As part of this week’s Literature for Life Week activities, the Undergraduate English Council sponsored an open mic night tonight, which I attended. Folks read their poetry, their fiction, and on the spur of the moment, I decided to read a couple of blog entries: Self indulgent autobiography followed by Who do you love?. It was an interesting experience.
Via Liz, Michael Froomkin, Norman Geras, and Jewschool: here’s the Wikipedia entry on the word “jew” and the Judaism 101 answer to the question, “Who is a jew?”
I signed up for a free account with Kinja, having read about it on misbehaving.net.. You can read my digest of favorite info sources if you like.
As I was leaving for SHARP 2003 last summer, Kari asked, “Will you blog the conference?” Having just gotten back from CCCC 2004, Jeff writes, “I really canít see how people manage to blog conferences in real time. I canít listen, talk, or type at the same time.” I found that I could get a wifi signal in one of the conference meeting rooms at ASECS 2004, but I did not try to blog live. I worry about getting the details wrong in someone’s paper (or worse, missing the point altogether). I did take some very detailed notes on my legal pad, imagining myself blogging it later, perhaps in bullet-point format like Kathleen at SCMS 2004, and in this way did thoughts of blogging make me pay better attention than I usually do. But when it came time to consider what to post, I decided that I didn’t feel comfortable putting the details of someone else’s argument online. This is not to say that I think it’s wrong in principle to do this, just that I wasn’t confident enough in my own summary of someone else’s argument to do so. If this blog were just for my own use, my attitude would be different, but my latest stats say that I get about 400 visits a day, so…
Another quick entry: I just had lunch at Legal Seafoods here in Boston with Vika. We shared a dozen oysters on the half shell, and I had the lobster bisque while Vika enjoyed a bowl of clam chowder. Yum!
Our conversation covered a lot of ground: Burning Man, TEI, humanities computing, the Decameron Web, grant writing, and of course, blogging. Relevant links to be added later.