2013 03 01 tweets
Yay! // @EmoryDiSC: We're very pleased to announce that @kfitz will be speaking at @EmoryDiSC on March 28: http://bit.ly/Y4aolQ.
Managed to get on an earlier train. An improvement in homeward travel already!
There wasn’t a lot of tweeting from #scispa over the last two days, but the conversation was fantastic. Thanks to everybody there!
Having, one of those “I am on the right train, right?” moments. If so, the 3.02 is running a leetle behind.
Replying to @tcarmody
I live 3 blocks from there. It sounds like I have to show up!
Replying to @tcarmody
It’s like kismet.
Having a most pleasant Saturday morning of coffee and futzing with organizational stuff on the computer. #nerdery
Wow. // For First Time, Baby Is Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say http://nyti.ms/YNkZnp
Replying to @jwolman and @tcarmody
Hey, where’d that come from?!?
RT @wynkenhimself: Great news for the success of the Digital Public Library of America: @dancohen named its founding Executive Director ...
Man, stay off the Twitters for an hour and things happen. Go, @dancohen!
Replying to @RayS6 and @nyu_dh
Really looking forward to having you here, Ray!
Replying to @savasavasava and @themba
:)
Replying to @jcmeloni
I do that with paper to-do lists - it's the satisfaction of crossing something off \(& seeing what I've actually accomplished\).
Replying to @jcmeloni
I still use paper for certain things -- weekend errands or household stuff that doesn't seem to rise to the level of the digital.
Heading to Philadelphia to give a talk at Temple U’s Center for the Humanities! http://www.cla.temple.edu/chat/activities/talks/FitzpatrickK_poster.html
Replying to @captain_primate
When I went 2 yrs ago, my acceptance came so late that the only room I could find was WAY out in NW Austin. I commuted.
The syntactical question re DH raised by @alanyliu \(http://liu\.english\.ucsb\.edu/is\-digital\-humanities\-a\-field\-an\-answer\-from\-the\-point\-of\-view\-of\-language/\) is one I wrote a bit about a while back: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Done-Digitally/127382/
Replying to @captain_primate
Ugh, I hate that. So sorry...
\(Of course, @alanyliu does \*way\* more with the question than I did\. As if I’d expect anything less\!\)
Gosh, business suit dude with the golf umbrella in the Penn Station cab line, it must be shocking to hear we *all* have to get home.
Yes, I did tell business suit dude to relax. Don’t mess with me when I'm standing in line in the snow at the end of a long day.
Replying to @dancohen
Is all I’m saying.
Thanks to @pmlogan, Heather Ann Thompson, and everybody else at CHAT for a great visit to Temple U today!
It has, however, been a day and a half, in several regards. I’m out, folks, and hoping for a bit of calm tomorrow.
Replying to @thiemwork
Whoa, that's... I don't know what to make of that.
Now here's something you don't see in a job ad every day: "Is the work of Kathleen Fitzpatrick relevant or useful?" https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/457746/original/DirectorACPress.pdf
At the NYU Humanities Initiative for a talk by @katinalynn on "alternative" career paths for humanities PhDs.
.@katinalynn: importance of making the humanities \(and particularly the PhD program\) more outward-facing.
.@katinalynn recounts "more or less accidental" history of the term "alt-ac": acknowledging real intellectual work of non-teaching positions
.@katinalynn recounts early survey work attempting to explore the "alt-ac" community: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/who-we-are
.@katinalynn Vast majority of survey respondents entered grad school w/high certainty of pursuing a tenure-track professorship.
.@katinalynn Problematic ethics for grad programs of admitting students with increasingly unmeetable expectations.
.@katinalynn Alt-ac graduates feel low degree of satisfaction with career advice received in grad school.
.@katinalynn Compelling range of career trajectories among respondents to survey; many such positions funded in stable, sustainable ways.
.@katinalynn Reasons alt-acs take the positions they do are quite varied, ranging from practical & immediate to more future & goal-oriented.
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn from employer responses, most important competencies:collaboration, communication, research, analytical, inte ...
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn What skills were acquired in grad school? Research & analytical skills, writing, content knowledge.
