I’m making up for light posting here lately by guest-blogging over at Bookslut this week. Come on over and check it out. Feel free to send literary tidbits my way, too.
Archives for Net Life
Mapping Irish-American Lit, cont.
Not long ago, I wrote a story for the Chronicle Review on “literary geospaces,” profiling two digital humanists who are using technologies like Google Earth to see literary history in fresh ways. One of the scholars I wrote about, Matthew Jockers of Stanford, has posted more about his work on his blog, describing the bigger… Continue reading »
“Online Is Not Cheaper”
My latest story for the Chronicle looks at lessons learned from Gutenberg-e, the high-profile digital-history monograph series created by Columbia University Press and the Columbia Libraries in collaboration with the American Historical Association. It has quietly added an open-access option. It has also switched its subscription model from in-house to the Humanities E-Book project run… Continue reading »
“Your Whole Life Has Been a Crushing Failure”
Librarians get their own web series, “Erik the Librarian,” courtesy of “The Office” scribe Brent Forrester. Speak Quietly has the skinny and a clip. Worth the three minutes and 25 seconds of your life that you will spend watching it. (Link via LIS News.)
Content and Discontent
Over at Print Is Dead, Jeffrey Gomez has posted a report from this week’s O’Reilly Tools of Change confab NYC. Depending on how devoted you are to the idea of the solitary writer/reader, you will find it either bracing or alarming. According to Gomez, one panelist, Stephen Abram, talked about how Wiki-style creation (context, in… Continue reading »
