Epistemographer

(for those of you who aren’t in the academic tech community, this is going to seem a bit inside-baseball…feel free to move right along)
Over the weekend, Bruce D’Arcus wrote a blog post about Zotero in which he said that “one gets the sense of a project at the portals of the cathedral gazing out at [...]

Inspired by a post by Jean Burgess, a tag cloud visualization of my book manuscript, (currently being copyedited):

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The CES Swarm went swimmingly (there’s really something to this idea of collaborative research), and now I’m back home starting to fit the pieces together and figure out what I make of them. Some fragments:
* Going into this year’s show, I had a few established interests: the relationship between amateurs/enthusiasts and professionals, the role of [...]

As I wrote a few days back, one of the threads underlying much of my thinking over the past year has been how we might use technology to nudge “scholarship” in a more publicly engaged direction. As a good STS do-bee, however, I’m the first to say that the technology isn’t what effects change, but [...]

Finally (after three months of “I’ll get to it one of these days”) switched this site over to Dreamhost. If you find anything that seems buggy, please let me know…