Epistemographer

If my guess is right, there will be a whole lot of new people checking out this site today, as the news about my new job (as well as this URL) hits the in-house New York Public Library staff newsletter. With that in mind, let me just say hello to all my new colleagues! I’m [...]

File under ironic…

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 [...]

(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 [...]

Inspired by a post by Jean Burgess, a tag cloud visualization of my book manuscript, (currently being copyedited): able ad adult american around available became began being betamax box broadcast business buy called camera case cassettes chapter clerks colorization commercials consumer consumption copies country created cultural customers days decided described different distribution distributors early electronics [...]

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 [...]

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…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the various strands of work I’ve been cultivating over the past year (while working on a series of round-up posts), and there seems to be an underlying thread of reinventing scholarship, particularly with regard to transparency of the research process. With that in mind, I found Chris Anderson’s recent [...]

Kevin just tagged me with the latest blog meme (actually, I think this one’s been going ’round for a while) – while it’s kind of fluffy to break my recent blog-silence with something as trivial as a meme, maybe it’ll get the juices flowing again: 1.Grab the book closest to you Had to reach for [...]