Shit humanists say: A response to “English Profs want to control the internet”
Posted: October 2, 2012 Filed under: Digital Humanities, Essays, General, humanities, Research, Universities | Tags: approaches, Conferences, Methodology, rhetoric, Twitter 4 Comments »This is a response to “English Profs want to control the Internet”, by somebody who apparently doesn’t want their name front-and-centre. It is slightly modified from the comment I submitted, but since this is actual and it is in a moderation queue, I decided to post it here as well. I wouldn’t mind returning to the topic, to be honest.
I find the genre of this piece (“humanists say the darndest things”) about as tiring as the debate about tweeting conferences. It is pretty easy to make fun of ongoing conversations in any discipline you don’t normally follow, especially if, as others have pointed out, you don’t actually read the things you are linking to, let alone the broad context in which they are being written. Yesterday the Chronicle was reporting on scientists who peer review their own articles by creating fake email addresses and even entire identities. Yet I can resist the temptation to suggest that this must mean that all natural and medical sciences are one large circle jerk.
How to add a twitter feed to Moodle
Posted: September 12, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Computers, digital pedagogy, Moodle, Teaching, Twitter Leave a comment »Like many Digital Humanists, I use twitter a lot: for communicating with colleagues, the general public, and my students. Like most users of twitter (certainly most academics, I suspect), my most common type of tweet is probably one in which I share a resource I have come across—a book, article, website, project, etc. Since I use our university’s Moodle installation to store resources for my students, it would be quite useful to be able to capture a Twitter feed inside our Moodle class space. This post shows how to do it.
tags: digital pedagogy, moodle, teaching, twitter
Should I keep this blog? Should I retweet yours? Scholarly responsibility and new publication models
Posted: August 24, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Digital Humanities, Essays, General, Research, Scholarly publishing, Textpattern, Wordpress | Tags: blogs, Ernesto Priego, instititonal repository, Matt Schneider, retweeting, Twitter Leave a comment »I’ve been engaged with on-line scholarly publication for almost two decades. For a while in the middle of the first decade of this century in fact, my most popular and most often cited publication was a 1998 webpage describing my plans for an electronic edition of the Old English poem Caedmon’s Hymn Read the rest of this entry »
Rejigging my online presence
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: About, Notes, Research | Tags: CMS, digital humanities, Facebook, News, Textpattern, Twitter, Web history, web sites, Wikipedia Leave a comment »The last time I did some serious work about my online presence was six years ago, or so. At the time I replaced my old static professional websites (pre-2004 and 2004-2006) with a new site built using a Textpattern CMS install. Read the rest of this entry »