay! Congrats, Brian!
Replying to @briancroxall
Ooh, excellent! I'll look forward to seeing you then.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @amandafrench
Ha. I'll have to tell you that story, Amanda.
RT @lwaltzer: We plan on streaming "Find a Voice & Build Community: Social Media in Business & Education" @scottkirsner @rozzy @kthread ...
Replying to @rozzy
No sense of what's up?
Replying to @jenterysayers
Congratulations, Jentery!
Replying to @cscannella
Good grief! I'm glad you're okay! \(Where "okay" is a relative term, but still\!\)
Coming off a completely bonkers week. Have another crazy week ahead. Should be spending today revising an article, but...
Suspect I may spend the rest of the afternoon reading a novel instead.
Replying to @ncecire and @eetempleton
What I wanted to know was what you were hearing/reading that was explaining to you what an operating system is!
Replying to @ncecire
Oh. Okay, in that case. \(At least they didn't start with how to turn the computer on\.\)
Replying to @ncecire
Fascinating. I had the same experience - took an intro CS class a few years ago and found myself tripping over the oddest things.
Replying to @ncecire
That's a much more generous explanation than that of the prof, who hinted that the 40yo brain is less flexible than that at 20.
Replying to @ncecire
Exactly.
So this showed up on Amazon today: http://www.amazon.com/Planned-Obsolescence-Publishing-Technology-Academy/dp/0814727883 And somebody already likes it! I cannot tell you how happy those two things make me.
\(Incidentally, many thanks to whoever has pre\-ordered it\! Pretty amazed by its rank, given it's 5 months off\.\)
Replying to @joshhonn
:)
Replying to @westcenter
Thanks!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Nice!
Replying to @mlaconvention
But not bad. When I first read your hashtag, I though you meant that you were having an off spring. This is better!
Replying to @TeklaSchell
Fantastic -- thanks!
Replying to @ibogost
Probably the amount of time they've spent on the freeway.
Coffee.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Nice! I'm just happy to have coffee.
Replying to @nowviskie and @mlaconvention
Lovely!
So Amazon doesn't have it yet, but NYU Press has given Planned Obsolescence a cover: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=4998
The image is from the work of Dalton Ghetti: http://kronikle.kidrobot.com/pencil-tip-micro-sculptures-by-dalton-ghetti/
Replying to @wynkenhimself
It's possible I'm more excited about that image than the words inside.
Replying to @mmwwah
I would counter your "even if" with an "also because." Special added bonus!
Replying to @mmwwah
Indubitably!
I just got ousted as the mayor of a part of Terminal C at IAH that I don't think I've ever been in. Thanks for the surrealism, foursquare!
This has been another Very Big Day. I'm going to bed before it gets any bigger.
Replying to @jbj
The birds here like to cluster in the tree right outside my window around 6am, screaming their heads off, and then dissipate by 7.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Both at the same time would be bad.
Replying to @briancroxall
She spoke at our commencement last year. Tiny sad Minute Man protest, paired with huge DREAM Act counterprotest.
Thanks, all, for the kind words about the Chron piece! Sorry not to have responded sooner - in a distinctly non-digital seminar today.
RT @nowviskie: Major congrats to @mandellc on appointment as dir of Texas A&M's Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture! //Yay!!
@mandellc Huge congratulations!
Replying to @manovich and @dancohen
Are you reifying the theory/practice divide? :)
Replying to @jcmeloni
Finally getting to read through the stream. You are the best.
Replying to @manovich and @dancohen
Actually, that piece points out an assumed divide and suggests bridging it!
Replying to @Scrivenings
I'm so sorry - will keep your family in my thoughts.
My next trick will be figuring out how to make the paper version of the New Yorker stop showing up.
Replying to @samplereality
I would not hold my breath on that. But it is an awfully nice interface.
Replying to @mattbucher
That may be the most demented thing I've ever read.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Happy to do so!
