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<title>kfitz</title>
<subtitle>The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.</subtitle>
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<updated>2025-02-18T13:39:29Z</updated>
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<name>Kathleen Fitzpatrick</name>
<email>kfitz@kfitz.info</email>
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<entry>
<title>Leading Generously, the Audiobook!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/leading-generously-audiobook/"/>
<updated>2025-02-18T13:39:29Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I am delighted this morning to share the news that Leading Generously is now available as an</content>
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<entry>
<title>Equality and Justice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/equality-justice/"/>
<updated>2025-02-17T21:45:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/equality-justice/</id>
<content type="html">More from Bérubé and Ruth:<br />
<br />
A robust theory of academic freedom must be grounded in the common good. The common good is an intelligible concept only if what Charles Mills calls non-ideal (that is, not colorblind and abstract but...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Independence and Neutrality</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/independence-neutrality/"/>
<updated>2025-02-17T13:12:13Z</updated>
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<content type="html">Back in December, my university&#39;s top administrators announced an official position of &amp;quot;thoughtful restraint,&amp;quot; attempting to stake out a commitment to institutional neutrality on contentious political issues by not making statements or...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Holding Space</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/holding-space/"/>
<updated>2025-01-31T20:00:18Z</updated>
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<content type="html">Here I was, super happy with my return to blogging in 2024. I wasn&#39;t crazy prolific or anything, but I did manage to post something every month except for April. What happened in April?</content>
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<entry>
<title>Finite</title>
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<updated>2024-12-22T15:54:17Z</updated>
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<content type="html">You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Rest</title>
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<updated>2024-12-21T15:00:16Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I&#39;m back to my all-too-slow reading of Oliver Burkeman&#39;s Four Thousand Weeks, and am finding myself a bit haunted this morning by this passage:<br />
<br />
Rest is permissible, but only for the purposes of recuperation for work,...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Preservation and Care</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/preservation-care/"/>
<updated>2024-12-20T19:04:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/preservation-care/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;m finally getting a chance to do some sustained reading, now that my winter break has begun, and so managed at last to dive into Maxwell Neely-Cohen&#39;s &amp;quot;Century-Scale...</content>
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<entry>
<title>On Distraction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-distraction/"/>
<updated>2024-12-14T22:27:34Z</updated>
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<content type="html">For a host of reasons, I had to put Oliver Burkeman&#39;s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals down for a couple of weeks; there was the post-Thanksgiving crush at work, and then travel for a family event, and then travel for a...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Start by Admitting Defeat</title>
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<updated>2024-11-30T21:44:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/admitting-defeat/</id>
<content type="html">From Oliver Burkeman&#39;s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, which I am reading for reasons:<br />
<br />
Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Pursuit of the POSSE Pipedream</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/posse-pipedream/"/>
<updated>2024-11-29T19:55:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/posse-pipedream/</id>
<content type="html">Some months back, I set up the ability to push new blog posts (or at least summaries thereof) to my hcommons.social account, using a service called Mastofeed. Now...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rebuilding</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rebuilding/"/>
<updated>2024-11-29T16:35:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rebuilding/</id>
<content type="html">At some point a month or so ago (probably more &amp;quot;or so&amp;quot; given my recent what is time even challenges), I upgraded the innards of this site from Eleventy 2.0 to Eleventy 3.0. This turned out to require a...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Passivity vs. Accountability</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/passivity/"/>
<updated>2024-10-01T12:01:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/passivity/</id>
<content type="html">I have a book coming out this month (preorder here) exploring the tools through which people caught in the middle of bureaucratic systems can work together to transform...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Time Is Weird</title>
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<updated>2024-09-08T22:21:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/time-is-weird/</id>
<content type="html">There&#39;s this moment that happened a lot of years ago: I was walking through the living room of the apartment I was living in and the television was on playing god knows what, and something made me think, you know, the next time I&#39;m 25 --,...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Like Riding a Bike</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/like-riding-a-bike/"/>
<updated>2024-08-03T21:45:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/like-riding-a-bike/</id>
<content type="html">The cliché, it turns out, is mostly true. But only mostly.<br />
Since I moved to East Lansing -- seriously, for seven years now -- I have had the itch to get a bicycle. Nothing fancy, nothing fast, just a commuter bike that I can tool...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Jobs</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-jobs/"/>
<updated>2024-07-20T16:08:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-jobs/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;ve announced a few places (though apparently not here) that I started a new job a little while back.</content>
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<entry>
<title>Links</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/links/"/>
<updated>2024-07-19T20:52:40Z</updated>
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<content type="html">A thing that I have only just realized that I loathe about newsletters: when links in the newsletters have self-referential preview URLs. So when I hover over all the many clever links in “Your Newsletter,” they show up as taking me to...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Expedient</title>
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<updated>2024-07-01T20:18:21Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I mentioned yesterday that I&#39;m doing a bunch of fun reading on this mini-vacation, but failed to note (unless you happen to follow my Bookwyrm self) that a key chunk...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading</title>
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<updated>2024-06-30T14:04:03Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I am taking a very brief vacation, not far from home, and not doing much. But reading. For fun. I finished a novel yesterday and read a quick novella this morning, and am now a chapter into another novel. And already I’m feeling re-energized in...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Apophenia</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/apophenia/"/>
<updated>2024-06-24T14:59:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/apophenia/</id>
<content type="html">We bought a new car not too long ago, and got a new license plate to go with it. Our state&#39;s standard license plates take on a three letter plus four number format. The plate we got has a number structured like GXX 5300. We thought, hey cool,...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Polarization</title>
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<updated>2024-05-28T17:40:33Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I’m serving on a committee appointed by the provost to work on campus-wide discussions of freedom of speech and academic freedom. For this committee — as well as for my own ability to address some questions that I fully expect to be front and...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Rebranding the Commons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rebranding-the-commons/"/>
<updated>2024-05-27T12:37:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rebranding-the-commons/</id>
<content type="html">Last week, the Commons team made the transition to our new brand identity: Knowledge Commons. On first glance, this is a pretty cosmetic change: we have a new logo and new color palette (both gorgeous, if you ask...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Things That Happened While I Wasn&#39;t Writing</title>
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<updated>2024-05-08T00:41:28Z</updated>
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<content type="html">I was doing super well with this whole blog revival thing, right up until I wasn&#39;t. March and April were awful, not least in the ways they undid all my best intentions about thinking thoughts worth writing down. So here&#39;s a quick recap of a few...</content>
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<entry>
<title>Limit Case</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/limit-case/"/>
<updated>2024-03-09T14:41:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/limit-case/</id>
<content type="html">I argued back in Planned Obsolescence that the limit case of scholars&#39; belief in collaboration was the co-authored dissertation; if we could not imagine such a thing -- how it would work, how it would be assessed, how it would be valued...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recent Reading</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/recent-reading/"/>
<updated>2024-03-01T20:29:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/recent-reading/</id>
<content type="html">A couple of days ago, the board of trustees of my institution released the results of an independent investigation into some -- let&#39;s say...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More from Ursula Franklin</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-from-ursula-franklin/"/>
<updated>2024-02-20T17:16:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-from-ursula-franklin/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday&#39;s post prompted @fishpatrol@weirder.earth to suggest starting the &amp;quot;More from Ursula Franklin&amp;quot; newsletter. I would hate to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This is a Test</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-a-test/"/>
<updated>2024-02-19T23:27:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-a-test/</id>
<content type="html">This is a test of the kfitz.info Mastodon feed. This is only a test.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Captive Supporters</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/captive-supporters/"/>
<updated>2024-02-18T18:55:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/captive-supporters/</id>
<content type="html">More from Ursula Franklin:<br />
<br />
The early phase of technology often occurs in a take-it-or-leave-it atmosphere. Users are involved and have a feeling of control that gives them the impression that they are entirely...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Syndication</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/syndication/"/>
<updated>2024-02-18T14:23:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/syndication/</id>
<content type="html">This is a test of a GitHub Actions-based syndication mechanism that -- if I&#39;ve done this correctly, which is a serious question -- should look at this site&#39;s JSON feed once an hour to see if there are new posts, and if so, repost them to my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ursula-franklin/"/>
<updated>2024-02-17T20:46:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ursula-franklin/</id>
<content type="html">Public planning for the needs of private industry and for the expansion of technology has gone well beyond the provision of physical infrastructures. There are tax and grant structures, and there is the impact of the needs of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Cover</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-cover/"/>
<updated>2024-02-16T19:36:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-cover/</id>
<content type="html">The cover somehow makes it real. Coming in October, but now available for preorder: Leading Generously: Tools...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Weekend Desk</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/weekend-desk/"/>
<updated>2024-01-28T14:38:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/weekend-desk/</id>
<content type="html">My weekend desk. I love this spot on a chilly Sunday morning with a strong cup of coffee and a fun class to prep or a good book to read. It&#39;s nice to back away from the ergonomic desk chair and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Care</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/care/"/>
<updated>2024-01-17T22:21:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/care/</id>
<content type="html">We had an interesting conversation today in our team meeting about &amp;quot;self-care,&amp;quot; what it ought to open up (the ability to ensure one&#39;s own well-being) and how it often winds up being used. I said at one point that &amp;quot;self-care&amp;quot;...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Quitting Capitalism</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/quitting-capitalism/"/>
<updated>2024-01-10T14:31:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/quitting-capitalism/</id>
<content type="html">Joan Westenberg&#39;s &amp;quot;How to Quit Capitalism&amp;quot; begins with an acknowledgement that &amp;quot;capitalism&amp;quot; as we live within and struggle against it today is less an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anxiety and Leadership</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/anxiety-and-leadership/"/>
<updated>2024-01-06T20:35:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/anxiety-and-leadership/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;ve just finished reading Jeffrey Miller&#39;s The Anxious Organization (spoiler alert: all organizations are anxious, because they have people in them). Among his arguments,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generosity and Pragmatism</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generosity-and-pragmatism/"/>
<updated>2024-01-02T20:18:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generosity-and-pragmatism/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;m haunted by a point that Chachra makes near the end of How Infrastructure Works. &amp;quot;For wealthy, developed countries that benefited from extractive or settler colonialism,&amp;quot; she notes, &amp;quot;dedicating resources to a global...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cui Bono</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cui-bono/"/>
<updated>2023-12-31T23:23:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cui-bono/</id>
<content type="html">Chachra notes that renewables may have high initial costs to implement, but that they “don’t have incremental costs, where every joule of output has to be paid for, because the raw energy input — sunlight, wind, running water, the heat of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Corroding Our Solidarity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/corroding-our-solidarity/"/>
<updated>2023-12-31T22:59:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/corroding-our-solidarity/</id>
<content type="html">Chachra points to the uses of the &amp;quot;carbon footprint&amp;quot; as an advertising mechanism that functions not only to make individuals hold themselves -- rather than corporations that continue to profit from fossil fuels -- responsible for climate...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Infrastructure and Governance</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/infrastructure-and-governance/"/>
<updated>2023-12-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/infrastructure-and-governance/</id>
<content type="html">More on How Infrastructure Works: Chachra makes the connection between the social purposes and effects of infrastructures and the importance of ensuring appropriate systems for the governance clear: infrastructure is &amp;quot;a collective...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Value of Values</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/value-values/"/>
<updated>2023-12-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/value-values/</id>
<content type="html">In How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra notes the confusion potential in uses of the term “public good,” and works to distinguish its economic definition (goods that are non-rivalrous and non-excludable) from what she terms its...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Have Concerns</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-have-concerns/"/>
<updated>2023-12-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-have-concerns/</id>
<content type="html">I woke up at 4:00am today for no immediately apparent reason. My brain decided that this provided an excellent opportunity for a full recounting of every mistake I made in 1998-99, ordered by level of embarrassing failure to consider the feelings...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Smart Notes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/smart-notes/"/>
<updated>2023-12-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/smart-notes/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;m re-reading Sönke Ahrens&#39;s How to Take Smart Notes in preparation for my spring grad seminar, a second go at &amp;quot;Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing.&amp;quot; It hardly needs to be said that Ahrens is super opinionated in his...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mary Cappello, Lecture</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mary-cappello-lecture/"/>
<updated>2023-11-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mary-cappello-lecture/</id>
<content type="html">Midway between a sermon and a bedtime story, the lecture is knowledge&#39;s dramatic form. (13)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Matters</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-matters/"/>
<updated>2023-10-09T17:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-matters/</id>
<content type="html">When I set out to write my last post I had a different thought in mind than where I ended up. I&#39;m still thinking about questions of ownership, and in particular want to return to the leap John Maxwell pointed out...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ownership Matters</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ownership-matters/"/>
<updated>2023-10-02T20:41:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ownership-matters/</id>
<content type="html">My colleagues at Mesh Research and I recently gathered for a week-long retreat -- or rather, since we&#39;re all working remotely, and some quite remotely, for an on-site -- in order to think through our...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Time and Loss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/time-loss/"/>
<updated>2023-08-19T17:45:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/time-loss/</id>
<content type="html">The first half of this summer was an embarrassingly blissful stretch for me: I finished the book manuscript that I&#39;d been bashing my head up against and got it submitted to the press, and I got to spend a bunch of time doing some creative...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Git</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/git/"/>
<updated>2023-07-11T18:38:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/git/</id>
<content type="html">One of the things that this new #11ty site has done for me is get me way more comfortable with git, and with the command line. Of course, what I&#39;m actually doing at the command line is not a whole heck of a lot -- mostly a lot of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eleventy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/eleventy/"/>
<updated>2023-07-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/eleventy/</id>
<content type="html">At some point in the last few months, I decided I wanted to learn 11ty. I&#39;d had some luck migrating kfitz.info out of WordPress and into a GitHub-based Jekyll site, but there...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twelve Years Later</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twelve-years-later/"/>
<updated>2023-06-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twelve-years-later/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;ve spent the last few days working through twenty-one years of posts here in preparation for the migration that, if you&#39;re reading this, I must have completed. And in so doing I discovered that apparently I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recalibrating, Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/recalibrating-again/"/>
<updated>2023-06-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/recalibrating-again/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;ve committed myself to a more regular blogging practice, but am early enough in that commitment that it hasn&#39;t become natural yet. There&#39;s a thing that happens when blogging becomes fully integrated into my ways of working that I&#39;ve</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Homecoming, of Sorts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/homecoming/"/>
<updated>2023-06-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/homecoming/</id>
<content type="html">After Reclaim Open, I popped up to New York for HASTAC 2023, being held at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. It&#39;s been a homecoming of sorts for me, both because of my long-standing relationship with HASTAC and because I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Practicing What I Preach</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/practicing/"/>
<updated>2023-06-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/practicing/</id>
<content type="html">Reclaim Open was a total delight. So many things about this conference were exactly what I needed: a first day unconference, that encouraged everyone to get talking to one another right away and to get a ton...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer Writing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-writing/"/>
<updated>2023-05-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-writing/</id>
<content type="html">My spring semester ended more or less three weeks ago, in a rush of meetings and grading and packing and etc. We hit the road a few days later, driving ourselves and a carload of stuff to Montreal, where we&#39;re spending the summer. I took a week...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Intervention</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/intervention/"/>
<updated>2023-03-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/intervention/</id>
<content type="html">It’s spring break here at MSU, and never in the history of spring break was a spring break more needed.[1] I’ve spent the week digging into book revisions that I’d been dragging my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Plastics</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/plastics/"/>
<updated>2023-02-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/plastics/</id>
<content type="html">Someone on Mastodon linked to this Cory Doctorow piece on Exxon&#39;s 50-year lie about the recyclability of plastics, saying that</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Our Leadership Practice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/our-leadership-practice/"/>
<updated>2023-02-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/our-leadership-practice/</id>
<content type="html">Wrapping up Madeleine Shaw&#39;s The Greater Good today, a fantastic book that provides a wealth of practical advice for anyone who wants to create a project, an organization, or a company that has as its goal transforming the world. Near the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bananas</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bananas/"/>
<updated>2023-02-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bananas/</id>
<content type="html">We had super overripe bananas, and I had seen a recipe, and so I got it in my head to make a banana cake. I am not a baker, so this is a rare event.<br />
R. came into the kitchen while I was whisking the dry ingredients together, said nothing,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Testing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/testing/"/>
<updated>2023-02-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/testing/</id>
<content type="html">It&#39;s slowly dawned on me that one of the things I do when I&#39;m overwhelmed or stressed or unhappy is tinker with my computer. I&#39;ll suddenly find myself with the urge to install new software or move to a new system for managing my to-dos, or I&#39;ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Trauma and Resilience</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/trauma-and-resilience/"/>
<updated>2023-02-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/trauma-and-resilience/</id>
<content type="html">I joined the faculty of the College of Arts &amp;amp; Letters at Michigan State University in July 2017. In the five and a half years since we have experienced the gradual uncovering of one of the worst sexual abuse scandals in national history. We&#39;ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Annual Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/annual-review/"/>
<updated>2023-02-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/annual-review/</id>
<content type="html">As I sat down to write my annual review narrative, on a Friday afternoon in February, I was struck by the realization -- not for the first time in my career -- that my work has taken a very strange turn. I sat down expecting to have to write...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Keep in Touch</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/keep-in-touch/"/>
<updated>2023-02-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/keep-in-touch/</id>
<content type="html">Almost thirteen (13) years ago, I was president of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Pomona College. As such, I was supposed to give an address to our new initiates during graduation weekend, but a couple of weeks before the event, I discovered that I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Presenting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/presenting/"/>
<updated>2023-01-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/presenting/</id>
<content type="html">For several years now, I&#39;ve used reveal.js to build slide decks for my presentations. The primary appeal has been the ability to write new talks in Markdown and push them online with a minimum of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Static</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/static/"/>
<updated>2023-01-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/static/</id>
<content type="html">Over the holiday break, I did a lot of work to migrate my 20-year-old blog out of WordPress and into the Jekyll/GitHub configuration you see here. It was both a fun and an instructive process, but it surfaced several ongoing questions for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MLA 2023</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mla-23/"/>
<updated>2023-01-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mla-23/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;m a little late in getting this posted, but I delivered the paper below at MLA 2023 as part of a session entitled &amp;quot;How the Liberal Arts Works,&amp;quot; organized by Julia Mickenberg. It draws on the work I&#39;ve been doing toward (what I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Comments</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/comments/"/>
<updated>2022-12-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/comments/</id>
<content type="html">I&#39;ve had two somewhat divergent goals in trying to get a functional Jekyll-based site up and running. The first is that I&#39;m hoping to include a bit of tinkering with static site generators in this spring&#39;s iteration of DH 865, and while I&#39;m not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hello World!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hello-world/"/>
<updated>2022-12-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hello-world/</id>
<content type="html">I spent much of yesterday building out a new Jekyll website using the Minimal Mistakes theme. Now I&#39;m testing out a method for</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hotel Elsevier</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hotel-elsevier/"/>
<updated>2022-12-23T14:55:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hotel-elsevier/</id>
<content type="html">You’ve already heard that Elsevier is evil. That they know this much about you — and that they are selling this data not just to our institutions but to god-knows-who-else — is cause for real, material protest. They may not have a crass loud...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Birdsite</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/birdsite1/"/>
<updated>2022-12-17T16:03:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/birdsite1/</id>
<content type="html">Spending today tinkering with a combination of ideas that have surfaced in my Mastodon feed over the last several days:<br />
<br />
Shawn Graham’s use of MkDocs with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tasks Matter</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tasks-matter/"/>
<updated>2022-12-16T19:35:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tasks-matter/</id>
<content type="html">At some point in the last couple of weeks, a link passed through my hcommons.social feed pointing me to Ben Newton’s post...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revising LG</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/revising-lg/"/>
<updated>2022-12-08T13:47:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/revising-lg/</id>
<content type="html">This morning, I am officially kicking off the process of revising Leading Generously for final submission. As the discussions there will show, I’ve got a lot of work ahead. My hope is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Block Editor Question</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/block-editor-question/"/>
<updated>2022-12-03T18:32:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/block-editor-question/</id>
<content type="html">WP block editor gurus: Is there a way to use styles to create links that use different colors for the link text and the link decoration (i.e., the underline)? I know how to do it using CSS (I think), but styles within the block editor seems to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>García Peña, Community as Rebellion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/garcia-pena/"/>
<updated>2022-12-02T15:29:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/garcia-pena/</id>
<content type="html">Grounded in a model of individual success that rewards white men and the knowledge they have created for centuries, academia promotes competitiveness, exceptionalism, and ownership of history and knowledge-making. We are primed to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ActivityPub</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/activitypub/"/>
<updated>2022-11-06T16:37:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/activitypub/</id>
<content type="html">Some time back, I got sooooooper-interested in the work of IndieWeb and what it might do for connecting blog spaces and social media spaces. Things have quieted down since then, though...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Timeline of Events</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/timeline-of-events/"/>
<updated>2022-10-18T13:29:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/timeline-of-events/</id>
<content type="html">For anyone who might be looking for a bit more information on the situation at MSU, faculty senator Jack Lipton has put together an excellent video detailing the timeline of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Tale of Two Transitions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-tale-of-two-transitions/"/>
<updated>2022-10-16T17:00:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-tale-of-two-transitions/</id>
<content type="html">It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.<br />
That’s perhaps an opening so predictable as to wander blithely into the terrain of the cliché, but it captures all too well the weirdness of the last month for someone who’s trying to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/krenak/"/>
<updated>2022-09-26T15:54:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/krenak/</id>
<content type="html">My main reason for postponing the end of the world is so we’ve always got time for one more story. If we can make time for that, then we’ll be forever putting off the world’s demise.<br />
Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Venticinque Anni Fa</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/venticinque-anni-fa/"/>
<updated>2022-04-25T16:16:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/venticinque-anni-fa/</id>
<content type="html">Edited to add: Uh, whoops. Try Trentacinque Anni Fa. I am OLD.<br />
I’m in Florence for a meeting this week. (I know, I feel bad for me too.) I flew out of Detroit yesterday morning, had a four-hour layover at JFK, and landed in Rome...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revisiting Neoliberal Tools</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/revisiting-neoliberal-tools/"/>
<updated>2022-04-01T15:00:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/revisiting-neoliberal-tools/</id>
<content type="html">I had the pleasure this morning of being part of an excellent townhall on digital American Studies held by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. My assignment was to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Is This Meeting For?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-is-this-meeting-for/"/>
<updated>2022-03-04T19:39:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-is-this-meeting-for/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve had two ridiculously awesome work events in the last two days, and want to share them with you, because in some ways the excitement I have about them is a bit unexpected, a bit counter-intuitive. And it’s got me rethinking my approach to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#ENG818</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/eng818/"/>
<updated>2022-01-05T19:41:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/eng818/</id>
<content type="html">Over the last several months, I’ve regularly bugged folks on the Twitters for suggestions for a new class I’ve been putting together for this semester, called “Peculiar Genres of Academic Writing.”</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Plans</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/plans/"/>
<updated>2022-01-03T15:30:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/plans/</id>
<content type="html">For the last several years, I’ve had a daily planning routine. While I’d begun that routine in the Moleskine that was always nearby, I moved it onto my computer about a year ago, taking advantage of Obsidian‘s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shapland/"/>
<updated>2021-07-23T14:34:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shapland/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the early pages of Jenn Shapland’s gorgeous My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, which brings the methods and subjects of literary criticism and biography and memoir together in lyrical and deeply personal ways. At one point,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Swim</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-swim/"/>
<updated>2021-07-11T20:24:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-swim/</id>
<content type="html">Are there skills you developed as an adult that you enjoy enough that you wish you’d picked them up when you were younger?<br />
Mine, which has come on with a vengeance in the last month, is swimming. Lap after lap after lap.<br />
The swimming...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Higher Education as a Social Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/higher-education-as-a-social-good/"/>
<updated>2021-06-18T13:03:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/higher-education-as-a-social-good/</id>
<content type="html">A few days ago, I had the honor of keynoting the annual meeting of the APLU’s Commission on Economic and Community Engagement. The text of my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Books Network</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-books-network/"/>