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn skills not learned? oral communication, project management, collaboration
.@katinalynn Myth of single job market for humanities PhDs is damaging to grad students; outcomes other than tenure-track often stigmatized.
.@katinalynn giving us a sneak peek at The Praxis Network, to launch very soon!
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn Praxis Network first goal is to share info on existing programs rethinking humanities pedagogy
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn common among the programs: focus on collaboration. Research output of students doesn't look like traditional ...
RT @jvinopal: .@katinalynn Praxis Network website will also share info about funding. [JV: From my POV this will be key for others looki ...
An amazing range of programs are participating in the Praxis Network, as @katinalynn is showing: very exciting focus on new kinds of skills.
Replying to @katinalynn and @jvinopal
You are so welcome. Really excellent, important stuff - I’ll look forward to seeing more!
If there were any lingering doubt that some percentage of my mood is tied to the weather, today has wiped it away. #yaysun
Replying to @ftrain
It lost me at “rapscallion.”
On my way to Toronto for Reimagining Scholarly Communication with @sgsinclair. http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=976
EWR Terminal A security at a total standstill. Flight leaves in just over an hour and I’m seriously wondering if I’ll make it.
Okay, have made it through the first line. Now for the second one. #grrrtravel
Replying to @Ed_Raso
I would totally support that policy.
Replying to @laurenfklein
Srsly. Terminals A & B are out of another lifetime.
Okay, made it through security and onto the plane. There’s something weird, though, about needing to show a passport to board an ERJ.
Replying to @laurenfklein
Amen.
It was a gorgeous afternoon in Toronto: about 50 degrees and sunny. Everyone in the world out walking by the lake - and who can blame them?
Replying to @qui_oui
There’s nothing quite like that first glimpse of spring.
Hey, @meganeabbott: thinking of you with the next two RTs...
Replying to @dupuisj
I think it’s exactly the same in NYC. Zero winter last year; a reasonable one this year. And then slushy slop this week. +
Replying to @dupuisj
Made a gorgeous weekend feel that much more gorgeous.
Kevin Fitzpatrick of Staten Island ordered a Domino’s pizza online using an email address of mine and signed me up for their mailing list. +
I am sorely tempted to send him a lot more pizzas, with a note saying “learn your email address.”
Replying to @savasavasava
I get mail for more K. Fitzpatricks than I can begin to count. Sometimes with personal details!
Replying to @savasavasava
If you do, remind me to tell you about K. Fitzpatrick, the \(then\) 16-year-old cutter and her Xanga account.
Replying to @savasavasava
Also this: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/my-secret-life/
Replying to @savasavasava
In fact, there are several related blog posts. Search for “kfitzpatrick”…
Replying to @rrkennison
The extant order, appallingly, was for cheesy bread & cinna stix. I sense munchies.
Replying to @eetempleton
The good news is it went to Staten Island, because \(a\) it was Dominos, and \(b\) it was cheesy bread & cinna stix! :-P
Replying to @nancybaym
No. That’s… amazing.
Replying to @erikapearson and @nancybaym
Oh, the pile of kfitzpatricks I have. I get mistyping your email on the internet, but on a resume? A dr.’s form?
Replying to @erikapearson and @nancybaym
Does she never wonder why she never gets any email?
A very kind agent, a 1K card, and Global Entry have gotten me on a flight 3 hours ahead of schedule. Hooray!
EWR, 3 hours earlier than expected, for which I am enormously grateful.
Okay, AirTrain, don’t blow my luck here. Next NJT in 5 mins - and I’m two stops away…
Train was delayed 3 minutes, just long enough for me to make it in time. And then there was no line at the cab stand. +
I fear I have used a whole lot of travel karma today.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @publichistorian
Thank you! I’ll hope that it’s so.
Replying to @ayjay
Ooh, good idea. Tip 1: fly a ridiculous number of miles in a year, so that ticket agents feel required to be nice to you.
Replying to @ayjay
Whoops.
The cats are unimpressed that I got home 2.5 hours early. All they know is that the BOWLS are EMPTY.
Replying to @LibSkrat
O noes! CRISIS!!!