Replying to @eetempleton and @samplereality
They tend to do things like "reëducation." Here's a blog post about it! http://www.betalogue.com/2003/11/27/umlauts-in-ithe-new-yorkeri/
Replying to @mlaconvention, @eetempleton and @samplereality
It's like you have a word for *everything*!
Replying to @mamamusings
Sending you super-good thoughts...
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Do not get me started on their completely borked subscription engine. Grrr indeed.
Huge congrats, @jdrouin!
Replying to @roxieblog
I went for a long stretch with someone from DOJ reading my blog. Turned out to be a former student who worked there. Whew.
Replying to @mlaconvention and @roxieblog
You can get pretty detailed info from most stats services, yeah. You leave digital fingerprints everywhere you go.
Replying to @BendProf, @roxieblog and @mlaconvention
Google Reader will give you info about how many subscribers you have, but nothing more, I think.
Replying to @dougreside and @mlaconvention
There are other stats packages, some native to blogging services. Not everybody reads them, though.
Replying to @dougreside
True, though Statcounter gives more detailed info for IPs that are assigned to known entities. Hence spotting the DOJ reader!
Replying to @dancohen and @jenhoward
I've always taken it to mean that the author isn't automatically licensing such uses, but it's still possible to ask.
Replying to @dancohen and @jenhoward
Which throws a wrench into things, yes, but doesn't preclude such uses entirely. Am I misunderstanding?
Replying to @dancohen and @jenhoward
I'm still torn on this. I think I'd approve most commercial reuse, but I can imagine some I'd want to restrict.
Replying to @dancohen and @jenhoward
I'm probably wrong about it, but there's something in completely letting go of all commercial reuse that unsettles me.
Replying to @RepoRat
It's only corporations that want to exploit the reusable commons for their own gain that I want to make ask me first.
Replying to @dancohen, @mkgold and @jenhoward
Fair enough. I'd just like a line somewhere between scholarly reuse and corporate exploitation.
Replying to @dancohen, @mkgold and @jenhoward
Not that any corporate exploiters are likely to be after my stuff.
Replying to @RepoRat
But it's not diminishing the commons if it's there for commons-oriented uses.
Replying to @RepoRat
I hear you. And as I said several times already, I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong. But I'm not comfortable with the +
Replying to @RepoRat
suggestion that the only way to build the commons requires allowing all commercial interests free reuse without asking.
Replying to @surlyF and @reporat
Right. The kind of thing I'd like some say over.
Replying to @RepoRat
Maybe all I'm after here is a "tell me first" license.
Replying to @RepoRat
Seriously, I'm willing to acknowledge \(again\!\) that I don't have all the answers here. I got into this because I was seriously +
Replying to @RepoRat
asking a question about why NC-SA was a problem. It's been a long and very bad day, so I'm going to quit while I'm behind.
Forget "What about Bob?" What Gmail needs is a "Hey, stupid, you were BCC'd on that message, so maybe you don't want to reply-all" function.
Replying to @twel
Congratulations - a great school in a fabulous city!
Replying to @MoodyFred
Less than it could have been; thankfully, Gmail *does* have a 30-second delay on sending, so one can undo a horrible mistake.
Replying to @terrisenft
Wow, I just saw this, too. Congrats!
Replying to @newkidonthehall and @mmwwah
Thanks, you two, for this convo! Must figure out what to do with the 50% of my books that won't fit in my apt.
Replying to @mmwwah
It is Obscenely Expensive and I have to go through co-op board approval. To rent. It's lovely though, and I hope I get it.
Replying to @newkidonthehall and @mmwwah
This is great to know. I need to do a major deaccession. \(Don't tell our colleagues, M\!\)
Replying to @mmwwah
Will send via e.
Replying to @newkidonthehall
Thanks! I've been told that if I have the financials \(I do, barely\) and don't show up to the interview in pjs, I'll be ok.
Replying to @cscannella
And how quickly will that candidate's indiscretions in a rest stop bathroom be brought to light?
Replying to @nowviskie
I'm so glad you wrote this; it's helping me think more clearly through the issues \(and my lingering concerns\).
Replying to @boone
"Thank you, Internet."