<updated>2021-06-17T16:15:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-books-network/</id>
<content type="html">I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to talk about Generous Thinking with Kai Wortman for the New Books Network.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Opening Up Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/opening-up-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2021-06-11T13:36:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/opening-up-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak as part of a workshop held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). A NECS...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Focus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/focus-2/"/>
<updated>2021-06-10T13:53:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/focus-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been wearing glasses with progressive lenses for a few years now, since it became clear that no form of contact lens-based correction was going to work anymore. (I tried multifocal lenses, and found that the sweet spot for my focus was about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG: Call for Respondents</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg-call-for-respondents/"/>
<updated>2021-02-09T16:03:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg-call-for-respondents/</id>
<content type="html">Friends, in support of the revision process for Leading Generously, as well as my broader research into the conditions for creating transformative change within institutions of higher education, I am inviting participation from scholars,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG11: Onward</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg11-onward/"/>
<updated>2021-01-05T15:01:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg11-onward/</id>
<content type="html">I hope that your holidays were restorative and that your 2021 is beginning as well as it can. In addition to spending this morning getting myself rebooted for the upcoming semester, I’m posting the final section of the draft of Leading...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG10: Solidarity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg10-solidarity/"/>
<updated>2020-12-29T14:51:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg10-solidarity/</id>
<content type="html">I’m taking a bit of a break from my official job-related duties this week, which is allowing me to think a bit about the path forward for Leading Generously. As this process has unfolded, I’ve come across several keywords that I want to add to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG9: Stories</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg9-stories/"/>
<updated>2020-12-22T15:03:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg9-stories/</id>
<content type="html">Week 9 of Leading Generously; just a couple more to go. I hope you’ll send me any stories you’re willing to share.<br />
Previously:<br />
<br />
LG1: Introduction</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG8: Support</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg8-support/"/>
<updated>2020-12-15T15:03:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg8-support/</id>
<content type="html">Part 8 of Leading Generously, already! Thanks to all of you who have liked and retweeted and commented. There are just a few more chapters ahead, and I’m starting to get a sense of my path forward, but I’m really looking forward any thoughts...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG7: Trust</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg7-trust/"/>
<updated>2020-12-08T15:09:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg7-trust/</id>
<content type="html">This chapter of Leading Generously contains my first real TK TK TK — I’m not happy with how this section wraps up, in part because I’m not convinced the section goes at all far enough. I’m developing a plan for conducting interviews with folks...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG6: Values</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg6-values/"/>
<updated>2020-12-01T14:58:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg6-values/</id>
<content type="html">Part 6 in this early draft of Leading Generously. This puts us a little over halfway through, so it seems a good moment to reiterate: what I most need in order to make this project into the thing it should become is examples. Stories of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG5: Vulnerability</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg5-vulnerability/"/>
<updated>2020-11-24T14:48:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg5-vulnerability/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s part 5. And boy, do I feel this one. Looking forward to any thoughts or stories you’re willing to share. Please feel free to leave them in the comments, or to write me at kfitz at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG4: Listening</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg4-listening/"/>
<updated>2020-11-17T15:05:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg4-listening/</id>
<content type="html">This is the fourth in a series of eleven or so posts, opening up my in-progress project, Leading Generously. I’m posting this material at this highly drafty stage in large part because I recognize the inescapably partial nature of my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG3: People</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg3-people/"/>
<updated>2020-11-10T14:59:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg3-people/</id>
<content type="html">Well, that was a week. Days of anxiously reloading every news outlet I could, followed by some precious hours of celebration and relief. And now… the fight continues.<br />
This is part three in a roughly eleven-part...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG2: You</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg2-you/"/>
<updated>2020-11-03T15:04:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg2-you/</id>
<content type="html">This is the second draft chapter of eleven-ish in Leading Generously. See the overview and the first chapter for the story thus far.<br />
And given the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LG1: Introduction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lg1-introduction/"/>
<updated>2020-10-27T14:11:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lg1-introduction/</id>
<content type="html">This is the first chapter of what promises to be eleven in an in-development project, tentatively entitled Leading Generously. For more on why I’m posting this, and the kinds of input I’m hoping for, see Leading...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Leading Generously</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/leading-generously/"/>
<updated>2020-10-26T14:02:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/leading-generously/</id>
<content type="html">This post is a heads-up of sorts; I’ve got a project I’ve been working on for a bit now, and I’m hoping y’all can help with it.<br />
The project is a follow-up to Generous...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Retreat</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/retreat/"/>
<updated>2020-10-18T18:43:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/retreat/</id>
<content type="html">Y’all. I found myself really needing to make some progress on a writing project. In order to do so, I needed to clear both my head and my schedule.<br />
Like a ton of you, I never took any real down time during the summer. I kept saying I was...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Urgency</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/urgency/"/>
<updated>2020-06-27T20:53:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/urgency/</id>
<content type="html">From today’s campus coronavirus update: “News this week of a spike in positive COVID-19 cases in the East Lansing area highlight the importance and urgency of our collective work to prepare for reopening campus this fall.”<br />
That news...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Your Institution Does Not Deserve to Survive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/your-institution-does-not-deserve-to-survive/"/>
<updated>2020-06-26T14:27:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/your-institution-does-not-deserve-to-survive/</id>
<content type="html">That is: unless you are committed to the survival of the people who make up and serve that institution first, foremost, and above all.<br />
* * *<br />
There’s an awful lot of “shared sacrifice” and “for the good of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generosity in Hard Times</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generosity-in-hard-times/"/>
<updated>2020-04-26T14:21:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generosity-in-hard-times/</id>
<content type="html">Over the course of the last couple of years, I’ve spoken on several college and university campuses where faculty, staff, students, and administrators have been thinking about how to create and support a greater sense of connection between their...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Isolation, Mission, Connection</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/isolation-mission-connection/"/>
<updated>2020-03-28T14:26:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/isolation-mission-connection/</id>
<content type="html">The last month has been an utter blur. We traveled for spring break, which is on the early end of things here; we left Michigan in late February for a bit over a week in a quiet resort hotel in Cancun. It was our usual writing vacation: we stayed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Infrastructure and Capacity Building</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/infrastructure-and-capacity-building/"/>
<updated>2020-01-16T15:36:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/infrastructure-and-capacity-building/</id>
<content type="html">Crossposted from Platypus.<br />
I was delighted this week to be notified that the Humanities Commons team...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Becoming Human</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/becoming-human/"/>
<updated>2020-01-11T22:02:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/becoming-human/</id>
<content type="html">This brief presentation was part of a panel at MLA 2020 in Seattle entitled “Being Human, Seeming Human.” The panel brought together researchers from Microsoft with a couple of DH folks (me and Mark Sample) to talk about the history of research...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generosity, Humility, Vulnerability</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generosity-humility-vulnerability/"/>
<updated>2019-12-01T20:13:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generosity-humility-vulnerability/</id>
<content type="html">A few conversations in recent days, as well as a bunch of the reading I did during my holiday writing retreat, have led me back to thinking about generosity. One would think I’d have exhausted myself on that concept, but not even close. In the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/30-november-2019-1846/"/>
<updated>2019-11-30T23:49:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/30-november-2019-1846/</id>
<content type="html">Those of us who labor in academia have a responsibility and a role to play in the transformation of society, but we are not, and should never aspire to be, Comtian ‘sociological priests,’ giving the people formulas of what the new...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Loss, Shame, Validation, and Work</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/loss-shame-validation-and-work/"/>
<updated>2019-11-26T12:03:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/loss-shame-validation-and-work/</id>
<content type="html">This is likely to be a bit of a hike. It’s one of those posts in which some precipitating event has sent me off on a bit of an introspective tail-spin, and sorting out what’s going on in my head and my heart requires putting fingers to keyboard...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anodyne</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/21-november-2019-0936/"/>
<updated>2019-11-21T14:36:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/21-november-2019-0936/</id>
<content type="html">Words come in and out of common usage, sure, but every once in a while I’m caught up short by repeatedly hearing a word that feels otherwise rare. Lately: “anodyne.” It’s suddenly everywhere, and I’m curious why.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Self-Assessment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/self-assessment/"/>
<updated>2019-10-07T13:20:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/self-assessment/</id>
<content type="html">A writer whose work I admire enormously tweeted the other day about the new book they’re working on and the joy they’re taking in it. Reading this tweet left me simultaneously delighted and saddened — delighted because there will soon be more...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Vanderbilt</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/23-september-2019-1533/"/>
<updated>2019-09-23T19:33:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/23-september-2019-1533/</id>
<content type="html">I am enormously excited to be keynoting Humanities 20/20 at Vanderbilt this Friday, supporting the faculty’s development of a vision for the future of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Questions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/17-september-2019-0820/"/>
<updated>2019-09-17T12:20:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/17-september-2019-0820/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been thinking this morning about the difference between Planned Obsolescence and Generous Thinking, and why the latter, and the response to it, means so much to me right now. When I was writing Planned Obsolescence,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Avatar</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/1-september-2019-1508/"/>
<updated>2019-09-01T19:08:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/1-september-2019-1508/</id>
<content type="html">I turned 52 last week, and am not exactly sure how that happened. But it’s time for a new avatar that looks a bit more like the me I’m becoming than the me I used to be.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>EDUCAUSE Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/28-august-2019-1526/"/>
<updated>2019-08-28T19:26:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/28-august-2019-1526/</id>
<content type="html">I don’t even know what to say about where this summer went. Things got done, but not the things I’d planned.<br />
Instead I’ll point to the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Horror</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/4-august-2019-1839/"/>
<updated>2019-08-04T22:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/4-august-2019-1839/</id>
<content type="html">Before what’s below, I need to say something about the horror unfolding around us in El Paso and Dayton, and too too many other cities of late, though I honestly don’t much know what to say, except that it’s a national shame of the highest order...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dewey, The Public and Its Problems</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/15-june-2019-1646/"/>
<updated>2019-06-15T20:46:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/15-june-2019-1646/</id>
<content type="html">“The notion that intelligence is a personal endowment or personal attainment is the great conceit of the intellectual class, as that of the commercial class is that wealth is something which they personally have wrought and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>We Have Never Been Social</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/we-have-never-been-social/"/>
<updated>2019-06-10T10:54:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/we-have-never-been-social/</id>
<content type="html">Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Bryan Alexander on his Future Trends Forum. We were primarily focused on</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer 2019</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-2019/"/>
<updated>2019-05-13T11:23:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-2019/</id>
<content type="html">I’m titling this post “Summer 2019” in part as a way of reminding myself, as firmly as possible, that the summer has begun, in order to get myself focused on a new set of priorities as quickly as possible.<br />
The transition from spring into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>View</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/30-april-2019-0312/"/>
<updated>2019-04-30T07:12:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/30-april-2019-0312/</id>
<content type="html">Not the worst view I’ve ever had from a hotel room window.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dreams</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/25-april-2019-1928/"/>
<updated>2019-04-25T23:28:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/25-april-2019-1928/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s how I know it’s almost summer: My dreams for the last nine months have been nothing but stress dreams. I’m at a conference and can’t find my way back to the third floor because the elevators on this side of the hotel only go to floors 53...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Soup</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/5-april-2019-1617/"/>
<updated>2019-04-05T20:17:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/5-april-2019-1617/</id>
<content type="html">Did I seriously spend a full two seconds wondering what kind of vegetable soup comes in a box and what it was doing in my hotel bathroom? (Yes, yes I did.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something Weird</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/25-march-2019-1004/"/>
<updated>2019-03-25T14:04:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/25-march-2019-1004/</id>
<content type="html">Something weird is happening to this tree.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cohen Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/1-march-2019-0947/"/>
<updated>2019-03-01T14:47:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/1-march-2019-0947/</id>
<content type="html">I’m enormously grateful to @dancohen for this most generous review of #GenerousThinking.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scholars, It’s Time to Take Control of Your Online Communities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scholars-its-time-to-take-control-of-your-online-communities/"/>
<updated>2019-02-28T18:09:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scholars-its-time-to-take-control-of-your-online-communities/</id>
<content type="html">Crossposted from the Humanities Commons Team blog.<br />
A couple of years ago, I got a bit fed up with the ways that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Carlson Interview</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/26-february-2019-1329/"/>
<updated>2019-02-26T18:29:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/26-february-2019-1329/</id>
<content type="html">I’m grateful to have gotten to have such a good conversation with Scott Carlson of the Chronicle of Higher...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jaschik Interview</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/20-february-2019-0755/"/>
<updated>2019-02-20T12:55:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/20-february-2019-0755/</id>
<content type="html">Scott Jaschik asked me some great questions about Generous Thinking, and I was happy to answer.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Listening as Generous Thinking</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/listening-as-generous-thinking/"/>
<updated>2019-02-18T14:00:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/listening-as-generous-thinking/</id>
<content type="html">(Crossposted from the Johns Hopkins University Press blog.)<br />
Generous Thinking began for me with the nagging sense that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on GT: Comments Reopened</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-gt-comments-reopened/"/>
<updated>2019-02-17T21:42:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-gt-comments-reopened/</id>
<content type="html">The conclusion to the print edition of Generous Thinking directs readers to the manuscript’s open review site to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LAE Podcast</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/17-february-2019-1006/"/>
<updated>2019-02-17T15:06:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/17-february-2019-1006/</id>
<content type="html">My dean Chris Long recently invited me to talk about Generous Thinking with him on his podcast, the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Behind the Will</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/behind-the-will/"/>
<updated>2019-02-13T22:50:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/behind-the-will/</id>
<content type="html">I am honored that my colleagues in the College of Arts &amp;amp; Letters asked me to talk a bit about digital humanities and the role that it might play in reorienting the university toward the public good. We had a rather long conversation, more of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Launch Week</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/11-february-2019-1135/"/>
<updated>2019-02-11T16:35:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/11-february-2019-1135/</id>
<content type="html">It’s launch week for Generous Thinking! The book’s official ship date is tomorrow, and I’ve got several fun things in the pipeline to accompany it.<br />
Everything except a book party. I forgot to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eight Days</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/4-february-2019-1544/"/>
<updated>2019-02-04T20:44:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/4-february-2019-1544/</id>
<content type="html">There’s one week and one day to go before Generous Thinking ships.<br />
I. Am. Excite.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Interface</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-interface/"/>
<updated>2019-01-08T13:36:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-interface/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday afternoon, I taught my first new class in almost nine years.<br />
Seriously, nine years. At the end of the Spring 2010 semester, I went on sabbatical, and then I joined the staff of the MLA. And while I did teach here at MSU...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>That Report</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/18-december-2018-1801/"/>
<updated>2018-12-18T23:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/18-december-2018-1801/</id>
<content type="html">That report? That had me terrified? I’ve been working steadily on it, and while I have a lot to go, I’ve turned the corner into being SUPER EXCITED about where it seems to be leading.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Report</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/10-december-2018-1722/"/>
<updated>2018-12-10T22:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/10-december-2018-1722/</id>
<content type="html">I’m working on a big piece of writing that’s had me a bit paralyzed, both because there seem to be too many unknowns as yet and because the stakes of this particular piece of writing — a report! — are enormously high. Over the last couple of days,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/13-november-2018-1300/"/>
<updated>2018-11-13T18:00:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/13-november-2018-1300/</id>
<content type="html">Eeeeeeee!</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>JHUP Catalog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3-november-2018-1640/"/>
<updated>2018-11-03T20:40:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3-november-2018-1640/</id>
<content type="html">Johns Hopkins UP’s higher ed catalog:<br />
a. Includes several...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>To Re-read</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/29-october-2018-1553/"/>
<updated>2018-10-29T19:53:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/29-october-2018-1553/</id>
<content type="html">Adding to Things: a semi-annual reminder to re-read this blog post and its various links. Boy does four-years-ago me sound familiar.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>more focus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/29-october-2018-0931/"/>
<updated>2018-10-29T13:31:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/29-october-2018-0931/</id>
<content type="html">Day 1 of my attempt to return to early-morning focus. It was challenging, but I’m hoping that it might help create some much needed clarity for the day (and days) ahead.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Focus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/focus/"/>
<updated>2018-10-28T13:09:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/focus/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been having some difficulty getting myself to focus lately. Some of the scatteredness I feel is undoubtedly situational: I have traveled four of the last six weeks, and on the two I haven’t traveled, I’ve been in at least one day-long local...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Voted</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/22-october-2018-1734/"/>
<updated>2018-10-22T21:34:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/22-october-2018-1734/</id>
<content type="html">I drove to city hall this afternoon and turned in my absentee ballot. In doing so, I saved $0.80 in postage and paid $1.85 in parking. But considering the crap luck I’ve had with absentee voting in the past (I’m looking at you, 2016), I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Amazon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/19-october-2018-1135/"/>
<updated>2018-10-19T15:35:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/19-october-2018-1135/</id>
<content type="html">Hey, there’s a thing! On Amazon! About which I am excited! #generousthinking</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Busy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/12-october-2018-1704/"/>
<updated>2018-10-12T21:04:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/12-october-2018-1704/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, if anybody knows what it is that my calendar says I’m “busy” with on November 28, do let me know.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Politics &amp; Aesthetics of Obsolescence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/12-october-2018-0854/"/>
<updated>2018-10-12T12:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/12-october-2018-0854/</id>
<content type="html">I’m delighted to be in Minneapolis today and tomorrow for the Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence, sponsored by the Moving Image &amp;amp; Media Studies...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sliding</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/5-october-2018-1804/"/>
<updated>2018-10-05T22:04:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/5-october-2018-1804/</id>
<content type="html">I am sliding back and forth between incandescent take-to-the-streets rage and bleak take-to-my-bed despair.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rage</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/28-september-2018-1021/"/>
<updated>2018-09-28T14:21:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/28-september-2018-1021/</id>
<content type="html">I am attempting to proofread this thing about generosity and the public good today, but there’s something interfering with my concentration. Call it my apoplectic levels of rage. Yesterday was despair-inducing, but like</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mercy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/20-september-2018-1437/"/>
<updated>2018-09-20T18:37:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/20-september-2018-1437/</id>
<content type="html">“What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?” A story that is both horrifying, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Production</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-production/"/>
<updated>2018-09-17T19:55:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-production/</id>
<content type="html">I sat down this afternoon to force myself to write a blog post, as I haven’t been doing much in the way of writing of late, and am feeling a bit cramped because of it.<br />
Or perhaps it’s more fair to say that I haven’t been doing much in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thundering Manichean Dumbassery</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/12-september-2018-1606/"/>
<updated>2018-09-12T20:06:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/12-september-2018-1606/</id>
<content type="html">“Thundering Manichean dumbassery” is among the best phrases I have read in recent days.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cOAlition S</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/4-september-2018-0632/"/>
<updated>2018-09-04T10:32:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/4-september-2018-0632/</id>
<content type="html">On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Go, Copy Editors</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/2-september-2018-1148/"/>
<updated>2018-09-02T15:48:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/2-september-2018-1148/</id>
<content type="html">I have just finished reviewing the copy edits on a forthcoming project and am moved to send a shout-out to the awesome copy editors of the world. It can be painful at moments to see the flaws in what you wrote laid bare, but the process inevitably...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>15,000!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/30-august-2018-1133/"/>
<updated>2018-08-30T15:33:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/30-august-2018-1133/</id>
<content type="html">Last year, just about this time, Humanities Commons (@humcommons) received its 10,000th member. This morning, we hit 15,000. Come join this growing community and share...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>1P 2FA</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/23-august-2018-0629/"/>
<updated>2018-08-23T10:29:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/23-august-2018-0629/</id>
<content type="html">How did I miss that my beloved 1Password added 2FA capability over two years ago? Now that iOS 12 is apparently</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>22 August 2018, 10:46</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/22-august-2018-1046/"/>
<updated>2018-08-22T14:46:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/22-august-2018-1046/</id>
<content type="html">I hope these two are getting the band back together today.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MOAR NEWS PLS</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/21-august-2018-1900/"/>
<updated>2018-08-21T23:00:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/21-august-2018-1900/</id>
<content type="html">This is the first time in I can’t remember when that I’ve sat in front of a browser refreshing over and over and thinking MOAR NEWS PLS.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Star System</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/19-august-2018-1839/"/>
<updated>2018-08-19T22:41:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/19-august-2018-1839/</id>
<content type="html">One thing I didn’t note in today’s post: the star system has not only distorted the flow of resources through our institutions, but has also deformed our relations with one another by determining what behavior we’ll accept...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stars</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stars/"/>
<updated>2018-08-19T14:21:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stars/</id>
<content type="html">Two things that have me thinking this morning: First, the thread from Timothy Burke beginning here:<br />
<br />
The academic star system of the 1980s and 1990s in the humanities created a group of people who believed they were better than...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Aretha</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/16-august-2018-1515/"/>
<updated>2018-08-16T19:19:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/16-august-2018-1515/</id>
<content type="html">She was absolutely everything.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Themes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/themes/"/>
<updated>2018-08-16T15:50:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/themes/</id>
<content type="html">Sigh. I am wrestling with a few problems here, which have me a bit stymied. The theme you currently see[1] is a child theme of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Under Construction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3310-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-16T11:16:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3310-2/</id>
<content type="html">Imagine a little GIF of a caution sign displaying a man digging. Or a cute note asking you to forgive our dust. There’s a bit of renovation taking place around here, but it doesn’t compare to what’s happening outside my window.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>micro.blog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3307-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-15T23:19:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3307-2/</id>
<content type="html">Well, @Twitter has officially broken @Tweetbot, so I’m likely to be around there less. Look for me on micro.blog; I’m @kfitz...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Looking Forward</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/looking-forward/"/>
<updated>2018-08-15T18:52:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/looking-forward/</id>
<content type="html">Today started with a bang: two back-to-back meetings over coffee, each of which was filled with possibilities for extending some of the projects I’ve been working on here. I left each meeting profoundly excited, and I don’t think it was just the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Aside</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3299-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-15T15:20:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3299-2/</id>
<content type="html">At some point in the last few weeks I read a blog post about connecting the Aside format in WordPress to micro.blog in a way that includes the date/time as a post title but then suppresses the title from the WP timeline and the RSS feed. Does this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lexington</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3297-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-12T16:03:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3297-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my stay in Lexington for the Transylvania Seminar: fantastic conversations about the principles and practices of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Liberal Education</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3291-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-10T11:54:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3291-2/</id>
<content type="html">This has been a rough week: some serious disappointments and a lot of bureaucratic annoyances. But today I get to participate in a seminar on the history and future of liberal education, and it’s hard to imagine a greater privilege.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disappointment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3278-2/"/>
<updated>2018-08-02T21:28:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3278-2/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been a good-news-bad-news kinda day. I got word of two unsuccessful grant proposals, but I also got amazing comments on them: positive, supportive, enthusiastic, and helpful.<br />
I’m putting this out there for two reasons: first, because I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gitelman, Paper Knowledge</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3268-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-29T14:32:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3268-2/</id>
<content type="html">New tools become tenable only if the attendant social organization of labor changes in concert with the development of the tools, if adjustments are made to the ways that labor and expertise are divided and that resources and rewards...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Preliminary Thoughts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3265-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-25T18:44:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3265-2/</id>
<content type="html">So, trying this again: I posted a few preliminary thoughts this morning about the relationship between sustainability and solidarity. I’d love to hear your ideas, and in particular suggestions for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gutenberg</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3263-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-25T18:27:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3263-2/</id>
<content type="html">Word to the wise: Gutenberg, at least at the moment, does not permit writing in Markdown. Nor does it accept incoming Markdown from, say, micro.blog. Ask me how...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sustainability and Solidarity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sustainability-and-solidarity/"/>
