2012 01 01 tweets
My entire apartment is vibrating. I can't wait to get up at 6 am and clomp around in heavy boots. \(PS: Happy New Year\.\)
Produced 5.5pp of my final preso today, 3.1pp of which are not bad. Miles to go, though; sometimes a long flight is a good thing! #mla12
Replying to @katinalynn
Fantastic post! Looking forward to seeing you in Seattle.
Replying to @triproftri and @rgfeal
Alas, no. We weren't able to integrate that feature in our first iteration; we'll put it on our list, though!
Replying to @jwolman
Interesting...
Replying to @sleonchnm
Thanks! It really helped me a lot just to be able to articulate the lostness...
Packed. Not exactly ready to go, but heading out before the crack of dawn anyhow. See you in Seattle, all. #mla12
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Aaaargh! Meant to replenish the biz card case today. That's thing # 2 I forgot, so I'm hoping that's it.
Replying to @briancroxall and @wynkenhimself
I have a few. I'll hope that just repeating "kfitz" enough covers it.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @briancroxall
Oh man. I have yet to have a convention encounter that worthwhile.
At EWR for flight to SEA. Charging devices; also, self. #coffee #mla12
Replying to @jmittell
Thanks, Jason - for the travel wishes and \(more importantly\) for taking the time to think through the issues on our behalf! #mla12
Replying to @jmittell
Yes! I would love to get you there.
Replying to @jmittell
Definitely!
Replying to @rgfeal
Ready to go!
On light rail in Seattle. On turning on the phone, was greeted by 5 txts and 50 emails. This is going to be an interesting few days! #mla12
I take it back. It's gmail - so it's 50 new email *threads*, not messages. #sigh
Replying to @samplereality
Heh. $2.75 to downtown. Very nice. Westlake stop is very near Sheraton/WSCC.
Oh, hey! It's 5pm, NYC time. Last time I ate was breakfast. No wonder I'm hungry!
Replying to @rgfeal
Wow, sounds fantastic!
Replying to @rgfeal
I'm in the Renaissance; a bit of a hike, but nice and quiet. Not that I'll be spending much time here!
If you run into me at #mla12 and I do the nametag scan it's not because I'm a snob. It's because I suck at remembering names out of context.
Okay, getting ready to brave the howling winds and walk down to the Sheraton… #mla12
The calm before the storm. #mla12
Replying to @MLAconvention and @briancroxall
Srsly! It's $2.75 and stops 2 blocks from the Sheraton.
Replying to @briancroxall
Excellent. You want the end of the line. Sending good suitcase vibes.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Yeah, I'm that kinda elite traveler.
Replying to @tmcphers
Thanks! I'm just sorry you're not with us again this year.
Replying to @tmcphers
Wait! You are! Not with the program yet, so to speak. :(
Replying to @tmcphers
When I checked in, the hotel said, we have you here for 5 nights. I said... if you say so. Them: Until Monday. Me: What's today?
Replying to @Ed_Raso
You know it.
Replying to @mkgold and @uminnpress
Congrats! Can't wait to see it in person.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
Oh, shoot. I guess I should probably not hang out here in my pajamas, then?
Replying to @samplereality
On the other hand: traveling across the country to hang out with your friends who talk abt literature is pretty much awesome.
Replying to @samplereality
RIGHT?
Replying to @samplereality
Okay, maybe not so much.
Replying to @samplereality
I hear that.
Replying to @johnmjones
Fantastic news!
Replying to @JenHoward
Better than "Goodnight Saigon," I guess.
Replying to @tmcphers
Trying to find that myself. Will tweet.
Replying to @amandafrench and @tmcphers
Nope! MLA2012. Case-sensitive.
RT @MLAconvention: Have a Flickr account? Post your convention photos and tag them mla12 to add them to our slideshow in the WSCC!
5 minutes to close my eyes. A little lunch for ballast. And then on to #s34 #mla12 The Future of Peer Review!
Hey, #mla12 folks: remember that you can add a session hashtag like #s34 to make the Twitter stream even more searchable.
Replying to @DanConnell
Came in late; standing at the back!
Replying to @ibogost
All liquids must be in containers of less than 100ml.
Replying to @briancroxall
There are power strips in many rooms around the blogging/tweeting tables.
+1 RT @surlyF: ALL faculty!! RT @rgfeal: Jaschik: humanities fac undercut own arguments when they don't know budgets & univ finances. #MLA12
Replying to @DanConnell
Thanks! Got a quick rest and am back at it. Will look forward to crossing paths again. #mla12
Replying to @rgfeal, @nowviskie and @surlyf
Very sorry I missed @scottjaschik. Great discussion, however, and thanks for the tweets! #mla12 #s43
Sid Smith kicking of the Future of Higher Education session with 4 macro narratives of higher education's future. #mla12 #69
Replying to @eetempleton
Fingers crossed for you!
SIdonie Smith's 5-point action plan for a sustainable humanities is powerful, visionary: transformation, not transition. #mla12 #s69
RT @amandafrench: 5-point plan: 1) transform doctoral education, 2) form new ethics and praxis of schol communication 3) open access #mla12
RT @amandafrench: Smith: 4) reconceptualize our ecology toward collaboration 5) update our narrative of the humanities. #mla12
Replying to @amandafrench and @jasonrhody
How did the two of you get in the room and not say hi to me? Hmph. #mla12
Replying to @jasonrhody and @amandafrench
No kidding! Okay, continue holding up the wall, but you're not allowed to leave w/o saying hi. #mla12
Replying to @eetempleton
Woo!
