2018 07 01 tweets
After spending 14 of the last 18 days on the road, I am ecstatic to be sitting at the computer in my pajamas, finishing up some last edits on Generous Thinking. I had a great time at #CHCI18, #ELPUB2018, and #DH2019, but omg there’s no place like home. http://generousthinking.hcommons.org
Replying to @kfitz
Of course, it was #DH2018 I had a great time at. I may be ahead of the curve in some ways but I haven’t headed to Utrecht yet.
Best library swag ever. Thanks, @mchris4duke! #expectprivacy @mitlibraries
Replying to @profwernimont
Huge congratulations, Jacque! I’ll be excited to see what you get up to there!
I wrapped things up on Generous Thinking this weekend, and am starting to think about what’s next. http://kfitz.info/wrapping-up/
Replying to @BerondaM
Ha! I will be excited for both of those things!
Replying to @kfitz
I am hugely, hugely honored by this, @lesliekwchan! It was such a fantastic conference and I’m thrilled to have gotten to be part of it. #ELPUB2018 https://twitter.com/lesliekwchan/status/1013840364556505094
Replying to @sbanetweiser
Sending all the best for the transition — I can’t wait to hear how it goes!
Replying to @tressiemcphd
Huge, and well-deserved, congratulations!
Replying to @Protohedgehog, @BrianNosek, @matthewspitzer and @humcommons
Indeed! Humanities Commons is a SHARE Notify provider, so OSF has our feed. The trick is that we’re not all preprints, but I’m sure that could be dealt with…
Replying to @BrianNosek, @Protohedgehog, @matthewspitzer and @humcommons
We don’t have a specific designation for preprints, but we do have an item type designation of “article” that might work. I’m digging around to see if there are other possibilities.
Replying to @BrianNosek, @Protohedgehog, @matthewspitzer and @humcommons
Looking more closely, it appears that our OAI feed does not include item type. We’ll need to put this on our roadmap.
This is what gives me hope for the future of the institution: “These three imperatives—to keep the lessons of our current crisis in front of us, to interrogate and redress all unjust structures, and to create a culture of shared, empathetic ... http://kfitz.info/3148-2/
Replying to @BerondaM
This is so true. It’s important to recognize those moments when the demand for consensus is a silencing of dissent. We need to know when disagreement must be allowed to linger despite the need to move forward.
These deans give me hope. Their call for a paradigm shift in higher ed is at the heart of Generous Thinking. https://generousthinking.hcommons.org/5-the-university/ https://twitter.com/CALMSU/status/1017040421845917696
Replying to @BerondaM
Hahaha! No, I think your question is exactly the right one, and I’m not at all sure I have the answers. Maybe just one potential path forward.
cc @humcommons https://twitter.com/londonlass666/status/1016756686802116610
Wow, this looks like a great new program. https://twitter.com/SSRC_org/status/1017068722312314881
RT @sferna109: People / Gente!!! @achdotorg is seeking peer reviewers for the inaugural ACH conference in Pittsburg in 2019. We need people…
Replying to @humcommons
Well, heck. We may have to make it so.
Replying to @humcommons
Okay, these are even cuter.
Replying to @katinalynn
Hoo, does that status sound familiar. But yes, a definite sign of progress! Sending good retreat vibes your way.
Replying to @mchris4duke
Sending you and your family all my best thoughts, Chris.
Replying to @LibSkrat
I installed and set it up yesterday — it’s pretty fab! Not least that the developers are French, so “refresh” is “actualize.” :)
I have this far snuck into all three of my books \(those published and those forthcoming\) by the back window. I’m not sure why I’m surprised to find that the thing I thought I would write next might not be welcoming me in via the front door. But that idea over there…?
Pondering the path forward, blog- and book-wise: http://kfitz.info/why-not-blog/
Replying to @ByzCapp
Oh my, yes. Nonlinear. Organic in its discovery practices. Yes.