<updated>2018-07-25T13:24:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sustainability-and-solidarity/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been thinking a fair bit about sustainability of late. To a significant extent, this thinking has been encouraged by my recent attempts to ensure that a non-profit scholarly network to which I’m deeply...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Nights on Broadway</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3245-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-24T14:57:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3245-2/</id>
<content type="html">For the last week-plus, I’ve had The Bee Gees’ “Nights on Broadway” on repeat in my head. It’s not the worst earworm I’ve ever had, but it did finally drive me to look up the lyrics so I had something more coherent than “Blay menemah (blay...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Feeds and Gardens tweet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3243-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-23T23:39:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3243-2/</id>
<content type="html">From earlier today, thinking about RSS and cultivating community on the decentralized web: Feeds and Gardens.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Feeds and Gardens</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/feeds-and-gardens/"/>
<updated>2018-07-23T11:09:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/feeds-and-gardens/</id>
<content type="html">My last post, Connections, gathered a fair bit of response — enough that you can see a good example of Webmentions in action below it. There’s a little back-and-forth discussion there that mostly took place on Twitter,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Connections tweet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3234-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-20T18:10:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3234-2/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier today, I did a bit of musing about the decentralized, distributed, and yet radically interconnected future that I hope scholarly communication might have, and a few small steps I’ve been taking in that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Connections</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/connections/"/>
<updated>2018-07-20T12:57:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/connections/</id>
<content type="html">One of the instigating factors in my recent migration from my original plannedobsolescence.net domain to kfitz.info, and in my attempts to collect and reinvigorate my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Insomnia tweet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3226-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-19T16:57:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3226-2/</id>
<content type="html">I didn’t whine enough before, apparently, so I’m doing it now.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Insomnia</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/insomnia/"/>
<updated>2018-07-19T16:56:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/insomnia/</id>
<content type="html">There are few complaints that make me feel whinier than does insomnia, but there’s at least a little bit of pleasure in the whining, because there are also few complaints that produce more immediate, genuine sympathy. Not being able to sleep is no...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Insomnia</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3220-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-19T13:01:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3220-2/</id>
<content type="html">Insomnia is the worst. Woke up this morning at 1.52 and could not go back to sleep for anything. Finally got up and made coffee at 4.00. Tried to nap around 6.00, without much success. Am, shall we say, not at my sharpest today.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Modeling Clay</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3216-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-18T20:53:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3216-2/</id>
<content type="html">On Monday, I spent a chunk of the day thinking with smart folks in our Digital Scholarship Lab thinking about the collaborations we might inspire and support. (And playing with modeling clay.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>DSL</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3208-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-18T20:17:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3208-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent the day with some smart MSU folks thinking about our Digital Presence and Public Scholarship Initiative and the ways it might help encourage more process-focused, publicly engaged, dialogic...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Webmentions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3186-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-14T20:55:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3186-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’m experimenting with Webmentions and Semantic Linkbacks, at Chris Aldrich’s suggestion. Theoretically, if you reply to this post on micro.blog, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Not Blog?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-not-blog/"/>
<updated>2018-07-13T21:27:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-not-blog/</id>
<content type="html">My friend Alan Jacobs, a key inspiration in my return (such as it is, so far) to blogging and RSS and a generally pre-Twitter/Facebook outlook on the scholarly internet, is pondering the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sneaking in the back window</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3152-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-13T18:46:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3152-2/</id>
<content type="html">I have this far snuck into all three of my books (those published and those forthcoming) by the back window. I’m not sure why I’m surprised to find that the thing I thought I would write next might not be welcoming me in via the front door. But...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hope</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3148-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-11T11:22:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3148-2/</id>
<content type="html">This is what gives me hope for the future of the institution: “These three imperatives—to keep the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wrapping Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wrapping-up/"/>
<updated>2018-07-02T10:18:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wrapping-up/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, I wrapped up the revisions on Generous Thinking, and I’m finding myself of very mixed minds about where I am today. On the one hand, I am super excited about getting the manuscript into the press’s hands, getting it moving...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3140-2/"/>
<updated>2018-07-01T13:12:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3140-2/</id>
<content type="html">After spending 14 of the last 18 days on the road, I am ecstatic to be sitting at the computer in my pajamas, finishing up some last edits on Generous Thinking. I had a great time at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3098-2/"/>
<updated>2018-06-21T15:00:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3098-2/</id>
<content type="html">I went to bed at 8 last night, as I had to get up at 3 for a flight. When I woke up, my watch said 9:30, and I flipped out! Why hadn’t my alarm gone off? I’ve missed my flight! I was all the way up and making the bed before I realized: p.m. In my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Too Much</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3094-2/"/>
<updated>2018-06-20T11:18:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3094-2/</id>
<content type="html">I have been quiet. Trying to imagine what I could say that could possibly make any sense whatsoever of the horrors around us. Trying not to start crying for fear that I won’t be able to stop.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Conclusions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3089-2/"/>
<updated>2018-06-14T19:21:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3089-2/</id>
<content type="html">I hate conclusions.[1]<br />
<br />
Okay, I don’t hate them....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>La plus rare et la plus pure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/la-plus-rare-et-la-plus-pure/"/>
<updated>2018-06-05T16:34:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/la-plus-rare-et-la-plus-pure/</id>
<content type="html">After yesterday’s search for the source of Simone Weil’s oft-quoted “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity” went a bit Lot-49ish on me, I wondered whether I should just have been satisfied...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generosity and Attention</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generosity-and-attention/"/>
<updated>2018-06-03T12:45:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generosity-and-attention/</id>
<content type="html">Among the reading I’ve picked up thanks to suggestions from the most generous readers of the draft of Generous Thinking is a bit of Simone Weil. Alan Jacobs, who pointed me toward her...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recentering</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3070-2/"/>
<updated>2018-06-03T12:19:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3070-2/</id>
<content type="html">The return home, post-vacation, presented its usual challenges, not least the fragmentation and scattering of my attention in a dozen directions. I am working on recentering, even as I once again pick up all those neglected obligations.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mythical</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3067-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-26T12:23:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3067-2/</id>
<content type="html">I have somehow managed to achieve a state of vacation equilibrium that I previously thought mythical: Not a day too short. Not a day too long. Perfectly restful. So glad to be heading home.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bear</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3064-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-25T15:30:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3064-2/</id>
<content type="html">Our lake house, not incidentally, came with its own bear.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reboot</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3061-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-25T15:28:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3061-2/</id>
<content type="html">Heading back home after an amazing two weeks spent writing and reading and staring at the lake. Just the fast reboot I needed to make the transition to summer.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spring</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3059-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-24T22:46:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3059-2/</id>
<content type="html">We drove into this place on the northern coast of the Upper Peninsula two weeks ago tomorrow, and there was not a leaf to be found. Over the course of three days this week, everything went green. It’s the edge of summer here now. I so regret not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Media &amp; Democracy Network</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3057-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-24T17:23:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3057-2/</id>
<content type="html">“The Media &amp;amp; Democracy Network aggregates &amp;amp; curates academic research, news, and opinion investigating the close relationship between media, technology, and democracy.”</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>GDPR</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3054-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-23T17:08:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3054-2/</id>
<content type="html">I just got informed of a privacy policy update from a service I’ve never heard of. Is GDPR becoming a tactic for scammers?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Davis, Empathy Manifesto 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3052-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-23T11:21:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3052-2/</id>
<content type="html">From Jade E. Davis, Draft of Empathy Manifesto #1: “To be in the shoes of an Other still leaves you with your own...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sunset</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3047-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-22T21:55:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3047-2/</id>
<content type="html">It’s going to be hard to leave here.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wambach</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3044-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-22T16:26:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3044-2/</id>
<content type="html">WE. ARE. THE. WOLVES.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Micro</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3042-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-21T20:47:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3042-2/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, it appears that I’ve managed to get micro.blog posts connected to the aside post type and the micro category at kfitz.info, while ensuring that email subscribers to the blog don’t get these updates filling...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Markdown</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3040-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-21T18:53:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3040-2/</id>
<content type="html">A few immediate issues popped up in my micro experiment: markdown wasn’t enabled on the blog so posts there were, well, in markdown. And I’ve had to add a filter so that email followers don’t these posts. This one is a test to see if I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lake</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3037-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-21T17:31:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3037-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve gotten to spend the last week-plus in a house on the shore of a lake far from nearly all demands other than revising Generous Thinking. It’s been blissful.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Aside</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/3033-2/"/>
<updated>2018-05-21T16:36:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/3033-2/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to @ayjay, I’m testing out micro.blog, linking the “aside” post type here and — if all goes well — eventually to twitter dot com as well. I’ve been working on consolidating my digital presence, and I’m hopeful that this might help.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Generosity and Obligation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-generosity-and-obligation/"/>
<updated>2018-05-21T14:35:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-generosity-and-obligation/</id>
<content type="html">I am returning, at last, to the thoughts I was exploring in my recent posts on Miranda Joseph’s Against the Romance of Community (post 1 | post 2),...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Writing Is Hard</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/writing-is-hard/"/>
<updated>2018-05-17T14:43:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/writing-is-hard/</id>
<content type="html">And then there are the mornings when I can spend two hours trying to untangle the logic in a single paragraph. I’ll grant that the thing I’m trying to say isn’t, and shouldn’t be, simple. And the paragraph is one of the keys to explaining why this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading, Anxiety, Possibility</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reading-anxiety-possibility/"/>
<updated>2018-05-15T19:59:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reading-anxiety-possibility/</id>
<content type="html">Every so often you come across That Book, the exact thing you need to read, and a lot of the time it’s something that you might not have run into before and that you certainly had no idea you needed to read, and probably wouldn’t have except that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Strategy and Solidarity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/strategy-and-solidarity/"/>
<updated>2018-04-25T19:01:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/strategy-and-solidarity/</id>
<content type="html">As I noted in my last post, I recently read Miranda Joseph’s Against the Romance of Community as a means of thinking a bit more deeply about the ways that Generous Thinking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Community, Privatization, Efficiency</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/community-privatization-efficiency/"/>
<updated>2018-04-20T19:53:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/community-privatization-efficiency/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to a recommendation from Danica Savonick, I’ve been reading Miranda Joseph’s Against the Romance of Community. Danica pointed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s New</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-new/"/>
<updated>2018-04-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-new/</id>
<content type="html">Over the last couple of months, I opened Generous Thinking to a community review process at Humanities Commons. I am thrilled with</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Revision</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-revision/"/>
<updated>2018-04-03T11:35:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-revision/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday morning, I closed comments on the open review of Generous Thinking. I’m enormously grateful to everyone who took the time to read and give me feedback on the project: 30 commenters left...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Community Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/community-review/"/>
<updated>2018-02-28T13:06:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/community-review/</id>
<content type="html">In my last book, Planned Obsolescence, I argued for the potentials of open, peer-to-peer review as a means of shedding some light on the otherwise often hidden processes...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Chaos or Community</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/chaos-or-community/"/>
<updated>2018-01-01T13:50:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/chaos-or-community/</id>
<content type="html">“In the book Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King, Jr. told the citizens of this nation, with prophetic insight, that we would be unable to go forward if we did not experience a ‘true revolution of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Developing Networked Communities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-developing-networked-communities/"/>
<updated>2017-11-10T15:44:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-developing-networked-communities/</id>
<content type="html">I dropped what a friend of mine referred to as a “Twitter bomb” this morning, spurred on by a question raised by Tim Hutchings:<br />
<br />
SH has a more inclusive name than...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Commons and the Common Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-commons-and-the-common-good/"/>
<updated>2017-10-20T11:36:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-commons-and-the-common-good/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier this week, I took a whirlwind trip back to my old New York stomping grounds, where I both had the opportunity to catch up with my colleagues at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Desire Paths</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/desire-paths/"/>
<updated>2017-10-12T16:08:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/desire-paths/</id>
<content type="html">(Note added, 2024-07-20: This post was originally published in 2017 as a test of a new blog I&#39;d...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Parting Gifts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/parting-gifts/"/>
<updated>2017-08-07T20:17:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/parting-gifts/</id>
<content type="html">Today marks the start of my last week working at the MLA. It’s been a fantastic six years, and I’m enormously grateful to have had the opportunity to work on so many fascinating projects, and with such great colleagues...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sustainability</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sustainability/"/>
<updated>2017-08-01T14:45:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sustainability/</id>
<content type="html">As we’ve just announced, the MLA is grateful to have received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the next phase of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Next Steps</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/next-steps/"/>
<updated>2017-06-20T17:05:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/next-steps/</id>
<content type="html">Six years ago, I had the privilege of joining the staff of the Modern Language Association as Director of Scholarly Communication. My goal was to help the association and its members explore how developing digital...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Have Learned from Other People’s Use of My Email Address</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-have-learned-from-other-peoples-use-of-my-email-address/"/>
<updated>2017-03-01T15:30:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-have-learned-from-other-peoples-use-of-my-email-address/</id>
<content type="html">Kevin Fitzpatrick’s monthly AT&amp;amp;T Wireless bill is creeping higher month by month, and unless he’s got family members on his account, he should probably seek a better plan.<br />
Kevin also apparently had some serious damage to his 2013 Dodge,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Murkier and Unknown</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/murkier-and-unknown/"/>
<updated>2017-01-30T14:43:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/murkier-and-unknown/</id>
<content type="html">“To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown. It is still too difficult for most Americans to do...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading, Privacy, and Scholarly Networks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reading-privacy-and-scholarly-networks/"/>
<updated>2017-01-23T14:23:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reading-privacy-and-scholarly-networks/</id>
<content type="html">Sarah Bond published a column on Forbes.com this morning on the importance of not for profit scholarly networks. I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hard, Awful Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hard-awful-things/"/>
<updated>2017-01-19T12:52:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hard-awful-things/</id>
<content type="html">“You know, the question isn’t whether we’re going to have to do hard, awful things, because we are. We all are. The question is whether we have to do them alone.”<br />
Kate Braestrup, in Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moving Forward</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moving-forward/"/>
<updated>2016-11-14T16:12:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moving-forward/</id>
<content type="html">For the last week, I have been less than a page away from finishing a draft of the chapter on reading (see the overview for more on that), but found myself unable to press...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Morning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-morning-2/"/>
<updated>2016-11-09T12:28:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-morning-2/</id>
<content type="html">I am wanting desperately to find some still place to regroup, but I have to keep moving: I have to pack and get myself to the airport and go home, where I have to prepare for some beloved guests who will be arriving from the U.K. and all I can...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generous Thinking: Introduction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generous-thinking-introduction/"/>
<updated>2016-10-05T13:33:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generous-thinking-introduction/</id>
<content type="html">The text below is a revised version of a talk I gave at the University of Richmond this spring. It’s the first bit of writing toward my very much in-process project, Generous...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Generous Thinking: The University and the Public Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/generous-thinking-the-university-and-the-public-good/"/>
<updated>2016-10-02T16:23:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/generous-thinking-the-university-and-the-public-good/</id>
<content type="html">I have been working — painfully slowly, but nonetheless working — on a new project for something that is showing every sign of turning into a book. I’m still in the phase in which the thing is a bit hard to discuss, as I’m really figuring out what...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not-Running</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-running/"/>
<updated>2016-09-07T12:43:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-running/</id>
<content type="html">Over the years, I’ve posted a lot here about running, from chronicling my marathon training to pondering my deep ambivalence (if not flat out...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Starting Again, Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/starting-again-again/"/>
<updated>2016-08-20T14:56:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/starting-again-again/</id>
<content type="html">I have been working for the last year-ish on a new long-form writing project. The project is proceeding slowly, mostly because of time limitations.[1] But it is proceeding, which is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tinkering</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tinkering-2/"/>
<updated>2016-08-19T17:58:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tinkering-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just finished a bit of tinkering around here. I’m hoping, of course, that the desire to tinker might signal an imminent desire to actually write new things that might warrant a refreshed platform. But that, as always, remains to be seen.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Meta</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/meta/"/>
<updated>2016-04-11T13:29:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/meta/</id>
<content type="html">I have just had one of those moments in which writing about the reasons I’m having trouble writing the thing I’m trying to write just made the thing I’m trying to write become far more clear. As in previous such instances (c.f. the opening of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Academia, Not Edu</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/academia-not-edu/"/>
<updated>2015-10-26T11:56:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/academia-not-edu/</id>
<content type="html">Last week’s close attention to open access, its development, its present state, and its potential futures, surfaced not only the importance for both the individual scholar and the field at large of sharing work as openly as possible, with a range...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Opening Up Open Access</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/opening-up-open-access/"/>
<updated>2015-10-19T13:25:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/opening-up-open-access/</id>
<content type="html">It’s Open Access Week, and as befits the occasion, I’m starting it this morning by thinking about what we’ve accomplished, what obstacles we’ve found — or even, if I might dare to whisper,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The NEH at 50</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-neh-at-50/"/>
<updated>2015-09-29T17:00:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-neh-at-50/</id>
<content type="html">The National Endowment for the Humanities is celebrating its 50th anniversary today. I’m joining many scholars, writers, filmmakers, educators, and countless others online today in thinking about the ways that the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Women&#39;s Pain</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-womens-pain/"/>
<updated>2015-09-27T19:08:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-womens-pain/</id>
<content type="html">We cannot normalize women’s pain as acceptable collateral damage.<br />
Lili Loofbourow, “Planned Parenthood Saved My...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Political Economics of Open Access</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-political-economics-of-open-access/"/>
<updated>2015-09-27T17:13:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-political-economics-of-open-access/</id>
<content type="html">Oh, this this this:<br />
<br />
I’m increasingly feeling that the old debates (what’s a reasonable cost, green vs gold, hybrid vs pure) are sterile and misleading. That we are missing fundamental economic and political issues in funding...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Boehner</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/boehner/"/>
<updated>2015-09-25T14:02:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/boehner/</id>
<content type="html">Seriously, I’m trying to make sure I’m reading this right. Is John Boehner being forced out of Congress for not shutting the government down enough? Because...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stalked by Suicide</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stalked-by-suicide/"/>
<updated>2015-09-20T15:41:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stalked-by-suicide/</id>
<content type="html">“[A]t about the 10th, I started feeling as if it was inevitable — that it is going to get us all and there is nothing we could do to stop it.”<br />
—</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recalibration</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/recalibration/"/>
<updated>2015-09-17T19:33:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/recalibration/</id>
<content type="html">Today has been a day filled with making progress on a slew of different writing projects, adding a paragraph to this one, reviewing some comments on that one, thinking about some ancillary materials to go with another. It’s also been filled with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>E != Audio</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/e-audio/"/>
<updated>2015-09-16T20:08:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/e-audio/</id>
<content type="html">Please, please, please, somebody tell me that iTunes 12.3 undoes the certainty with which 12.2 decided that about half of my e-books were #actually audiobooks, no matter how many times I told it otherwise, thereby completely borking my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pretty Hurts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pretty-hurts/"/>
<updated>2015-09-16T13:51:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pretty-hurts/</id>
<content type="html">A gorgeous cover, and a beautiful video, from an a cappella group at JMU.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#HelpAhmedMake</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/helpahmedmake/"/>
<updated>2015-09-16T12:07:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/helpahmedmake/</id>
<content type="html">I am utterly, utterly crushed by this story. What a way to destroy the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Library of America</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/library-of-america/"/>
<updated>2015-09-14T18:45:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/library-of-america/</id>
<content type="html">David Skinner’s fascinating history of the Library of America details both the slow path to overcoming ingrained...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-2/"/>
<updated>2015-09-12T18:46:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-2/</id>
<content type="html">This is another in a periodic series of updates in which I announce that I’m trying to work my way back into running a bit more regularly once again, and invite you to find me on Runkeeper if you’re doing the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Stay</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-stay/"/>
<updated>2015-09-12T13:43:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-stay/</id>
<content type="html">I think now the greatest challenge to changing the system from within is changing the system within. Graduate education is the feeder for a kind of strong culture that is far more binding than the gears of bureaucracy are. Make no...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Vox Victorians</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/vox-victorians/"/>
<updated>2015-09-11T19:27:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/vox-victorians/</id>
<content type="html">There are good and careful interpreters, and bad ones. Part of the job of the person who is in love with history is to recognize the difference.<br />
Rebecca Onion,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Names</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/names/"/>
<updated>2015-09-11T18:31:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/names/</id>
<content type="html">When I was in sixth grade, I decided that I hated the way that folks where I grew up pronounced my first name (think three syllables), so I convinced everyone to call me by a shortened nickname version (think first initial). This was a fine...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Birthday Skype?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/birthday-skype/"/>
<updated>2015-09-10T12:41:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/birthday-skype/</id>
<content type="html">I logged in to Skype for a conference call yesterday afternoon and immediately received a message letting me know that it was the birthday of someone with whom I’ve collaborated on a few projects.<br />
Don’t get me wrong — I have actually come...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shhhh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shhhh/"/>
<updated>2015-09-09T21:27:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shhhh/</id>
<content type="html">Don’t let the thunderstorm know where I am.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PMLA</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pmla/"/>
<updated>2015-09-09T12:55:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pmla/</id>
<content type="html">One of the added responsibilities that has come to me with my new position is serving as managing editor of PMLA. In that capacity,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Untied</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/untied/"/>
<updated>2015-09-08T23:10:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/untied/</id>
<content type="html">As a long-time Continental frequent flyer, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear of the corruption investigation that has apparently brought down...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Greed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/greed/"/>
<updated>2015-09-08T14:07:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/greed/</id>
<content type="html">I’m pretty sure that if I were driven by greed academic publishing is not the business I’d go into….<br />
Alan Jacobs, “Academic...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Chicken</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/chicken/"/>
<updated>2015-09-08T13:18:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/chicken/</id>
<content type="html">This, except with 2+ pounds of boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Four hours in the slow cooker, on high. Makes brilliant tacos.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s in My Bag</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-in-my-bag/"/>
<updated>2015-09-07T13:26:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-in-my-bag/</id>
<content type="html">What refugees bring when they run for their lives.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unquenchable</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/unquenchable/"/>
<updated>2015-09-06T19:39:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/unquenchable/</id>
<content type="html">For many years, I lived with a diet Coke addiction. It wasn’t bad in terms of quantity, but it was serious in its regularity: it was hard for me to go a day without one. The cravings that resulted were intense.<br />
I’ve been all but diet Coke...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cultural Studies as an Alibi</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cultural-studies-alibi/"/>
<updated>2014-12-14T21:33:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cultural-studies-alibi/</id>
<content type="html">I would rather talk about the problems of ethics, value, trust, hierarchy, and labor in academic life than use cultural studies as an alibi, one more time, for the urgency of responding to the institutional pressures of the present...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Communities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/communities/"/>
<updated>2014-12-11T22:36:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/communities/</id>
