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Category Archives: Writing
Office goes online, maybe
Microsoft Office goes online, a little slowly, but for a reason: cloud via Office, not via browser. Continue reading
Posted in Nerdliness, Writing
Tagged 2010, cloud, collaboration, google docs, micrsoft, network, web
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From A to <A> is under contract
I’m happy to say that at long last, From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Jeff and I hope to see it in print in Spring 2010.
CPTSC 2008
I recently attended CPTSC 2008 in Minneapolis: pretty good conference, damn good beer. Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Food, Travel, Writing
Tagged Beer, conference, cptsc, Food, hostel, minneapolis
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if (Web == OS)
About Ted Dziuba’s “web != OS” rant, inspired by Google’s Chrome browser Continue reading
Beer & evidence
I recently traveled to Chicago for excellent beer and a course by Edward Tufte. Continue reading
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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Odds and ends Thursday
Catch-all: strawberries, cleaning, accessibility internship, writing a review Continue reading
Readymades at CCCC
Crossposted with a few email lists… A colleague and I are putting together a panel on readymades, and we’re looking for a third presenter. Broadly speaking, we’re looking at the re-emergence of the readymade in a variety of forms: web-based … Continue reading
Twitchell disappoints
James Twitchell gets busted for plagiarism. Continue reading
Updating our graduate program
Our graduate committee recently finished the paperwork for a comprehensive revision of our graduate program. “Update” is an understatement. The old curriculum was state of the art around 1970. Maybe 1870. Coursework covered three areas: British Literature, British Literature, and … Continue reading