Replying to @nancybaym
That would be fun. We could call it BaymCamp.
There is a small child outside screaming the song about the wheels on the bus going wownd and wownd. Not the usual NYC street ruckus.
Replying to @savasavasava
True. I'm in the west village, a block from Christopher. There are kids around, but not usually in the street. & not at 10pm!
Replying to @cjprender
No, just the refrain. Over and over and...
Replying to @mlaconvention and @cjprender
Oh, dear. Please don't.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Sheesh. Not bad!
A fascinating exploration of what other papers might learn from the @chronicle's subscription practices. http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/the-newsonomics-of-old-dipsy-doo/
After three highly stressful days of nonstop meetings and Getting Nothing Done, I'm having a fabulous day of working at home.
And writing! Actual sentences! Astonishing how much better that can make me feel.
Replying to @archivesnext
Indeed. It's also amazing how stressful I find a mounting to-do list involving the production of lots of sentences.
Replying to @mlaconvention
I would pretty much expect so.
Replying to @mlaconvention
No, that would be completely unexpected!
Ah, the levels of irony: Facebook "believes Google is doing some things in social networking that raise privacy concerns" and "resents +
Google’s attempts to use Facebook data in its own social-networking service." FB should check its privacy settings! http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/facebook-busted-in-clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google/#
Dear Op-Ed Writer, How about an article highlighting the scary blackness of Kettle? Love, your friends at the PR company representing Pot.
Okay, looming thing that must be finishing up today has now been finished up today. On to looming things numbers two and three.
Replying to @newkidonthehall
Sending you all the good moving vibes I can!
Take one thing off the to-do list; put two things on.
*sigh*
Replying to @mlaconvention
Is it a "16 Tons" kinda song?
Replying to @mlaconvention
Absolutely.
Acela to Boston for #MIT7. It's way too early for this.
On the up side, the train is all but empty, and the quiet car may actually stay relatively quiet.
Replying to @sherah1918 and @samplereality
Indeed. I've been thinking that since I read your post yesterday. My partner & I have been apart for most of +
Replying to @sherah1918 and @samplereality
20 years, and it's been very hard - but nothing like it would have been if there were kids involved.
Replying to @sherah1918 and @samplereality
Our stats are pretty much the opposite; we've lived together for a total of about 4 years out of 20.
Replying to @midwinter_
Hurry up please, it's time.
Replying to @amandafrench
Whoa.
Welcoming speeches at #mit7, to be followed by opening plenary, with yours truly. Curious what I'm going to say!
I'll be here momentarily, if sans first initial. http://yfrog.com/h7v4suqj
Replying to @jmittell
That would be AWESOME.
Replying to @savasavasava
I don't think it's being streamed, alas, but it should be heavily tweeted! #mit7
Replying to @j_l_r and @d_kompare
Miss both of you! #mit7
Replying to @khellekson
Eek! Didn't mean it to come out that way.
Replying to @edmj and @scholarslab
Congratulations all around!
Replying to @hollykruse
I'm so sorry, Holly - how sad!
Replying to @jbj and @nmhouston
Ditto.
Replying to @sherah1918
Hey, congrats! So glad you'll get to keep working with @chnm.
Replying to @samplereality and @sherah1918
No, I'd definitely take mine over yours. We haven't gone back & forth every week, & we're both grownups about it.
Replying to @samplereality and @sherah1918
\(Literally\!\)
Replying to @samplereality and @sherah1918
There have been lots of hard parts, but I haven't had the sense of missing something that can't be repeated.
Now beginning "Archives and Cultural Memory" with @jasonrhody, among others. #mit7
@jasonrhody describing NEH-funded archival projects; power of/drawbacks to crowdsourced archiving initiatives. #mit7
Ah, the digital humanities/digital media question, but here applied to a changing cultural heritage. #mit7
Beginning his response, @jasonrhody notes that it's a Tupac/Biggie Smalls debate: east coast/west coast approaches to the digital. #mit7
Shoutout to @mkirschenbaum and new practices for working with digital archival materials of literary authors. #mit7
Replying to @samplereality and @jasonrhody
Seriously. Where's the Dirty South in this narrative?