<content type="html">[Crossposted from The New York Academy of Medicine’s Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health, which has published a cluster...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Must</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/must/"/>
<updated>2014-07-20T13:10:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/must/</id>
<content type="html">There are the things you know you ought to do, that are hard to do, in part because the “ought to” of them is pretty abstract, especially when they are surrounded by so many other pressing, concrete demands. For me, a whole lot of stuff has long...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Attention</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/attention/"/>
<updated>2014-06-15T13:02:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/attention/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday was a lovely, quiet Saturday. I got up early, went through my morning routine, and then went for a walk in the park. I did laundry, I had lunch, I took a little nap. I spent part of the day with the book I’m currently reading (Judith...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reluctant Is Just the Word</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reluctant-is-just-the-word/"/>
<updated>2014-06-08T22:40:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reluctant-is-just-the-word/</id>
<content type="html">Boone captures something here that I really needed to have drilled into my head: that if I’m going to get over my recent dread w/r/t running, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Royal Society and the Profession of Knowledge</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-royal-society-and-the-profession-of-knowledge/"/>
<updated>2014-06-01T12:27:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-royal-society-and-the-profession-of-knowledge/</id>
<content type="html">Philosophical writers vested much of their identities and reputations in their printed works, so that counterfeiting, abridgment, translation, and piracy threatened them with far more than merely economic damage. The repute of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mistakes in the Texts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mistakes-in-the-texts/"/>
<updated>2014-05-11T15:01:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mistakes-in-the-texts/</id>
<content type="html">Instead of trying to find mistakes in the texts, I suggest we take the point of view that our authors created these apparent “contradictions” in order to get readers like us to ponder more interesting questions.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading with the Grain</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reading-with-the-grain/"/>
<updated>2014-05-10T22:07:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reading-with-the-grain/</id>
<content type="html">The most difficult implication of this idea is the need to outgrow our supposedly Benjaminian habits of reading against the grain — the phrase the functioned as a byword for theoretically informed criticism in the second half of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Surfaces</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/surfaces/"/>
<updated>2014-05-10T15:43:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/surfaces/</id>
<content type="html">I’m contemplating a new writing project, and as I often do in the early stages of such projects, I’m beginning by thinking about the surfaces on which I’m going to do that writing, and the surfaces on which that writing will eventually appear....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pulled Pork, The Remix</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pulled-pork-the-remix/"/>
<updated>2014-04-28T18:56:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pulled-pork-the-remix/</id>
<content type="html">We are finally, finally, in the thick of spring — the sun is out, at least some of the time, and the windows are open, at least part of the day. And the ability to stand being outside for more than ten minutes at a time has me pondering the things...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Evolving Standards and Practices in Tenure and Promotion Reviews</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/evolving-standards-and-practices-in-tenure-and-promotion-reviews/"/>
<updated>2014-02-11T19:21:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/evolving-standards-and-practices-in-tenure-and-promotion-reviews/</id>
<content type="html">The following is the text of a talk I gave last week at the University of North Texas’s Academic Leadership Workshop. I’m hoping to develop this further, and so would love any thoughts or responses.<br />
I’m happy to be here with you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Being Wrong</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/being-wrong/"/>
<updated>2013-12-29T13:29:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/being-wrong/</id>
<content type="html">Intermittently over the last year, I’ve found myself fumbling around an idea about critical temporalities. That is: ideas keep moving, keep developing, even after you’ve locked them down in print or pixels. You continue developing your own ideas,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Tree</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-tree/"/>
<updated>2013-12-25T14:18:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-tree/</id>
<content type="html">I hunted through the cabinets where I’ve stored the old family photos to find this one this morning. It’s probably my favorite Christmas picture.<br />
There are so many things about this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tools and Values</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tools-and-values/"/>
<updated>2013-12-24T14:23:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tools-and-values/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been writing a bit about peer review and its potential futures of late, an essay that’s been solicited for a forthcoming edited volume. Needless to say, this is a subject I’ve spent a lot of time considering, between the research I did for</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Engage. Disengage. Repeat.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/engage-disengage-repeat/"/>
<updated>2013-10-20T16:07:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/engage-disengage-repeat/</id>
<content type="html">I believe that I have caught myself just this side of a major case of burnout.<br />
If that sentence is an exaggeration, it’s not by much. A few friends who had the dubious pleasure of talking with me just after I arrived at THATCamp Leadership...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Am Not Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-am-not-blogging/"/>
<updated>2013-08-30T14:14:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-am-not-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">This post is likely little more than a bit of ritual throat-clearing, designed to help me get past a stage in the trying-to-write-again process in which I simply cannot get myself to focus on what it is that I need to write (promised articles...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UGH.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ugh/"/>
<updated>2013-08-14T13:03:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ugh/</id>
<content type="html">I honestly don’t know what’s worse: that I never knew these lyrics at all until @Karnythia...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Working Vacation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-working-vacation/"/>
<updated>2013-07-24T13:13:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-working-vacation/</id>
<content type="html">As I posted a while back, I’ve been on an extended European trip this summer, beginning with several conferences, followed by a pretty blissful four-week stint in Prague. As week four begins today, and as I see this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get Me Rewrite!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/get-me-rewrite/"/>
<updated>2013-07-14T08:55:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/get-me-rewrite/</id>
<content type="html">Consider this a plea for help:<br />
This site has been through some serious migrations over the years. It’s had two different hosting providers and three different blog platforms, among other kinds of changes. As a result, its permalink...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eleven</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/eleven/"/>
<updated>2013-06-21T08:37:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/eleven/</id>
<content type="html">I have once again missed my own anniversary. It turns out that June 18, the day I launched this summer’s adventure, was the day this blog turned 11.<br />
Eleven! Planned Obsolescence is fully a tween, alternately...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Getting Back to (My Own) Work</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/getting-back-to-my-own-work/"/>
<updated>2013-06-20T13:13:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/getting-back-to-my-own-work/</id>
<content type="html">One would think, this many years and books and articles into a writing career, that I might have solved the getting-started problem by now. Or if not the getting-started problem, then at least the keeping-going problem. Not so much,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer 2013</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-2013/"/>
<updated>2013-06-18T16:23:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-2013/</id>
<content type="html">Having wrapped up a whirlwind spring, in which I successfully got through the craziness of buying an apartment in NYC, got myself more or less moved into it, closed down my California office and shipped everything east, and attended a ton of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Happened?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-happened/"/>
<updated>2013-04-26T16:27:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-happened/</id>
<content type="html">[As many of you know, MediaCommons disappeared for a couple of days this week. It’s (almost entirely) back now, but we wanted to explain what happened, and to start rebuilding not just the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cheese</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cheese/"/>
<updated>2013-04-25T22:14:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cheese/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to Matt Kirschenbaum’s English 668K at the University of Maryland, I have been alerted to the fact that searching for me on JSTOR brings up my very first publication,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dear Hosting Provider</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dear-hosting-provider/"/>
<updated>2013-04-24T18:44:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dear-hosting-provider/</id>
<content type="html">Weirdly, when our team said “let’s upgrade our server” got a message saying “we’re going to upgrade your server,” we didn’t expect you to redirect our DNS entry to a machine so new that it has no...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running/"/>
<updated>2013-04-13T21:10:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve had an on-and-off romance with running for nearly 20 years now. I came to it late; I hated running as a kid, and I avoided it as much as I could in high school. And given that on the one hand I was pretty notably underweight until my mid-20s,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Doubts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/doubts/"/>
<updated>2013-04-02T13:03:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/doubts/</id>
<content type="html">It’s not easy to write or talk about doubts. The things we have doubts about are often precisely those things that are most important, both to us and to those around us: a relationship, a job, a major life choice. If they weren’t important, our...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Future Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/future-publishing/"/>
<updated>2013-02-27T13:54:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/future-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">Back in the late spring of last year, I participated in a panel discussion on the future of publishing in visual culture studies, as part of the Now! Visual Culture symposium held at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Productivity and Goofing Off</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/productivity-and-goofing-off/"/>
<updated>2013-02-22T14:22:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/productivity-and-goofing-off/</id>
<content type="html">Lately I’ve found myself in one of those periods — perhaps we might refer to it as “my forties” — in which I’m so overwhelmed with the details involved in just keeping up with the most immediate and pressing tasks ahead of me that not only have I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Disagreement</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/disagreement/"/>
<updated>2013-01-27T04:55:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/disagreement/</id>
<content type="html">Tim McCormick posted an extremely interesting followup to my last post. If you haven’t read it, you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>If You Can&#39;t Say Anything Nice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice/"/>
<updated>2013-01-25T17:01:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice/</id>
<content type="html">Folks, we need to have a conversation. About Twitter. And generosity. And public shaming.<br />
First let me note that I have been as guilty of what I’m about to describe as anyone. You get irritated by something — something someone said or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on That Word</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-that-word/"/>
<updated>2012-12-13T14:37:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-that-word/</id>
<content type="html">This is in part an apology for having ranted and run yesterday; between the little project I’m trying to get launched in the next couple of weeks and a meeting that took up a good chunk of yesterday, I wasn’t able to stay on top of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;Neoliberal&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/neoliberal/"/>
<updated>2012-12-12T15:45:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/neoliberal/</id>
<content type="html">I have come to despise the term “neoliberal,” to the extent that I’d really like to see it stricken from academic vocabularies everywhere. It’s less that I have a problem with the actual critique that the term is meant to levy than with the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Feeling My Way Through</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/feeling-my-way-through/"/>
<updated>2012-12-10T14:53:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/feeling-my-way-through/</id>
<content type="html">I find myself at one of those moments at which everything is great and yet nothing seems to be working exactly right. I’ve got an enormous deadline just ahead — not, alas, the “boy, I’m going to blow that deadline and then I’m going to feel...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moving On</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moving-on-2/"/>
<updated>2012-11-28T14:32:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moving-on-2/</id>
<content type="html">I somewhat inadvertently made a big announcement via Twitter last night, and in so doing, as my friend Julie pointed out, sorta buried the lede. So here’s the story, a bit better presented:<br />
Effective the end of this academic year, I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Outward and Visible Signs</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/outward-and-visible-signs/"/>
<updated>2012-11-13T13:40:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/outward-and-visible-signs/</id>
<content type="html">I have an idea I’m backing into writing about this morning as I stand on the subway platform, a thing that I’m thinking about as “A Theory of the Information Class,” which attempts to unpack the bizarre merger of Weber and Veblen that so many of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Warming Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/warming-up-2/"/>
<updated>2012-11-09T15:34:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/warming-up-2/</id>
<content type="html">What happened?<br />
Last time I looked, it was the end of October, and I was having my more-or-less monthly freakout about the apparent acceleration of time. This freakout was particularly acute because of a really big, super important, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Out of the Habit</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-habit/"/>
<updated>2012-10-09T13:26:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-habit/</id>
<content type="html">I find myself lately pretty continually dismayed by the frequency with which I have to acknowledge that I’ve lost my good habits. I’ve gotten out of the habit of writing every morning; I’ve gotten out of the habit of leaving work on time in order...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Advice on Academic Blogging, Tweeting, Whatever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/advice-on-academic-blogging-tweeting-whatever/"/>
<updated>2012-10-01T14:36:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/advice-on-academic-blogging-tweeting-whatever/</id>
<content type="html">Over the weekend, something hashtagged as #twittergate was making the rounds among the tweeps. I haven’t dug into the full history (though Adeline</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Slow. Down.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/slow-down/"/>
<updated>2012-09-26T12:51:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/slow-down/</id>
<content type="html">I’m having one of those seasons already – one minute, it’s Labor Day, and the next, it’s almost October, and it’s not entirely clear what’s happened in the meantime. I know I had a couple of trips, and gave a bunch of talks, and sat in a ton of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Public Responsibility, Public Access</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/public-responsibility-public-access/"/>
<updated>2012-09-17T18:50:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/public-responsibility-public-access/</id>
<content type="html">Occupy is back today, celebrating the first anniversary of S17 with Strike Debt, a movement meant to call attention to the unconscionable levels of debt that many Americans...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Shape of Thought</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-shape-of-thought/"/>
<updated>2012-09-13T13:55:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-shape-of-thought/</id>
<content type="html">I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been thinking about the next Big Project. I’ve been circling it for a while, trying to figure out what several of the various things I’ve written recently have to do with one another. And over the last week, I think...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Making Room</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/making-room/"/>
<updated>2012-09-12T13:56:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/making-room/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just gotten back from a trip (about which, as I said on Twitter, I hope to be able to write soon) to find it pretty solidly fall around here. Less weather-wise, though there...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Multiple Calendar Query</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/multiple-calendar-query/"/>
<updated>2012-09-01T14:34:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/multiple-calendar-query/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s a (rather long) question for the Google Calendar devotees out there:<br />
I’ve long had a personal Gmail account that I’ve done all my scheduling through. (I can’t remember what prompted me to switch my calendaring from the iCal/Mobile Me...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stuck</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stuck/"/>
<updated>2012-08-30T14:56:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stuck/</id>
<content type="html">I find myself in that state again, in which I have a particular writing task — in this case a talk — with a pressing deadline, one that’s pressing enough that I really need to be working on it whenever I have time to write. (Being a talk, its...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fall</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fall/"/>
<updated>2012-08-29T13:06:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fall/</id>
<content type="html">Today we’ve got one of those glorious mornings in New York in which you begin to feel the first bits of fall in the air. The sun is up and the temperature and humidity are down. I even saw a young woman walking down Third Avenue wearing a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Time Zones</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/time-zones/"/>
<updated>2012-08-28T13:20:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/time-zones/</id>
<content type="html">Though my focus in writing here for the last ten years has mostly been professional, I’ve never tried to pretend that this wasn’t a personal blog. (In fact, I dispute the distinction: my professional life is extremely personal to me, and though my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>45</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/45/"/>
<updated>2012-08-24T15:17:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/45/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, as I noted then, was my birthday, and it was one that I was surprised to find myself a bit ambivalent about. I haven’t really felt bad about a birthday in that oh-god-I’m-getting-old kind of way since I turned 29. Of course, I look back...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Will Never Get It All Done</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-will-never-get-it-all-done/"/>
<updated>2012-08-23T14:36:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-will-never-get-it-all-done/</id>
<content type="html">The Chronicle’s ProfHacker and Inside Higher Ed’s GradHacker have this week collaborated on a series of posts about productivity...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Train of Thought</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/train-of-thought/"/>
<updated>2012-08-22T13:04:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/train-of-thought/</id>
<content type="html">The funniest part of yesterday’s post — at least it’s funny to me — is how it got written: on my iPhone, on the subway. I remembered yesterday that, back when I started posting here semi-regularly again in the early summer, I began by jotting down...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Last Season, on Planned Obsolescence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/last-season-on-planned-obsolescence/"/>
<updated>2012-08-21T12:36:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/last-season-on-planned-obsolescence/</id>
<content type="html">One key problem with the blog as a platform for serial scholarship is that it’s much too easy to find yourself interrupted, to lose a train of thought.<br />
Then again, this is a key problem with having a day job in general: that train of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reader Response, in Theory</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reader-response-in-theory/"/>
<updated>2012-07-14T12:11:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reader-response-in-theory/</id>
<content type="html">In my last post, on blogs as serialized scholarship, I noted that a colleague of mine had posted a link to a prior post on Facebook, resulting in an interesting conversation that I regretted not being...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogs as Serialized Scholarship</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogs-as-serialized-scholarship/"/>
<updated>2012-07-12T12:38:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogs-as-serialized-scholarship/</id>
<content type="html">Over the last two installments of this series, I’ve thought a bit about the relationship between scholarship, seriality, and the unpopular, all of which thinking has been headed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Unpopular</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-unpopular/"/>
<updated>2012-07-07T08:42:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-unpopular/</id>
<content type="html">This post revolves around two jokes that I’ve heard of late, each of which has been stuck in my head since I heard it. The first joke, as I noted in part 1 of this series, surfaced in a fantastic workshop on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not the Post I Want to Be Writing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-the-post-i-want-to-be-writing/"/>
<updated>2012-06-30T13:59:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-the-post-i-want-to-be-writing/</id>
<content type="html">This is, rather, a post for posting’s sake, a post attempting to get out of the way the things that are keeping me from writing the things I actually want to be writing.<br />
Which is to say: stand by for serious whining.<br />
Those of you who...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Showers of the World</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/showers-of-the-world/"/>
<updated>2012-06-22T15:14:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/showers-of-the-world/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been on the road for a little over two weeks now, across three countries and nine time zones, and while I have a host of more serious topics for discussion originating from this trip, the one that’s most concerning me at the moment is the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ten</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ten/"/>
<updated>2012-06-18T19:02:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ten/</id>
<content type="html">I nearly missed it. Again.<br />
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first post here at Planned Obsolescence. 1484 posts later, I’m still here, and I’m thrilled to say that, given the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Review: A Study of Contexts and Practices</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-review-a-study-of-contexts-and-practices/"/>
<updated>2012-06-18T18:13:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-review-a-study-of-contexts-and-practices/</id>
<content type="html">crossposted from MediaCommons:<br />
In April 2011, MediaCommons and NYU Press jointly received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a year-long study of open...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unpopular Seriality</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/unpopular-seriality/"/>
<updated>2012-06-17T11:59:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/unpopular-seriality/</id>
<content type="html">Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a workshop on “Popular Seriality” put together by Jason Mittell, Frank Kelleter, and the Popular Seriality research unit at the University...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pynchonesque</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pynchonesque/"/>
<updated>2012-06-12T09:40:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pynchonesque/</id>
<content type="html">I need to begin this post by thanking Julika Griem for inviting me on what I hope was only a first visit to Frankfurt’s Goethe Universität; it was a privilege to be able to speak there, and I hope to be able to return very soon.<br />
Yesterday...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Annals of Comment Spam</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/annals-of-comment-spam/"/>
<updated>2012-06-09T10:15:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/annals-of-comment-spam/</id>
<content type="html">A few days back, I tweeted an amusing bit of comment spam I’d received that morning:<br />
<br />
Today in spam comments: ‘Seriously hardly ever do I encounter a blog that is both educative and entertaining, and let me let you know,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ha.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ha/"/>
<updated>2012-06-08T12:41:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ha/</id>
<content type="html">In what universe did I think I was going to get any writing done on my flight?<br />
As it turned out, we boarded an hour late, and then sat on the tarmac for an extra hour after boarding, so by the time we took off I was too exhausted to do much...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Departure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/departure/"/>
<updated>2012-06-06T12:01:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/departure/</id>
<content type="html">This morning is filled with the millions of details required to get self and stuff out the door and on the road for the better part of seven weeks. It’s the always enervating start to what’s bound to be an exciting, energizing trip.<br />
The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Astro-Sonic</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/astro-sonic/"/>
<updated>2012-06-05T13:33:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/astro-sonic/</id>
<content type="html">A much-beloved aunt and uncle of mine who live not too far away from here, in a lovely suburban split-level they moved into — what? 45 years ago? — are preparing to move to an assisted living...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spoilerz!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/spoilerz/"/>
<updated>2012-06-04T12:48:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/spoilerz/</id>
<content type="html">Dear major television scholar who appeared at the very top of my Facebook feed this morning, where I could not avoid you (and I think you know who you are): sticking the word “spoiler” immediately before a most appalling revelation about that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reviews of Planned Obsolescence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reviews-of-planned-obsolescence/"/>
<updated>2012-06-02T12:43:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reviews-of-planned-obsolescence/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been prompted, at last, to update this blog’s about page to reflect more information about the book that shares its name, by the appearance this morning of a review in the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Elbow, Wrist, Fingers, Pen, Words</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/elbow-wrist-fingers-pen-words/"/>
<updated>2012-06-01T20:26:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/elbow-wrist-fingers-pen-words/</id>
<content type="html">I’m at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute Annual Symposium today, which has been fascinating all the way around. Perhaps the most amazing part of the day, however, was a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Itinerary</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/itinerary/"/>
<updated>2012-05-30T19:35:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/itinerary/</id>
<content type="html">I finally managed to purchase the last of my summer plane tickets yesterday.[1] I’ve got a bunch of travel coming up, most of it work-related, but part of it including a bit of actual...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shamelessness</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shamelessness/"/>
<updated>2012-05-29T13:54:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shamelessness/</id>
<content type="html">Collin published a fantastic post yesterday thinking through, among other things, love, writing, Roland Barthes, Etsy, and Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo. He’s had reasons for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Has a Sad</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-has-a-sad/"/>
<updated>2012-05-28T12:03:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-has-a-sad/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just gone through and pruned my blogroll, taking a look to see who was still active (by a fairly generous definition, given my own lack of activity), who had moved house, and who had gone the way of all things since I last took a hard look at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rearranging the Deck Chairs</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rearranging-the-deck-chairs/"/>
<updated>2012-05-27T21:03:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rearranging-the-deck-chairs/</id>
<content type="html">Some months back, I got pharmahacked, which was a royal pain, needless to say, and which I took extremely personally. (Witness: I got hacked.) Part of what annoyed me so much about the hack was...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-things/"/>
<updated>2012-05-21T19:18:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-things/</id>
<content type="html">One super-depressing (not least for how</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Intention</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/intention/"/>
<updated>2012-05-19T17:26:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/intention/</id>
<content type="html">A few weeks ago, as I wrote my last post about balance as not-falling, I very much had yoga on my mind; I’d gone with a friend a few weeks before that to the first class I’d taken in years. (How...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Placeholder</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/placeholder-2/"/>
<updated>2012-04-28T17:46:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/placeholder-2/</id>
<content type="html">This is a post designed to see if I’ve managed to unbreak my RSS feed, such that Google Reader and other modes of subscribing to this blog will once again update. Cross your fingers for me.<br />
[UPDATE, 3.20 pm: So it appears that</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Constant Process of Not-Falling</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-constant-process-of-not-falling/"/>
<updated>2012-04-27T13:52:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-constant-process-of-not-falling/</id>
<content type="html">The primary bit of awkwardness involved in not-blogging is the transition to once-again-blogging; there’s guilt and embarrassment, and an overwhelming need to explain where one has been and what one has been doing.<br />
For my part, I have been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Access at 10</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-access-at-10/"/>
<updated>2012-02-14T12:20:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-access-at-10/</id>
<content type="html">I’m really happy (if mildly tired) to be writing from Budapest, where (like Cameron) I’m honored to participate in a meeting on the tenth anniversary...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iBooks, Authoring, Education, and So Forth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ibooks-authoring-education-and-so-forth/"/>
<updated>2012-01-20T00:53:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ibooks-authoring-education-and-so-forth/</id>
<content type="html">A quick note: I had the opportunity to attend the Apple Education event today on behalf of ProfHacker, where I posted</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/giving-it-away/"/>
<updated>2012-01-12T13:03:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/giving-it-away/</id>
<content type="html">The last talk I gave at MLA 2012 was a keynote for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, the text of which is below. I’d love any feedback you might have to offer.<br />
—<br />
Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Response to Stanley Fish</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/response-to-stanley-fish/"/>
<updated>2012-01-10T18:09:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/response-to-stanley-fish/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just posted the following response to Stanley Fish’s comments about my book; they should be up once they’re moderated...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Networking the Field</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/networking-the-field/"/>
<updated>2012-01-10T14:46:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/networking-the-field/</id>
<content type="html">Hi, my name is Kathleen Fitzpatrick. You may remember me from such conventions as the MLA, and from articles such as</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mla12</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mla12/"/>
<updated>2012-01-09T12:32:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mla12/</id>
<content type="html">It’s 4.25 am in Seattle, and I’m about to head to the airport, on my way home from MLA 2012. It was an amazing convention — I’ve rarely felt more energized about the opportunities ahead for the field, not to mention the amazing people working in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Happy New Year!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/happy-new-year-2/"/>
<updated>2012-01-02T14:29:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/happy-new-year-2/</id>
<content type="html">We began 2012 yesterday in keeping with tradition, by doing a lot of lying around and recovering. We’d had a late night, which was made doubly late by my downstairs neighbor’s rockin’ party, which rocked on until 3.30 am. So there were naps and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lies, Damned Lies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lies-damned-lies/"/>
<updated>2011-12-30T16:37:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lies-damned-lies/</id>
<content type="html">The elevators in our office building have these little monitors built into them, on which are displayed random tidbits of pseudo-news and other glossy distractions. Because god forbid we should be bored on the ride to the third...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Public Scholar&#39;s Two Bodies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-public-scholars-two-bodies/"/>
