An iPad recently came to live in my house. I was given it for my birthday, and I’ve enjoyed playing with it. So have my children, who are 7 and 9 and drawn to anything with a screen. By luck or habit or genetic inheritance, they’re also great readers, so I downloaded a couple of… Continue reading »
Archives for Net Life
Doubting Digital Durability
Not long ago, I had a chance to interview the cyberpunk Bruce Sterling, who’s in the process of giving his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. It was a neat, all-over-the-place conversation–one that’s given me some ideas for future stories–but one thread I can’t let go of is… Continue reading »
Blogmaniacal
Counting this entry, I have managed to turn up on four blogs this week. I’ve been guest-blogging at Bookslut, which I always get a kick out of. Bookslut ought to be part of your regular lit-net rounds if it’s not already. For the Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog, I wrote about “Collector in Chief,” a new… Continue reading »
Two More Podcasts
My adventures in podcasting continue. First, I joined Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt on their “Digital Campus” podcast (Episode 51, “The Inevitable iPad,” Jan. 28, 2010). We recorded the podcast the day after Apple’s big iPad announcement, so we talked a lot about what the iPad might or might not do for teaching… Continue reading »
Pod(cast) People
I’m a guest on this week’s installment of Digital Campus, a podcast hosted by Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The episode’s theme is “Publishers Bleakly”, and Dan, Mills, Tom, Josh Greenberg of the NYPL and I talk about some of the… Continue reading »