Replying to @ChrisAldrich
Wow, this is fantastic — a lot to chew on! More as the thoughts coalesce…
Replying to @ryancordell
I’ve been pondering this since yesterday. This overemphasis on research productivity is absolutely the case \(and an issue I’ve written a bit about\). But my own personal case comes with a slight wrinkle:
Replying to @ryancordell
Stepping out of the faculty and into an admin role for 6 years radically inverted my sense of what “productivity” is. And now, back in the faculty \(if in an admin\-intensive gig\) I find myself feeling most guilty about days without meetings/reports/office face-time.
Replying to @ryancordell
A day spent at home, or in the library, working on My Own Stuff feels like playing hooky. And it’s great! At least insofar as it makes research and writing a pleasure. But it’s still an imbalance.
Replying to @meganeabbott and @booksaremagicbk
Yay, happy pub day! So sorry I’m not there to celebrate with you.
Replying to @meganeabbott and @booksaremagicbk
Oof, I’m sort of a day early. Happy Pub Day Eve?
My modeling clay prototype for a project I hope to work on in the MSU Digital Scholarship Lab. #msudslab @humcommons
Replying to @anniekjohn
Ooh, now that is an interesting question…
RT @anniekjohn: Super interesting read. Has me thinking: are blog posts to humanists what preprints are to scientists? #scholcomm https://t…
Replying to @djp2025
I suspect you might find some folks among the various cohorts of CLIR postdocs. I’ve also done a bit of a back-and-forth, though my trajectory is a little different…
Oh this. https://twitter.com/hcayless/status/1019675071324016646
And this one, too. This is an issue I’m hoping to spend some time working on over the next couple of years. https://twitter.com/hcayless/status/1019675572899860481
I’ve spent the day with some smart MSU folks thinking about our Digital Presence and Public Scholarship Initiative and the ways it might help encourage more process-focused, publicly engaged, dialogic scholarly work: the core of the land-grant mission ... https://kfitz.info/3208-2/
On Monday, I spent a chunk of the day thinking with smart folks in our Digital Scholarship Lab thinking about the collaborations we might inspire and support. \(And playing with modeling clay\.\) https://lib.msu.edu/dslab/
Oy. https://twitter.com/unsworth/status/1019699196511834112
Insomnia is the worst. Woke up this morning at 1.52 and could not go back to sleep for anything. Finally got up and made coffee at 4.00. Tried to nap around 6.00, without much success. Am, shall we say, not at my sharpest today.
Replying to @plragde
Indeed.
Sadly, my representative was not a help in this regard. That’s okay; I’ll remember this fall. https://twitter.com/HumanitiesAll/status/1019943401981202432
Replying to @joelburges
It failed, thank goodness. No thanks to my representative.
I didn’t whine enough before, apparently, so I’m doing it now. https://kfitz.info/insomnia/
Replying to @martin_eve
Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear that! A cruel case of adding insult to injury.
Replying to @miriamkp
Bad news, is what I call it, if you’ve found yourself standing in front of one of those. :(
Thinking about connections across a decentralized, distributed web: https://kfitz.info/connections/
Replying to @cljennings
Yes, so much!
Earlier today, I did a bit of musing about the decentralized, distributed, and yet radically interconnected future that I hope scholarly communication might have, and a few small steps I’ve been taking in that direction. \(Hint: this is one of them\.\) https://kfitz.info/connections/
Replying to @elotroalex
I’ll look forward to following!
Replying to @readywriting
Yes, exactly! And http://kfitz.info is Reclaim-hosted, so it’s very much of a piece.
Replying to @readywriting
It’s an open question, but one that I think these protocols \(Solid/Webmentions\) are pointing toward: ways of building intentional online conversations and communities.
Replying to @RyanStraight and @readywriting
Somewhere this all connects around to @dancohen’s post the other day on what email got right: https://dancohen.org/2018/07/17/in-praise-of-email/
Replying to @kathiiberens and @nickmofo
Thanks for that link, Kathi — just goes to show that the problem isn’t a new one, at all, and that lots of us are trying to figure out a better path. I’ll look forward to seeing your new site!
More thinking this morning about the distributed web: Feeds and Gardens. https://kfitz.info/feeds-and-gardens/
Replying to @jgmac1106, @aaronpk and @ChrisAldrich
Ooh, thanks for that link! That’s Aperture that Aaron is writing about?
