Epistemographer

It’s now been more than two weeks since I heard the news that Roy Rosenzweig was gone; two weeks caught between an irrepressible urge to say something and a complete inability to find the right configuration of words. I spent most of that time reading what others had written, and the things that stick with me are the small, concrete details, as if I’m still unable to wrap my mind around the whole of who Roy was and what he achieved in his life. And yet since I still feel as though something needs to be said, I’ll simply say this:

Until I encountered Roy and the Center he’d created, I had a diverse collection of academic and technological interests, and it took three years of quiet osmosis and subtle mentoring for them to cohere. It wasn’t until I left GMU earlier this year that I began to truly appreciate what he did for me, and I’ll spend the rest of my career paying that forward. For now, though it’s just a beginning, this is dedicated to Roy…

In the digital equivalent of letting my lawn get so overgrown that it overtook the house, Dreamhost shut down epistemographer.com a few days ago (according to them, an RSS plugin was out of control, spiking load on my shared server). So, I’ve rolled back to a vanilla Wordpress installation, and hopefully the process of building from scratch will start my blogging engine once more. If nothing else, there’s all sorts of cool stuff going on at NYPL that I really ought to be telling y’all about…