Once upon a time, when I worked at Home Box Office, we had a mandated four-week vacation – well, to be accurate, our first year we were given three weeks but then it would be raised to four. Part of our benefits package also offered the opportunity to take a “sabbatical” (I think the threshold for that was ten years at the company). The sabbatical was a holdover from the old days at Time, Inc. when editors were expected to take time away from writing to write. Apparently Time, Inc. believed everyone had the Great American Novel tucked in their desk, ready to be polished over a few months’ break.
Checking back in
Have been flying below the radar lately. Have drafted several posts but life kept getting in the way of properly editing them. I have spent some time tweaking the site’s theme (still not happy with it, but I’ve become quite the theme hoarder).
CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies
Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2013 meeting (San Diego, 4-6 April 2013), several panels will cover these new and emerging projects and methodologies. [Read more…] about CFP: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies
‘Twas the Night Before DH Day …
Getting my thoughts together for tomorrow’s Day of DH extravaganza. So far day looks like this:
- submit CFP for SCSC early modern panels
- Skype with imageMAT team to map out milestones for next three months
- finish marking students’ #DigitalBard wiki projects
- start transcribing Edwin Nunzeger’s entry on Richard Tarlton for the Tarlton Project
- finish transcribing interview with Nirmal Trivedi and Karen Head for TECHStyle
hopefully I’ll be able to keep things rolling. Follow my exploits:
Day of DH: D. Jakacki
More good stuff from Evernote
Evernote Takes On Web Reading With Clearly – NYTimes.com.
Just read this on the NYT Bits column. I use Evernote a lot for everything from course prep to saving massive quantities of tweets. I’m looking forward to testing Clearly.