Replying to @jgmac1106, @aaronpk and @ChrisAldrich
Hey, I resemble that remark.
From earlier today, thinking about RSS and cultivating community on the decentralized web: Feeds and Gardens. https://kfitz.info/feeds-and-gardens/
Replying to @anneperez and @samplereality
Thank you!
More smart thinking on feeds and the decentralized web. https://twitter.com/samplereality/status/1021529767152103426
RT @kmapesy: #msudh Woooo! https://twitter.com/msuwrac/status/973185667768442883
RT @K_Leonard_PhD: Also, my next book is going to be published on @humcommons and be 100% open access for everyone. Yes, it's still going t…
For the last week-plus, I’ve had The Bee Gees’ “Nights on Broadway” on repeat in my head. It’s not the worst earworm I’ve ever had, but it did finally drive me to look up the lyrics so I had something more coherent than “Blay menemah \(blay menemah\) mmhm nights on Broadway…”
Replying to @ranti
Happy to share! :)
Replying to @jackjewers
You know, for years my earworm cure has been one rousing chorus of “Lonesome Loser.” For some reason it drives whatever’s in there out without sticking. But I haven’t deployed it, which seems to imply I’m enjoying the infestation.
Thinking this morning about social commitments as a prerequisite for sustainability. https://kfitz.info/sustainability-and-solidarity/
Replying to @MaxKemman
I’m mostly thinking about complex systems. But even simpler ones can have hidden complexities, making it difficult for a single organization to commit resources to their ongoing maintenance.
RT @samplereality: Did you know? Humanities Commons' CORE has an RSS feed \(https://hcommons\.org/deposits/feed/\), making it easy to see new deposits, li…
I just finished Track Changes this weekend and can absolutely vouch for this. It’s a compellingly structured and engagingly written book that propels you through its arguments and interventions. https://twitter.com/mkirschenbaum/status/1022169356350971907
Speaking from \(very, very\) recent experience: this is HARD. https://twitter.com/mkirschenbaum/status/1022174710212317185
Word to the wise: Gutenberg, at least at the moment, does not permit writing in Markdown. Nor does it accept incoming Markdown from, say, http://micro.blog. Ask me how I know. https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/
So, trying this again: I posted a few preliminary thoughts this morning about the relationship between sustainability and solidarity. I’d love to hear your ideas, and in particular suggestions for things I ought to be reading. https://kfitz.info/sustainability-and-solidarity/
Replying to @LibSkrat
Ooh, yes please. Many thanks!
Replying to @LibSkrat
Fantastic — this is super helpful!
This strikes me as *spectacularly* ill-timed. https://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/1022183927308419072
Replying to @ctitusbrown and @CameronNeylon
Indeed!
Seriously one of the two best things I read last year. https://twitter.com/gmbritton/status/1022548399609065472
I think I can say, but we’ll find out: @tressiemcphd’s Lower Ed. https://twitter.com/gmbritton/status/1022550393048457218
Replying to @tressiemcphd
I totally believe you!
Hey, FYI, these white papers are also searchable and downloadable at Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/?tag=neh+white+papers https://twitter.com/SheilaABrennan/status/1019586307650211840
Replying to @cplong
The WP-Markdown plugin does the trick — assuming you’re not also using the Gutenberg plugin.
New tools become tenable only if the attendant social organization of labor changes in concert with the development of the tools, if adjustments are made to the ways that labor and expertise are divided and that resources and rewards are distributed. ... https://kfitz.info/3268-2/
Dear Internet Services That Allow Account Creation Via Self-Reported Email Addresses:
For the love of Pete, please require email verification before creating the account.
Love,
Not the @kfitz who created & is using that @TripAdvisor account, but the one who will be deleting it.
Replying to @jwolman and @TripAdvisor
Seriously.
RT @gmbritton: Why have Humanities scholars been so reluctant to embrace #OpenAccess monographic publishing? It’s more than just the reluct…
RT @cplong: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem \(TOME\) data repository: http://cplong.net/scholcomm/toward-an-open-monograph-ecosystem-tome-data-repository/