For the past week or so, I have followed the tweets from two conferences: Digital Humanities 09 and That Camp (An “unconference” Here is a good explanation of what that means). Due to some monetary constraints, I was unable to attend but could follow what was happening in real time due to the massive amount of posts on Twitter by attendees via the hash tags #dh09 and #thatcamp. I was able to interact with them, comment on what was happening along side, and meet new friends and Twitter followers.
Twitter has really changed conferences. For years I have always kicked myself when I miss an interesting conference. Live blogging has made this less painful, but real time coverage on Twitter really changes how people not even at the conference can interact with presenters and attendees. I was definitely not the only non-attendee commenting and asking questions to people in attendance.
Soon, I will have a number of posts commenting on topics I read about on the #dh09 and #thatcamp tags. For now, the notes Digilib posted for various panels is a good place to start. After this week’s discourse, I am more proud of the Digital Humanities than I have ever been before; clearly this was the right direction for me to take and I hope to begin a career in it soon.
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I like the new visual notifications in Ubuntu 9.04’s panel. However, this only works for selected processes and programs. An Ubuntu user has created an extension to add Firefox notifications to Jaunty’s panel. This is very useful and will hopefully lead to other programs adapting similar extensions.
(Or do they already? Is there an easier way to get my programs to use Jaunty’s notifications in the panel?)
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Since I started running more seriously, and consistently, about two years ago I’ve meant to start blogging about my experience. I’ll try to do this each month when I am clearing my monthly Google Doc spreadsheet to begin a new one.
In May I made great strides towards lowering my mile time. I am running 1.5 miles, four or five days a week, depending on some factors, and feel great doing it. Last summer I moved up to two miles per run, but had slowed down a bit during the winter. At the beginning of May, I was averaging a bit over eight minutes per mile. By the time the end of the month, I was down to a little over seven and a half minutes, which included my best mile time ever.
I’ll post an update each month or more often if readers have ideas for posts. I don’t really follow running culture too much, so I am not that clued into what bloggers typically write about in regards to running.
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After nearly two years of hard work, frustration, anger, thrills, and multitudes of new learning paths gained I present my MA Thesis:
A Threat To The Known: The Unknown Descendants Of Print Culture
My primary focus, I hope, is on the role of reader agency and how it is affected by hypertext fiction. I used These Waves Of Girls and The Unknown as my primary examples and Dracula as a canonical touchstone.
I’ll have a longer post next week documenting my thoughts about my work, the MA Thesis process, and other issues that crossed my path.
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