I love a conference that provides lunch. Even if it did come with a napkin that I'd have found inadequate if I'd been told it was a Kleenex.
Replying to @mamamusings
Yay!
Replying to @mmwwah and @wynkenhimself
Christ. That was some crash!
Replying to @mmwwah
Good lord! What turned out to have happened? \(And have some gin, please\.\)
Replying to @mmwwah
Yeesh.
Slides done. Need beer. \(Phew\.\)
Koosel's argument that studying digital identity narratives is both the study of texts and of people has implications for ethics, IRB. #mit7
My session on "Publishing in Transition" is beginning in rm 325! #mit7
Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder from the Austrian Academy Corpus presenting completely awesome digital corpus interface. #mit7
Ooh, Austrian Academy Corpus produced in partnership with Anne Burdick. Should have recognized her work! #mit7 \(Was supposed to be me\!\)
Replying to @jasonrhody
You are way too kind. You left out the breathlessness in attempting to present 25 mins of material in 15. \(Didn't work\.\) #mit7
Replying to @mmmbanksy
Should have mentioned: Hocking plans to continue self-publishing some work alongside the press books. She's that prolific! #mit7
RT @jasonrhody: .@khellekson offers interesting insights based on diverse work experience w/ journals across scientific & humanities dis ...
Replying to @captain_primate
My understanding is no - Google is moving the doc sharing aspects to Docs and focusing Groups on discussion.
Replying to @captain_primate
Never mind.
Replying to @captain_primate
The doc sharing aspects were great, but I can see why they're refocusing in this upgrade.
Replying to @captain_primate
Indeed!
My presentation today was an early exploration of part of a potential new project. It's gotten me excited about it again. Thanks, #mit7!
Replying to @mmwwah
Nope! It was about the end of the publishing industry as we know it, via case studies of JFranz & Amanda Hocking.
Replying to @mmwwah
You got it!
Replying to @khellekson
Thanks so much! It was great being on the panel with you, too; I'll look forward to another opportunity to talk.
Replying to @CaseyBrienza and @khellekson
Me too. Another time!
Train approaching New York. #mit7 was fabulous, and I've had a productive ride home, but I am cross-eyed with exhaustion.
The neighborhood cellist I've been hearing all year is literally playing on the corner. How did I not know that?
Replying to @mlaconvention
I intend to! Ordering in and then climbing into bed with tv on the aypad.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Either streaming from netflicks or downloaded from aytunes or elsewhere...
Replying to @mlaconvention
The cello is mighty nice by itself, but may he'd like having someone sit in!
Replying to @mlaconvention
Yeah, that flutist needs a new venue. Not my corner, though. I assume the cellist is playing for tips, but I'm not sure.
Replying to @mlaconvention
Apparently it can be, at least to some extent, if you have Time-Warner.
After a really productive weekend, I feel as if I have a grip on my to do list. No one send me anything this week, okay?
Replying to @nancybaym
Ouch.
Replying to @nancybaym
Indeed!
Heading up to Fordham shortly to speak at their Faculty Technology Day. http://itactechday2011.eventbrite.com/
Replying to @cscannella
I'm not sure about mov specifically, but VLC for iPad handles most formats...
Replying to @redwards7
Will do! \(She's the one who suggested me for this gig\.\)
Hmmm. I inadvertently used one of the i-words and got no bot response. Wonder what that's about.
Come on, coffee, do your thing.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Oh, enormously so. Amazing what stress can do!
Replying to @jaysavage
Hey, it was great meeting you, too! You definitely had your hands full; I'm sure we'll get to talk more another time.
Replying to @mickimcgee
Thank you so much! I had a fabulous time, and was so happy to get the opportunity to talk with such great folks at Fordham!
Replying to @mickimcgee
Ha! I hope it helps. Sometimes it's nice to have somebody come in and be, um, blunt.
Replying to @mamamusings
Hang in there - I'm thinking about you!
