2013 07 01 tweets
Replying to @shanakimball
I missed you arriving here. Quite the crowd!
Replying to @shanakimball
Yay, welcome! I hope the trip was okay.
Replying to @shanakimball
Promise. I finally got a decent night’s sleep last night, so am beginning to emerge from zombiedom myself.
Replying to @carenmilloy
Works out very nicely indeed! #OAbooks
RT @ernestopriego: If ECRs don't risk, how will scholarship ever change? Replication of cons methods won't get us there. Risk should be rew…
LS rep at #oabooks says it’s not realistic for societies to run repositories. My response: societies must explore partnering with libraries!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Say it isn’t so.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I have a family full of Italian Americans. Might they count?
Frances Pinter on @KUnlatched model: consortium lowers risks for all; “you have no idea how expensive it is to keep things closed.” #oabooks
Replying to @ernestopriego
You are the BEST.
RT @KUnlatched: The Mellon-funded report on open review @kfitz presented about is available at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/open-review/files/2012/06/MediaCommons_Open_Review_White_Paper_final.pdf #oabooks
Replying to @shanakimball
Awwww!
Replying to @researchremix
I was sorry to miss you at #OAI8, but I understand you had other awesome places to be!
Replying to @shanakimball, @LibSkrat and @researchremix
Indeed! Someday soon, I hope.
Replying to @pomonacollege
Very nice! The white background opens things up, the menus/sliders are less complex, and I like the use of the new mark.
Replying to @shanakimball, @researchremix and @LibSkrat
I like this idea.
Wait, what? // RT @TheAtlantic: First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist http://theatln.tc/15bcjfN via @qz
Replying to @ekansa, @TheAtlantic and @qz
But I guess we’d finally answer the question of whether identity is resident in the brain or the body.
Replying to @RLUK_Mike
Very nice -- I like that framing of the question.
Replying to @j_w_baker and @tmccormick
A very fair point. Expectations for participation in any community of practice need to be established. #oabooks
Replying to @tmccormick
But at least in open review communities any homophily that crops up is visible and can be challenged. #oabooks
Hear, hear! // MT @jfwinters: Great first day of #OAbooks… Congratulations to @carenmilloy & colleagues for putting it all together.
Replying to @brettbobley
Yeah, it’s pretty mind-blowing. And I’m not trying to be punny.
The thing I can’t wrap my head around \(ha ha\) is who you would be after the transplant. We’d finally know where selfhood is located I guess.
@IntarchEditor Yes -- we’ve definitely found that authors have to participate in the process in very different ways when it’s open.
Replying to @mmwwah
No, it’s attachment at the spinal cord. o.O
Replying to @IntarchEditor
Some are, it’s true. But it would be great to get the community in that subject area really working together openly! #oabooks
Replying to @brettbobley
Will do -- should see one or the other shortly.
Replying to @ivovolt
How did we get people to participate? Twitter, FB, blog posts, email lists - everything we could think of! #oabooks
Replying to @plragde
But some recent arguments have suggested that identity inheres in the body rather than strictly in the brain \(e\.g\. muscle memory\).
Replying to @plragde
Such a transplant would at least let us know for sure. Wake the patient up & ask “who are you now?”
Replying to @plragde
True! Though in that case only the spinal cord has been severed; other systems remain connected, if some function with assistance.
Replying to @plragde
\(You realize of course I’m being somewhat tendentious here\. My own personal feeling is that I am in my brain\.\)
Replying to @plragde
\(But I would say that, wouldn’t I?\)
Replying to @plragde
Indeed.
Replying to @ivovolt
That’s a huge challenge; we talk about it a bit in the full report. Something serious to consider. #oabooks
Replying to @ivovolt
It’s downloadable at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/open-review/
Replying to @ivovolt
It got tweeted, but I totally failed to mention it - so you only missed it by paying attention. :)
Replying to @crsbecker
I once had one with a telephone-booth-style door, which opened by folding inward. I almost didn’t make it out.
Replying to @crsbecker
The best part was when I had your bottle-drop moment, and I had to open the door to bend over, and couldn’t.
You know what I want? A hashtag resolver that tells you what a cryptic acronym stands for.
Replying to @savasavasava
Okay, so then what I want is an API and a Twitter client that pulls up the def on rollover.
Replying to @martin_eve
Oh! Sorry I missed you.
Replying to @warnick
Hmm. I really want it client-scrapeable, so that I can rollover a hashtag & have the def appear...
Replying to @savasavasava
Exactly. Or a tooltip on the desktop.
Replying to @savasavasava
Yes! As you get when you click on a username.