<updated>2011-12-27T18:08:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-public-scholars-two-bodies/</id>
<content type="html">I started this blog as an assistant professor, under conditions that were never fully pseudonymous but were perhaps semi-veiled, at least by the fact that very few people knew me, and even fewer of those who did knew anything about blogs. All of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Year in Review: Or, a Whole Lot of Thinking That Eventually Works Its Way Around to a Point</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-year-in-review/"/>
<updated>2011-12-26T18:58:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-year-in-review/</id>
<content type="html">It wouldn’t be the holidays for me without some kind of emotional crisis, I fear; if it’s not a crisis impelled by too-intense familial contact (the kind in which the internal injunction to JUST SMILE HARDER suddenly fails, the kind which can only...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful(ly Warm, for This Time of Year)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oh-the-weather-outside-is-frightfully-warm-for-this-time-of-year/"/>
<updated>2011-12-22T21:52:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oh-the-weather-outside-is-frightfully-warm-for-this-time-of-year/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the midst of wrapping up a few last items in the office before heading home for the holidays. It’s a slightly odd feeling; this is the first time in almost 20 years that I’m operating on a calendar other than the academic one, meaning that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Adventures in Publishing Contracts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-publishing-contracts/"/>
<updated>2011-12-12T20:57:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-publishing-contracts/</id>
<content type="html">Some months back I received a contract from a Certain University Press for an article that I’ve got forthcoming in what’s going to be a super cool edited volume. I was a little taken aback, on reading the contract, to discover that I was being...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Peer Review: New Rule</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-peer-review-new-rule/"/>
<updated>2011-11-10T18:59:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-peer-review-new-rule/</id>
<content type="html">New rule! From this moment forward, in anything claiming to be a “discussion” of open peer review, no one is allowed to refer to the Nature experiment as evidence...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Today&#39;s (Apparently) the Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/todays-apparently-the-day/"/>
<updated>2011-11-01T13:12:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/todays-apparently-the-day/</id>
<content type="html">According to Amazon, at least: today is the day that Planned Obsolescence has been released!<br />
The link above is to the paperback version; here’s a link to the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Am Writing Instead of Writing Blog Posts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-am-writing-instead-of-writing-blog-posts/"/>
<updated>2011-10-12T16:49:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-am-writing-instead-of-writing-blog-posts/</id>
<content type="html">Grant proposals!<br />
Reader’s reports.<br />
Email. (Oh dear lord, the email.)<br />
Letters of recommendation.<br />
Conference presentations.<br />
<br />
Things I have not been writing instead of writing blog...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Inside Higher Ed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/inside-higher-ed/"/>
<updated>2011-09-30T16:51:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/inside-higher-ed/</id>
<content type="html">And just to round out what has been a completely insane week, an article reviewing Planned Obsolescence, including an interview with me, is up this morning at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Do the Risky Thing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/do-the-risky-thing/"/>
<updated>2011-09-25T15:15:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/do-the-risky-thing/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve got a new column up at the Chronicle this morning. This one’s been in the works for a bit, and I’m really happy to have it out in circulation, and to see it...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is What&#39;s Wrong with American Workmanship Today</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-whats-wrong-with-american-workmanship-today/"/>
<updated>2011-09-24T17:05:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-whats-wrong-with-american-workmanship-today/</id>
<content type="html">I got my watch as a gift in the fall of 2001. The battery that was in it when I received it lasted a really long time — five years, perhaps. And then it died, as they do, and I had it replaced. And the next one lasted a little less long — perhaps...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Program Committee</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/program-committee/"/>
<updated>2011-09-23T20:31:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/program-committee/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent the last two days in a meeting of the MLA Program Committee, thinking about, among other issues, the future shape of the convention — the new kinds of sessions we want to encourage; the new kinds of issues we want to take on. We’ve got...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hey, Why the Silence?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hey-why-the-silence/"/>
<updated>2011-09-22T12:26:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hey-why-the-silence/</id>
<content type="html">So, you may have noticed that there’s a significant gap in the archives here, roughly corresponding with the summer. And you may have asked yourself, gee, is kfitz on vacation?<br />
Not exactly.<br />
The period of my absence roughly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upward, Carefully</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/upward-carefully/"/>
<updated>2011-09-21T12:23:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/upward-carefully/</id>
<content type="html">After two days at the Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship meeting, I’m back in the office today, and am taking a few minutes to take stock of where I am and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sports Night</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sports-night/"/>
<updated>2011-09-21T00:49:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sports-night/</id>
<content type="html">I started rewatching Sports Night on Netflix this week, and am finding myself amazed, first, at how well the show has held up, not to mention how well Josh Charles and Peter Krause have held up thirteen years later.<br />
But...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Air</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-air/"/>
<updated>2011-09-19T15:53:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-air/</id>
<content type="html">Two things I’m noticing about my lovely new MacBook Air (which replaced my 3.5 year old first-generation Air):<br />
1. It’s fast. Especially over wireless. Way way faster than my early-2009 iMac. I’m not sure why that surprises me, but it really...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Morning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-morning/"/>
<updated>2011-09-19T13:23:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-morning/</id>
<content type="html">I’m headed to Ithaka Sustainable Scholarship 2011 today and tomorrow. I’m taking advantage of the slightly delayed start by actually sitting in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rebuild, Rewrite, Redirect</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rebuild-rewrite-redirect/"/>
<updated>2011-09-18T17:37:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rebuild-rewrite-redirect/</id>
<content type="html">If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me growling a bit over the last week or so about @#$%! SEO blackhats and their @#$%! pharmahack.<br />
Suffice it to say, I’d been gotten, and gotten so...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Enough</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/enough/"/>
<updated>2011-05-23T14:17:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/enough/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in what amounts to the last couple of weeks of my sabbatical, and so am finding myself reflecting a bunch on the goals I’d set for myself at the beginning of the year and the utterly</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Complexity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/complexity/"/>
<updated>2011-05-22T19:58:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/complexity/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the midst of reading Dominick LaCapra’s History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, as I revise</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moves and Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moves-and-updates/"/>
<updated>2011-04-29T11:55:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moves-and-updates/</id>
<content type="html">The news is starting to make its way out there: I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Modern Language Association this July as the Director of Scholarly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Receives Mellon Grant to Study Open Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-receives-mellon-grant-to-study-open-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2011-04-12T12:15:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-receives-mellon-grant-to-study-open-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">[crossposted from MediaCommons.]<br />
As was reported in</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Miss Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-miss-blogging/"/>
<updated>2011-04-10T23:00:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-miss-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">I got myself caught this evening in a thing that happens to me here every so often: I’ll spot an intriguing post title in my “Five Years Ago” block and click and read that post, and get all nostalgic about five years ago, and sometime later...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Never-Appeared</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-never-appeared/"/>
<updated>2011-03-30T11:50:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-never-appeared/</id>
<content type="html">I’m thinking that I’m going to start a new publishing project around here, based around a cluster of essays that I’ve written for various collections that have never actually gotten published — because the editor lost interest in the project, or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Open Access Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-open-access-publishing/"/>
<updated>2011-03-26T14:59:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-open-access-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">[The following article was originally published by the Society for Critical Exchange in January 2010; alas, that version has been overrun with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Day of DH 2011</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/day-of-dh-2011/"/>
<updated>2011-03-18T08:43:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/day-of-dh-2011/</id>
<content type="html">I’m participating in the University of Alberta-sponsored Day of DH 2011 today, and so will be posting there (and here) about some of my digital humanities doings as the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Than Mere Polyester Would Suggest</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-than-mere-polyester-would-suggest/"/>
<updated>2011-03-09T11:35:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-than-mere-polyester-would-suggest/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier this year, I attended a conference at which I was given a really nice fleece jacket. Really nice.<br />
I’ve known for a while that I harbor a somewhat extreme love for this fleece jacket; it’s become my comfy home top layer of choice,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Disappearing Month</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-disappearing-month/"/>
<updated>2011-03-01T10:23:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-disappearing-month/</id>
<content type="html">For the first time in the nearly nine-year history of this blog, I have failed to post here for an entire calendar month. There will forever be a gap where February 2011 should be in the archives.<br />
I wish I had a good reason for the failure...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Does Tenure Undermine Academic Freedom?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/does-tenure-undermine-academic-freedom/"/>
<updated>2011-01-20T15:46:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/does-tenure-undermine-academic-freedom/</id>
<content type="html">A compelling argument that it does, at See Also…, with a particularly interesting concluding suggestion:<br />
<br />
A...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&lt;rant&gt;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rant/"/>
<updated>2011-01-05T13:04:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rant/</id>
<content type="html">Things are getting a bit under my skin right now. Maybe it’s exhaustion; yesterday’s travel went as smoothly as it possibly could, with some real cushiness along the way, but it was still a long day, and the time zone change is kicking my butt....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Nothing to Be Done</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/nothing-to-be-done/"/>
<updated>2011-01-04T07:02:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/nothing-to-be-done/</id>
<content type="html">We’re at the airport, on our way back to the US. Earlier this morning, as we were checking out of the hotel, I took one last look around the reception area, which was much emptier than it had been at any previous point during our stay. Past one...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Homeward Bound, At Least Sorta</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/homeward-bound-at-least-sorta/"/>
<updated>2011-01-03T07:01:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/homeward-bound-at-least-sorta/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s our last full day in Dublin; tomorrow morning, we head to the airport to fly to Newark, where I’ll then kill three hours before hopping on another plane to Los Angeles for the MLA.<br />
There are all kinds of ironies — or, perhaps,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twenty-Eleven</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twenty-eleven/"/>
<updated>2011-01-01T10:41:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twenty-eleven/</id>
<content type="html">This is the first promptless morning I’ve spent in a month, and the freedom is almost a bit vertiginous. I sat here for an hour or so starting at the add-new-post window, wondering what on earth to write about.<br />
And then I spent an hour or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 31: Core Story</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-31-core-story/"/>
<updated>2010-12-31T06:38:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-31-core-story/</id>
<content type="html">At last, today’s final prompt:<br />
<br />
Core story. What central story is at the core of you, and how do you share it with the world? (Bonus: Consider your reflections from this month. Look through them to discover a thread you may not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 30: Gift</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-30-gift/"/>
<updated>2010-12-30T07:29:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-30-gift/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Gift. This month, gifts and gift-giving can seem inescapable. What’s the most memorable gift, tangible or emotional, you received this year?<br />
<br />
I’ve been given some pretty great gifts this year...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 29: Defining Moment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-29-defining-moment/"/>
<updated>2010-12-29T05:59:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-29-defining-moment/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Defining moment. Describe a defining moment or series of events that has affected your life this year.<br />
<br />
So many possibilities here, but I feel as though I’ve already described most of them...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 28: Achieve</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-28-achieve/"/>
<updated>2010-12-29T05:24:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-28-achieve/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Achieve. What’s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you’ll feel when you get it? Free? Happy? Complete? Blissful? Write that feeling down. Then, brainstorm 10 things you can do,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Scholarly Press, the Manual of Style, and Intellectual Property</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-scholarly-press-the-manual-of-style-and-intellectual-property/"/>
<updated>2010-12-28T05:01:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-scholarly-press-the-manual-of-style-and-intellectual-property/</id>
<content type="html">Stuart Shieber posted an interesting and troubling analysis a few days ago of the recommendations of the Chicago Manual of Style with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 27: Ordinary Joy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-27-ordinary-joy/"/>
<updated>2010-12-28T03:26:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-27-ordinary-joy/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Ordinary joy. Our most profound joy is often experienced during ordinary moments. What was one of your most joyful ordinary moments this year?<br />
<br />
Perhaps it’s just proximity, but I can’t help...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 26: Soul Food</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-26-soul-food/"/>
<updated>2010-12-27T02:56:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-26-soul-food/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s — hey, it may be the 27th where I am, but it’s still the 26th according to the server — prompt:<br />
<br />
Soul food. What did you eat this year that you will never forget? What went into your mouth &amp;amp; touched your...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Soundtrack</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/soundtrack/"/>
<updated>2010-12-26T10:28:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/soundtrack/</id>
<content type="html">One of the things that I find fascinating just about every time I travel around Europe is the music playing in the background in restaurants, bars, hotels, stores, and so forth. It’s not terribly surprising that a bunch of it is American pop...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 25: Photo</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-25-photo/"/>
<updated>2010-12-25T12:27:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-25-photo/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Photo – a present to yourself. Sift through all the photos of you from the past year. Choose one that best captures you; either who you are, or who you strive to be. Find the shot of you that is worth a thousand...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Christmas Eve in Prague</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/christmas-eve-in-prague/"/>
<updated>2010-12-25T05:39:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/christmas-eve-in-prague/</id>
<content type="html">The Christmas market in Old Town Square has a smallish stage set up at one end; this stage is used throughout the Christmas season for performances of various kinds. Four years ago, when R. and I spent our first Christmas in Prague, we caught</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Among the Things We Saw Last Night</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/among-the-things-we-saw-last-night/"/>
<updated>2010-12-24T13:36:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/among-the-things-we-saw-last-night/</id>
<content type="html">A...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 24: Everything&#39;s OK</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-24-everythings-ok/"/>
<updated>2010-12-24T04:33:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-24-everythings-ok/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Everything’s OK. What was the best moment that could serve as proof that everything is going to be alright? And how will you incorporate that discovery into the year ahead?<br />
<br />
It’s almost as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 23: New Name</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-23-new-name/"/>
<updated>2010-12-23T05:31:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-23-new-name/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s (yay!) prompt:<br />
<br />
New name. Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why?<br />
<br />
This one’s short but sweet: I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 22: Travel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-22-travel/"/>
<updated>2010-12-23T04:46:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-22-travel/</id>
<content type="html">Prompt the 22nd:<br />
<br />
Travel. How did you travel in 2010? How and/or where would you like to travel next year?<br />
<br />
Ooh, this is timely. I’m writing from the executive lounge of the Prague Marriott hotel, where R....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 21: Future Self</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-21-future-self/"/>
<updated>2010-12-23T04:02:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-21-future-self/</id>
<content type="html">Prompt the 21st:<br />
<br />
Future self. Imagine yourself five years from now. What advice would you give your current self for the year ahead? (Bonus: Write a note to yourself 10 years ago. What would you tell your younger...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 20: Beyond Avoidance</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-20-beyond-avoidance/"/>
<updated>2010-12-22T07:32:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-20-beyond-avoidance/</id>
<content type="html">Prompt the 20th:<br />
<br />
Beyond avoidance. What should you have done this year but didn’t because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing? (Bonus: Will you do it?)<br />
<br />
Write. Write....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 19: Healing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-19-healing/"/>
<updated>2010-12-21T09:03:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-19-healing/</id>
<content type="html">Another overdue prompt:<br />
<br />
Healing. What healed you this year? Was it sudden, or a drip-by-drip evolution? How would you like to be healed in 2011?<br />
<br />
Once again, the newageyness of the prompt’s vocabulary has...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 18: Try</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-18-try/"/>
<updated>2010-12-21T03:09:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-18-try/</id>
<content type="html">Blah blah behind, catching up, etc. A prompt from a few days back:<br />
<br />
Try. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did / didn’t go for it?<br />
<br />
I am...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Brief Technical Aside</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-brief-technical-aside/"/>
<updated>2010-12-21T01:41:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-brief-technical-aside/</id>
<content type="html">Just to note that in the, what, four or five days since I’ve added the ReCaptcha plugin here, I’ve received a total of seven spam comments. In a similar span of time before adding the ReCaptchas, I’d have had upwards of 1500 — almost all of them...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 17: Lesson Learned</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-17-lesson-learned/"/>
<updated>2010-12-19T01:26:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-17-lesson-learned/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s Yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Lesson learned. What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 16: Friendship</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-16-friendship/"/>
<updated>2010-12-17T15:17:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-16-friendship/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Friendship. How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst?<br />
<br />
This one’s short but sweet: R. and I just celebrated our...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 15: 5 Minutes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-15-5-minutes/"/>
<updated>2010-12-15T12:09:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-15-5-minutes/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
5 minutes. Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.<br />
<br />
I want to remember...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 14: Appreciate</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-14-appreciate/"/>
<updated>2010-12-15T11:46:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-14-appreciate/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Appreciate. What’s the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?<br />
<br />
My initial response to this prompt, like several of the preceding...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 13: Action</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-13-action/"/>
<updated>2010-12-14T00:09:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-13-action/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step?<br />
<br />
This sense of moving from idea to action is very much what’s behind the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, day 12: Body Integration</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-12-body-integration/"/>
<updated>2010-12-13T11:50:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-12-body-integration/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Body integration. This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body? Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 11: 11 Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-11-11-things/"/>
<updated>2010-12-12T11:12:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-11-11-things/</id>
<content type="html">I started this post yesterday, hoping to get myself back on schedule, but a visit to some relatives intervened and kept me from finishing it. In any case, yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
11 Things. What are 11 things your life doesn’t need...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Undergrads Reimagine the Humanities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/undergrads-reimagine-the-humanities/"/>
<updated>2010-12-11T10:59:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/undergrads-reimagine-the-humanities/</id>
<content type="html">Last month, I was honored to be a keynote speaker at Re:Humanities, an undergraduate conference on digital media in academia organized by students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. It...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 10: Wisdom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-10-wisdom/"/>
<updated>2010-12-11T10:03:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-10-wisdom/</id>
<content type="html">Behind again, not because I was so horribly busy yesterday (though I was busy enough), but because no matter how much I pondered this question, I wasn’t able to come up with an answer that I found satisfying. Yesterday’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 9: Party</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-9-party/"/>
<updated>2010-12-09T12:38:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-9-party/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans.<br />
<br />
I start, as always, with the disclaimers: I’m frankly not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 8: Beautifully Different</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-8-beautifully-different/"/>
<updated>2010-12-08T13:32:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-8-beautifully-different/</id>
<content type="html">I’m actually quite pleased that this is a second post for today, because I’d hate to have to contemplate it by itself. Interestingly, though I’ve subscribed to the email list for the reverb10 prompts, and each prompt has dutifully landed in my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 7: Community</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb-day-7-community/"/>
<updated>2010-12-08T12:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb-day-7-community/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve fallen a day behind here, for reasons I’ll write about in a minute. For now, yesterday’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Community. Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 6: Make</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-6-make/"/>
<updated>2010-12-06T10:14:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-6-make/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it?<br />
<br />
What’s the last thing I made? Why, thank you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 5: Let Go</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-5-let-go/"/>
<updated>2010-12-05T15:41:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-5-let-go/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Let Go. What (or whom) did you let go of this year? Why?<br />
<br />
This one’s complex. A little bit hard to write about in a public venue, in fact. Partially because the letting-go wasn’t entirely...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 4: Wonder</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-4-wonder/"/>
<updated>2010-12-04T12:36:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-4-wonder/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Wonder. How did you cultivate a sense of wonder in your life this year?<br />
<br />
Okay, we’ve officially hit the point at which I start complaining about the awful gooshiness of these...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 3: Moment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-3-moment/"/>
<updated>2010-12-03T22:12:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-3-moment/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors).<br />
<br />
I’m running more than a little behind today, having...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10, Day 2: What Gets in the Way</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-2-what-gets-in-the-way/"/>
<updated>2010-12-02T12:12:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10-day-2-what-gets-in-the-way/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s prompt:<br />
<br />
Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it?<br />
<br />
My initial, flippant answer to this question was “Everything!” Every aspect of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Word</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-word/"/>
<updated>2010-12-01T12:36:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-word/</id>
<content type="html">This I’ll say at the outset: it is far harder for me to come up with one word than it is for me to come up with a thousand.<br />
Write about my year and how it’s gone? Absolutely. Reflect on its dominant trends and emotions, and think about how...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#reverb10</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reverb10/"/>
<updated>2010-12-01T12:06:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reverb10/</id>
<content type="html">In the hopes of getting things around here moving a bit, of breaking up the logjam in my head, and of figuring out what’s ahead of me as I move on to new projects in the second half of my sabbatical, I’ve taken the utterly unlike me step of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Relaunching The Anxiety of Obsolescence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/relaunching-the-anxiety-of-obsolescence/"/>
<updated>2010-11-23T11:00:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/relaunching-the-anxiety-of-obsolescence/</id>
<content type="html">Back in 2006, a few months before the release of my first book, The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, I launched a small WordPress-driven site to promote...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Future of the University Press</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-the-university-press/"/>
<updated>2010-11-22T11:26:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-the-university-press/</id>
<content type="html">My friends at MPublishing have released a new issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, guest edited by the director of the University...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Peer-to-Peer Review and Its Aporias</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/peer-to-peer-review-and-its-aporias/"/>
<updated>2010-10-25T11:19:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/peer-to-peer-review-and-its-aporias/</id>
<content type="html">Over the course of last week, a huge number of friends and colleagues of mine posted links and notes on Twitter and around the blogosphere about Mike O’Malley’s post on The Aporetic about crowdsourcing peer...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Stein Taxonomy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-stein-taxonomy/"/>
<updated>2010-10-23T12:37:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-stein-taxonomy/</id>
<content type="html">Bob Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book and key supporter of MediaCommons, has posted a provocation entitled</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-3/"/>
<updated>2010-10-23T09:26:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-3/</id>
<content type="html">Keynote<br />
Nancy Baym, “This Song’s for You”<br />
— changes in music/entertainment industries being produced by internet visible in story of Nancy on her back porch on a Sunday morning requesting a song from an obscure Swedish musician busking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-2/"/>
<updated>2010-10-22T19:44:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-2/</id>
<content type="html">Utterly fell down on the notetaking/blogging job today, due to early frustration when the paper I’d shown up early for wasn’t presented, and then a long mid-day exhausted slump, and then desperate trying to marshal energy and focus for my own...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.1.4</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-4/"/>
<updated>2010-10-21T11:08:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-4/</id>
<content type="html">Session 4<br />
Networking and Social Sites<br />
Robert Joseph Bodle, “Opening the social media ecosystem: the tenuous nature of interoperability, crossposting, and sharing among dominant social media sites, services and devices”<br />
— APIs as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.1.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-3/"/>
<updated>2010-10-21T09:16:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-3/</id>
<content type="html">A first in my conference-going experience: the first keynoter is sick in bed (get well, Jon Bing!), so the lecture hall is inhabited by sparse groups of folks chatting, Twitterfall on the screen. The break is not unwelcome, though for me it falls...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.1.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-2/"/>
<updated>2010-10-21T07:45:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-2/</id>
<content type="html">Session 2: CMS Futures: The Way Ahead for Course Management Systems<br />
Alex Halavais, Jeremy Hunsinger, Ted Coopman, Helen Keegan<br />
— trying to avoid just bitching about Blackboard<br />
— certain benefits of a well-designed CMS:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR 11.1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-1/"/>
<updated>2010-10-21T07:04:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir-11-1-1/</id>
<content type="html">Please note that what follows are my notes, taken as I listen. Anything weird in here should be assumed to be my fault, and not that of the speakers.<br />
Session 1: Identity: Finding Your Form Online<br />
Kelly Bergstrom, “A Troll by Any...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#ir11</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir11/"/>
<updated>2010-10-21T06:29:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir11/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s the first day of the eleventh annual conference of the Association of Internet Research, and the sixth of which I’ve attended. It’s lovely catching up with some of the folks I often see at these conferences, but also great getting to meet...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Impossibility of Naive Reading</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-impossibility-of-naive-reading/"/>
<updated>2010-10-20T09:30:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-impossibility-of-naive-reading/</id>
<content type="html">The recent New York Times Opinionator column by Robert Pippin, “In Defense of Naive Reading”, has had me thinking for the last week or so. I knew I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ouch.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ouch-2/"/>
<updated>2010-10-08T16:06:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ouch-2/</id>
<content type="html">Critical Theory.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upcoming Dates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/upcoming-dates/"/>