Replying to @mmwwah
I like GoodReader over iAnnotate. I also use the heck out of PlainText. Also: Office2 HD, VLC, Read It Later \(or Instapaper\) +
Replying to @mmwwah
NYer, if you subscribe, ABC Player, PBS, NPR, AJE Live.
Replying to @mmwwah
Oh yeah, and: Flipboard, and I'm just now getting NYPL's Biblion.
Replying to @mmwwah
I was a solid Instapaper user until a pal convinced me to try Read It Later. The interface is definitely nicer but I'm not yet sold.
Replying to @mmwwah
al-Jazeera, definitely.
Replying to @briancroxall, @dancohen and @triproftri
This whole conversation is mostly making me realize that I AM OLDER THAN EVERYONE.
Replying to @briancroxall, @dancohen and @triproftri
Okay, if that was a Shangri-Las reference, I'M NOT THAT OLD.
Replying to @briancroxall, @dancohen and @triproftri
Oh, crud. But I'm less younger than that than I thought. Thanks, Google.
Replying to @briancroxall, @dancohen and @triproftri
Absolutely. Also, a friend posted a Eurythmics video on her FB page today, and I was shocked to realize+
Replying to @briancroxall, @dancohen and @triproftri
how utterly pop it feels today, when it was soooo edgy. Back in the day. When I was not quite cool.
How much do I love Hendrik Hertzberg's use of the term "man-on-woman marriage" in this week's New Yorker? A lot.
Word to the wise: you might want to wait until dinner's fully digested before attempting this week's NYer "Annals of Science" article.
Replying to @samplereality
Yep. And he is not kidding when he says it's unsettling.
Replying to @samplereality
Soylent Green! It's made out of human tissue grown in sheets in a lab and rolled into hamburger-like shapes!
Replying to @ayjay and @samplereality
For me it was the strips of goldfish flesh in a bath extracted from the blood of unborn cows. Who comes up with this?
Replying to @ayjay
**shiver**
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @samplereality and @ayjay
The argument is that we're going to need more meat in 20 years than we can grow naturally, so...
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @samplereality and @ayjay
But I feel like I need to run off and hide with some Michael Pollan.
Replying to @samplereality, @wynkenhimself and @ayjay
You'd think - but hey! Science!
Replying to @sheepeeh, @wynkenhimself, @samplereality and @ayjay
No, it's literally all about growing flesh in vitro.
Replying to @mamamusings
Sending good thoughts your way...
I want an auto-reply function for FB messages: "Dear Friend: Thank you for contacting me! If your message is personal, I'll reply when +
I'm on FB next. If your message is professional, please send it to one of my email addresses, which are easily discoverable on the web! +
Your Friend, kfitz." Why is this not currently possible?
Replying to @jmittell
That sounds about right. But why otherwise perfectly professional folks go along with that remains a mystery to me!
Replying to @amandafrench
NICE.
Replying to @mznewman
Gah. Infuriating.
Replying to @plragde
Of course. But I'd think that autoreply will be necessary if they really want to take over the messaging market.
Replying to @BGCDML
Sad but true.
Replying to @amandafrench
LOL, literally.
Replying to @d_kompare
Ha.
Replying to @BGCDML
Indeed. I've seen uses of it in which I want to say "no you did not. I'm quite sure of it."
RT @mediacommons: An update on the AAUP report, "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing." http://fb.me/10cw0svSI
Replying to @moncia
We very literally could not have done it without you!
Replying to @MLAconvention
That's nuts.
Replying to @alicedaer
Congratulations! What a doll.
RT @MLAnews: Still time to vote at mla.org on this resolution abt the DREAM Act: http://www.mla.org/11resolutioncomm01
Finally getting a handle on an article revision that's been languishing on my to-do list. The second-to-last major task of my sabbatical!
Oh, but figuring out how to revise something to deal with an issue that seemed to escape your understanding feels good.
