July 2010
judging Twitter →
A while back I commented on David Carr’s enthusiasm for Twitter: “Twitter helps define what is important,” etc. etc. Now Peggy Orenstein comes to the same magazine with fear and trepidation:…
iPad update →
I returned it.
three days of the iPad →
1) If you’re just browsing the web, and don’t need to look at any Flash sites, it’s hard to beat. Fast and smoothly intuitive. You can’t switch pages as quickly as you can switch tabs on a standard…
one more reason to deplore the rise of e-readers,... →
David Barnett:
Well, is it just me, or … look, does anyone else have an unhealthy obsession not just with what people have on their bookshelves but what they’re actually reading right there and…
structured and unstructured →
One of the coolest applications for the Mac is Notational Velocity, an extraordinarily simple yet also innovative note-taking program. I’ve been using it for the past year or so and really digging…
assignment bleg →
So, in the next few days I’m going to be working on my syllabi for the upcoming semester. One of my classes is called “Classical and Early British Literature”: it’s one of those big surveys of…
where "we" are →
Peggy Nelson:
We’ve moved from the etiquette of the individual to the etiquette of the flow.
Question: Who are “we”?
This is not mob rule, nor is it the fearsome hive mind, the sound of six…
technologies of the seminar room →
There’s a really interesting conversation at Brian Croxall’s site on integrating digital technology into English classes — more particularly, into graduate seminars. Turns out that that it’s hard…
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