All My Tweets For the Week Ending 2009-10-18

Oct 18, 2009 //


  • joe wikert on why the current crop of ereading devices are rather weak – #
  • Questions about eInk technology? The OPL is setting up an interview with eInk Corporation (. Send us questions to ask. #
  • $#%! — I left for Ithaca this morning with Dre's keys'. That means I'll be heading back to Rochester this afternoon. #
  • Back in Ithaca after an overnight trip to Rah-cha-cha. And it's snowing here! Say hello to an early winter… #

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All My Tweets For the Week Ending 2009-10-11

Oct 11, 2009 //


  • Gah — total technology failure in the middle of presenting at an O'Reilly online seminar! not good! #
  • 50 minutes is just not enough time for a presentation! Ok… onto student grading and then some blogging… #
  • RT @EFSlattery: RT @inkyelbows: Publishing is not a dying business; it's a CHANGING business. (via @laurieabkemeier) #
  • RT @mikerubits: The League of Moveable Type – a collection of open source fonts: http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ #
  • @ceejayoz Oh Nooz – what happened to your iPhone? in reply to ceejayoz #
  • Rita Mae's off at obedience lessons? What time is it? It's vacuum time! #

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disembodied conference

Oct 10, 2009 //


Electronic Lecturing

On Thursday I was a presented on the future of eReaders (like the Kindle) at O’Rielly’s online Tools of Change conference. It was a bit of an odd experience. While the talk was to an audience of over 230 people, I never saw a single one of them (or heard them for that matter). I gave the talk from a study room in Cornell’s Mann library, using Webex software to show my slides and talking to the audience via a cell phone connection (and a bluetooth headset). The only reference to attendance was a participant counter in the Webex interface.

It’s more than a little jarring to have no immediate feedback (semiotic backchannels) like body language, facial expressions, or other forms of crowd engagement while speaking. I could have tried following the participant chat while I talked, but I worried that I’d get to distracted. On the plus side, I was able to play the “aging hipster”, presenting in jeans and representing RIT Taga with one of their awesome silkscreened shirts.

I did get a copy of the chat log (my favorite response was “Cultural Anthropology is the new Black.”) And there are a few summaries of my talk floating around. And for those in the audience who stumbled across this blog, over the next few days I’ll be posting short essays on what I discussed both here and at the OPL‘s site.

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All My Tweets For the Week Ending 2009-10-04

Oct 4, 2009 //


  • Ok, I'm back to tweeting after a harried few days. Let's start things off right — Happy birthday @aaron_t #
  • A pretty amazing Star Trek and Monty Python Mashup – #
  • Taught "Studying Digital Culture" : Check — Ok, gradin' here I come! #

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All My Tweets For the Week Ending 2009-09-27

Sep 27, 2009 //


  • @Gizmodo: Microsoft Courier: two screen "concept" tablet — um booklet. Lots of possible implications for eReading. #
  • @joeSchember #rit #print – Clearly they didn't take my Database Publishing Class — didn't I use that as a what not to do on the first day? in reply to joeSchember #
  • @heathershae Unlocking isn't scary at all… which one are you using? in reply to heathershae #
  • Mmm… my apartment smells of sage and brown butter — as Martha and @LJC would say, this is a good thing. #

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