AcWriMo: a postmortem
December 2nd 2012Here comes winter [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8159721512_9667e624b2_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/8159721512/AcWriMo completely failed to have the effect I'd hoped for, but I'm taking it as a sign of a positive change... read more
AcWriMo
November 3rd 2012[/assets/blog/acwrimo.png]http://www.phd2published.com/2012/10/15/announcing-acwrimo/At the beginning of August, I moved from Chicago to Berkeley. It's been a wonderful change that has come with many upsides... read more
Alternate uses for a Slavic degree: dummy content generator
July 10th 2012As I've announced elsewhere [http://drupal.forhumanists.org/blog/2012/07/11/drupal-humanists-now-website], Drupal for Humanists is launching today on its own domain. I wanted to make sure that there was at least one case study available before launch... read more
Drupal book progress (or lack thereof)
June 26th 2012Writing a book is hard. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5463/7422686278_3afba45850_n.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7422686278/It's been about six months since Elijah Meeks and I kicked off our plan to write a book on Drupal for an audience of humanists... read more
Scav hunt or Art? (a guessing game)
May 7th 2012When spring comes to the University of Chicago campus, there are two annual events that inject a certain whimsical randomness into my work week: Scav Hunt [http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/] and FOTA (Festival of the Arts) [http://fota.uchicago.edu/]... read more
Please don't ask me for permission
February 10th 2012Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5028/5582659213_8c8e8aa8a3_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5582659213/A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a blog post by Nina Paley [http://ninapaley.com]... read more
Drupal for Humanists
January 26th 2012One question I continue to hear from digital humanists and higher ed IT folks is "what book should I pick up to learn Drupal?" I never have a particularly good answer-- not because there aren't any good books out there (I assume there are)... read more
Where's the credit? Attribution in digital humanities slides
June 21st 2011I've been at Digital Humanities 2011 [https://dh2011.stanford.edu/] since Sunday, and it's been as delightful and inspiring as always. This is the first time I've actively followed the tweet stream at a DH conference while I've been there in person... read more
Collaborations between R1's and liberal arts colleges will not succeed
June 12th 2011In the week since the joint session [http://lac2011.thatcamp.org/06/04/joint-session-thatcamps-lac-and-prime/] between THATCamp LAC participants and the people at THATCamp Prime, I've found myself reflecting on that conversation a number of times... read more
What can you do with Project Bamboo? A 3-year history of ideas
May 19th 2011Workshop 1b [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2027/2509910690_5205179948_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectbamboo/2509910690/This week marked the 3-year anniversary of Project Bamboo [http://www.projectbamboo.org] Workshop 1b in Chicago... read more