<updated>2010-09-30T13:34:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/upcoming-dates/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve got a bunch of talks and conferences and other things scheduled in the coming weeks:<br />
<br />
October 1: Archiving Social Media, Center for History and New Media<br />
October 14, 6.00 pm:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New Everyday: Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-everyday-notes-lists-and-everyday-inscriptions/"/>
<updated>2010-09-09T14:24:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-everyday-notes-lists-and-everyday-inscriptions/</id>
<content type="html">[Crossposted from MediaCommons.]<br />
We’re thrilled today to announce the relaunch of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Talk at the Hemispheric Institute</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/talk-at-the-hemispheric-institute/"/>
<updated>2010-09-09T10:14:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/talk-at-the-hemispheric-institute/</id>
<content type="html">One of the first things I’m doing here at NYU, now that classes have started up and things are underway, is giving a talk at the Hemispheric Institute, as part of our celebration of the launch of a new MediaCommons project, The New Everyday (about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>To Read: How Not to Run a University Press</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/to-read-how-not-to-run-a-university-press/"/>
<updated>2010-08-31T14:44:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/to-read-how-not-to-run-a-university-press/</id>
<content type="html">In the category of things that I used to post to the blog that now land on Twitter instead: the link. In an effort to maintain a better archive for myself, I’m experimenting with moving these things back here again.<br />
Today, Chris Kelty’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Past and Future</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/past-and-future/"/>
<updated>2010-08-31T11:46:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/past-and-future/</id>
<content type="html">For the next few days, my “Five Years Ago” block at right will be filled with post-Katrina posts. After all these years with the blog, it still feels very odd to have such a record of past trauma, the detail of what was going through my head in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons, Open Review, and the New York Times</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-open-review-and-the-new-york-times/"/>
<updated>2010-08-24T11:02:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-open-review-and-the-new-york-times/</id>
<content type="html">[Crossposted from MediaCommons.]<br />
The</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Year</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-year/"/>
<updated>2010-08-23T12:22:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-year/</id>
<content type="html">Where to begin? I’ve spent the last month getting myself moved across the country and settled into a small studio in New York, where I’m spending a year on sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar in the Department...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Justice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/justice/"/>
<updated>2010-08-04T18:09:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/justice/</id>
<content type="html">REMEDIES<br />
Plaintiffs have demonstrated by overwhelming evidence that Proposition 8 violates their due process and equal protection rights and that they will continue to suffer these constitutional violations until state...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anthologize</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/anthologize/"/>
<updated>2010-08-03T19:43:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/anthologize/</id>
<content type="html">I’m way more pressed for time than I’d like right now, finishing up a bajillion details involved in moving myself and a subset of my stuff across the country for the next ten months, but I want to be sure to take a second to note the absolute...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Open Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-shakespeare-quarterly-and-open-review/"/>
<updated>2010-07-27T13:28:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-shakespeare-quarterly-and-open-review/</id>
<content type="html">[Crossposted from MediaCommons.]<br />
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education brings us a wonderful</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fair Use</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fair-use/"/>
<updated>2010-07-26T15:19:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fair-use/</id>
<content type="html">The Library of Congress has just this morning issued its statement of exemptions to the portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that forbid the circumvention of DRM and other technological...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where Am I Going, Where Have I Been</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-am-i-going-where-have-i-been/"/>
<updated>2010-07-20T12:59:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-am-i-going-where-have-i-been/</id>
<content type="html">So I’ve managed to survive all of the bullet points on my insane itinerary of June and July travel, and am happily ensconced once again in my very own home, madly catching up on work items that I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Five Years Post-Tribble</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/five-years-post-tribble/"/>
<updated>2010-07-08T03:55:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/five-years-post-tribble/</id>
<content type="html">My “five years ago today” feature reminds me that the aforementioned time has spanned since the uproar over Ivan Tribble’s infamous screed hit the Chron (now available</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Road (Again) (and Again)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-road-again-and-again/"/>
<updated>2010-07-05T13:31:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-road-again-and-again/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been an eventful couple of months. A travelful couple of months, even. If you were able to see my Google Calendar, you’d see a whole lot of teal striping on it; that’s my travel calendar, which reminds me that since the beginning of May, I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Phi Beta Kappa address, &#39;Keep in Touch&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/phi-beta-kappa-address-keep-in-touch/"/>
<updated>2010-06-23T14:30:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/phi-beta-kappa-address-keep-in-touch/</id>
<content type="html">As the 2009-10 president of Pomona College’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, I was supposed to deliver the address at our commencement weekend initiation ceremony. I accidentally double-booked myself, though, by agreeing to speak at a one-day conference...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What a Press Can Add in the Age of DIY Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-a-press-can-add-in-the-age-of-diy-publishing/"/>
<updated>2010-06-21T17:43:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-a-press-can-add-in-the-age-of-diy-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">What follows is a rough transcript of the talk I gave this past weekend at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses. The panel was organized and chaired by Eric Zinner, Assistant Director and Editor-In-Chief at New York...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values (part three)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-access-publishing-and-scholarly-values-part-three/"/>
<updated>2010-05-28T15:59:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-access-publishing-and-scholarly-values-part-three/</id>
<content type="html">There’s a fascinating exchange around open access publishing and the reasons scholars might resist it developing right now, beginning with Dan Cohen’s post,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Little (Self-)Promotion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-little-self-promotion/"/>
<updated>2010-05-18T14:33:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-little-self-promotion/</id>
<content type="html">As I’ve mentioned around here a few times, I’ve been in the midst of a review this spring, and now that the results are official, I can finally say out loud and in public that, as of July 1, I’ll be a full professor.<br />
Needless to say, I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won&#39;t: The Richard Rorty Archive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/time-will-tell-but-epistemology-wont-the-richard-rorty-archive/"/>
<updated>2010-05-10T19:32:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/time-will-tell-but-epistemology-wont-the-richard-rorty-archive/</id>
<content type="html">My friend Liz Losh has let me know that this Friday UC Irvine is hosting a conference to celebrate the addition of Richard Rorty’s papers to the Critical...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This One Goes to 11</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-one-goes-to-11/"/>
<updated>2010-04-15T19:10:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-one-goes-to-11/</id>
<content type="html">As I’ve mentioned around here before, I’m in the midst of a promotion review, and am in the anxious waiting phase: everything I can do is done, things are taking place behind the scenes, and I’m trying not to think about it. I was having a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Gloating About My iPad</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-gloating-about-my-ipad/"/>
<updated>2010-04-13T14:30:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-gloating-about-my-ipad/</id>
<content type="html">Finding myself yesterday felled by some nasty bug or another, I wound up spending the day in bed. And I can now say with certainty that the iPad is the best device yet invented for the lying-around-sick day.<br />
I had a range of video options...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>We&#39;ll Be Right Back, After These Messages</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/well-be-right-back-after-these-messages/"/>
<updated>2010-04-08T16:59:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/well-be-right-back-after-these-messages/</id>
<content type="html">The recent flurry of posting around here — not to mention actual progress on my revisions — has meant that I’ve got a couple of things I’ve let slide, one of which is now officially several weeks overdue. Guilt has gotten the better of me, so I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revisions: On Multimodal Scholarship</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/revisions-on-multimodal-scholarship/"/>
<updated>2010-04-07T12:51:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/revisions-on-multimodal-scholarship/</id>
<content type="html">I’m finishing up the revisions on chapter 2 today, and have been thinking about the section “from text to… something more.” I’ve expanded my thinking about multimodal scholarship a bit, including the addition of these...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Late Age of Print, Audio Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-late-age-of-print-audio-edition/"/>
<updated>2010-04-06T12:42:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-late-age-of-print-audio-edition/</id>
<content type="html">From Ted Striphas comes news of an exciting project: the crowd-sourced production of a text-to-speech audiobook version of his fantastic book,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Preliminary Thoughts on the iPad</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-ipad/"/>
<updated>2010-04-05T13:39:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/preliminary-thoughts-on-the-ipad/</id>
<content type="html">So I did, after a minor delay (produced by the Apple truck not showing up to the bookstore on time), get my hands on my new iPad. I spent most of day 1 just getting it set up, figuring out which of my iPhone apps I wanted to put on the iPad, what...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Can&#39;t Wait to Get My Hands on My New iPad, All You Haters Notwithstanding</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-cant-wait/"/>
<updated>2010-04-02T14:29:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-cant-wait/</id>
<content type="html">So yes, I did pre-order an iPad, or actually pre-reserve one with my college’s bookstore. And I intend to pick it up first thing tomorrow morning. And I absolutely cannot wait.<br />
This is not a cool thing to admit in at least some of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revisions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/revisions/"/>
<updated>2010-04-01T12:14:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/revisions/</id>
<content type="html">I’m vastly behind schedule, I’m afraid, but am at last pressing forward with revisions on Planned Obsolescence for the print edition. One of the things...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is Just to Note</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-just-to-note/"/>
<updated>2010-03-31T23:24:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-just-to-note/</id>
<content type="html">That after yesterday’s funk, today has been an aw, shucks kinda day.<br />
I still didn’t get the things I was after. But I did get told that I should have gotten them.<br />
Stupid...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back at It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-at-it-2/"/>
<updated>2010-03-30T12:18:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-at-it-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’m deep in a funk this morning, and am having a hard time yanking myself out of it.[1] So I’ve decided to overcompensate by writing a bit about something that actually is going well:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New Everyday</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-everyday/"/>
<updated>2010-03-29T11:48:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-everyday/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just posted the following announcement at MediaCommons:<br />
<br />
We are thrilled today to unveil The New Everyday, an experiment in “middle-state...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two Bits of Recent Work</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-bits-of-recent-work/"/>
<updated>2010-03-23T20:50:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-bits-of-recent-work/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve got that cringing feeling that I haven’t been getting enough work done lately, but I at least have a few links to remind myself otherwise.<br />
First, both the slides and the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things Go Awry</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-go-awry/"/>
<updated>2010-03-19T14:42:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-go-awry/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s Day of Digital Humanities experience didn’t exactly turn out as I’d hoped, as I found myself utterly without connectivity all day. Not only does the SCMS...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Day of Digital Humanities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/day-of-digital-humanities/"/>
<updated>2010-03-18T13:15:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/day-of-digital-humanities/</id>
<content type="html">A quick note: I’m (at least in theory) participating in today’s Day of Digital Humanities festivities. “In theory,” alas, because the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Future of Publishing?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-publishing/"/>
<updated>2010-03-17T16:58:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">A promo video produced by DK Books for a Penguin sales conference has gone something like viral in the last two days, getting a lot of attention in my circles. In case you haven’t seen it:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shakespeare Quarterly Open Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shakespeare-quarterly-open-review/"/>
<updated>2010-03-15T18:40:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shakespeare-quarterly-open-review/</id>
<content type="html">Yet another month-long absence. At least this time I have a major project to show for it!<br />
It’s perhaps a tiny bit ironic to be launching this particular new MediaCommons Press project on the Ides of March, but nonetheless: we at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My Secret Life</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-secret-life/"/>
<updated>2010-02-13T18:36:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-secret-life/</id>
<content type="html">Oh, hi! I’m sure it appears that I’ve forgotten about this blog thing. Really, it’s less that I’ve forgotten than that my attention has gotten fragmented in a million different directions, both work-wise and internet-communication-wise. Much of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Even Nearer</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/even-nearer/"/>
<updated>2010-01-26T12:08:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/even-nearer/</id>
<content type="html">This happened to me again last night. Same intersection, except from the opposite direction; I was turning left across traffic into the side street that leads to my neighborhood, gauging whether the gap between the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Stakes of Disciplinarity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-stakes-of-disciplinarity/"/>
<updated>2010-01-14T19:36:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-stakes-of-disciplinarity/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a lot of discussion in various internet settings over the last week, some of it pretty contentious, about the definition of the Digital Humanities and its relationship to digital media studies. (See, for instance, the debate started...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Legacy of David Foster Wallace</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-legacy-of-david-foster-wallace/"/>
<updated>2009-12-30T17:45:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-legacy-of-david-foster-wallace/</id>
<content type="html">This morning, awfully bright and awfully early, I participated in a fantastic roundtable on the legacy of David Foster Wallace, which was quite well-attended, given the early hour and that it was the last day of the conference, and which produced...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>#MLA09</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mla09/"/>
<updated>2009-12-29T18:04:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mla09/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been busy tweeting up a storm at the MLA this year (or what amounts to a storm for me, anyhow), but haven’t been compelled to write a full blog post as yet — a situation that got called out when a pal of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not Exactly the Tip of the Tongue</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-exactly-the-tip-of-the-tongue/"/>
<updated>2009-12-20T14:06:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-exactly-the-tip-of-the-tongue/</id>
<content type="html">You know how sometimes you’re trying to think of a name or a word and it just won’t come, no matter how hard you try, but later that day while you’re chopping onions or taking a shower you’re all suddenly “Judi Dench! Dude, it was Judi Dench!” out...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Peer Review as Dialogue</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/peer-revew-as-dialogu/"/>
<updated>2009-12-16T16:51:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/peer-revew-as-dialogu/</id>
<content type="html">One of the most exciting parts of Planned Obsolescence for me has of course been the open review process we’ve been conducting at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>UM/HASTAC Publication Prize</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/umhastac-publication-prize/"/>
<updated>2009-12-10T15:52:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/umhastac-publication-prize/</id>
<content type="html">Over the course of the last year I’ve been very excitedly following the developments at the University of Michigan Press, as the press became an academic unit...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gee, Time Warner, Thanks for Asking</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/gee-time-warner-thanks-for-asking/"/>
<updated>2009-12-04T13:20:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/gee-time-warner-thanks-for-asking/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just gotten the following email message from my friends at Time Warner Cable:<br />
<br />
We’ve got a hard choice…<br />
Roll Over or Get Tough?<br />
No one likes paying more. You don’t. We...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>December!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/december/"/>
<updated>2009-12-01T13:04:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/december/</id>
<content type="html">So up inbetween the droning “ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod” of the last couple of weeks of the semester, I’ve got some pretty exciting stuff going on. First, I’ve gotten the outside reviews (old-school style) of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Planned Obsolescence Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-updates/"/>
<updated>2009-11-24T11:34:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-updates/</id>
<content type="html">There’ve been a few updates on Planned Obsolescence in the last couple of days, most notably that the text is now running in</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apparently I Don&#39;t Teach Math</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/apparently-i-dont-teach-math/"/>
<updated>2009-11-20T18:27:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/apparently-i-dont-teach-math/</id>
<content type="html">I just want to note that not one of the 46 students I’m teaching this semester pointed out that the percentages I listed on my syllabi, detailing the amount that each assignment would count toward their final grades, don’t add up to 100....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Updates to Come, I Swear</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/updates-to-come-i-swear/"/>
<updated>2009-11-19T15:28:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/updates-to-come-i-swear/</id>
<content type="html">I’m not sure where October went, much less the first two-thirds of November. Actually, I do know where it went: to three conferences in five weeks, with an added surprise family trip in the mix as well.<br />
There’s lots of stuff going on,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Though I Wish They&#39;d Named It Something Else</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/though-i-wish-theyd-named-it-something-else/"/>
<updated>2009-10-20T21:09:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/though-i-wish-theyd-named-it-something-else/</id>
<content type="html">I will begrudgingly admit that I’m intrigued by the Nook, Barnes &amp;amp; Noble’s new device, previewed today, which seeks to be an Unnamed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR10: Peer-to-Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir10-peer-to-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2009-10-10T15:00:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir10-peer-to-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">I’m going to embed my slides from today’s talk here, but you’re probably better off actually looking at them on SlideShare, as you can see the notes that way…</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Then Five Years Later</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-then-five-years-later/"/>
<updated>2009-10-10T14:36:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-then-five-years-later/</id>
<content type="html">Among other things this weekend, I’m re-reading Fanon for Monday’s class. Fascinating to see today’s five years ago post pop up.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IR10</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ir10/"/>
<updated>2009-10-08T13:05:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ir10/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in Milwaukee this week at the tenth meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. The good news is that the wireless is strong, ubiquitous, and free. The bad news is that we seem to have broken Twitter.<br />
I’ll hope to post from here...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>FTC, Blog Regulator</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ftc-blog-regulator/"/>
<updated>2009-10-05T13:39:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ftc-blog-regulator/</id>
<content type="html">Um, yeah. I’m sure that’ll work.<br />
[11.08 am, edited to add: Ed Champion has published a very interesting</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Rise of the Landscape Web</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-rise-of-the-landscape-web/"/>
<updated>2009-10-04T14:08:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-rise-of-the-landscape-web/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve noticed over the last couple of months that several of my favorite websites were becoming, well, wide. It’s become increasingly common, in fact, for me to find myself scrolling sideways as well as up-and-down when out there browsing, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Waiting...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-waiting/"/>
<updated>2009-10-01T15:39:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-waiting/</id>
<content type="html">You know what they say about it.<br />
Google Wave went into a wider preview release yesterday, as the first of what was supposed to be 100,000 invites were sent out to folks who’d agreed to beta-test for the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Planned Obsolescence Community Blog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-community-blog/"/>
<updated>2009-09-30T20:54:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-community-blog/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted, with some edits for clarity, from the other Planned Obsolescence)<br />
So I left a post on the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Digital Campus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/digital-campus/"/>
<updated>2009-09-30T13:10:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/digital-campus/</id>
<content type="html">The newest episode of the Digital Campus podcast, #44 – Unsettled, is up, and I’m thrilled that it mentions</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Very Brief Note to Tenured Radical</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-very-brief-note-to-tenured-radical/"/>
<updated>2009-09-29T11:38:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-very-brief-note-to-tenured-radical/</id>
<content type="html">You go!</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Planned Obsolescence: Now Online</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-now-online/"/>
<updated>2009-09-28T10:35:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-now-online/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s the day: the project that I’ve been working on for the last year and a half is at last live and open for your reading and commenting pleasure.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something&#39;s... Not... Right...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/somethings-not-right/"/>
<updated>2009-09-27T13:43:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/somethings-not-right/</id>
<content type="html">I went to bed last night about 11.30, and got up this morning around 7.30. And inbetween, didn’t receive a single piece of email. For some reason, I’m having a hard time accepting this — nothing from my listservs, nothing from my students, nothing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Love About Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-love-about-things/"/>
<updated>2009-09-23T11:58:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-love-about-things/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been using Things as my task manager for some time now, both on my desktop and on my iPhone, and have absolutely loved it. It’s clean, super-functional, and generally trouble-free.<br />
But then...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Teaching When (You Think) You Have the Flu</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/teaching-when-you-think-you-have-the-flu/"/>
<updated>2009-09-20T18:01:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/teaching-when-you-think-you-have-the-flu/</id>
<content type="html">After I was told last Sunday that it was likely I had picked up H1N1, whether on top of a case of bronchitis or masquerading as a case of bronchitis, I took myself back to bed with my laptop and started emailing.<br />
Fortunately, we’d had a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Flu and You</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-flu-and-you/"/>
<updated>2009-09-19T19:21:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-flu-and-you/</id>
<content type="html">This semester has thus far not gone according to plan. We’re on the cusp of what is technically the fourth week of classes, and I’ve been in the classroom precisely twice: once on Wednesday, September 2, for the first day introduction and syllabus...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ick</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ick-2/"/>
<updated>2009-09-07T12:21:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ick-2/</id>
<content type="html">The semester started here just shy of a week ago, but because my classes fall on Monday and Wednesday, today’s my first real day of teaching. Labor Day. Usually (where “usually” = about 4 out of 10 years) classes here start the day after Labor...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Senioring a Young Field</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/senioring-a-young-field/"/>
<updated>2009-08-28T15:02:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/senioring-a-young-field/</id>
<content type="html">In the coming year, I’m going to be going up for a promotion review, and along with all the other attendant stress work, I need to develop a list of potential outside reviewers for my case. (I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Run</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-run/"/>
<updated>2009-08-24T04:16:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-run/</id>
<content type="html">The good news is that I’ve gotten my exercise today: after dragging the suitcase to the train station, and up and down the various flights of stairs between its entrance and the entrance to the airport, I was sent by the monitors to the far end of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Opposition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-opposition/"/>
<updated>2009-08-18T09:21:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-opposition/</id>
<content type="html">I’m standing in the airport, after the usual delirious experience of waking up at 3.30 am to be ready for my 4.30 am cab. The flight I’m about to board, as usual, will take me to Houston, but then from there, I’m on first to Amsterdam and then to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Um... Is This Thing On?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/um-is-this-thing-on-2/"/>
<updated>2009-08-14T14:56:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/um-is-this-thing-on-2/</id>
<content type="html">Oh. Hi there! Gee, um… long time no see.<br />
So I’ve just five minutes ago submitted the book manuscript that I’ve been working on for the last bit. (And just FYI, the deadline was today. And I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Cost of Peer Review and the Future of Scholarly Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-cost-of-peer-review-and-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing/"/>
<updated>2009-07-20T13:16:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-cost-of-peer-review-and-the-future-of-scholarly-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">As is being discussed a good bit around the academic blogo-/twittersphere this morning, Jennifer Howard reports in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education on a new report soon to be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Okay, AT&amp;T, You&#39;re On Notice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/okay-att-youre-on-notice/"/>
<updated>2009-07-19T14:00:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/okay-att-youre-on-notice/</id>
<content type="html">Clicking through my Google Reader a few minutes ago, I read a TechCrunch article that Meg had shared, which details the increasingly egregious service...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RIP, Walter Cronkite</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rip-walter-cronkite/"/>
<updated>2009-07-17T21:28:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rip-walter-cronkite/</id>
<content type="html">One of the best things I’ve been asked to do at Pomona College so far was getting to introduce Walter Cronkite before his commencement address a few years ago. He was extraordinarily kind and gentle when I met him, beginning to slow down a bit...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Teaching Infinite Jest</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-teaching-infinite-jest/"/>
<updated>2009-07-17T12:15:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-teaching-infinite-jest/</id>
<content type="html">The following was originally published as a guest post on Infinite Summer.<br />
As you may have seen mentioned in a countdown post...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Obsolete</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/obsolete/"/>
<updated>2009-07-16T13:54:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/obsolete/</id>
<content type="html">The newest issue of M/C, the Journal of Media and Culture, is out, and it’s focused on a topic near and dear to my heart: the Obsolete. There’s an excellent cluster of articles...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Please Reply This Email Immediately and Provide the Following Information Above</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/please-reply-this-email/"/>
<updated>2009-07-16T13:07:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/please-reply-this-email/</id>
<content type="html">I’m not sure exactly why I find this as funny as I do. The sad thing, however, is that I’m quite sure someone’s going to fall for it.<br />
<br />
From: System Administrator [email address redacted, but trust me when I say it’s not my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Against Anonymity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/against-anonymity/"/>
<updated>2009-07-09T12:09:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/against-anonymity/</id>
<content type="html">I’m a bit off the grid for the next several days, but wanted quickly to draw your attention to an article by Jeffrey Di Leo published a couple of days ago at Inside Higher Ed, entitled</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blegging: Preservation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blegging-preservation/"/>
<updated>2009-07-07T11:46:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blegging-preservation/</id>
<content type="html">I’m deep in the thick of the chapter I’m writing on issues of preservation for digital scholarship, and am feeling fairly acutely the extent to which these issues have not been on my radar before now, so I need to ask for your help, particularly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Want Google Wave NOW, Please</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-want-google-wave-now-please/"/>
<updated>2009-07-03T14:22:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-want-google-wave-now-please/</id>
<content type="html">Because I had a rather amazing exchange about the future of open access publishing via Twitter last night with Brett Bobley (@brettbobley), Dan Cohen (</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Checked Your Privacy Settings Lately?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/checked-your-privacy-settings-lately/"/>
<updated>2009-06-25T14:25:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/checked-your-privacy-settings-lately/</id>
<content type="html">Otherwise, anyone might know what’s on your mind.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Hybrid Future of the University Press</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-hybrid-future-of-the-university-press/"/>
<updated>2009-06-24T11:34:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-hybrid-future-of-the-university-press/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday was the first full day of the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, the first iteration of which I’ve gotten to attend. So far the conference has been fantastic — and it promises to get even...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Then This Week</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-then-this-week/"/>
<updated>2009-06-21T17:29:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-then-this-week/</id>
<content type="html">Well, I suppose that three out of six isn’t half bad:<br />
<br />
Finish book manuscript review for press.<br />
Do reading &amp;amp; write letter for tenure...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Week</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-week-2/"/>
<updated>2009-06-15T13:11:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-week-2/</id>
<content type="html">I have a few things that I need to accomplish:<br />
<br />
Finish book manuscript review for press.<br />
Do reading &amp;amp; write letter for tenure review.<br />