Replying to @foundhistory
I can't speak for Chicago, but Seattle is definitely bummed you're not here, too. #mla12
Replying to @brettbobley
Oh, you know. Sat around. #mla12 #aha2012
RT @MLAconvention: Got #mla12 photos? Add an mla12 tag on Flickr and see them in the reg area of the WSCC.
Okay, so the Fairmont is pretty fancy. #mla12
Replying to @johnmjones
There's a pretty good helping of schmancy in with the fancy.
.@mlatweetup! Tweeps, if you're in the Sheraton, bring your badge to the 35th floor and come say hi! #mla12
Meeting 1 down already. Upcoming: meeting, presentation, session, media interview, presentation, meeting, pres address, reception. #mla12
Really excited about all of it, especially the presidential forum at 10.15 and the presidential address at 6.30! #mla12
Replying to @dougreside
My Sunday am talk is on open access. Will def include then.
Replying to @johnmjones
Is all I'm saying.
Hey #mla12 tweeps: you guys rock. Thanks so much for the great reception!
Replying to @MichaelBerube1
I know, right?!
RT @MLAconvention: Check out recommendations for #mla12 sessions, food, etc. at http://www.mla.org/yourconvention and comment with your link.
.@tanyaclement Happy birthday, Ms. T! I hope it's a great one.
Replying to @edwardoneill
No, meaning it's not the *only* important form. #mla12
Replying to @edwardoneill
That's a big part of the argument of this panel: that there is a much wider range of modes of scholarship than the monograph +
Replying to @edwardoneill
so why not a much wider range of forms of the dissertation? Other forms might better represent 21st c competencies.
Replying to @jcmeloni
heh.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Hmmm. Good question! :)
At the presidential address. Come celebrate the fantastic presidency of Russell Berman in Metropolitan A. #mla12
Pres. Berman: foreign language programs receive 0.1% of the Dept of Education's discretionary budget. #mla12
Replying to @rgfeal and @katinalynn
Absolutely! So glad to have you join us.
RT @MLAconvention: Hey, #MLA12 peeps! Stop in Metropolitan B at Sheraton til 9:15 for free drink to honor Pres Berman! @mlatweetup
Replying to @edwardoneill
But we weren't talking about eliminating it! We were talking about opening up multiple paths.
Replying to @dancohen
You guys should look into some kind of pneumatic tube arrangement.
Replying to @edwardoneill
Sigh. We were not being prescriptive. We were arguing for opening up a discussion about possibilities.
RT @MLAconvention: 25% off all titles in the MLA exhibit booth today and tomorrow! This special discount is only available during the co ...
Replying to @tmcphers and @rgfeal
So great seeing you; thanks for all the tweets! #mla12
It's not entirely true that libraries lose access to dig jrnls when subscr end. Agreements now include right of perpetual access. #MLA MLA
Replying to @BendProf
Not anymore - was a problem, but is being addressed. See Pl Obs chapter 4! #mla12
It's not entirely true that libraries lose access to dig jrnls when subscr end. Agreements now include right of perpetual access. #mla12
Replying to @RepoRat
No, of course. But was countering a "libraries lose everything!" comment.
RT @S_moores: #s539 #mla12 @briancroxall #alt-ac cannot be short for contracted labor. Must be an avenue for thinking about career path ...
Thanks, Shana! // RT @elotroalex: @shanakimball sends a shoutout to @kfitz : "Planned Obsolescence should be required reading." #s539 #mla12
At the MLA Awards Ceremony, hearing the award for lifetime scholarly achievement presented to Fredric Jameson. #mla12
"Our business is not to know, in the philosophers' sense, but to see what it is that we can tell." --Fredric Jameson #mla12
Replying to @jbj, @tcarmody and @samplereality
Is the doxa in question the proper viewing order? There is but one.
Replying to @jbj, @tcarmody and @samplereality
Hmph. I watch 'em, but like my whiskey, can only take 'em unadulterated.
Replying to @tcarmody and @jmittell
March 21-25. Boston. Be there.
RT @MLAconvention: Good morning #MLA12 on last day! Please, everyone go to sessions and support Sunday presenters!
(As one of those Sunday presenters, it would be nice to have some of you there!0 #s674 #mla12
Getting ready to talk abt "Giving It Away: Sharing & the Future of Scholarly Comm" in Sheraton Willow A at 10.15. Come join me! #s674 #mla12
Replying to @wynkenhimself
YAY!
Replying to @academicdave
I quote you in the paper. Sorry you're not here for it! \(I'll be posting it in the next few days, though\.\)
Replying to @academicdave
The quote I'm using is from a comment you left on PO: "Knowledge which is not public is not knowledge."
Sadly, I will not be live tweeting my talk, but perhaps @wynkenhimself might! #s674 #mla12
RT @MLAconvention: Hi, @russellbermanSF!! Last day of #MLA presidency, first day on Twitter! #MLA12AtHome
Replying to @pmhswe
Thank you! It was such an engaged discussion - I was thrilled to get to be part of it. Great to see you! #s674 #mla12
Replying to @nmhouston and @rgfeal
So glad you were here, and sorry I never got to say hi! I'm glad you had a great #mla12.