Replying to @warnick
It’s true. Wikipedia-style disambiguation would not be out of the question. \(Groups using \#MLA13 include…\)
Replying to @warnick
ON IT.
Replying to @jbj
People who subtweet deserve what they get. #youknowwhoyouare
Replying to @WmGermano
Nice. Messy, but nice.
@ahacker Re your question this morning: http://academicblogs.org might be a good place to find some worthy examples!
Replying to @briancroxall and @billwolff
Right. But what I’m really after is a client that could scrape that data & on clicking on a hashtag display both +
Replying to @briancroxall and @billwolff
tweets & info about the tag, as many clients do for users.
Replying to @briancroxall and @billwolff
My feed is full of them today, I know that for sure.
Now up at #oabooks: @shanakimball on MPublishing, library-based publishing, and library-press collaborations.
Replying to @triplingual, @briancroxall and @billwolff
Exactly. Wikipedia-style: #MLA13 is being used by...
Replying to @brettbobley and @shanakimball
is on another call right now. Can I take a message and have her get back to you?
Replying to @savasavasava and @shanakimball
:)
Wow. Just discovered that my former work email account was deleted July 1 on the dot. Am having a bit of a moment here. #endofanera
Replying to @captain_primate
It has been for temporary folk. I know of no 15-year faculty whose accounts have been summarily cut off like this.
Replying to @mmwwah
Who the hell knows? All I got was a form letter, and no indication that the cutoff would be immediate.
Replying to @mmwwah
(Frankly, all I’ve been getting there for the last year is stuff I really don’t want, so it’s all good. But there’s a bit of +
Replying to @mmwwah
don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out that’s a little surprising.)
Replying to @briancroxall and @captain_primate
I’ve been picking up via my gmail acct for a while, which is how I found out authentication was failing.
Replying to @briancroxall and @captain_primate
“User unknown.” Snif.
Replying to @mmwwah
I suspect it’s not forwarding; hasn’t appeared yet, anyhow. Let me know if you get an error response.
Replying to @mmwwah
Things have been great here. Didn’t make it to StP for bubbles, but am having dinner tonight at a friend’s club.
RT @shanakimball: Really admiring the chutzpah and grace of @CameronNeylon in speaking off the cuff from a deck of 60 randomized slides #OA…
RT @ernestopriego: .@CameronNeylon: |the point of the book, the tweet, the blog post is to engage people, to make people think" #oabooks
Replying to @stephharves
I’ve been picking up the PO mail via my Gmail acct for a while, so I have the old stuff. +
Replying to @stephharves
And for the last while, the only mail I’ve gotten there was stuff I didn’t want to get anyway. +
Replying to @stephharves
But I just want to say: 15 YEARS. Ending with a form email from the dean’s office, and a deleted email address.
.@CameronNeylon: The “unprecedented good” served by open access is not just a public good, but a good for scholarship. #oabooks
Replying to @mmwwah and @stephharves
That checklist is the form email I got from the dean’s office. Wow, this year went fast! Be sure to turn in your keys!
Replying to @mmwwah
No, but there was the suggestion that I needed to account for/turn in all materials bought with college or dept funds.
@ernestopriego You should NOT have! Thank you, though it’s really way too much!
Replying to @ernestopriego
The good news is that now *I* owe *you* a drink, next time I see you. I will look forward to it.
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
I am so totally it!
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
You look fabulous, too! It was great catching up - I’ll look forward to doing it again soon.
Farewell, London. It was lovely! But I am ready to drag my heavy suitcase somewhere I can unpack and stay put.
Independence Day! My summer rest and writing retreat begins, appropriately, today.
Replying to @shanakimball
Woo-hoo! Safe travels, & all my best to Brooklyn.
Replying to @ayjay
Looks like oleander, but I'm not really the person to ask.
Replying to @shanakimball
O hai! :)
Replying to @briancroxall
2014?!? That’s insane. @emoryhealthcare
My #oabooks talk: “advancing toward its goal with the efficiency of a war machine.” I am both flattered and alarmed http://blog.homo-numericus.net/article11208.html
Replying to @piotrr70
Thank you! I did know it was positive; I just had this image of myself crushing everything in my path that was a bit surprising.
Made a turn today in the thing I’m writing. The point I’m now working toward is a bit controversial, which makes me think it’s worth saying.
Replying to @patriksv
It’s always nice to figure out that it’s not just empty blather!
I have just discovered that it’s possible to take a good picture of me if I don’t know you’re doing it. New avatars may be forthcoming.
Okay, done. New avatars should be propagating. Imagine me telling an auditorium full of scientists about the digital humanities.
