Two hours ago, I had to ask someone what day it was. But now that it's almost midnight, I'm finding myself drawn once again to the blank page of the blog post. Or rather, I appear to be treating the idea of blogging every day of One Week | One Tool as some sort of dare … Continue reading Day 3 of OWOT: Of Names and Stories and Gophers
So here it is, 10 minutes until midnight on the second full day of One Week | One Tool. As best I can tell, I've been working on the project straight for the last 15 hours. And after this blog post, I will go to bed and start again at 9am. This is, I imagine, … Continue reading Day 2 of OWOT: Pick your Poison
For the last year or so, my blog posts have tended to come on a monthly basis and have tended to be longer posts which also tend to be either CFPs or recent talks that I've given. I've got one of the latter coming (3 months after the fact and all). But this week is … Continue reading Day 1 of OWOT: Check Your Ego at the Door
A few months ago I wrote about the Digital Pedagogy Unconference that Adeline Koh and I had organized. I'm pleased to announce--both here and over at ProfHacker--that the long dark night of the soul has passed and you can now visit our website and register for the unconference, which will take place on the morning of 3 January. It's … Continue reading Why the 2013 MLA Digital Pedagogy Unconference Isn’t a THATCamp
A few years ago, my colleague Rachel Bowser and I co-edited a special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on the subject of steampunk. As I'm guessing you already know, steampunk is a movement fascinated by the vagaries of time as well as technology. So perhaps that's why we find ourselves--two years later--going back to this particular imagined future. … Continue reading Join our Band of Merry Air Pirates: Call for Abstracts on Steampunk