Epistemographer

I was fortunate to have a great-grandmother through my late 20’s. Eva was a kind, sweet woman who lived a long and full life, and she’ll be missed by many…

Via Lessig: It seems that bloggers are organizing a free audio version of his new book, Free Culture. A list of who’s recording what is up at AKMA (with several chapters already available for download), and if I could spare the time from dissertation writing, I’d haul out my microphone and pitch in.

On the recent exodus of academic bloggers:

Something’s happening in the blogosphere, a shift, a reorientation, a great loss…In the past two or three days, several pillars of academic blogging have posted notice that they’re leaving not only the academic blogosphere, but academia, itself. This includes the stalwart Invisible Adjunct, the gentle Household Opera, [...]

So, after a good day and a half of writing, revising, discarding, rewriting, shutting my laptop in frustration, pondering, tossing and turning, writing some more, discarding some more and generally just trying to get the thoughts careening around in my head to calm down long enough to focus, I think I’ve finally got the first [...]

The best summary I’ve seen of yesterday’s political events:
Okay, students of the White House, what did we learn yesterday?
1) Senior administration officials can make remarks on a not-for-attribution basis to the press — but the White House can later decide to make the attribution public if it can help discredit said senior administration official-turned-whistle-blower.
2) When [...]

Just came across a photo I took after my last big brainstorming session with my advisor Ron about my dissertation (click it for a larger version):

Essentially, I’ve written a several-hundred page version of what’s on that blackboard. To be frank, it’s quite possible that I could have made the argument more straightforwardly and succinctly on [...]

Outstanding post by Kevin over on Where There’s Smoke :
Your readers– past, present and future–are busy people with families, careers and lives. They have a zillion forms of entertainment to choose from other than your book. You wanna get to the top of their reading pile? Why not put a little godamn effort into getting [...]

I’m surprised by how much this post saddens me:
A few months ago, I made a vow to myself that this would be my last semester as an invisible adjunct. Since I’ve failed to secure a full-time position in my final attempt at the academic job market, what this means, of course, is that I made [...]

Quite literally, in fact. It’s not so much that I have no time to blog, it’s more that my brain simply can’t take the thought of spending more time typing words on a screen when I’ve just spent hours upon hours wrestling with my dissertation.
I’m eagerly looking forward about three weeks to when I can [...]

filed under “Things on which to follow up once I’ve finished my dissertation”:
Dangermouse, the Jay-Z Construction Set and the Videogame Content Creation Model
I would hope that, in the near future, artists and publishers will see the value of releasing not only polished works, but the bits and parts used to create a work, including those [...]