The Intergalactic Modern Language Association Style Guide, 42nd Edition. http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2011/05/the-intergalactic-modern-language-association-style-guide-42nd-edition.html
Replying to @samplereality
If something about blogging is dead, it's only the term; the platform has become the core of internet-based publishing #cwcon
A-and there's the rain. I knew the weather was too good to last. #gettingsoggy
Replying to @emarsh
Enjoy it! It was gorgeous here earlier today, but we're now back to the rain we've been living with for about ten days.
Replying to @mamamusings
I will certainly hope so - we could use it!
It wasn't exactly the rapture, but it was a really really good sushi dinner.
Replying to @emarsh
Behold the power of suggestion!
Replying to @rgfeal
I went to Aki on your suggestion!
Replying to @rgfeal
Went for the early prix fixe. Quite nice! And definitely better than the end of the world.
Replying to @rgfeal
Fair enough!
Replying to @samplereality
No kidding. I'm glad he's all over the tweaks and fixes, but I kinda wish he'd save them up a bit.
Replying to @samplereality
PS: Nice use of "egads."
New post: Complexity http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/complexity/
Replying to @MoodyFred
The draft is up at the link in the blog post; not sure about the revised version yet.
Replying to @midwinter_
Oh, good grief. Well, all's well and all that, but sheesh.
New post: Enough http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/enough/
Replying to @jenterysayers
Congratulations!
Replying to @pmhswe
It's really hard to let go of the idea of running!
Replying to @rgfeal
Thanks, to you and @loriemerson!
Replying to @kdettmar
Little Rock? That's some itinerary.
Replying to @kdettmar
Gah! I'm so sorry. Hope you make it to an appropriate destination soon.
Replying to @nmhouston and @rgfeal
Oh, that would be nice...
Replying to @nmhouston and @rgfeal
Only problem I have with defining "enough" in advance is the "more than I can chew" phenomenon. Tend to set ridic goals.
Replying to @bukuwawa
While you're at it, could you make everyone stop using "relatable"?
Replying to @samplereality
This question is what laid the groundwork for MediaCommons; the change came when we decided we needed a network, not a press.
Replying to @nowviskie
Well, that's sort of good news, I guess. Take care of yourself!
Replying to @samplereality
Exactly.
Replying to @eymand and @samplereality
The issue for us was also valuing process and community over product.
Replying to @samplereality and @eymand
What I like to think of as maintaining reverse compatibility with an out-of-date but still in-use system \(i\.e\. T&P\).
Replying to @nowviskie and @samplereality
Indeed. It's much the same in fields in the US in which journal impact factor is the arbiter of publication value.
Revising is hard.
There is a very odd yellow radiance emanating from the sky. I do not know what to make of it.
Replying to @kimonizer
That *must* be it.
Replying to @mmwwah and @wynkenhimself
Sheesh, I was thinking I was immune. You mean to say that it just hasn't hit me yet?
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @mmwwah
No, lots of @ today, but no emails. I suspect they're rolling it out gradually. Awesome.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @mmwwah
The call... it's going to be coming from upstairs! At some really annoying moment in the near future!
Replying to @mmwwah and @wynkenhimself
Nope! There's no setting for it. Trust me, I tried.
Revision update: have marked all the spots where changes need to be made, with annotations describing the changes. Now the actual changing.
Replying to @cscannella
Hey, with that many wives and mistresses to buy for, credit is crucial!
Replying to @briancroxall
Happy birthday, Brian! Have a great one. \(But ditto @GeorgeOnline & @wynkenhimself: not sure where the last decade went\!\)
First 25% of article now sucks 31% less. Not quite enough, but getting there!
Replying to @samplereality
Cool! \(But it's the Office of Scholarly Communication\.\)
I am hugely flattered \(& not a little humbled\) by @samplereality's hopes for the MLA Office of Scholarly Communication. http://www.samplereality.com/2011/05/25/the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/
Replying to @leoba
Nice, thanks!
Replying to @dougreside
Interesting. Though of course it's really the @mkirschenbaum etymology, which in turn is the @unsworth etymology...
Replying to @parezcoydigo
It's a new "feature"! It's been fun watching the ripple effect as it hits people's accounts - mostly bc it hasn't hit me yet.