Replying to @wraabe
I’ve been fretting a bit about how little my avatar resembled me anymore. \(Okay, I haven’t been fretting about it \*that\* much, but\.\)
Replying to @acavender
I was *very* persuasive.
Replying to @nmhouston
Thanks! The growing disjuncture between actual me and turquoise-jacket me was taking up far more brain power than it was worth.
@BendProf I was so traumatized by the experience of driving my cats to LAX when we moved to NYC that I may never recover. \(Them too, alas\.\)
Replying to @BendProf
Which is to say that the part of moving to my new apt I dreaded most was putting the cats in the carriers to cab them to Brooklyn.
Replying to @BendProf
Eh. In the scheme of things, it’s easy. But nothing’s as easy as a pixie that needs no blow-drying.
Replying to @BendProf
SO MUCH. And I was busy trying to keep the crazy cab driver from realizing I had not one but two cats with me… Trauma all around.
Replying to @rrkennison
Hey thanks!
Replying to @BendProf
It’s *okay* if I don’t blow-dry it, but only okay. Much preferable if I do. I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to deal with that!
Replying to @jbj and @wynkenhimself
Ooh! **begins to plot**
Replying to @dancohen and @jbj
Drop and give me 20, Cohen!
Replying to @dancohen and @jbj
Oh wait. That was “Drill Instructor Fitz.” My bad.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @BendProf
Alas, my hair has not fully made the move to wavy. It’s 90% straight, with a couple of weird bends.
I’ve just watched the first half of my #OAbooks talk \(http://bit\.ly/12VLnLS\) & am exhausted. Must moderate coffee intake.
Replying to @shanakimball
Aw, thanks!
Replying to @triplingual
It’s Arras. I did a little modification, I think, but honestly I can’t remember what...
Replying to @triplingual
My pleasure!
Over the course of the last two days, I have migrated just about everything running at http://machines.pomona.edu to http://machines.plannedobsolescence.net. +
I even managed to get the MarxWiki \(http://machines\.plannedobsolescence\.net/marxwiki\) and the DFW Wiki \(http://machines\.plannedobsolescence\.net/dfwwiki\) running properly again. +
I’m very grateful to the instructional technologists at Pomona, who gave me extra time for the migration and will be redirecting traffic. +
But if you link to machines, please note the update: http://machines.plannedobsolescence.net.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
It might have come up in the Q&A. The "don't ask" argument comes in part from Susan Bielstein, Permissions: A Survival Guide.
Replying to @LibSkrat and @wynkenhimself
That's a shame. Bielstein's argument is dead-on: every time we ask, we build precedent, a sense that we should ask.
Replying to @LibSkrat and @wynkenhimself
And that sense of common practice can bear as much weight as actual law.
A very happy birthday to @JenHoward and @miriamkp! July 12 is an auspicious day.
Replying to @profwernimont
ON IT. :) \(cc @wynkenhimself\)
Replying to @profwernimont and @wynkenhimself
Not in any detail. But we are hard at work on the future of MLA style and its associated habitus!
Replying to @briancroxall
Waffling? WAFFLING?!? I have changed my avatar once in the last 3 years? I think? And tried to prepare everyone for it.
Replying to @briancroxall
Really! That one dates back to my pre-MLA sabbatical.
Replying to @briancroxall
At least yours still looks something like you. I’ve noted the surprise of late when people first meet me in person.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @briancroxall
Dude. I can’t believe you remember that. It was a total selfie. Paris, summer of 2008!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @briancroxall
Getting to work on time is terribly overrated.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @briancroxall
Both, I think, but somewhat dizzying!
Replying to @acavender
See,@briancroxall? I was not making it up.
Replying to @katinalynn, @wynkenhimself and @briancroxall
I’ve got my eye on you, Rogers.
Replying to @amandafrench, @briancroxall, @eetempleton and @acavender
Depends on the goal of the Twitter account. Some intentionally defy identification.
I need a mod_rewrite guru, stat.
RT @eclecticbrotha: The week in review: a woman with tampons and a black kid with Skittles are both more dangerous than a white man with a …
Waking up this morning to utter heartbreak. I am devastated for my country, so far away, in so many ways.
Get Me Rewrite! http://wp.me/p2w8Sh-E0
Very sorry to be missing ACH & ADHO mtgs, not to mention #DH2013. Couldn’t figure out a Prague-to-Lincoln itinerary that wouldn’t kill me.
Replying to @bestqualitycrab
Good grief. I hope it took you weeks — because of stopovers, I mean, not just miserable travel time!
Replying to @sirmies
Hi. It would be best to email me: kfitzpatrick at mla dot org. Thanks!