Replying to @briancroxall and @nyupress
Thanks so much - the support is really appreciated! #mla12
Replying to @mkgold
Wow; that's awesome! Thanks, Matt!
RT @mkgold: I bought a copy of Planned Obsolescence for my Provost. He read it & we had 30 min convo about changing nature of scholarly comm
My first #MLA as a member of the staff was exhausting and wonderful, and I'm sad to see it end! Thanks to all of you for making it so great.
Replying to @ncecire
I know - just not enough time. I hope your convention was fantastic, and that there's more fantastic from here.
Replying to @eetempleton
GAH!
An aside: #mla12. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/mla12/
Scott Jaschik of IHE covers the new dissertation possibilities discussed at #mla12. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/09/mla-considers-radical-changes-dissertation
DH and Comp/Rhet: What We Share and What We Miss When We Share by @mkgold \(via @ReadItLater\) http://mkgold.net/blog/2012/01/07/dh-and-comprhet-what-we-share-and-what-we-miss-when-we-share/
Replying to @jwolman
I know, right?! It's taken all the discipline I have to keep this whole academic discourse thing front and center.
Replying to @jasonrhody and @rgfeal
Thank *you*! It was great having you there, contributing in so many ways. Safe travels. #mla12
Replying to @DanConnell
Excellent! I'll look forward to it, too - and to more chats online in the interim. #mla12 #mla13
Replying to @ryancordell
Thank *you* for making #mla12 so awesome with the DHCommons workshop. Looking forward to #mla13! @rgfeal
Replying to @pfyfe
It was great meeting you, too, if so hurriedly. I hope we'll get to talk longer next time! #mla12
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Dude. Thank *you*. Looking forward to our next venture! @rgfeal #mla12
Replying to @fraistat
I've actually got one Thursday and Friday! Just doing one little Ignite talk; that's sort of a hair of the dog, I think.
Replying to @sivavaid
Oh you did NOT.
Replying to @brendabethman and @rgfeal
Yes, next time, definitely! #mla13
Whoa. RT @perrycollins: DH follow-up piece from Stanley Fish, drawing on @kfitz @mkirschenbaum @samplereality & others. http://nyti.ms/wJpd6e
Replying to @RepoRat
A little of both, I suspect.
I am not entirely sure that I see that "long-form scholarship… needs the interdependent notions of author, text, and originality." +
I do, however, see that traditional scholars believe that it does. -
Replying to @tcarmody
That would be my reading, too. Unless long-form scholarship doesn't circulate in interpretive communities.
Replying to @rgfeal
It was, quite. I also liked "after the fall."
Replying to @rgfeal
Happily, the paychex are a teeny bit larger.
RT @Ted_Underwood: Okay. Fish gets an extra five points for referring to a fictional version of himself *in* a post on the instability o ...
Replying to @bukuwawa
Oh yeah.
Had they asked, I might have noted a big difference between LOL and their/there, but a nice interview nonetheless. http://mynorthwest.com/11/606724/Modern-Language-Association-doesnt-mind-your-LOLs-BRBs
The MLA: we're not just persnickety grammarians!
Trying out this "blog" thing \(and posting the text of my Presidential Forum address from \#mla12\): Networking the Field. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/networking-the-field/
Replying to @miriamkp
It is! And will therefore not be around for long.
RT @samplereality: A full professor cites an assistant professor's comment on a graduate student's blog. Fish, you just illustrated the ...
Replying to @ernestopriego
It doesn't seem to me; might have gotten overloaded for a second...
Replying to @RepoRat
Yay! Day-making makes my day.
Replying to @kfitz
Hi @edwardwhitley! And thanks for the ping, @triproftri.
Replying to @ernestopriego
Hooray!
Replying to @redwards7
I hear that.
My response to S.Fish. Up at Planned Obsolescence and at the NYT once it's moderated through: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/response-to-stanley-fish/
Replying to @JustinRaczak
To the comment on the NYT site? It's not up there yet. But the article is at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/the-digital-humanities-and-the-transcending-of-mortality
Replying to @ayjay
Very interesting. If criticism is a social practice, practicing it socially would seem to be in keeping.
Replying to @ayjay
Will ponder further. Thanks for the thoughts!
Replying to @bigjondaniel and @therefore
Exactly, which is why I went for reverse. Less openly pejorative, at least.
My comment is now up on the NYT site. 58 total so far, including some really thoughtful digital scholars!
Replying to @rgfeal
Here's the link to my comment: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/the-digital-humanities-and-the-transcending-of-mortality/?comments#permid=51 // See also Tracy Mitrano above and Alex Juhasz below.
Replying to @annejonas
Thanks so much!
RT @kathiiberens: In his promised next post, I'd like to see Fish engage @sramsay's Reading Machines as thoroughly as he did @kfitz's Pl ...
RT @sramsay: In fact, Reading Machines really started as a way of asking, "What would text analysis look like if it made Fish happy?"
Replying to @sramsay
I'll buy!
Replying to @katinalynn
Thanks!
Replying to @Brian_Thill
Thank you!
Replying to @academicdave
Hey, what timing!
Replying to @DanConnell
Amazon.co.uk apparently has it!
Replying to @pannapacker
Heh.
Boy, New York Times commenters, huh? #fillintherestyourself
Replying to @jwolman
Ha!
