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Category Archives: Reading
Four times four
CARLI goes to a four-week term for book borrowing. Yuck. Continue reading
TCQ 19.1: Posthuman rhetorics & TC
My copy of TCQ 19.1 arrived the other day, and I got a chance to read it last night. It’s a special issue on “Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication”, edited by Byron Hawk and Andrew Mara. Good stuff: the articles … Continue reading
Platform studies, antidefined
Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort on what “platform studies” is not–and is. We need to balance thinking about hardware, and we need to learn some code. But that doesn’t mean getting away from software, culture, or the traditional concerns of the humanities. Continue reading
Posted in Nerdliness, Reading
Tagged bogost, code, definition, ease, montfort, platform studies, software studies, technological determinism
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Kopelson’s “Sp(l)itting Images”
Time to join the fun. Since others have already written some interesting things, I’ll keep this short. First, on context, to pick up on Alex’s comments about Cortland, what if we shift the ground from research universities to institutions where … Continue reading
Posted in Composition, Reading
Tagged carnival, CCC 59.4, kopelson, pedagogical imperative
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Catching up on dumbing down
Everyone else on the planet has probably read it already, but I’ve finished my first read of Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You. I like Johnson’s stuff (I fancy this this comment about an update of Interface Culture … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged dumbing down, games, pop culture, Reading, tech, television, web 2.0
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Running spark
I’m getting faster; some sparklines show it Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Running
Tagged graphics, run, sparklines, speed, visualization
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Tufte, Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte’s most recent book Beautiful Evidence follows in the tradition of his previous books, arguing for visual displays with high information density. Much of the argument is by example, annotated reproductions or redrawings of images Tufte identifies as “graphical … Continue reading
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Odds and ends Sunday
The Easterling-Dilger household is bustlin’ these days, so bloggin’ sometimes has to take a back seat. I’m very, very glad to say I’m reading a fair amount these days. I’m halfway through a second reading of Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence, which … Continue reading
Nielsen & Loranger, Prioritizing Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger Prioritizing Web Usability New Riders, 2006 Jakob Nielsen is the 800lb gorilla of usability, at least where the web is concerned. Why? Academics like him because of publications like Usability Engineering (1993), which uses a … Continue reading
Posted in Nerdliness, Reading, Research
Tagged book, loranger, nielsen, prioritizing web usability, review, usability, web
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Crystal, The Fight for English
Commentary on David Crystal’s The Fight for English (Oxford 2007), a history of and argument against prescriptive views of English. Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
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