Prepare two conference presentations for next week.<br />
Outline fall...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ambivalence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ambivalence/"/>
<updated>2009-06-14T13:00:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ambivalence/</id>
<content type="html">The ironies continue to pile up: five years ago today, I was moving office, out of a dank, lonely basement and into my newly renovated smallish (by the building’s standards, which are vastly out of keeping with the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dr. George Tiller, RIP</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dr-george-tiller-rip/"/>
<updated>2009-05-31T17:36:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dr-george-tiller-rip/</id>
<content type="html">Thankfully, other folks are doing a much</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Five Years Later</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/five-years-later/"/>
<updated>2009-05-30T23:57:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/five-years-later/</id>
<content type="html">I do not know whether to be amused by the irony or horrified by the passage of time.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Homeward Bound</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/homeward-bound/"/>
<updated>2009-05-24T09:26:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/homeward-bound/</id>
<content type="html">Soon, at least.<br />
It’s been a heck of a week: long flight into Boston on Monday, followed by looooong cab ride out to Norwood just after midnight Tuesday morning; phenomenal symposium on</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Must Read: HASTAC/MLA Rethinking Tenure Guidelines</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/must-read-hastacmla-rethinking-tenure-guidelines/"/>
<updated>2009-05-22T12:48:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/must-read-hastacmla-rethinking-tenure-guidelines/</id>
<content type="html">Cathy Davidson has an excellent post up at HASTAC thinking about the meaning of tenure and ways of imagining valid tenure standards for an increasingly interdisciplinary future. Along the way, she...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Future of Everything</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-everything/"/>
<updated>2009-05-19T10:11:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-everything/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the Boston area this week, speaking at a couple of conferences, the first of which is starting as I type — a meeting sponsored by AcademicCommons, a special interest group of NERCOMP (the Northeast Regional Computing Program), entitled “The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Here&#39;s Hoping You&#39;re Not on the Plane Yet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/heres-hoping-youre-not-on-the-plane-yet/"/>
<updated>2009-05-12T23:43:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/heres-hoping-youre-not-on-the-plane-yet/</id>
<content type="html">Just now via email:<br />
<br />
Dear Colleagues:<br />
It is with a very great regret that we are announcing the cancellation of the SCMS conference in Tokyo scheduled for May 21-24, 2009.<br />
Late last week we learned that the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blog-Based Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blog-based-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2009-05-12T20:39:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blog-based-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">Noah Wardrip-Fruin has posted a thoughtful reconsideration of the experience of putting the manuscript of his forthcoming book,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not Schadenfreude, I Swear</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-schadenfreude-i-swear/"/>
<updated>2009-05-11T17:55:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-schadenfreude-i-swear/</id>
<content type="html">Add this to the list of difficulties presented by holding SCMS in Tokyo this year: the government apparently asked the university at which the conference is being held to cancel [edited to add: due to H1N1, of course!], but the university...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to Work</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-work-2/"/>
<updated>2009-05-11T11:01:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-work-2/</id>
<content type="html">I began the summer’s work yesterday morning by starting a read-through of the manuscript thus far, and was thrilled to discover that the introduction is not as far off as I thought it was. It needs a bit of tinkering, but a small enough bit that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Requiescat in Pace</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/requiescat-in-pace/"/>
<updated>2009-05-06T11:08:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/requiescat-in-pace/</id>
<content type="html">Today is the last day of what has been alternately a difficult and an exhilarating semester. Honestly, it’s the first semester in I can’t remember how long that I’ve been sorry to see end, the first semester in several years in which I’ve actually...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MiT6</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mit6/"/>
<updated>2009-04-24T12:31:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mit6/</id>
<content type="html">I’m at MiT6 this weekend, which is starting up as I type; if you’re here, be sure to say hello. I’ll post more from the conference as things unfold.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Wages of Mouthing Off</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-wages-of-mouthing-off/"/>
<updated>2009-04-20T19:09:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-wages-of-mouthing-off/</id>
<content type="html">Actually, I mean that in a more positive sense than it no doubt sounds. I tried a few other variants (Mouthing Off Pays Off!) but none were quite as satisfying. And it’s possible that the ambiguity is intentional.<br />
In any event, the payoff:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not Dead Yet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-dead-yet/"/>
<updated>2009-04-19T12:28:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-dead-yet/</id>
<content type="html">Just utterly tyrannized by the to do list. Once the grading and the thesis drafts are out of the way, there are classes to prepare for, a grant proposal to be written, and a 15-minute presentation to be carved out of a 40-page chapter. Plus a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>University Press + University Library = The Future of University Publishing?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/university-press-university-library-the-future-of-university-publishing/"/>
<updated>2009-03-23T10:50:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/university-press-university-library-the-future-of-university-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">crossposted from MediaCommons:<br />
The Chronicle of Higher Education announced today that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Getting Serious About the Online Part of Research Online</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/getting-serious-about-the-online-part-of-research-online/"/>
<updated>2009-03-20T14:33:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/getting-serious-about-the-online-part-of-research-online/</id>
<content type="html">crossposted from MediaCommons:<br />
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features an opinion piece by</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Digital Humanities Roundup</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/digital-humanities-roundup/"/>
<updated>2009-02-25T15:35:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/digital-humanities-roundup/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just posted on MediaCommons in order to point to Lisa Spiro’s fantastic post rounding up and reflecting on important</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Teaching Carnival 3.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/teaching-carnival-32/"/>
<updated>2009-02-24T12:33:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/teaching-carnival-32/</id>
<content type="html">I’m deep in the thick of the best semester I’ve had in several years, so it’s taken some doing to pry me away from teaching in order to see what teaching-related stuff is going on out there in the blogosphere. Having spent some time poking around,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Teaching Carnival, TK</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/teaching-carnival-tk/"/>
<updated>2009-02-22T19:04:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/teaching-carnival-tk/</id>
<content type="html">I’m ostensibly up tomorrow as host of Teaching Carnival 3.2, but poking through Delicious and Technorati is turning up little in the way of submitted...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My New TOS</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-new-tos/"/>
<updated>2009-02-16T14:39:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-new-tos/</id>
<content type="html">There’s a fantastic series of tweets in my Twitter stream right now, from folks commenting on the new Facebook terms of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Media Studies and Literary Studies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/media-studies-and-literary-studies/"/>
<updated>2009-02-13T15:10:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/media-studies-and-literary-studies/</id>
<content type="html">I was somewhat bemused to see the white paper recently released by the MLA, reporting to the Teagle Foundation on the goals and objectives of the undergraduate major in language and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Grrrr</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/grrrr-2/"/>
<updated>2009-02-10T15:56:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/grrrr-2/</id>
<content type="html">If you’ve bothered coming round these parts lately, you’ll have noticed that things were loading excruciatingly slowly, a problem for which I was starting to blame my hosting provider. But this morning, for whatever reason, I decided to take a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Blogs</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-blogs/"/>
<updated>2009-02-08T20:11:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-blogs/</id>
<content type="html">I was poking around the web a little while ago, pondering this blog — why I haven’t been posting much in recent months, wishing I were posting more, thinking about what I’d post if I were to post, and so forth — and found myself fixated on the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Digital Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/digital-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2009-02-06T16:45:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/digital-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">cross-posted at MediaCommons<br />
In the last few days, I’ve been running across a bunch of activity around the question of peer review in digital publishing, thinking that’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Complaints</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-complaints/"/>
<updated>2009-01-31T14:07:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-complaints/</id>
<content type="html">Remember this kid? She, or someone like her, is at it again. Twice in the last two weeks I’ve had my Apple ID “disabled for security reasons,” which happens when someone tries to log into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Commenting Policy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commenting-policy/"/>
<updated>2009-01-29T15:36:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commenting-policy/</id>
<content type="html">I’m getting loads of comment spam of late that is not bot-produced, but rather manually added, designed to generate google juice for some commercial site by taking advantage of the misimpression that this blog is a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CFP: MLA 2009</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cfp-mla-2009/"/>
<updated>2009-01-27T12:26:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cfp-mla-2009/</id>
<content type="html">The following is a call for papers for a session sponsored by the MLA’s Media and Literature Discussion Group, to be held at the 2009 convention in Philadelphia.<br />
—<br />
Media Studies and the Digital Scholarly Present<br />
Not the future...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CommentPress</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commentpress-2/"/>
<updated>2009-01-26T14:20:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commentpress-2/</id>
<content type="html">For all the folks who’ve been asking: CommentPress is back. I also have it on good authority that a major update will be coming soon.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>While I&#39;m At It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/while-im-at-it/"/>
<updated>2009-01-22T15:27:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/while-im-at-it/</id>
<content type="html">Sneak a peek at what I apparently started thinking seriously about five years ago today. I’m not sure whether I should be amazed by the prescience of that post, or appalled that I haven’t gotten...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Media in Transition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/media-in-transition/"/>
<updated>2009-01-22T15:25:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/media-in-transition/</id>
<content type="html">Incidentally, I just found out that my proposal for MiT6 was accepted; I’ll hope to see some of you there in April.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Campus-Based Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/campus-based-publishing/"/>
<updated>2009-01-22T15:12:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/campus-based-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">The SPARC Campus-Based Publishing Resource Center has officially launched today, along with the guide to creating campus partnerships...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-2/"/>
<updated>2009-01-21T11:48:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-2/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, it probably goes without saying, was a big day, made so not only by the inauguration but also by the first day of classes of the new semester. And even more so, for me personally, by the long-awaited relaunch of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Campus Collaborations</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/campus-collaborations/"/>
<updated>2009-01-19T12:51:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/campus-collaborations/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the midst of a section in the project in which I’m discussing the potential for strategic collaborations within universities around the issue of digital scholarly publishing. Among such collaborations, I point to a number between university...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Edit Scrivenings</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/edit-scrivenings/"/>
<updated>2009-01-05T13:22:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/edit-scrivenings/</id>
<content type="html">I finally got a chance at the very end of the MLA to sit down for coffee with Dave Parry, whom I’d tried but failed to catch up with at several earlier moments of the conference. Among the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Probably Unrelated Observations</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/probably-unrelated-observations/"/>
<updated>2009-01-04T14:56:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/probably-unrelated-observations/</id>
<content type="html">1. I am writing my way into new holes far faster than I can do the research and reading necessary to fill them. On the one hand, this is great; I’m clearly making progress on the chapter. And what I need to be doing right now, more than anything...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Retreat, Advance</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/retreat-advance/"/>
<updated>2009-01-02T15:02:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/retreat-advance/</id>
<content type="html">How else to put this: I survived the holidays, survived the MLA, rang in the new year. I’m back home now, happily ensconced at my desk, hoping to carve a small dent into the massive pile of stuff that really has to get done before the new semester...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Fun with Software</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-fun-with-software/"/>
<updated>2008-12-21T19:38:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-fun-with-software/</id>
<content type="html">Having blogged my excitement about the public beta of DEVONthink 2, and trying to get myself re-organized for my winter break projects, I spent much of yesterday poking around in my various databases, thinking about how...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Transitions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/transitions/"/>
<updated>2008-12-20T11:53:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/transitions/</id>
<content type="html">I’m finding it extremely difficult this year to make the shift out of the fall semester and into everything I need to focus on over the winter break. Probably I should cut myself some slack about this, given that I filed my last grade for the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>DEVONthink</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/devonthink/"/>
<updated>2008-12-19T20:23:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/devonthink/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been using DEVONthink for a while now as a means of keeping my research notes organized, and so was happy (much as was</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Firsts in Travel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/firsts-in-travel/"/>
<updated>2008-12-14T16:51:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/firsts-in-travel/</id>
<content type="html">Today marks the first time I’ve sat in the terminal waiting two and a half hours for the sun to melt the ice off the wings of my airplane, because my Southern California airport doesn’t need de-icing equipment.<br />
I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Toys</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-toys/"/>
<updated>2008-12-12T18:21:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-toys/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just this morning upgraded to WordPress 2.7, and the nifty new interface has inspired me to actually post something. So here’s the post announcing my new toys, and, I certainly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hawaii, Day 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hawaii-day-1/"/>
<updated>2008-11-26T15:31:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hawaii-day-1/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I are off on another of our famous working vacations, a phenomenon which makes my family (and many other folks as well) think we’re positively nuts. “You’re going to Hawaii in order...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Post-Conference Post</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/post-conference-post/"/>
<updated>2008-11-17T17:45:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/post-conference-post/</id>
<content type="html">The most amazing thing about conferences for me is always how energized I am during and after them, how excited I become about whatever project I’m working on and how much I look forward to getting back to work.<br />
The worst thing about them...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MSA</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/msa/"/>
<updated>2008-11-13T11:35:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/msa/</id>
<content type="html">The last few weeks have been a bit of a blur, between the election, a pile of grading, a few general crises around here, and so forth, but one of the things that’s had me most preoccupied is this weekend — I’m headed to Nashville this morning for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tuesday</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tuesday/"/>
<updated>2008-11-04T20:50:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tuesday/</id>
<content type="html">It’ll no doubt shock everyone to hear that I’ve been starkly unproductive today. Weirdly unable to focus. Distracted. Nervous.<br />
The good news is that I had errands to run, which allowed me to feel like I was accomplishing something, and a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>2001</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twothousandone/"/>
<updated>2008-10-31T18:24:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twothousandone/</id>
<content type="html">While you can, you should go do a little self-googling over at Google 2001. It’s mighty amusing to see how much less of a web presence I had back then…<br />
Note that I say “while you can” for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coming Back</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/coming-back/"/>
<updated>2008-10-31T13:54:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/coming-back/</id>
<content type="html">I honestly didn’t mean to disappear for quite this long. I needed a little time, of course, to grieve, to process everything that was going on around me, to take care of things. But the longer I took, the harder it became to figure out what to say...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Memoriam</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-memoriam/"/>
<updated>2008-09-16T15:57:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-memoriam/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent the last few days trying to process my grief over the loss of my colleague Dave Wallace, trying to imagine saying something even remotely significant about it. The phrase “words fail me” has never seemed quite so appropriate; the thing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Placeholder</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/placeholder/"/>
<updated>2008-09-14T02:52:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/placeholder/</id>
<content type="html">Traffic has picked up considerably around here — I assume with folks looking for a reaction.<br />
I can’t have one right now. It’s too raw, too painful.<br />
There will be something, but not yet.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/has-the-large-hadron-collider-destroyed-the-world-yet/"/>
<updated>2008-09-10T22:14:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/has-the-large-hadron-collider-destroyed-the-world-yet/</id>
<content type="html">Answer here. (Be sure to read the source code.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Department</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/department/"/>
<updated>2008-09-05T15:55:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/department/</id>
<content type="html">The big news around here is last night’s announcement that the Media Studies program at Pomona, in which I’ve taught for the last ten years, and which I’ve chaired (other than the semester I was on sabbatical) for the last four, will as of July 1,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But Where&#39;s the Minotaur?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-wheres-the-minotaur/"/>
<updated>2008-09-05T03:53:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-wheres-the-minotaur/</id>
<content type="html">This completely made my day:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bringing It Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bringing-it-home/"/>
<updated>2008-09-04T16:30:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bringing-it-home/</id>
<content type="html">The neighborhood they’re talking about in this article is where my parents live (though the image is from another neighborhood not too far away).</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The News from Baton Rouge</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-news-from-baton-rouge/"/>
<updated>2008-09-04T00:26:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-news-from-baton-rouge/</id>
<content type="html">I talked to my mother a little while ago, and the news from post-Gustav Baton Rouge (which only Josh and The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Work Ahead</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-work-ahead/"/>
<updated>2008-09-03T11:59:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-work-ahead/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday was the first day of classes around here, but today’s my first day of teaching. In preparation, I’ve done a major revamp of my teaching site, built a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 2 September 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-2-september-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-09-03T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-2-september-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@chutry: gah! This year, I’m chairing a panel on the 29th at 1.45pm, which feels like primetime. Last year’s panel was during lunch. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 31 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-31-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-09-01T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-31-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Watching Gustav bearing down on the fam. Not happy about it. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 28 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-28-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-29T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-28-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@ghw_twits: Thanks! That’s a serious vote of confidence. Now I just have to get it written. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 26 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-27T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@ghw_twits: only a little. It is online (http://www.mlajournals.org/loi/pmla — inst. access required), but the accusation still bears out.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Contract</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-contract/"/>
<updated>2008-08-26T11:49:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-contract/</id>
<content type="html">If you’re a Facebook status watcher and a friend of mine, you may have seen the recent update in which I announced that I have a contract. It’s an advance contract for Planned Obsolescence: Publishing,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 21 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-22T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Having to get the car smogged so I can renew my registration for which I am paying a $15 late fee because the DMV didn’t correct my address. #<br />
And no, iPhone autocorrect, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eating the Elephant</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/eating-the-elephant/"/>
<updated>2008-08-20T12:57:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/eating-the-elephant/</id>
<content type="html">The return from Paris, a little less than a week ago, went fairly well all things considered: all flights on time, all connections made, all bags arrived. Not too bad, all the way around.<br />
We came home, however, to an apartment that needed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 19 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-20T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@mkirschenbaum @nowviskie: he spent last year with us; we’re really going to miss him. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 15 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-15-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-16T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-15-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">From the window of our landing plane, California sure looked… brown. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 14 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-14-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-15T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-14-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Off plane in Houston. How utterly bizarre it is to be surrounded by people speaking English. #<br />
I liked being able to tune out most of the chatter around me. My French is good...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rentrée</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rentree/"/>
<updated>2008-08-12T05:31:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rentree/</id>
<content type="html">Our twelve weeks in Paris have slid by alarmingly fast, and we’re deep in the thick of packing up for Thursday’s trip back to California. I’ve gotten myself past the initial dread, which was mostly about not wanting the utter freedom of being here...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 10 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-10-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-11T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-10-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@mkirschenbaum: Well, you know, there’s sensitive information in there! I mean, if it fell into just anyone’s hands… #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Other Hand</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-other-hand/"/>
<updated>2008-08-09T05:23:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-other-hand/</id>
<content type="html">I did make this very short list of academic blogs, selected by the editors of More.ca, “Canada’s site celebrating women over 40.” Which is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 8 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-8-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-09T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-8-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Why is it that having researched and written something on the order of 70 pages of new prose this summer feels like not having done enough? #<br />
Stop the presses! Edwards admits...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 5 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-06T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Just woke up from the first teaching-panic dream of the season. Thanks, August. #<br />
@mkgold: Echoing all the congrats, and also the request to hear about the project!</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hrmph</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hrmph/"/>
<updated>2008-08-05T09:30:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hrmph/</id>
<content type="html">There was a flurry of posts a few weeks back by folks noting that they’d been included (or</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 4 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-05T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@academicdave: I’d follow up @ghw_twits rec with Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book, for an argument countering EE’s techno-determinism.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Heh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/heh/"/>
<updated>2008-08-04T06:06:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/heh/</id>
<content type="html">Not only did I completely rock in my French-telephonic skillz yesterday, but I also managed to repair the wi-fi situation.<br />
Either that or France Telecom fixed whatever ADSL server goofup was happening on their end.<br />
Whatever. I’ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Adventures in Wi-Fi</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-wi-fi/"/>
<updated>2008-08-03T08:40:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-wi-fi/</id>
<content type="html">The bad news is that our internet connection in the flat crapped out last night.<br />
The good news is that I didn’t break it.<br />
The bad news is that I thought I had, and then couldn’t get it to restart. For anything. All last night, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 1 August 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-august-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-08-02T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-august-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@calamityjake: Congrats on being done! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Collaboration</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/collaboration/"/>
<updated>2008-07-31T04:13:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/collaboration/</id>
<content type="html">Just before plunging back into my chapter this morning, I took my usual tour of the RSS feeds, and discovered DR’s post about collaborative authorship...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 29 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-29-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-30T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-29-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@halavais: Because you are being held hostage by the baby-industrial complex, man. #<br />
@calamityjake: Hope you’re metaphysically alright. Apparently it was practically under...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deadwood, Take Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deadwood-take-two/"/>
<updated>2008-07-28T08:49:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deadwood-take-two/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I have been rewatching Deadwood, starting from the beginning, over the last few weeks, and I’ve found myself rather astonished by a few things:<br />
1. How many small details and insinuations I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 23 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-24T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Coffee, baguette, updates. Trying to get the morning started. #<br />
Realizing that the google-alertedness of my newest post (</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iPhonery</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/iphonery/"/>
<updated>2008-07-23T08:48:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/iphonery/</id>
<content type="html">I’m sitting in a cafe down the street, the one I mentioned some days back, the one with the streaming L.A. radio station.[1] The other thing they’ve got is free wifi, which is allowing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 22 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-23T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Really, really wishing that the folks drilling into the other side of the wall would finish their project already and knock it the hell off. #<br />
@</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Click</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/click/"/>
<updated>2008-07-22T08:54:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/click/</id>
<content type="html">It was like someone flipped a lightswitch.<br />
I’ve been listening to a number of podcasts from France Culture for the last couple of weeks, trying to tune my ear to a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 21 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-22T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@wmrandth, thanks for the shout. @lblanken, there are more at http://machines.pomona.edu, but I think not what you’re looking for…</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Insert Nippular Pun of Your Choosing Here</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/insert-nippular-pun-of-your-choosing-here/"/>
<updated>2008-07-21T14:16:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/insert-nippular-pun-of-your-choosing-here/</id>
<content type="html">One wonders whether the final outcome (please god) of this debacle will...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Versioning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/versioning/"/>
<updated>2008-07-20T04:17:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/versioning/</id>
<content type="html">WordPress 2.6, which was released just a few days ago, contains expanded support for versioning of blog posts, allowing an author to see all of the revisions made to a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 19 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-20T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Marveling at the omnipresence of this dark knight fella in everybody’s updates. Something happen over there while I was eating a baguette? #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Service</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/service/"/>
<updated>2008-07-18T05:38:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/service/</id>
<content type="html">So here’s a set of research findings that have caught me completely by surprise:[1] women’s careers in academia sometimes stall out on the road to full professorship because...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Le Quatorze</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/le-quatorze/"/>
<updated>2008-07-14T06:43:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/le-quatorze/</id>
<content type="html">There was a day last week when I joked with R. that the entirety of the French air force flew over our flat, a few planes at a time, in tight formations. And really, really low. I assumed it was some kind of exercise — and I now think, in fact,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 11 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-12T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">My iPhone 2.0 is working swell, but where’s my MobileMe? I hate the name, but I want the farking update, thx. Don’t tell me I’m up to date. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Random Thoughts, Friday Morning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/random-thoughts-friday-morning/"/>
<updated>2008-07-11T03:21:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/random-thoughts-friday-morning/</id>