Replying to @cscannella
True dat. My favorite ones, though, are the ones who say my argument is idiotic based on the rendering in the column.
Replying to @cscannella
I mean, "blog."
Replying to @cscannella
Eh, only because I know that responding would be stupid. And yet… the urge… to correct… is so strong…
Replying to @joncgoodwin
I wouldn't have called it a *gripe.* Just the usual. They're mostly really thoughtful and then there's total insanity mixed in.
Replying to @DrGnosis
I'm guessing your hacker did the trick?
RT @foundhistory: Good perspective on Stanley Fish / @kfitz dialog from @swarthmoreburke: "The Author Is Human" http://bit.ly/x5pBet // Yes.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Is exactly what I'm saying.
Replying to @amandafrench and @georgeonline
I don't know why you digital humanists have to be so black and white about everything.
Replying to @sramsay
I resemble that remark.
Replying to @miriamkp
Srsly.
RT @ernestopriego: I've translated "Networking the Field" by @kfitz into Spanish for the @Red_HD blog http://bit.ly/xvjxT0 #MLA12
Replying to @ernestopriego
My pleasure, of course; thank you for the translation and for getting the talk to a whole new audience!
Replying to @ernestopriego
I will dust off the mimeograph machine, and we can drop copies from helicopters over university campuses.
Replying to @samplereality
Solipsist.
Replying to @candrews
32? Youngster! May your dentistry go smoothly and the rest of the year improve from there. Happy birthday!
Replying to @nowviskie, @briancroxall and @samplereality
I haven't named mine yet. I'm sure it feels adrift.
Replying to @halavais
Diamond Age.
Replying to @halavais and @icm601
Heh. There is no SF object I want more than that book.
Replying to @halavais
Hey, thanks. It's been a weird couple of days, needless to say.
Replying to @dhnow
I'll add my first talk to the mix, with a second to follow tomorrow sometime. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/networking-the-field/
Replying to @lizlosh and @michaelberube1
I'm pretty fired up about it myself. He once snarked the LSU basketball team into beating Duke!
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @mitpress
Hey, nice! Congrats!
Replying to @MichaelBerube1 and @lizlosh
This, alas, is the story of my fandom. Can't get past the 50 unless they're the underdogs.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Hey, good luck with that, you theologico-activist, you.
My last talk from #mla12, Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication. Feedback greatly desired! http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/giving-it-away/
Replying to @RepoRat
The theme is called Chunk, and it uses a typeface called Oswald. I'm fond of it!
Replying to @dancohen
Thank you!
Replying to @RepoRat
Yay!!!
w00t indeed! // RT @nancybaym: Did I mention that I've taken an amazing new job? MAJOR LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT! http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/big-announcement-im-joining-microsoft-research/ wOOt!!!
RT @MSNewEngland: New Post: @MSFTResearch Raises the Bar in Social Media Research with @zephoria, @nancybaym, @katecrawford, @marylgray ...
RT @nowviskie: Graduate ed: my argument for a strategic extinction event appears in the @chronicle's @ProfHacker blog: http://is.gd/U76fla
Replying to @dhnow
Thank YOU!
Excellent stuff. // RT @jmittell: An idea for open access self-declaration http://wp.me/p3JAa-ek
Replying to @samplereality and @nmhouston
It would be awesome if everyone would also add annotations to the program with the URLs of their papers.
Replying to @tanyaclement
Excellent; thanks!
Replying to @katecrawford
YAY indeed! Looking forward to having you semi-nearby.
RT @katinalynn: My post-#mla12 thoughts on #altac, cultural change, and the humanities community: http://wp.me/p1LGvP-4i #alt-ac // Fantastic!
Anil Dash: the worst problem presented by Facebook is not that it's invading our privacy, but that it's invading our publicity. #scs12
Replying to @maximolly
It's pretty awesome. \(Hi from across the room, btw\.\)
Replying to @samplereality
Woo hoo!
Replying to @melissaterras
Looks fantastic; congrats!
The good news is that I'm in better shape than I thought. The bad news is I found out by running the length of Penn Station. \(I made it\.\)
Unplanned running produces the tiniest bit of exercise-induced asthma, though. #cough
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Yay, insofar as I don't have to sit in PennSta for an hour waiting for the next train \(& arrive in NJ to annoyed relatives\).
RT @zeldman: Ding dong, SOPA is dead. http://is.gd/W4fZic
I managed to put off the hard drive reformat and reinstall, but it appears that today's the day. Wish me luck.
Replying to @rgfeal
Many thanks! It would go a lot more smoothly if the bootable Lion disc I created were actually able to, say, boot.
Replying to @jbj and @rgfeal
SIGH.
Replying to @rgfeal
Well, if slowly. Hard drive reformatted; system reinstalled. Gradually reinstalling applications & restoring data. +
Replying to @rgfeal
Things feel a good bit zippier. So far, so good.
Replying to @ddchamberlain
I've got a couple of these I'm awfully fond of: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QEBMB4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=plannedobsole-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002QEBMB4
RT @mediacommons: MediaCommons will go dark 1/18/12, in protest against SOPA/PIPA. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/blog/2012/01/17/mediacommons-will-go-dark-11812
Heading to the Apple education event. Will be posting from there.
Sitting at the Apple Education event with CHE's @jryoung. Here on behalf of @ProfHacker; posting to follow!
