Since I'm not able to add plugins to The Chronicle's website, I wanted to give people a handy link to show them the Twitter Blackbird Pie plugin at work. And of course, I needed to use the tweet that started this whole thing... [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/kfitz/statuses/57261658711670785"] ...as well as one of my own to show you … Continue reading Twitter Blackbird Pie at Work
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Three Reasons to Use Social Media in Hard Times (MLA 2011 Version)
It's been so long since this year's MLA ended that you might wonder why I'm going to the trouble of posting my second talk. Hasn't the moment passed? Does anyone care about what I said two months ago, even if you weren't there? And considering the arguments that I make in this talk about social … Continue reading Three Reasons to Use Social Media in Hard Times (MLA 2011 Version)
Defining “Digital Humanities”
Like many others, I'm going to be participating in this year's Day of Digital Humanities. It's my first year doing so since last year's Day coincided with a campus interview and it just didn't seem kosher to write about what I was doing even though it was a digital humanities job. The Day of DH … Continue reading Defining “Digital Humanities”
Culinary School vs. Graduate School
I listen to NPR most days as I commute, and I found yesterday's story about the difficult job prospects and debt facing culinary school graduates very familiar. The similarity between the circumstances of those training to be chefs and those training to be faculty members was so striking that I couldn't resist writing NPR and … Continue reading Culinary School vs. Graduate School
Code for BootCamp Southeast
Here is information that you will need to copy and paste for the THATCamp Southeast BootCamp session on "Visualizing Time and Space with Simile Widgets and Google." <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/exhibit-api.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://api.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/2.2.0/extensions/time/time-extension.js"></script> <link rel="exhibit/data" type="application/jsonp" href="XXX?alt=json-in-script" ex:converter="googleSpreadsheets" /> <div ex:role="facet" ex:facetClass="TextSearch" ex:facetLabel="Search"></div> <div ex:role="facet" ex:expression=".eventType" ex:facetLabel="Event Type"></div> <div ex:role="view" ex:viewClass="Map" ex:label="Map" ex:latlng=".event_latlng" ex:center="37.160317,-96.943359" ex:zoom="4" ex:colorKey=".eventRegion"> … Continue reading Code for BootCamp Southeast