Replying to @parezcoydigo
100% agreed. Except for the cranky. But that's only because I remain spared; cranky will follow shortly, I suspect.
Replying to @mamamusings
Safe trip! It was great getting to see you here.
Have now revised 45% of article to be 63% better. \(There was a really bad patch in there\.\)
Replying to @kathiiberens and @samplereality
You people are going to make me blush. AGAIN.
Replying to @samplereality and @karikraus
I very much look forward to facilitating the peculiar!
Replying to @brettbobley
It's all about the metrics, man.
Replying to @johnmjones
And one really hopes that one goes the way of the "book in the bathtub" soon; it seems a pointless bit of safety theater.
Replying to @midwinter_
Absolutely! Word count: 8463. Words that don't suck: 6491.
Replying to @midwinter_
Love it. Go, engineer, go!
In a NISO/@internetarchive planning meeting on ebook bookmark and annotation standards at NYU today. #bkmk11
Replying to @cscannella
Is it a private tweet? It might be a good thing!
Replying to @cscannella
\(By which I mean from someone's private stream, not a DM\.\)
RT @moncia: Enjoying some of the lingo in a tech convo that's way over my head: "graceful degradation," "fail robustly." Concepts I can use.
Replying to @JenHoward
I know; bummer. At least I'll see you in Baltimore.
Replying to @JenHoward
Me too. But somehow appropriate that the two are happening at once on opposite sides of the DC corridor.
Replying to @wynkenhimself, @jenhoward and @amandafrench
Alas, I'll be on my way to California Sunday afternoon...
Replying to @triproftri
Congratulations!
Revision complete. Article now sucks 47% less. On to the next project!
Replying to @chutry
One of the most brilliant things about Chrome: opening a new window gives you links to recently closed items.
Replying to @rgfeal
Once a Sagehen...
Replying to @chutry
Bummer. That's one of the reasons I rely so heavily on tabs; I've accidentally closed windows w/15 tabs & have been able to recover.
Two! Two! Two major tasks crossed off the to-do list today!
OK, one last productivity brag for the day. Two major things crossed off the to-do list, and: In! Box! Zero! No one send me anything to do.
Replying to @cjprender
Is sad, but true. Alas, if you could see what my next three weeks look like...
Replying to @cjprender
Now, however, goofing off begins. Plus beer.
RT @ftrain: Oh Franzen oh Franzen oh no oh why. OH GOD FRANZEN NO STOP IT FRANZEN PLEASE FRANZEN...oh. Oh, god. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html
Replying to @msbonn
Maria!!! So amazingly glad to hear from you here! Sending you all my best wishes!
Replying to @rgfeal
Oh, dear. Not me. No, no. I would never.
I am attempting to take a day "off." I believe that's what people call it, at least.
Replying to @jwolman
As my grandfather used to say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Replying to @captain_primate
I know, right? I've heard people talking about it, but I'm not quite sure how it works. Will experiment and advise.
Replying to @rgfeal
I can only imagine that I would. But I think I'm going to lie around and read today. Have... fun?
Replying to @rgfeal
There should be all of the above! Enjoy!
Amen. //MT @stevenbjohnson: Nothing acclimates the mind more quickly to the idea of an all e-book future than packing your house for a move.
Replying to @mariabustillos
Okay wow. Chills.
Oh no. Aura.
And it appears to be another ocular migraine. Bizarro aura, no real headache, super loopy. Excuse to spend the evening in bed, I guess.
Replying to @midwinter_
This is only the second one I've gotten; all my previous auras were followed immediately by the headache. Weird.
Replying to @midwinter_
Good grief! Are you sure that's coming in from outside & not a busted pipe? \(Stupid question; I'm sure you're sure\.\)
Replying to @midwinter_
Oh, man. I hope it stops soon!
Replying to @mamamusings
Thanks for the link! And I'm definitely better today, despite a bit of a migraine hangover...
My MBAir has suddenly become unable to mount any .dmg file it downloads. This is becoming seriously inconvenient.
