Thanks to Michael, there’s a photo of me giving my talk at the Moore Institute yesterday. There was quite a good turnout! I suspect it was the sandwiches. The audience seemed to be receptive and laughed in the right places, always a good sign.I will put the talk on line when I get a moment….
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Krampus and Digital Monks
Did the Krampus visit you last night or did Saint Nicholas fill your shoes with gifts? Happy Independence Day, Finland (let’s have a little Värttinä for that). My talk is today at the Moore Institute. It’s an update of my keynote address from April; I wanted to hit a lot of the same issues, but…
Know-vember: Chloë
What is more awesome than awesome? It has to be the lovely Chloë! She sent me absinthe chocolates. That would already make her more awesome than awesome, but she’s also hilarious and has adorable Maudie to help with the awesomeness, too. We finally got to meet in Derby this year at Alt.Fiction after having lots…
BitchBuzz: Facebook’s New Timeline
Prepare yourself for more bitching and moaning on Facebook as there’s another change on the way. Looks like they’re rolling it out more slowly and still tweaking it as they go along. Here you go: Facebook’s Timeline: What it’s All About By K. A. Laity Not long after it introduced the friend ticker on the…
Mandrake Anthrax
You know how you get a song stuck in your head? Usually some annoying bit of fluff that you wouldn’t really choose to hear, but maybe heard from some passing car or in a store while shopping, but it worms its way into your ear and persists. I get that with phrases, too, and it…
News & The Ongoing Madness
I don’t know what I fundamentally do not understand about the process but the yardsale, as many already heard on Facebook and Twitter, was pretty much a bust. I sold a few things but I ended up abandoning the cause and leaving folks to loot as much as they wanted for free. Not all of…
Powerpoint is Evil
I used Tufte’s piece in my own PPT presentation, which as folks on Twitter know, has almost 80 slides. I’ve described it as being sort of like “The Word” on The Colbert Report. Will this work? Who knows. Still tweaking. But I printed my boarding passes. If you’re on Facebook, I’m now having a contest…
BitchBuzz: Should Writers Abandon Social Media?
Three guesses what I’m going to say — what’s that? You only need one? Yeah, go on then. Read it anyway: Should Writers Abandon Social Media? By K.A. Laity Is social media getting to be too much to manage? This week over at Publisher’s Weekly, Andrei Codrescu castigates the use of social networking as a complete waste…
Ironic
Today in the New Media class, we’re talking about blogging. I, however, have nothing to blog. Instead I already have a bunch of grading to do, teaching to prepare, schedules to finish working out for the rest of the semester (now incorporating visits by prospective new faculty — hurrah!), a proposal to get sent off…
Review: The Social Network
Why not spend a couple of hours with really unpleasant people? No? Well, I did so you don’t have to do so. Yes, intrepid movie pal Peg and I headed over to the Spectrum, fortified by a good lunch at the Fountain. As many of you know, I am a happy user of “The Facebook”…
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