By the time this posts, I should be on my way via planes, trains and automobiles (not to mention the bus to the airport in Edinburgh). It’s hard to believe my fantastic year has drawn to a close. Needless to say, I have no wish to leave Scotland and already have my ticket back. My…
Category: technology
BitchBuzz: The Digital Revolution Will be Gendered
I should start this post with a shout out to the fabulous Maura McHugh, a new friend who shared a fabulous, nigh on four hour lunch with me on Tuesday. Obviously we found a lot to talk about. Those of you who tend to think of me as taciturn would have been surprised. Of course…
Surprises and Melancholia (Bitch Buzz)
I meant to do a Friday Forgotten Book, but today took a few unexpected turns which involved a glorious day at the beach, a much overdue haircut and a shiny new iPad2 (thank you Fulbright Foundation) which is charging now. So I have added some lovely photos to the Ireland photo album, including a cute…
BitchBuzz: The Minuses of Google+
My column this week takes on the latest major player in the social media sweepstakes. If I get ‘disappeared’ you’ll know where to find me (buried in some AltaVista search results with Ask Jeeves). The Minuses of Google+ By K. A. Laity The world’s biggest search engine attempts to be social… It’s the greatest things…
Blogger Has Been Down
Hence the lack of posting: more soon.
BitchBuzz: The Internet Will Kill You
Crash bang wallop: it’s that kind of day. I thought I had already resigned myself to the fact that February will just be a dead run, but then I have to take another breath and realise I still need to run faster. That first week in March I will dissolve into a week of pure…
BitchBuzz: Technology and Temperance + Jane Quiet
My column today springs from my annoyance with paternalistic colleagues who keep giving people the impression that academics are stuffy know-it-alls who pontificate from their position of privilege. I realise I can also be a bit unreasonable about it: on President’s Day a colleague in the midst of his “technology: bad” talk (thank goodness there…
It Begins
FORGOT! Happy 20th Anniversary, Boojums and happy birthday, Mr. Poe!The semester, that is. Actually it began yesterday, but I teach Mondays and Wednesdays so I all I had to do was, well — get ready to teach today. And deal with all the administrative things I had ignored over the break. Allons-y! I’m teaching the…
BitchBuzz: The Next Big Thing
My latest column: Women are Key in Discovering the Next Big Thing The latest innovation from iTunes launched this week. Ping was supposed to revolutionize the music experience. Reviews, however, were tepid. The “social network for music” as Apple promotion called it turned out to be less social than existing networks and not integrated with…
Ada Lovelace Day: Sarah Goode
It’s Ada Lovelace Day again: time to celebrate women in science and technology. Perhaps influenced by all the historical research going on around me, I wanted to find a woman at least as far back as the 19th century, so I decided to focus on Sarah E. Goode, who was not only an early inventor…
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