Have narrowed down the problem, but not in a good way. Downloaded the .dmg with the iMac, transferred to the MBAir, still can't open.
Replying to @midwinter_
I do, on CD/DVD. Which of course the MBAir does not possess. Will ponder a workaround.
Ugh, and software update has now failed. Begin to fear that the MBAir's SSD may be corrupted or worse.
SSD is indeed corrupted. This is the moment when the no-optical-drive thing becomes a liability.
I'm all for lifting the veil of secrecy on double-blind peer revew. But I believe this is a step in the wrong direction. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/31/american_economic_association_abandons_double_blind_journal_reviewing
That last tweet brought to you by my need to step back for a moment from my rapidly degenerating laptop situation.
WHY, oh why, do critical laptop problems always only creep up two days before a three week stint of total laptop dependency begins?
Replying to @BryanAlexander
It will certainly have a greater chance of boosting fairness than will giving one set of participants full knowledge [+]
Replying to @BryanAlexander
while keeping the other in the dark. The potential abuses of one-sided secrecy are far higher than double-blindedness.
Replying to @BryanAlexander
Interesting question. I'd be surprised if that were a viable argument. How would single-blind create savings?
Replying to @sgsinclair
This one's on about 3.2 years, so I've probably worn out its welcome.
Replying to @sgsinclair
\(Congrats on the fabulous new gig, btw\!\)
Replying to @mmwwah
Yeah, but the machine is 3.2 years old, so even the extended care of the apple will be of no use.
Replying to @mmwwah
And the most frustrating thing is that I only need it to live until July, when it will be supplanted by an employer-owned machine.
Updates: attempt to restart MBAir w/OS X Remote Install failed. Now attempting to restart from clone of desktop drive so I can repair SSD.
Replying to @BryanAlexander
I would not be terribly surprised to hear that as well.
Replying to @mmwwah
Yeah, me too. iPad will not suffice for three weeks, I fear.
Replying to @CatinStack
Huge news, and well-deserved congratulations!
Booting from clone worked. Running Disk Utility worked. Disk repairs claim to have worked. Now repairing permissions before trying reboot.
Replying to @acavender
Thank you!
PS: If this works, I encourage everyone to install Carbon Copy Cloner and make a donation to its developer, who will have saved my bacon.
Reboot successful. Now attempting the software updates that uncovered the problem in the first place.
Success. Not only is everything working like it's supposed to, but I seem to have recovered some speed that I'd lost of late.
Still somewhat afraid to breathe, though.
Replying to @tcarmody
No kidding. And all my backup paranoia now seems utterly justified.
Replying to @BryanAlexander and @jtheibault
I think the assumption is the other way - that reviewers will Google author identity. Less sure about the other.
Replying to @BryanAlexander and @jtheibault
Nonetheless, you know which way I vote on this.
Replying to @mmwwah
No, everything's working. I'm just in a bit of disbelief.
Replying to @nowviskie
Good lord.
Replying to @sivavaid
You could show up and say ANYTHING.
Replying to @nancybaym
Apparently there's a setting. But I'm mostly fascinated by the fact that that still hasn't happened to me!
Replying to @nancybaym
Okay, that's infuriating.
Sony pulled the trailer for Fincher's Girl w/Dragon Tattoo off YouTube based on a copyright claim. They do realize trailers are ads, right?
Replying to @mattthomas
It's down now, with the big "copyright claim" notice. Maybe they did both, in which case, bravo.
Replying to @surlyF
How the university can and should take responsibility for ensuring that scholarly communication has a \(non\-extortive\) future.
Replying to @surlyF
That's fabulous. I did mean the response seriously, though. If current sch comm practices are bankrupting uni libraries, unis must +
Replying to @surlyF
think seriously about new models, but those new models won't come without uni investment. I'm thinking of sch comm as a part of +
Replying to @surlyF
the university infrastructure as necessary as the library, the faculty, the buildings. How can universities take ownership?
Replying to @surlyF
Those are absolutely the *slightly* more than $64,000 questions, indeed.
Replying to @surlyF
Gives one chills.