Markdown I’ve begun using Markdown to draft much of my writing. Though it doesn’t make much noise, like my typewriter does, it does cut down on the visual and digital distractions normally involved with writing on a computer. Markdown lends a simplicity that is not only aesthetically and cognitively appealing while I am writing, but… Continue reading Writing Machines, Part 2
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Making Accessible Futures
In April, I attended the Accessible Future workshop held at Emory. It was a fantastic introduction to how to increase accessibility on the web. My review of the workshop for JITP has just been published. It includes appendices on “Practices to Implement” and a bibliography of further readings and resources. Here’s the bibliography:
How To Do Things With Archives
I was hooded in the Graduate Center’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, and this morning I learned my advisor died. I had some difficulty working with Jane the past few years. On more than one occasion she wielded her considerable writing talents to skewer me in an email. But she was a forceful mentor, particularly important when I was new graduate student. She generously… Continue reading How To Do Things With Archives
Showing My Cards
Yesterday Emory Libraries held It’s in the Cards, an art party to make art out of old MARBL card catalog cards. It brought me back to my days making and glamming with 3Text at the Graduate Center. I used 3 cards from the Danowski collection. The first, published in 1951, included poems by William Carlos Williams, Genevieve… Continue reading Showing My Cards
Bashing my head against the command line
BASHing–get it?? (Too violent a pun? See also: hack.) MARBL houses and owns the rights to the poet Turner Cassity’s papers, including born digital materials from one computer. Dorothy Waugh, my colleague on the Digital Archives team, processed the born digital materials and is now working to get them online and publicly available on an Omeka… Continue reading Bashing my head against the command line
Mapping Poetic Networks
I presented on networks of African American antifascist poetry from the 1930s and 1940s at the Global Lives of Poems seminar at ACLA at the end of March. I wanted to start to map networks of circulation and collection, both the interpersonal and publishing circuits that poems travelled around the moment of writing, as well as their afterlife,… Continue reading Mapping Poetic Networks
Writing Machines
Around the new year, I got a typewriter. It was a birthday present from my parents. My mom became a typewriter convert several years ago. We visited Michael Ardito’s office on Staten Island, where he let me try out lots of manual typewriters, and I fell for the elegance of this red Royal. It clacks with the kind of satisfactory… Continue reading Writing Machines
Iterating, reiterating
I am going to follow and blog along with the DML Commons course on Design Research over the next few weeks. Coming from the discipline of English, Design Research is not a familiar concept to me. This academic year, I started a postdoc in the library that has introduced me to formal aspects of project planning… Continue reading Iterating, reiterating
Spain, war, women
Spain, war, women: the most common words in my dissertation.* Here it is in a nutshell (via voyant): (*after using the taporware English stop words list to exclude the ands, buts, ifs, etc.)
April 2nd Workshop on Open Journal Systems
Tonight I’m running a workshop on Open Journal Systems for students in the Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Core II course. Participants (or anyone interested) can find the google doc I’ll be working from here. [gview file=”http://opencuny.org/adonlon/files/2014/04/OJSPresentationtoITPCoreII-2.pdf”]
