Writing

A review of The Digital Critic, a collection of essays on living the literary life online, for the TLS. Read More at The Times Literary Supplement »

My alma mater's alumni magazine asked me to profile Peter Dougherty, the outgoing director of Princeton University Press, and I was happy to oblige. Read More at Princeton Alumni Weekly »

Has it really been 10 years? The Office of Digital Humanities at the NEH celebrated a decade of supporting seminal digital scholarship recently, and I was there to mark the occasion. Read More at EdSurge »

"Whatever lies ahead, during its five-year existence Pop Up Archive helped accelerate a collective and rapidly evolving effort to get a handle on audio archives, accidental or otherwise. That Pop Up Archive won the intense support it did in a short time span speaks to the pressing need felt not just by radio producers and broadcasters but by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, too." Read More at Humanities »

Is there a workaround that allows libraries to make digitized copies of some copyrighted material publicly accessible? Looks that way. The Internet Archive (the geniuses behind the Wayback Machine) and a crack copyright scholar are testing the limits of a little-known section of the copyright code.