A little Adele to start things up here. Awesome -- but "We almost had it all?"
Lights dimming in the Guggenheim auditorium as Adele wraps up.
Phil Schiller on stage to begin. "Education is deep in our DNA, and it has been from the very beginning." #appleed
Emphasis so far appears to be K-12: challenges facing HS students.
Video: challenges faced by teachers and administrators.
"There's a one-size-fits-all mentality about how kids learn." -from teacher in Apple video.
"We just need a reset. We need to find out what's wrong and find out how to fix it." -teacher from Apple video
Schiller back up: how Apple can help is in student engagement, inspiring kids to want to learn.
Schiller: iPad #1 on teen wish lists at Christmas this year. The iPad's many virtues include 20K+ ed/learning apps.
Replying to @briancroxall
Oh yeah.
Schiller: iBooks Store has many books that are great for the curriculum, too. 1.5 million iPads in use in education. We want to accelerate.
Schiller: two initiatives today. First: reinventing textbooks.
Schiller: we love books; they'll always be with us - but the textbook is not always the ideal learning tool.
Schiller: book features! Portable? \(Until you have to carry 4\-5\.\) Durable? Interactive? Searchable? Current? No. Content is great, though.
Schiller: iPad, interestingly, is portable, durable, interactive, searchable, current -- but can we get great content?
Schiller: iBooks 2: new textbook experience for the iPad.
Schiller introduces Roger Rosner to demo iBooks 2.
Rosner shows Biology textbook; opens with slick movie. Moves past to table of contents.
Text has nice layouts, embedded videos, pinch-and-zoom drilling in. Pretty awesome visualizations, 3D models.
Rosner: authors have total freedom in laying out text and graphics. \(KF: One assumes that the authoring tool that allows this is to follow\.\)
Rotation from landscape to portrait re-lays out the book in scrolling text form w/sidebar; two completely different reading experiences.
Rosner: this just scratches surface of iBooks 2; embedded glossaries; linked index \(KF: YAY\); searching.
Can embed not just an image but a gallery of images, scrollable within page. First thing that gets audience applause.
Interactive reviews including quizzes with different kinds of questions; immediate feedback.
Other study tools: highlighting and note taking. Notes appear as marginal post-its; slightly hard to tap on, it appears?
All notes and highlights for text visible in one place; notes and highlights also turn into study cards - glossary terms, too.
Replying to @mscecire
Oddly, no!
How do we get these awesome textbooks? iBooks Store: new categories view includes textbooks category.
New iBooks store includes screenshots. 1-click purchasing. Books are owned forever; can be re-downloaded as needed.
Schiller back up, reviewing what we've just heard. iBooks 2 available today from the App Store. Now what does it take to create these books?
iBooks Author!
iBooks Author, Mac application, feature-rich authoring tool for creation of any kind of book, but amazing textbook authoring experience.
Rosner back up to demo iBooks Author. Template chooser. Layout looks very much like Keynote.
Sidebar shows special sections like TOC, glossary, intro movie; pages of book as thumbnails below.
Replying to @amichetti and @savasavasava
Singular; tied to an Apple account, as all things in the iStuff ecosystem.
Replying to @briancroxall
Hey, he said today, not now!
Adding content to book is drag-and-drop; slick automatic text layout, but manipulable, too.
Text reflows smoothly as new media objects are dragged in, moved, resized.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we combined Keynote and iBooks?"
Keynote presentations drag-and-droppable into books.
OS X Dashcode widgets embeddable in books as well.
Replying to @synch101
Smooth text flow. Reflowable with new objects.
Replying to @synch101
It's pretty slick.
Shows how authoring tool manages landscape and portrait views.
"Publish" button allows text to be directly published to iBooks store. Can preview on desktop, iPad, etc.
Rosner deploys iBook he manipulated in front of us directly to his iPad; shows in real time. Pretty impressive.
Schiller back up, reviewing iBooks Author features.
"Most fun interactive authoring tool ever created."
Here comes the price.
iBooks Author: FREE.
Want to get it into everyone's hands. Availble on Mac App store today.
Where to find examples of these books? In iBooks textbooks category. Wanted to get started early: HS textbooks available, $14.99 or less.
Replying to @briancroxall
DUDE. *Today* isn't over yet.
HS textbooks, $14.99 or less, always up to date, students get own copy, can be purchased with school-issued redemption costs. \(Hmmm\.\)
Here's the Pearson partnership.
Also McGraw-Hill and… Houghton-Mifflin? I think? Typing too slowly.
Pearson's Biology & Environmental Science texts will be available today. \(Not \*now\*, @briancroxall\.\)
Replying to @cjprender
Haven't seen that yet, but it should technically be possible.
Yes, third partner was Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Also working with DK Publishing.
Examples of DK books for younger kids.
E. O. WIlson Biodiversity Foundation.
E.O. WIlson project to reinvent biology textbook, coming exclusively from iBooks: Life on Earth. 1st two chapters available today for free.
Schiller: we couldn't help ourselves; we made a video.
Video: teachers on why they teach. How they engage students.
Teachers: textbooks static, outdated, expensive, heavy.
"There is no reason today to assume that students have to use the same tools as 1950. To do so is to prepare them for a world already past."
Video demo of textbooks: fast, fluid navigation, interactive objects, note taking, etc.
"It's all automatically organized for you, so you don't have to think about it." \(\!\!\!\)
Replying to @amandafrench
That was about student notes in iBooks. Sigh.
