Epistemographer

…Verve Remixed 2, the follow-up to one of my favorite CDs. The iTunes thing is crazy easy, a little disturbingly so, to be entirely honest – the act of consumption was pretty much frictionless, and I’m wrapping my mind around the fact that I didn’t actually purchase anything physical. It’s an interesting moment of reconstructing my previous technological frame, and feeling very conscious of it.

Meanwhile, I’m listening to my new music and simultaneously burning a CD to listen to in the car on my way to NYC tomorrow…if anything, I’m a little concerned with how easily I could get used to this!

Sociologist Michael Bull wrote a great book called Sounding out the City on the ways that individuals use personal audio devices (mainly Walkmen) to transform their experience of urban space, and now it looks like he’s turning his attention to the iPod. Doesn’t seem like he’s reached many conclusions yet, but something to keep an eye on..

Via the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

Chronicle Careers: Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology/Modern France (3/5/2004)

Mississippi State University’s Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level in the History of Science and Technology. The successful candidate must also have a field in modern French history and be prepared to teach Quantitative Methods.

It’s the last one that really throws me…

Just downloaded a new RSS reader (FeedDemon) as well as a Movable Type publishing tool (Zempt). We’ll see if these tools are an actual improvement over my old everything-through-the-browser routine…