Replying to @atrubek
Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear that. :(
Replying to @atrubek, @ayjay and @amandafrench
ARGH.
Replying to @atrubek, @ayjay and @amandafrench
SRSLY. Some people just can’t take yes for an answer.
Replying to @atrubek, @ayjay and @amandafrench
I have known a person or two like that in my day.
Replying to @atrubek, @ayjay and @amandafrench
Oh my, yes.
Replying to @sleonchnm, @jcmeloni, @wynkenhimself, @sherah1918 and @sheepeeh
I am not far behind you.
Replying to @sgsinclair
You’re very welcome!
In a cab, headed to Penn Station, on my way to EWR. #prettysureIjustdidthis
However! This time there might be a couple of days of vacation involved!
Replying to @rgfeal
Thanks! I hope your travels go well, too.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
*bows*
Replying to @surlyF
Feels that way. Just need a good lap desk.
Replying to @mannahattamamma
Not this time!
Whoa, a Jesuit. That’s a bit of a surprise.
Replying to @rgfeal
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I plan to read a silly novel and watch even sillier movies on this flight. It feels like a vacation already!
Awesome news indeed. // RT @profwernimont: excited that Kevin Mulroy is joining us as Dean of Honnold-Mudd Library! New possibilities ahead!
Replying to @acavender
That’s hilarious.
Replying to @candrews
This needs a “NO, NOT OK” button.
Replying to @jwolman
What did you switch to, out of curiosity? And have you looked at http://theoldreader.com? It seems to have the old sharing features.
Replying to @jwolman
Ah, good to know. I’m testing out Feedly, which I like so far...
Replying to @savasavasava and @davecormier
Hey, excellent! Thanks for the tweets.
Replying to @noctambulate
Somebody may need a mid-year performance evaluation.
Replying to @sznk
AAAAAARRGH.
Replying to @bighandsome
It’s awesome, isn’t it? Unfortunately, I’ve barely gotten to use it, between non-participating airports and international flts.
At Gare du Nord, awaiting my train to Amsterdam for Beyond the PDF. Looking forward to seeing some of you there! #btpdf2
Replying to @TAC_NISO
Rats! It’ll be good to catch up anyhow.
Replying to @jvinopal and @briancroxall
I will look for it being held up at the bottom of the escalator near baggage claim.
Replying to @briancroxall and @jvinopal
That’s… You’re right. I have clearly not been to Atlanta enough.
Replying to @cohenss
Ooh, being 45, I'm glad to know I have something to look forward to!
Don't let anybody tell you otherwise: NYC real estate is not for the faint of heart. Or stomach. #maybeithappens #maybeitdoesnt #whocansay
Replying to @tmcphers
Thank you! I hope it'll all be fine but it's turning into one of those five-seconds-on-the-clock, score-tied, time-out nailbiters.
I will acknowledge: everybody should have my problems. But it's turning out to be a little more of a photo finish than I really need.
Replying to @mckenziewark
That is 100% true.
Replying to @mckenziewark and @tmcphers
An entire industry has grown up around that game. "We couldn't possibly file that until they file the other thing."
Replying to @mckenziewark
The closing looks like it may be one of those scenes where the hero runs across the city with the last papers in his hands.
Replying to @mckenziewark
Sliding across the hoods of cars as they screech to a halt, vaulting over baby carriages as they get pushed into his way...
Replying to @mckenziewark
Why, thank you!
Replying to @academicdave
There's something about having a lawyer wave over a stack of paper & say "don't worry about that; it doesn't mean anything."
Attempting to ingest enough coffee to deliver an energizing keynote on 3 hours of sleep. #herewego
PS: Thanks, NYC real estate professionals, for the insomnia.
PLOS Computational Biology is looking to seed Wikipedia with good research info. Humanities projects? How can we do the same? #btpdf2
Time spent annually on *rejected* papers for journals in Web of Science: 11-16 million hours, or between 1279 and 1850 person-years. #btpdf2
Replying to @mfenner
It was a talk at #btpdf2 by Keith Collier of Rubriq. http://www.rubriq.com/
Replying to @annehelen
"Juicebox" may become my new go-to. Thanks for that!