Marjorie Scardino in video: need to engage students in the world they actually live in.
Superintendent of LA Unified School District: interactive textbooks will create huge leaps in what's possible for students.
LAUSD superintendent: will also reignite passion for teaching.
Amazing faces of students close video.
Wait: that was only thing #1. Here's thing #2!
"We're going to help teachers reinvent the curriculum." iTunes U.
700 million downloads from iTunes U in 4 years since launch.
Apologies: I missed the introduction of the current speaker while I was typing. :(
All new iTunes U today: dedicated app; bookshelf model like iBooks.
Now Jeff Robin up to demo iTunes U app.
Courses organized in one place; new complete online courses. Duke U course being taught now, "Core Concepts in Chemistry."
Outline for course gives complete syllabus; can be customized with stuff like office hours.
Assignments posted in class; iTunes U gets notification.
Notebook layout for classes; info, posts, materials, area to take notes.
Class materials can include audio, video, books, documents, apps \("can be bought right here"\), etc.
Previous speaker whose name I missed back up to summarize iTunes U features.
Unis and colleges around the world already using old iTunes U; six have had access to new iTunes U, created 100+ online courses, all free.
Has not been available for K-12 to this point; can now sign up.
iTunes U available free, today. \(Sometime\.\)
Back to Phil. "Apple exists at the intersection between liberal arts and technology."
Great image of kids in front of Apple II; Apple's longstanding interest in education. Kids Can't Wait & other early projects.
Wrap up: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, iTunes U.
Schiller: All of us at Apple know that you can empower people through learning, and technology has a role to play in doing that.
That's it from the announcement. Stuff available to play with upstairs.
Downloading iBooks Author from the Mac App Store, @briancroxall.
iBooks 2 also just appeared in updates.
Replying to @LibSkrat
Haven't gotten an answer on that yet - hoping it's clean ePub, but not optimistic.
Replying to @jvinopal
Nope. It's a proprietary format, though you can export to PDF. \(sigh\) Hoping that will open up, but unlikely in the near term.
RT @ProfHacker: @kfitz reports from Apple's Education Event, reflecting on missed chances to open up "the textbook": http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/reflections-on-the-apple-education-event/37998
Replying to @writerswriting
Thanks!
Replying to @jvinopal and @paregorios
Actually, there currently is an export to PDF option \(though it of course flattens the pages\).
Replying to @jvinopal and @paregorios
What I'm hoping for is an eventual expansion in export options beyond the PDF.
Replying to @brettbobley
Yes! When they were showing how text auto-reflowed around images… it was absolutely the Sophie demo.
RT @amandafrench: A little bird tells me that @kfitz is just about to guest with @acedtect on Tech News Today. Watching live now at http ...
Replying to @sleonchnm
Phew. Thanks!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
You are NOT kidding.
Replying to @amandafrench
Thanks so much - and thanks for hooking me up!
Replying to @mkgold
Aw, you're the best.
Replying to @amyjelias
Thanks, Amy!
Replying to @dancohen
Live @kfitz is more interactive & therefore more engaging! Also, she is standing on the corner of technology and the liberal arts.
Replying to @audreywatters
I think I saw you at a distance while standing in line, but things got too crazy once we got in to find anybody. Next time!
Replying to @dancohen
Looking forward to it!
Replying to @brettbobley
Hey, speaking of: I've got four months to invent either cloning or teleportation. Is one more fundable than the other?
Replying to @amandafrench and @brettbobley
Exactly! Spin off a copy and send it to that meeting in another city while you get things done.
Replying to @drkassorla and @brettbobley
Nice reasoning, and a solid application with direct benefits for the humanities!
Replying to @brettbobley
Cool. I'll hope to have a functioning prototype on or before mid-June. Cross your fingers for me.
Replying to @veek
You know it.
Serious goals for this weekend, man: must write one blog post and must finish one review article. Must must must. How about you?
Replying to @anneperez
Ooh, I hear that. That review essay is embarrassingly overdue; time slipped right outta control.
Replying to @buridan
Go go go.
Replying to @pmhswe
Excellent. We can egg each other on!
Replying to @literarychica
Go, go, go! I hope it works!
Replying to @readywriting
Sounds like a great weekend!
Replying to @literarychica
That's the crucial step. I've been fighting this review essay for eons, sort of knowing what I want to say, but not really...
Replying to @readywriting
Thanks!
Replying to @literarychica
Exactly what I need to do. And will do!
Replying to @veek
Wow! My review article… now seems a bit piddly by comparison. Good wishes for an easy delivery!
Replying to @tcarmody
And that's the first two chapters.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Yay so far! And good wishes for the rest.
Dear Amtrak, it's awesome that there's wi-fi in all Northeast Corridor trains. Even more awesome would be if it actually worked. Love, kfitz
Dear Amtrak, crazy as it sounds, when I say "working wi-fi," I actually mean working for longer than three minutes at a stretch. Love, kfitz
Replying to @dancohen
Once, yeah. Then 10 minutes of trying to get an IP address again. So glad I left that Google doc to work on on the train.
Replying to @sheepeeh
I hear that. The time may have come to jailbreak again so I can.
Replying to @Amtrak
I can connect to the wireless network but have trouble getting an IP address, and when I manage to it drops after a minute or so.
