Epistemographer

I’ve had this domain for close to 10 years now, a decade in which I’ve moved from MovableType to Wordpress and from one theme to another countless times. Aside from the pleasure of rearranging deck chairs, I never really found satisfaction in the themes themselves; nothing ever seemed to fit the way I wanted things […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I both consume and produce information, and have come to a few realizations:

In general over the past few years, the net flow has been inward, with me taking in more than I’m putting out in a productive way. I’ve always been okay with this, under the assumption [...]

…albeit the next to least popular one according to New York Magazine’s feature on YouTube. Next to last, baby! The only one after me was, well, a history professor. I just *knew* that moving from a university to a library was a step up in the cultural firmament!

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 [...]

Several pieces of news that I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks, but might as well announce publicly before I head to SXSWi on Monday (heading down late ’cause my sister chose this weekend to get married, one of the handful of events worth missing “Geek Spring Break” for):
1) In mid-April, I’ll be leaving [...]

It’s been a good 5 months since my last even vaguely-substantial post and more than a year since I’ve posted deeply and regularly, and I’ve been mulling over the reasons why. Have no fear – this is emphatically *not* one of those “I’m sorry for not posting” posts (after having written a few of those [...]

Been on a bit of a blog sabbatical for the past few months. All’s well; just didn’t have much of substance to say, so I figured I’d take a break and build up some motive energy (well, not entirely true, but close enough). I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the peculiar transition between grad [...]

So, I’d been gone so long that my front page went blank. I remarked to someone today that this is the blog equivalent of leaving your fly down, but I think a better analogy is letting your grass go unmowed until it’s knee-high; the stigma comes not just from the visible neglect, but its particularly [...]