Amazing visualizations from yesterday’s Beyond the PDF. #btpdf2
Contemplating a new avatar from yesterday’s #btpdf2 visualizations.
Replying to @Enroweb
I’d need to look more closely at the PLoS model before speculating.
RT @katinalynn: Delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network, a partnership of innovative grad/undergrad programs! http://t.co ...
RT @nowviskie: Praxis Network = @PraxisProgram, @chi_initiative, @cunygcdi, @UCLDH, @DukePhDLab, @brockuIASC, & Hope Mellon Scholars ...
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
Good lord. A whole new set of possibilities to keep me awake at night!
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
My current ones just involve a mortgage broker, a managing agent, a co-op board, a realtor, and a cascading set of delays.
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
I suppose. Right now, the coop board won’t accept my application w/o mortgage commitment letter. Ok, fine. Lender couldn’t +
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
produce commitment letter until appraisal was complete. Fine. Appraiser couldn’t finish until coop questionnaire was done. +
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
Coop questionnaire was held up by managing agent for two weeks. Now closing will be late. #sigh
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
Latest bit of agita, though: mortgage is in my name only but one paper must be signed in original by my partner -- who is +
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
in Paris for the year. And it has to be notarized. In Paris. #grrrr
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
In other words: don’t get me started!
Great proposal: “Don’t publish; release.” Treat “publications” more like software: develop, release, iterate. Use version numbers. #btpdf2
Seriously: DOIs should be dot-incrementable, connecting revisions of the same publication. #btpdf2
One way to “release” instead of “publishing”? Blog. Post, engage with community, rethink, revise. Maintain archive of the process. #btpdf2
Replying to @jonbecker
Actually, I’d suggest a robust blogging network like @MLACommons. #surprise!
Replying to @jonbecker
A network like ours can support more formal “journal” structures and more informal processes as well.
Replying to @academicdave and @jonbecker
That would be fab. In fact, GitHub itself would be fab.
Replying to @ahacker
It adds a versioning layer, connecting iterations of a project, and it avoids the “pre” by eliminating the “print” telos. #btpdf2
Replying to @ahacker
I can see that. But even the e-journal implies a print-analog telos. I’d like more focus on process, as in a blog platform. #btpdf2
Fascinating proposal for a pure XML-first workflow: only release the XML; let the reader provide their own preferred format layer. #btpdf2
Replying to @jasonpriem
Was talking about this in another thread. I would love to integrate @GitHub into @MLACommons: versions + social layer. #btpdf2
Replying to @neuromusic
Not exactly. @scholarpedia tops up Wikipedia with peer review. What I want is a merger of GitHub and a scholarly blog. #btpdf2
Replying to @neuromusic and @scholarpedia
That’s quite an interesting model. I was thinking of something slightly different, but I’m glad to know about it!
More on how PLoS Computational Biology has seeded topic pages to Wikipedia: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002446
More on how PLoS Computational Biology has seeded topic pages to Wikipedia: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002446 -- this time with the hashtag: #btpdf2
Replying to @savasavasava
You have approximately 21 hours to Make. It. Stop.
Replying to @miriamkp
That's kinda how I've always felt about his work, too.
Replying to @miriamkp
Seriously, man.
Replying to @wgthomas3 and @miriamkp
I wish I could! The Serras at Dia:Beacon are overwhelming, as was Monumenta, in a different way. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07serr.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
AMS > EWR. Happy to be headed home, where I might actually be able to *do* something about the real estate chaos.
Bought a new domain name last night. Debating what to do with it. Might include some steps toward @boone’s Project Reclaim.
Wound up lugging 80lbs of baggage onto the crosstown bus rather than waiting in the ridic cab line at Penn. What’s up in midtown today?
Replying to @rgfeal
Yeah, but I walked 2 blks N and got x-town bus with no prob. Just as easy & I get to feel virtuous.
Replying to @rgfeal
Woo hoo! It’s 6pm where I was, but I think I’ll wait until a little closer to 6pm here.
Replying to @rgfeal
Oh no! I didn’t know you were out sick. Feel better soon.