Replying to @samplereality and @dancohen
Had a brief chat with him about it yesterday. His take then was that they'd rebuilt Sophie in a glossy way, but +
Replying to @samplereality and @dancohen
ignored all the things that made Sophie interesting \(discussion, timeline, etc\).
Hello, DC!
Replying to @sheepeeh
Very briefly; hopping in a car and headed to the Delaware shore.
Replying to @Notarealdoctor1
The incredible slowness of AT&T is preventing my enjoyment of your joke. Harrumph.
Replying to @rgfeal
That was @jcmeloni. She may have advice.
Replying to @jeffreyjcohen
Missed this yesterday! I was just passing through, alas. No red carpet, but at least I was able to move on before the snow.
Replying to @jeffreyjcohen
Will do! Just leave Joan and Melissa wherever they are, okay?
Replying to @veek
Hey, thanks! So no small human yet, I suppose? I will look forward to pictures once the new arrival has arrived.
Replying to @veek
Yay! Sending lots of good energy northward.
Replying to @savasavasava
You might try Image Capture, which should be on your Mac, too. It's often more reliable than iPhoto...
Replying to @savasavasava
Rats.
Reporting on the weekend goals: wrote the blog post \(but needs revising\); made headway on the article \(more to go but on the way\).
Rewarding myself with some novel reading on the train home.
Replying to @literarychica
That's something! I'm working very hard on focusing on progress and letting that be enough.
Replying to @academicdave
What I would say is "how long could it be before someone writes a script to strip the proprietary metadata from the file?"
Replying to @academicdave
Undoubtedly, if it leaves traces. But if the script can scrub a file down to the ePub...
Replying to @academicdave
Not that I would condone such a thing...
Replying to @academicdave
I'm actually not seeing that; everyone I've been reading is critical. To what academics do you refer?
Replying to @academicdave
Cool; I'll be on the lookout for it!
@MLAconvention @literarychica You just can't get enough, can you?
Replying to @paleofuture
For the longest time, I honestly thought it was. It still makes far more sense to me that way.
Replying to @dancohen
Crazily enough, it's not signing away your rights; it's agreeing you never had any rights in the first place. #nuts
Replying to @footnotesrising and @dancohen
I'm pretty sure. Because they're not "your" words.
Replying to @audreywatters and @dancohen
Indeed - and to help authors exercise those rights.
Replying to @jwolman
I'm about 1/3 into ADWD. And it's a serious slog. Have been reading these books since August. NEED TO BE DONE ALREADY.
Replying to @jwolman
Indeed. I love world-builders, but I want to say to him: You have built world. Now stage narrative in it!
Replying to @jwolman
I know. It's nuts. Ostensibly 4 & 5 were written together but then got separated by geography? Or so he says. MAKES NO SENSE.
Replying to @jwolman
I begin to sympathize with the folks saying he better not die before this is done.
Replying to @jwolman
You too!
RT @RussellBermanSF: i'd appreciate suggestions for readings on literacy in the age of tablets and other devices--expanded literacy? dif ...
You remember that fancy new Google toolbar thing they announced a while back? It appeared for me this morning - and then disappeared again.
Replying to @trentmkays
Yeah, I'm not sure what I think of it at all.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
The one that sort of combines the functions of the ugly black bar across the top with the wider gray bar just below it.
Replying to @trentmkays
I feel much the same, but I wish the black bar weren't black \(gray maybe\) & I did like the merger of the top two bars into one.
Replying to @captain_primate
I went to high school with a kid named Bill William Williams. \(The Third\. I shit you not\.\)
Replying to @miriamkp and @bgcdml
Yay! See you both there. #SCMS12
Replying to @jmcclurken and @sramsay
I'm just happy not to be alone over here in the DH School of Theology. But messianism definitely does me one better.
Replying to @sramsay
Love. It.
Replying to @mkgold and @sramsay
Shockingly, that was only #mla11, one short year ago. But a year in messianic time is an eternity, and vice versa.
A lovely post exploring the "rebirth of the author" in part 2 of Fish's DH treatise: http://katherinegroo.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-rebirth-of-the-author/
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Sad, innit?
Replying to @jwolman, @reader2k and @googlereader
Woo!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I crave a stylish fleece-and-elastic business suit. And fuzzy dress shoes. Is that too much to ask?
Replying to @samplereality
"Why, no. No, it takes me *forever* to pick up the simplest concepts."
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Oh, pockets are key. And possibly a hood, for those times when you need to block out distractions.
Replying to @cjprender and @wynkenhimself
Well, sure!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @cjprender
I think I may be joining you. It's the ideal compromise.
Replying to @academicdave
Cool!
Nice: the Apple iBooks Author EULA may be unenforceable: http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2012/01/articles/attorney/trademark-copyright-infringement/apple-ibooks-author/
Replying to @amyjelias
I am? I'm not spotting it...
Replying to @amyjelias
Aha! That one I did see. I'm very excited about the call.
Today I am accomplishing ALL THE THINGS.
Replying to @LibSkrat
I may feel differently by 5pm. But right now, GO ME.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I very much appreciate the clear path.
Replying to @mrmauritzen
Oh, much. But probably just as sustainable.
Replying to @phdaisy
Sinus infections do that to me. I hope you feel better soon!
I have just managed to complete a task that was due something just shy of a year ago. The sense of accomplishment! #sigh
Replying to @nancybaym
At least I no longer have to duck when I check my email. With respect to *that* task, at least.
