Yesterday was the annual Day of DH, “an open community publication project” in which digital scholars and practitioners document their day’s activities as a way of answering the question “Just what do digital humanists really do?” (Follow the hashtag #DayofDH for tweets and links to Day of DH blog posts from around the world.) I’m not… Continue reading »
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*Friday Linkage
[*I don’t know what to call this feature yet. If one of you suggests something catchy and I use it, I’ll give you a shout-out on the blog.] I’ve wanted to start a Friday-links feature for a while now. I’m finally getting around to it. Every Friday, I’ll post a few links to stories, blog… Continue reading »
Busy, Busy, Busy
Are you busy? Of course you are. It’s the modern (Western, middle-class, parent, plugged-in) condition: For many of us, life unspools as a never-ending to-do list. Wake up, pack lunches, get the kids to school, get ourselves to our jobs, work all day, collect the kids, make dinner, supervise homework, do the laundry, walk the… Continue reading »
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing died yesterday, aged 94. I haven’t read enough of her work to have much useful to say about it. (Maybe I will read more now.) But I like this Lessing quotation, which I came across via Ron Charles at the Washington Post: “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are… Continue reading »
Where I’ve Been
Not the most exciting headline for a blog post, no. But I realize it’s been a long time since I posted anything and I don’t want the blog to go too quiet. Twitter and other outlets have taken up some energy that blogging uses, true, but I value having a space in which I can… Continue reading »