Replying to @rgfeal
\(PS: I’m mostly only waiting so that I can stay awake past 4pm\.\)
Replying to @katinalynn
It’s something to do with MSG and March Madness. Plus I think the Macy’s flower show. Sidewalks are nuts.
I now have a loan commitment letter, which I believe means there are only 3,285 more hurdles to jump before closing.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
There’s also this, which has been around a while: http://www.beck.com/planned_obsolescence/
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
I got a comment in 2009 saying “PO is already a popular title used by @beck.” Of course, I’d been publishing since 2002...
Replying to @GeorgeOnline and @beck
Heh.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
There’s a @WordPress that facilitates domain mapping: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ Haven’t used it myself, but @boone may have.
Replying to @savasavasava
Ning?
Replying to @richquarles
It does kinda look like a Cylon. But does it work? Because I might be willing to sell world dominion for not having to vacuum.
Replying to @bukuwawa
Oh, but terrible WONDERFUL fiction. Also fiction that should be wonderful but turns out to be terrible.
Replying to @richquarles
I don’t have big blobs of food or toys to worry about, but tons of cat hair. The extra suction seems like a positive.
Replying to @richquarles
Hmm. Keep me posted; I won't buy for a while...
Replying to @hollykruse
Holy shit, Holly. That’s terrifying.
Replying to @hollykruse, @ebrion and @wowhorse
Jesus. I am having a mild panic reaction just reading about it. I can’t imagine how it must have felt.
Replying to @hollykruse, @wowhorse, @ebrion and @nancybaym
Christ in a sidecar. How can someone not realize that physical mansplaining is NOT OKAY.
Replying to @hollykruse, @wowhorse, @ebrion and @nancybaym
That’s absolutely terrifying. I’m so sorry you went through this, Holly.
Replying to @djp2025 and @jamescosullivan
Actually, that was me responding from @MLAnews. Happy to follow up if more ?s.
Replying to @ayjay
Having one of those unnerving small-world moments. I knew @roddreher back in BR in the mid-80s.
RT @copyrightclear: CCC podcast w/ @kfitz, author of Planned Obsolescence:Publishing, Tech, and the Future of the Academy http://t.co/hn ...
Replying to @pgroth
Thanks, Paul! I’m so glad to have access to these images; they’re just fantastic.
Replying to @sramsay
Well deserved, Steve. Congratulations.
Replying to @briancroxall
Srsly. I’m traveling south today; ergo, it should be getting WARMER. Get on that, ok?
RT @MLACommons: “Byte the Humanities,” Scott McLemee’s essay on DH, explores Price & Siemens’s Literary Studies in the Digital Age: ...
RT @MLACommons: (Literary Studies in the Digital Age is the first evolving anthology published at MLA Commons; it can be found at http:/ ...
Replying to @briancroxall
That makes me worry a bit about how NYC has felt about me this winter...
Yay! // RT @briancroxall: We’re getting ready at @EmoryDiSC for @kfitz, who is coming to speak tomorrow!
Oh, TSA Pre✓, I may have lost my soul in gaining you, but it sure feels worth it.
It’s a lovely afternoon here in the ATL. Looking forward to visiting @EmoryDiSC tomorrow!
Replying to @StewartVarner and @EmoryDiSC
Excellent! BTW, thanks for having @briancroxall turn up the temperature outside this afternoon.
Replying to @ryancordell
Hi there! Would love to hear about the #s13dh discussion!
Replying to @polly_vecchio
Congratulations! I’ll look forward to seeing the review. \(And thank you for writing it\.\)
Replying to @polly_vecchio
I’m thrilled that it’s in Portuguese! I will hope that someday the book might have the privilege of being as well.
Replying to @rrkennison
What @nowviskie said. We want somebody willing to figure out what needs to be done!
Fantastic crowd today at @EmoryDISC - thanks so much to @briancroxall and @StewartVarner for bringing me to visit!
RT @ADHOrg: Get involved w/ ADHO & raise the visibility of digital humanities work. Apply to become ADHO publications liaison: http: ...
Thrilled to have had such an energizing visit to @EmoryDiSC yesterday; great to hear thoughtful conversations about digital scholarship.