Happy 2018. We’re still here, aren’t we, and that’s something, the way the world’s going. Kudos to us all for hanging in there. At year’s end/beginning, I’ve seen a number of journalists doing “My year in stories” roundups. I considered that–I wrote a lot of stories this year!–but am not sure I have the energy… Continue reading »
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Making “Accidental Archives” Pop
I wrote for Humanities Magazine about Pop Up Archive, a startup (funded in part by NEH) that set out to tackle the problem of how to make archived radio broadcasts, podcasts, and other audio files–“accidental archives”–findable and usable. Lots of interesting work going on in this space. And Apple just bought PUA, which is both a dream… Continue reading »
Back on the Beat
I pulled off a hat trick of stories last week, all on the library/publishing beat. For Slate’s Future Tense, I wrote about “The Copyright Mavericks,” including the Internet Archive’s Sonny Bono Memorial Collection and other recent library-driven experiments in freeing up scanned and in-copyright content for library patrons to research and enjoy. For EdSurge, I… Continue reading »
Room to Write
For a too-brief but blissful spell last month, I had a room of my own for writing, thanks to a writing residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. If you’re a VCCA Fellow, you get a studio to work in. Mine had a desk, bookshelf, bulletin board, and day bed. Here’s… Continue reading »
Writers, retreat!
Childcare. Eldercare. Elder-dog care. Day job. Housework. I am rich in to-do lists. Writing gets done but too often it gets done in the margins* of the rest of my life. I would like to toss a few clothes in a bag and escape with my thoughts, my laptop, and my notebook to some blissful… Continue reading »
