• @anthrojason Glad to hear I'm not the only one still working on their paper. #AAA2010 #
• RT @jenkersey: Thanks to @billguinee for putting together #AAA10 presos by Twitterers. Add yours here #
• @Chanders – Awesome! Glad too hear you'll be there! #
• @Chanders & @mathewi: isn't the real web2.0 way to just scrape Wikipedia and then cut it to the necessary wordcount? #
• @DeniceSzafran – I'm down with the Thursday Tweetup but it needs to be after the late panel gets out (9.30) #aaa2010 #
• #aaa2010 folks: Anyone getting in to the airport tonight around 6pm who wants to split a ride? DM me. #
• Rock on… Living on a Prayer is playing @ the Jet Blue terminal at JKF. What a way to get ready to head to new orleans and #aaa10 #
• Welcome to NO. Finished "near final draft" on the flight. Still have to do PPT. Oh, Louis Armstrong rock for having free wifi! #aaa10 #
• Filipe's Taqueria is amazing cheap eats in the French Quarter. A killer option for grad students attending #aaa2010 on a budget! #
• @Not_Melliroo Where did you find the west african? #
• @abue beware elbows of death! I've seen ong bak… I know what they can do! #
• @kerim — is there free wifi there? #
• @Not_Melliroo thnx for the recommendation… sounds great! #
• #AAA2010 Powerpoint #fail It doesn't handle FLV files!!?? #
• Woot. need to do a cheap and fast conversion (like FLV to MPG)? Check out http://www.mediaconverter.org/ #
• @kerim any chance you are still @ PJ's? #
• RT @r3x0r: My session is at noon today: stdo 8, 2nd flr Marriott, "Avatar and Anthropology". COME AND LET ME ROCK YOU SHAKA KAHN #aaa2010 #
• & for more Blue Peeps 2day @ #aaa2010 check out Mishen Carpentier's "Avatar & Indexicality" : 1-0780, on: Gallier A, 4 flr #
• #aaa2010 – check out Virtuality, simulation, social life @ 6.00 – balcony N, 4th flr marriot – virtual war, therapists, & surgery #
• No worries… Not sure if due to timing I can see yours… #
• #AAA2010 #fail – thinking that going to PJ's coffee down the streer would be faster than lobby starbucks… http://yfrog.com/5yk5ubvj #
• @jennycool … And I was a proud, gryping lemming. ;) when are you presenting? #
• @lisbet – even better than lulz was @BiellaColeman making a #goatse at #AAA2010 panel… #

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• Trying to writing about an #ethnography that fails precisely because it almost succeeds is really kicking my butt! #writersblock #
• RT @BiellaColeman: I am in Rio One More Night! My flight is 17 hours delayed! (+ #RandPaul = sign! We'll miss U but U belong to brazil now) #
• @hughmcguire Congratz on the news of a new arrival (or should I say edition) to the world and your family! #
• @nancybaym – can't recommend a qualitative analysis package, but would you tweet whatever consensus suggestions you get? #
• RT @davidberiss Restaurant guide for AAA meeting in New Orleans, along w/ links to reliable bar lists: http://wp.me/pLqnj-5N #food #AAA2010 #
• Hey #AAA10 #anthro peeps — should the social "we" try to organize a tweet up in New Orleans? #