Replying to @nancybaym
If that's the case, I want that new life, too.
Replying to @sherah1918
Yippee!
Replying to @iamdan
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to watch this yesterday; it's very cool. Thank you!
RT @iamdan: @kfitz You might get a kick out of this response to Stanley Fish's response to your work: http://vimeo.com/35552232
Replying to @rgfeal, @foundhistory, @dancohen and @chnm
What I want to know is whether my name is up there in red or black.
Replying to @benwbrum
Whoa. It's like bizarro world @kfitz.
Replying to @dancohen
Wasn't it a "red ball"?
Replying to @dancohen
Aw, man. Did the NEH open an Office of Pizza and the Humanities? I miss all the good announcements.
RT @MLAnews: The #MLA opposes the #RWA: http://www.mla.org/ec_opp_rwa
Just got the January PMLA. First article? Daniel Shore, "Why Milton Is Not an Iconoclast." Seems a recurrent theme, the last few weeks.
RT @MLAnews: MLA President Michael Bérubé's letter opposing the Research Works Act now on the MLA Web site: http://www.mla.org/ec_opp_rwa
Replying to @veek
Wow! Go, Vika!!! Sending you all good thoughts and looking forward to seeing the new tiny human.
RT @CopyrightLibn: Academic publishing is full of problems. Let's get them right. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/2012/01/factcheckingtheatlantic.html (Hint: JSTOR is not the Big Bad h ...
Replying to @briancroxall
Hey, awesome!
Replying to @johnmjones
iBooks's fake book thing can be turned off; there's a "full page" toggle.
Replying to @iamdan
Indeed! Thanks for the great model.
Replying to @johnmjones
Amen.
Replying to @johnmjones and @bgcdml
Hmm. Don't know. There may be some DRM restrictions. But I tend to, um, take care of that problem.
Replying to @Infomnivore and @columbia_cdrs
Fantastic meeting with you as well. I'll look forward to talking more!
Replying to @johnmjones
Indeed. It's one of the reason why I move every ebook I buy into iBooks.
Replying to @johnmjones
Calibre. It's mildly annoying with its non-stop update releases, but it's like a swiss army knife for ebooks.
Replying to @stevegoldenberg
Just looked at the program online: some of my favorite folks in that session!
Replying to @veek
YAY!!! Congrats, and welcome tiny one! Hugs to everybody!
Replying to @jtheibault
Hello from New York, Intro to DH!
Replying to @CathyNDavidson
Good luck with the travel; others are having difficulty today, too! See you soon, I hope.
RT @nowviskie: ACH microgrants! Help us enhance @DHQuarterly, @DHanswers, or http://ach.org -- deadline 25 Feb: http://is.gd/Zxen00
At NYU today and tomorrow for meeting 2 of our #p2pReview advisory group.
Replying to @sramsay
Hey, I warned you: don't read the comments!
Replying to @brettbobley
I did, and thought it was just awesome.
Replying to @amandafrench
Oh no! I'm so sorry. Best wishes to you and Jethro.
Replying to @dancohen
And vice-versa: if we're talking about new content production systems, we can't bolt old peer review systems onto them.
Replying to @shanakimball
Shana! Are you okay???
Replying to @shanakimball
\(Dumb question; my guess is that if you weren't, you wouldn't be tweeting\.\)
Replying to @gennokane
It's not in Delaware, is it?
Only mildly jealous that everyone else's copies of #dhdebates seem to have arrived today. I'm only in Manhattan, where the mails are slow.
Replying to @brettbobley
Pretty much. Plus that one guy going door-to-door pulling a Radio Flyer behind him.
Replying to @tcarmody, @jeffhort, @briancroxall and @mattthomas
Larry Bird of the Celtics days, or the later Pacers version?
Replying to @tcarmody, @briancroxall, @jeffhort and @mattthomas
Hmmm. You may be onto something.
RT @nowviskie: "We the People" petition opposing the Research Works Act, requesting @whitehouse response: http://wh.gov/K25 #rwa
All you people out there tweeting about some guy and his dumb opinions about ebooks? *sticks fingers in ears* La la la la I can't hear you….
Okay, I broke down and skimmed it. God, what a bonehead.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Heh. If you start flinging about opinions *that* poorly considered, watch out.
Replying to @LibSkrat
So much for blissful ignorance, eh? :)
Replying to @LibSkrat
"Oh, FFS" pretty much sums up my response every time he speaks.
RT @Grobunz: [Rezension] Planned Obsolescence: Kathleen Fitzpatrick \(@kfitz\) über wissenschaftliches Bloggen http://shar.es/fsoh2 // Cool!
Replying to @rgfeal and @amandafrench
Let us just say our internet robot translators do not understand Germanic syntax.
Replying to @audreywatters
Phew indeed!
Replying to @amandafrench
Go Jethro!
Replying to @amndw2
Big time- & it's gotten worse and worse the fewer calls I need to make. So I stall horribly on things like making haircut appts.
Replying to @amndw2, @pmhswe and @rgfeal
Exactly. When I can count on getting someone's voicemail, I don't mind, but calling always feels like an imposition.
Replying to @captain_primate
Join us. You know you want to.
Replying to @captain_primate
Oh, sure, I guess so. Well, we'll be here if you need an outlet.