I know there’s something wrong with being this excited because my vacation has been SO PRODUCTIVE, but seriously. SO PRODUCTIVE. #yay #sigh
Replying to @sleonchnm
It’s astonishing how much you can get done when you’re away and relaxed..
+1 // RT @jmcclurken: Wishing I was with so many of my friends and intellectual heroes at #DH2013 this week....
Replying to @sherah1918
Woo hoo!
Replying to @seth_denbo
Congratulations, Seth; I'll look forward to working with you!
Congrats, all! // RT @seth_denbo: I'm very excited to be joining AHA this fall as Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives.
Replying to @ernestopriego
Lately, I mistype my own name 2 of 3 times...
New post at Planned Obsolescence: On the Working Vacation. http://wp.me/p2w8Sh-F8
Oh god please. Unless you literally mean technics and mechanics of vision. RT @mariabustillos: stop saying "optics"!!!!!!!!!!!
Replying to @plragde and @mariabustillos
Ha. Should have known you’d be there with me.
Rock on, @PomonaCollege. http://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/
\(I choose not to believe that there’s a relationship between my resignation and that ranking\.\)
Replying to @tcarmody
I have always known you were the best, Tim Carmody.
Replying to @sleonchnm
And you too!
Replying to @mattbucher
I do wish that list included financial aid info, esp. those schools with no-loan policies \(ahem, Pomona\).
Replying to @mattbucher
Then again, it’s Forbes.
Replying to @mattbucher
Sad, but very likely true. The Pomonas of the world are great, but it’s a nightmarish situation overall.
Replying to @jwolman and @tcarmody
Indubitably.
Replying to @ProfM_Lindemann
Go you. Thanks for, um, oversharing.
Replying to @ProfM_Lindemann
Absolutely! Now to develop a colonoscopy pseudonym generator.
After this week, it’s hard to read the following sentence \(from Giles Slade’s Made to Break\) quite the same way: +
“Stevens’s definitive contribution to this cultural icon was to ‘put the wiener in the bun’” \(151\). The icon? The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
I wonder if I’ll ever feel the same way about wiener puns again.
Replying to @literarychica
There’s an article on audiobooks by Lutz Koepnick in the Jan 2013 PMLA.
Replying to @literarychica
I can only imagine.
T-minus 6 days until re-entry, post working vacation. It’s been amazing, on both counts: http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/on-the-working-vacation/
I am, however, looking forward to finally settling into the apartment I moved into two months ago. Maybe buying a dresser, hanging blinds.
Replying to @surlyF
NICE.
Replying to @Ed_Raso
I bought a dresser from them in like 1995. Gave it away when I left CA two years ago. I miss that dresser.
Replying to @rgfeal
“Boss” is indeed a strange word, esp for one right out of academe. “Senior colleague” works well indeed!
@surlyF Hey, something I’m sure you can use as a blurb somewhere: “Furlough is exactly right.” —Scholarly Kitchen. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/07/26/dissertation-embargoes-and-the-rights-of-scholars-aha-smacks-the-hornets-nest/
Replying to @surlyF
That would make a nice card. That, an email, a Twitter handle — that’s all you need.
Replying to @surlyF
Maybe on the flip side, the inevitable “Furlough is completely wrong.”
Replying to @brettbobley and @loriemerson
Hey cool — thanks!
Replying to @theorymeg
You did fabulously, but you would have regardless. I hope all is well with you!
Replying to @theorymeg
I hear that. Sending you all good wishes!
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Woo hoo! Congrats!
Replying to @brettbobley and @lincolnmullen
Completely agreed that this is very desirable, but I’m not sure what’s needed is a tool. A service, yes. And +
Replying to @brettbobley and @lincolnmullen
as Brett notes, a name-brand service may go along way toward producing the social change @mia_out points to.
Replying to @lincolnmullen, @brettbobley and @mia_out
I would argue for a scholarly org or a consortium thereof...
Packing up to head back to NYC tomorrow. It’s been an absolutely dreamy trip, but I’ll be glad to get home.
Replying to @boone
I'd love to hear what you wind up with. My printer/scanner died the day before I left on this trip & I'll have to replace soon.
Okay, packed up, crashing, and bracing for the 3 am cacophony of device alarms. See you tomorrow afternoon, NYC.
Okay: up at 3 am; dragged the suitcases outside just after 4 am; in the lounge at PRG at 5 am. Home around 4 pm. See you in a bit, NYC.
FRA. Lufthansa lounge, sleeping cubicle. Brian Eno, Music for Airports, through noise suppressing headphones. Wake me in a couple of hours.
Hello, Newark! \(A mere 1\.5 hours late\.\)
Hello, Brooklyn. Thanks for the awesome weather.