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• Sitting at Dulles on my way out to SF & the Internet Archive to give a talk that mashes Vannevar Bush and Walter Benjamin… #
• @R_Nash I'm only mentioning Work of Art… I'll be spending time with Task of the Translator and Unpacking my Library… in reply to R_Nash #
• @R_Nash — btw Woot! The notorious Benjamin representing at Books in Browsers…. #
• RT @R_Nash: @mattBernius It's all about the Benjamins. <- This is why @R_Nash is full of win! #
• @R_Nash – I'm going with the *right* pronunciation. @BTW @Stml is totally correct about the book (object) and aura… #
• Of course the entire "Right" thing is a combination of the University of Chicago and growing up having people butcher my name… #
• @alexismadrigal Thnx… btw, you should chck this great post on Benjamin, Aura, Books & eBooks – http://booktwo.org/notebook/openbookmarks/ #
• Oy… It is luggagageddon on this flight… There is no more room overhead… http://yfrog.com/75et8cj #
• Good morning SF & #bib10 On the bus to the Internet Archive. http://yfrog.com/jbl36bj #
• And Books In Browsers #BiB10 is off with a welcome from @naypinya #
• Note that cuniform had DRM — to protect the content of contracts they would bake one tablet inside another. #bib10 #
• #BIB10 – Many archives are now also collecting older, working computers, so visitors can still access early digital works like Freakshow #
• @ToughLoveforX Just started a Twapper Keeper for the conference in reply to ToughLoveforX #
• @Allennoren – O'Reilly's biggest competitor isn't a publisher, it's Google. It's also one of our biggest advocates. #bib10 #
• @billmccoy is sharing the good and the awesome of the new #ePub3 standard #bib10 #
• #epub v3 – Embedded fonts are standard, SVG integration, core content HTML 5 standard (w/its semantic markup) #bib10 #
• RT @Hadrien: SVG for manga & comics in #EPUB 3? We also need an XML format to describe the "scenario" #BiB10 <- +1 for this idea #
• RT @craigmod: Trad book designers — want to know how to stay 'relevant'? Learn to hand code HTML5 with design nuance and elegance. #bib10 #
• See the under development #epub 3 spec at – http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision #bib10 #
• @craigmod – Not sure if McLuhan's Hot/Cold is the right metaphor for enhanced ebooks… #
• @draccah – ADDING media to an ebooks is not the same as INTEGRATING media into an eBook. #Bib10 #
• @draccah – iDrakula i app recreates dracula in a serialized modern media environment – #bib10 #
• @anthologize (http://anthologize.org/) gets a shout-out at #bib10 (sorry for the extra tweets) #
• Since the advent of books, individual's reading histrories have been sought by regimes – spanish inq, mccarthy, post911 ACLU @ #bib10 #
• Nicole Ozer of ACLU points #Bib10 to an eBook on Reader Privacy (in Ebooks and physical books as well) – #
• Also free from ACLU of Nor Cal: Privacy and Free Speech Primer for Businesses – #bib10 #privacy #
• Nicole Ozer – if you (business) are being sued because you're trying to protect users privacy, call ACLU before you go to press #bib10 #
• #bib10 – How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy? – #
• RT @kevinmarks: ACLU site http://trackedinamerica.org documentary site on the history of surveillance in the US #BiB10 #
• #bib10 – Free eBooks still generate value for the publisher in terms of attention and more importantly analytics #
• Brewster kale directing group photo at #BIB10 http://yfrog.com/n2yimlnj #
• Books without Barriers & AnyDaisy firefox plugin ads makes books available to the blind through browsers! #bib10 #
• RT @openlibrary: Mang's #bib10 presentation + sneak peek of our new BookReader! NB: Might break etc. #
• Bookreader works great on a Windows 7 touch enabled tablet. It friggin' rocks! And no downloads, it just goes! – #bib10 #
• And Brewster Kale reminds @mangbot to remind us that Bookreader is all opensource. DL it here: #bib10 #
• Containers were always an option… it's just that for about 1500 we didn't have any other container options for text… #bib10 #
• 1500 years (that is)… #bib10 #
• RT @craigmod: @brianoleary wins the magical presentation from the future award. #bib10 (+1) #
• Container Myopia – How publishers fail to see that they are in the content solution business – @brianoleary #BIB10 #
• @brianoleary – Piracy is the result of a bad API! (me: yes! yes! yes!) #bib10 #
• Brewster Kahle: This is the transformation of books. We're not just watching it. We're participating in it. #bib10 #
• Brewster Khale: We're trying to build the Library of Alexandria v2.0. #bib10 #
• Woot! Brewster Kahle name checks and gives props to @bookglutton and #ibisreader @liza #bib10 #
• @bekka_black It's a brilliant idea & execution. Totally in keeping w/Bram Stoker (& meta). I'll be talking about it 2morrow as well @ #bib10 in reply to bekka_black #
• The "internet archive players" demonstrate their reader ap's in-browser lending… you can check out a book an its exclusive to you. #bib10 #
• @R_Nash : Today at #bib10 is all about the [walter] benjamins! <- Me and how! #
• @R_Nash: The writer is always a reader… #bib10 #
• Slight build on @R_Nash – Before Gutenberg, for most people, you owned a text by being able to recite it from memory. #bib10 #
• @bookglutton' Aaron Miller: What's still missing from ebooks is everything that the web does well. #bib10 #
• RT @katmeis: Bob Stein's speech #bib10 material available at http://futureofthebook.org/social-reading/ #
• #bib10 attendees form a "box brigade" to help the Internet Archive move CDs. See the movie of one box's journey – #
• From San Fran to Nashville… #
• And pancakes! http://yfrog.com/m9z11gvj #

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• RT @CMcGranahan: Intel's Cultural Anthropologist Genevieve Bell is changing how Intel's engineers think about technology http://is.gd/fNQ4B #
• @jdunck – I'll be going to News Foo, and I thought I was on my own list — Need to check on that! in reply to jdunck #
• #Academics & #Grad Students – wondering how to make text selectable in your #PDF #039;s? Here's a quick primer: #
• The new Cornell #Anthro Website is finally live (at our brand spankin' new URL) – http://anthropology.cornell.edu #
• RT @dylan20: If you had told me in 1995 that I'd still be manually typing <p> … </p> tags in 2010, I would have laughed #
• No twitter for me today… I have to get through this pile of #grading .. #

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• My response to Jaron Lanier's anti-education tech screed is now available at Internet Evolution: #digitalclassroom #
• @ToughLoveforX — you'll probably be interested in my response to Lanier on edutech #ecosys – – I'd love comments… #
• @toughloveforX – all great points… and you're very right about cars and "never be able to drive that fast" #
• RT @JRandomF: heard from Ira Flatow of Science Friday that show is in a funding crisis. NSF has dropped them, NPR pays only 10% of cost! #
• @ToughLoveforX – Another story bout the first printed bibles was they were said to be the devil's work cause they all had same typos. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
• RT @RogerBlack: Congratulations to Matthew Carter, the world's greatest living #type designer, on winning a #MacArthur prize! (woot x2) #
• I inturrupt your regular stream with a picture of a giant lightbulb at #cornell http://yfrog.com/n8puvtj #
• @NancyBaym in an excellent talk @cornell, just shared Socrates argument that "the alphabet will make us dumb" #
• @jdwcornell Glad I'm not the only one — though I have to say it's far less stinky than Touchdown the Cornell Dear in reply to jdwcornell #
• oops… Bear #
• Ann Landers: My mail tells me that the internet may become the principal homewrecker of the next century (1998) – via @nancybaym #
• @nancybaym : New Yorker Cartoons from the '20's demonstrate how today's concerns about tech have been around for a long time. #

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