I got press…
Back in New York City for the next week, with nothing on the agenda but dissertation writing and exercise (both of which I’ve sadly been neglecting while out of town). With that in mind, I’ve established a self-imposed moratorium on the reading of blogs of any sort until I get my next chapter finished…while this may not be easy (especially since the primary season is about to kick off), it’s entirely necessary. I’ll still post stuff here, if nothing else updating the dissertation progress sidebar throughout the week.
In other news, a profile of me and my research was published in the Cornell Alumni Magazine this month – since their website diesn’t appear to be current, I’ll link to a PDF version of the article that I recieved by fax (pardon the quality). The profile is a bit sensationalist, but definitely well-done, and it impressively doesn’t fall into the trap of over-simplifying the kinds of approaches I take to charting the rise and fall of the VCR.
And the best part is that while I’d done the interview months ago, I didn’t even know it had made it into print until last week, when I recieved a phone call from a Cornell alum who had seen the article and wanted to chat. Turns out that he had helped run the earliest U.S. demonstrations of Sony’s U-matic video player (a predecessor of the Betamax which was aimed at the educational and institutional markets), and was also involved with many other early video companies, including Cartrivision, which I’ve written about. We hung up an hour later, and I’ve now got a few more paragraphs of material to weave into Chapter 2.
In other news, I just sent back the page proofs for a review of Fred Wasser’s VCR book Veni, Vidi, Video that will appear in the next issue of Technology and Culture. I’ve also got an article coming out in the next issue of Public Understanding of Science on religious readings of a Hubble Space Telescope image, which I’ll link to once it’s actually in print.
So, that’s it for now – off to work!