<content type="html">What would it take to convince US stationers/businesses/whomever else to abandon our attachment to “letter size” paper and adopt the more aesthetically pleasing A4? Some part of me is resigned to the fact that this is a losing battle, like...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Global Networks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/global-networks/"/>
<updated>2008-07-08T06:49:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/global-networks/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday afternoon, I spent a couple of hours in a small café a few blocks from here, first doing some reading and then having coffee with a former student. The café’s quite cool — imagine a merger of French bar and college-town co-op coffee...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yay.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yay/"/>
<updated>2008-07-05T06:10:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yay/</id>
<content type="html">I’m having one of those brilliant, and altogether too rare, periods in the writing process when everything that I’ve been up to, but didn’t really know on a conscious level that I was up to, has suddenly clarified, and what seemed like random bits...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 4 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-05T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Happy 4th to everybody back there. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 2 July 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-2-july-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-07-03T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-2-july-2008/</id>
<content type="html">After a couple of weeks of utterly annoying sunshine, it’s finally raining in Paris again — a tremendous relief! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Future Writing, Take Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/future-writing-take-two/"/>
<updated>2008-07-02T06:51:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/future-writing-take-two/</id>
<content type="html">Good grief but it’s disheartening to look at today’s “five years ago” post and realize that I’m not only still asking many of the same questions, but also still need to look in many of the same places for the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 29 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-29-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-30T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-29-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Following the leaders: testing out Friendfeed, which at least so far remains under capacity! (Also, the comment function is nice.) #<br />
@</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Bolter Principle</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-bolter-principle/"/>
<updated>2008-06-29T13:01:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-bolter-principle/</id>
<content type="html">I eagerly anticipate at some as yet undetermined point in the future having a complex thought of which I do not later discover Jay David Bolter has already said a portion, both more intelligently and a decade earlier.<br />
(I feel compelled,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Future of Citations</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-citations/"/>
<updated>2008-06-27T06:51:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-citations/</id>
<content type="html">Things have been a bit quiet around MediaCommons for a while, as we’ve been working behind the scenes on a major platform transformation that should be coming soonish. But there has been a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 26 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-27T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Someone snuck in during the night and filled my head with rubber cement. Very clever. #<br />
Best part of Macworld’s “Empty Your Inbox” advice is keeping mail out in the first...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/three-steps-forward-two-steps-back/"/>
<updated>2008-06-26T08:59:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/three-steps-forward-two-steps-back/</id>
<content type="html">I had a positively spectacular work day on Tuesday, one of the first days in years on which I could say that I’d actually managed to accomplish way more than I’d expected. I hoped, of course, that this was the leading edge of a new wave of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 25 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-25-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-26T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-25-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Would much appreciate it if someone could tell me what good sinuses are supposed to do me. Thx. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stuart Moulthrop, &#39;After the Last Generation&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stuart-moulthrop-after-the-last-generation/"/>
<updated>2008-06-24T09:40:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stuart-moulthrop-after-the-last-generation/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier so-called communications revolutions wrought only partial transformations: the increased emphasis on the image in photography and film; the recovery of orality in telegraphy, telephony, and radio; the creation of mass...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 23 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-24T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Back in the thick of the project — or at least beginning to slog along again. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I&#39;m Getting &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; the Plane</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/im-getting-in-the-plane/"/>
<updated>2008-06-23T11:52:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/im-getting-in-the-plane/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve got a million favorite lines, and so I just grabbed for the first one that came to mind. That there won’t be any more has already made the world seem a sadder place.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 22 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-23T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Testing twhirl. Got nothing but errors yesterday; seems to be working now. Still not sure whether I like it, but it’s good for killing time. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 21 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-22T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">About to head out for La F?™te de la Musique. I’ll be the one sitting at the cafe drinking a beer. #<br />
@bighandsome: Surely you make up for it in purple-and-gold decor?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Elite Education</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-elite-education/"/>
<updated>2008-06-21T06:32:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-elite-education/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days of William Deresiewicz’s article in The American Scholar, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.” I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Whoops, Vol. VI</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whoops-vol-vi/"/>
<updated>2008-06-19T04:47:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whoops-vol-vi/</id>
<content type="html">For the sixth year running, and despite having reminded myself about it two days ago, I’ve once again missed the anniversary of starting Planned Obsolescence. (Witness: five, four,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Golden Notebook(s)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-golden-notebooks/"/>
<updated>2008-06-19T04:26:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-golden-notebooks/</id>
<content type="html">My friends over at the Institute for the Future of the Book yesterday announced a new project, in which they’re working with the British Arts Council and Harper...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 17 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-17-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-18T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-17-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">I am completely and totally without focus today. That is all. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 14 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-14-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-15T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-14-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Last night’s BSG (torrent) was really alarming, until Google told me it wasn’t the last episode *ever*, just the last until 1/2009. Sheesh. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mr. Jobs, Tear Down this Wall</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mr-jobs-tear-down-this-wall/"/>
<updated>2008-06-13T10:44:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mr-jobs-tear-down-this-wall/</id>
<content type="html">The title of this post may be a trifle overstated,[1] but I’m nonetheless seething over this. So, yes, I just got my regular old EDGE iPhone in December, and yes, I totally love it....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 12 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-12-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-13T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-12-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Took much of the day off today, to let the synapses cool down a bit. The work’s going well, but it’s exhausting… #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Planned Obsolescence: The Proposal</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-the-proposal/"/>
<updated>2008-06-09T05:12:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-the-proposal/</id>
<content type="html">As promised several days back, the proposal for the blob, below the fold. Any and all comments would be enormously appreciated. Further blobbing will follow in the days to come.<br />
Planned...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 5 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-06T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Slowly but surely knocking things off the to-do list and out of the inbox. I only hope I haven’t tempted the busywork demons by saying so. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Time-Shifting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/time-shifting/"/>
<updated>2008-06-04T03:52:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/time-shifting/</id>
<content type="html">I’d completely forgotten that one of the most brilliant parts of working here in Paris (leaving aside, for the moment, the bare fact that I’m working here in Paris) is that everyone who wants to ask me to do something is six to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Métrique</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/metrique/"/>
<updated>2008-06-02T11:38:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/metrique/</id>
<content type="html">There are some things that I’m just not getting used to negotiating in French. The telephone, for instance, still gives me shivers when it rings, and not (or not just) due to my usual phonaphobia; without the visual cues of face-to-face...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 1 June 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-june-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-06-02T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-june-2008/</id>
<content type="html">A brilliant morning of writing and the markets. Now to stay awake for the rest of the afternoon, before the Sunday evening falafel. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pipe Dream</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pipe-dream/"/>
<updated>2008-06-02T03:24:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pipe-dream/</id>
<content type="html">Someday I will not need to relearn the lesson that I’m most productive as a writer when I postpone checking my email until after I’ve gotten well into the morning’s writing session.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 30 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-30-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-31T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-30-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">has done away with the last outstanding annoyances; now nothing’s in the way of the big project. Of course, that means no excuses. Hmm. #<br />
has just answered her first two...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Blob</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-blob/"/>
<updated>2008-05-28T08:57:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-blob/</id>
<content type="html">The peer review chapter that I’ve mentioned a few times of late is a key element of the big project I’ve been working on since January (or more...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is Scholarship</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-scholarship/"/>
<updated>2008-05-27T04:55:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-scholarship/</id>
<content type="html">A colleague of mine recently sent me a link to the Summer 2008 issue of Kairos, guest edited by Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl Ball, entitled “The Manifesto Issue.” The manifesto as a form is near...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Key</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-key/"/>
<updated>2008-05-26T05:57:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-key/</id>
<content type="html">The transition to life in Paris has gone amazingly smoothly thus far; we’ve found the perfect boulangerie, a great local cafe, and even managed to find our way back to the best falafel place ever, which we were taken to once last year. We’re both...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Planned Obsolescence, Scholarly Publishing, and Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-scholarly/"/>
<updated>2008-05-25T05:23:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/planned-obsolescence-scholarly/</id>
<content type="html">I’m back at work on the peer review chapter this morning; I started re-reading it yesterday, but was unable to make much sense of what I’d done during the spring. Yesterday, at least, I was still firmly in the scrambled-eggs-for-brains stage, in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 24 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-24-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-25T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-24-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">After a pretty amazing first night’s sleep, sitting down at the computer with a cup of coffee and getting to work. The summer has begun! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Reviens</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-reviens/"/>
<updated>2008-05-24T07:18:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-reviens/</id>
<content type="html">The most amazing thing thus far about our return to Paris is the immediacy of our immersion; having landed yesterday at CDG, taxied to the apartment we’re renting this summer, unpacked, and ventured out for our first bière, we both felt as if the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 22 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-23T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-22-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">What am I forgetting? What am I forgetting? What am I forgetting? #<br />
Sitting on the plane, waiting for takeoff for Paris. Au revoir, Etats-Unis!</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 18 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-18-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-19T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-18-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Recovering from two days of graduation festivities spent in 100-degree heat. Happily, ice-cold beverages are just what I want. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer/"/>
<updated>2008-05-16T13:08:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer/</id>
<content type="html">That summer is here is pretty undeniable — in fact, unseasonably so: as we venture into graduation weekend, we’re beset by severe heat advisories and a serious fire in the mountains just to our...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 11 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-12T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Sitting in a Community Coffee House, trying to finish up the grading. Thanks, local place, for the free wi-fi! #<br />
@ghw_twits: Great video, not to mention the excellent LSU...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 9 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-9-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-10T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-9-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Using stupid wi-fi you have to pay for because my mother’s internet is broken. The price one pays to be a good daughter… #<br />
All senior grades have been filed. The big class is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 5 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-may-2008-2/"/>
<updated>2008-05-06T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-5-may-2008-2/</id>
<content type="html">@calamityjake: back atcha — good luck with the last stuff there, and the next stuff to follow! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 4 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-05T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-4-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Just tripped and fell for the second time this year. Wearing the same shoes both times. Damn you, Keen, and your big rubbery toes. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 3 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-3-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-04T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-3-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">The most awesome thing about Twittering now is having yet another publishing option that I can fail to update often enough. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tonight, A Conversation about the Future of Technology</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tonight-a-conversation/"/>
<updated>2008-05-03T13:02:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tonight-a-conversation/</id>
<content type="html">“‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett”:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 1 May 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-may-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-05-02T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-1-may-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@calamityjake: Whoo-hoo, on all counts! #<br />
@chutry: Congrats — fantastic news! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This is the Post</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-the-post/"/>
<updated>2008-05-01T16:54:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-the-post/</id>
<content type="html">In which I bemoan the absence of posting;<br />
In which I gripe about being so busy;<br />
In which I broadly hint that all the interesting things are unpublishable;<br />
In which I promise a course correction;<br />
In which I suggest great things to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 26 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-27T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-26-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Very, very happy to be home. That is all. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 25 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-25-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-26T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-25-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@lblanken: So many possibilities! My favorite would be Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dreaming You&#39;re Awake</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dreaming-youre-awake/"/>
<updated>2008-04-24T19:58:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dreaming-youre-awake/</id>
<content type="html">What little I managed to sleep last night, I spent dreaming about being exactly where I was, in the room where I was sleeping, in the house that I was in, waiting for the meeting that I spent the day in today. I find that kind of dream exhausting;...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 23 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-24T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-23-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Flying with a sinus infection is no fun. Just in case you were wondering. #<br />
PS: iPhone corrects &amp;quot;incase&amp;quot; to read &amp;quot;invade.&amp;quot; Be careful when authorizing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Paranoia</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/paranoia/"/>
<updated>2008-04-22T23:05:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/paranoia/</id>
<content type="html">My technologies are suddenly making me very nervous. Yesterday, at the end of a very long and stressful day, I came home and found my laptop open — I was quite convinced I’d closed it before leaving — and Skype running on the screen. And I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 21 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-22T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-21-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Two and a half weeks. Two and a half weeks. Two and a half weeks. Perhaps if I say it enough, it’ll start to sink in. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Well, That Was Fun</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/well-that-was-fun/"/>
<updated>2008-04-21T02:49:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/well-that-was-fun/</id>
<content type="html">I’m still uncertain about the header; it may change yet, but I’m pretty happy with the rest. Do let me know if you find anything weird. (I mean, things I’ve overlooked, not things you don’t like.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 19 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-20T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-19-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Contemplating ripping all my CDs and then carting them off to the used record store. When’s the last time I listened to a CD, anyhow? #<br />
Obviously tinkering with twitterings...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Further Tinkering</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/further-tinkering/"/>
<updated>2008-04-19T14:15:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/further-tinkering/</id>
<content type="html">So the twittery updates have started bugging me; I’m going to test out the daily digest option for a few days, and if that still bugs me, I’ll move to the sidebar option.<br />
That’s thing one. Thing two is that I’ve decided I’m officially...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 18 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-18-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-19T03:59:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-18-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Fighting off a technicolor sinus infection. Yum. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Response to &#39;Electronic Media, Identity Politics, and the Rhetoric of Obsolescence&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/response-to-electronic-media/"/>
<updated>2008-04-16T19:35:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/response-to-electronic-media/</id>
<content type="html">While I certainly agree that reports of the ‘death of the novel’ have been greatly exaggerated, and anxieties about new media technologies and the threats they allegedly pose to literature may reflect fears about larger societal...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 15 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-15-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-15T14:09:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-15-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Staying home in your pajamas on a Tuesday morning feels like playing hooky, even if you’re doing it in order to read a senior thesis. #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Future and Past</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/future-and-past/"/>
<updated>2008-04-14T20:53:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/future-and-past/</id>
<content type="html">It’s prospie season, round these parts, and the campus is full of admitted students and their families, who are going to various panel discussions, browsing through department fairs, and attending classes. Both of my classes this morning were...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Twittering Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-twittering-update/"/>
<updated>2008-04-11T15:23:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-twittering-update/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve edited my feeds (RSS, RSS2, RDF, and atom) such that posts generated by the Twitter Tools plugin are excluded from my feeds. Let me know if you spot anything odd…</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 11 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-11T15:14:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-11-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Testing out the code for excluding twitterings imported to my blog from my RSS feed… #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 10 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-10-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-10T17:36:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-10-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Ikea sez a new sofa may be all I need. If only it were so. #<br />
How does one go about thickening one’s skin, exactly?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 9 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-9-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-09T20:01:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-9-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">Classes went well, faculty meeting was survivable, and now the last minute of office hours is ticking to a close. Wednesday, complete. #<br />
Wishing I had something more...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings/"/>
<updated>2008-04-09T11:46:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings/</id>
<content type="html">What I was tinkering with yesterday was Twitter Tools, a plugin for WordPress that connects your blog and your Twitter account, allowing you do a range of things like have your twitterings (I really can’t bring myself to use the word “tweets”)...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twitterings on 8 April 2008</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-8-april-2008/"/>
<updated>2008-04-09T00:24:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twitterings-on-8-april-2008/</id>
<content type="html">@chutry Maybe we should set up an exchange; you read mine and I’ll read yours. That way they’ll all be new and different! #</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pardon the Dust</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pardon-the-dust/"/>
<updated>2008-04-08T15:25:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pardon-the-dust/</id>
<content type="html">Doing a bit of tinkering in the background here, so things may look a bit odd at moments. Carry on.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Technology Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/technology-updates/"/>
<updated>2008-04-05T12:48:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/technology-updates/</id>
<content type="html">Of which there are several:<br />
<br />
While I was on my last trip (to New Orleans), I discovered that the 12-inch Powerbook G4 that I’ve been attached to for the last three years suddenly had a battery life of about 20 minutes. I’d been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Absence of Thoughts, Cat Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-absence-of-thoughts-cat-blogging/"/>
<updated>2008-03-27T12:02:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-absence-of-thoughts-cat-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">But no actual cats. I saw this animation the other day, and something in it resonated so deeply that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. It’s viral, I think, in an infectious way. The only thing that’s left is for me to pass it on.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>if:book, NYU, the NEH, and MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ifbook-nyu-the-neh-and-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2008-03-25T17:25:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ifbook-nyu-the-neh-and-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">(Crossposted from MediaCommons.)<br />
I’ve hinted over the last several months that big things were afoot for MediaCommons, but haven’t been able to be terribly specific; at last, however, the haps:<br />
Our friends at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spring Broke</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/spring-broke/"/>
<updated>2008-03-19T14:13:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/spring-broke/</id>
<content type="html">Alarmingly, we’ve hit the midpoint of spring break already, and this is the first time I’ve managed to post. I’ve meant to post every day — really, I have — but what with one thing and another…<br />
<br />
One thing: a really nasty cold that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Second Lives</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/second-lives/"/>
<updated>2008-03-04T17:52:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/second-lives/</id>
<content type="html">For the last couple of years, I’ve been a member of the executive committee of the MLA’s discussion group on literature and media (a group name that makes me a little bonkers). Each year, we sponsor one panel at the convention; this year’s call...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Survived</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/survived/"/>
<updated>2008-03-03T17:39:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/survived/</id>
<content type="html">The symposium was a smashing success, I’m happy to report; the talks were all pitch-perfect and, for a Saturday, we got a respectable turnout. Honestly, though, I’d have been fine if...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Descent</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-descent/"/>
<updated>2008-02-27T01:19:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-descent/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been writing up a storm in whatever stolen moments I can get, and working like a fiend at every other hour of the day, with the exceptions of the ones where I sleep (not enough, and not terribly well) and the ones where I watch season 5 of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Good News, Bad News</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/good-news-bad-news-2/"/>
<updated>2008-02-09T17:50:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/good-news-bad-news-2/</id>
<content type="html">The good news is that I’ve been writing fairly well, am close to a draft on the new article/chapter, and am also close to a draft of the book/project proposal.<br />
The bad news is that I’ve been spending a little more time writing than I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;White Women Are a Problem&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/white-women-are-a-problem/"/>
<updated>2008-02-04T14:03:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/white-women-are-a-problem/</id>
<content type="html">From the Broadsheet, without comment:<br />
<br />
Bill Kristol: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Transformative Works and Cultures</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/transformative-works-and-cultures/"/>
<updated>2008-02-01T14:27:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/transformative-works-and-cultures/</id>
<content type="html">Transformative Works and Cultures, an exciting new electronic journal (whose board I’m on) published by the Organization for Transformative Works, has just released its first...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Administration</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/administration/"/>
<updated>2008-01-29T02:00:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/administration/</id>
<content type="html">I have had one of those days that makes me want to run away and never ever be in charge of anything again.<br />
That is all.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Friday!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/friday/"/>
<updated>2008-01-25T19:09:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/friday/</id>
<content type="html">Week 1 status report:<br />
— Classes are overflowing, but the overflow seems to have ebbed a bit, at least in one of them.<br />
— 4500 words written on new article draft; 1000ish words written on “book” proposal draft.<br />
— Excitement...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Epiphany</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/epiphany/"/>
<updated>2008-01-24T14:07:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/epiphany/</id>
<content type="html">I had one of those moments earlier this week, in which I suddenly felt as though the fog had lifted and everything I’d been muddling through for the last year or so became clear. I’m really hoping that this clarity isn’t temporary — I’m hoping I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Geeky as I Want to Be</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/geeky-as-i-want-to-be/"/>
<updated>2008-01-23T17:03:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/geeky-as-i-want-to-be/</id>
<content type="html">I believe that this may be my most fun semester ever.[1] My schedule includes, on the English side of my appointment, my Race, Gender, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New Regime, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-regime-day-2/"/>
<updated>2008-01-22T14:09:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-regime-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">Day 2 has not gone, shall we say, as well as day 1 did. This is primarily due to the fact that I woke up at 2 am, a bit sick and completely unable to go back to sleep. (Yes, the time stamp on the last post is accurate.) Focus is not high this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Peer Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/peer-review-2/"/>
<updated>2008-01-22T08:17:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/peer-review-2/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday morning, as part of the new regime, I sat down and did half an hour of uninterrupted, undistracted writing, beginning the process of blocking out the new article I’m working on, focusing on the history and future of peer review. And not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Leaf</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-leaf/"/>
<updated>2008-01-21T11:49:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-leaf/</id>
<content type="html">The spring semester doesn’t start until tomorrow, but today’s the first day of the new regime: I got up early, I’m sitting at the computer for half an hour of focused writing (though I’ll admit that I did sneak a peek at my email, but didn’t...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Telepresence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/telepresence/"/>
<updated>2008-01-18T13:53:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/telepresence/</id>
<content type="html">I spent a big chunk of yesterday (and will be spending a similar chunk of today) conducting a series of interviews via video conferencing, and I’m having one of those, “well, duh” moments: video interviews are different from phone...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Air</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/air/"/>
<updated>2008-01-16T15:54:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/air/</id>
<content type="html">I’m still processing my responses to yesterday’s Macworld Stevenote and the announcement of the MacBook Air. On the one hand, a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blur</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blur/"/>
<updated>2008-01-15T14:30:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blur/</id>
<content type="html">I’m off to the eye doctor, foax, which doesn’t bode well for the old productivity today. I’ll be spending part of what remains of the day in a meeting, and the rest of it trying to ignore the increasingly loud ticking of the clock. More later, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pre-Semester Anxiety</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pre-semester-anxiety/"/>
<updated>2008-01-14T18:11:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pre-semester-anxiety/</id>
<content type="html">Which is less anxiety about the semester, per se, than anxiety about the fact that the break between semesters is all but over, and that I’ve still got an enormous pile of stuff that really needs to be done before the spring gets fully underway....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Access</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-access/"/>
<updated>2008-01-12T16:14:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-access/</id>
<content type="html">One presentation in this session on open access; notes below the fold.<br />
Cy Dillon, “Open Access: Potential and Challenges”<br />
— challenges to college libraries: periodical budgets stagnant; users prefer electronic access<br />
— aggregated...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scholarly Collaboration, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scholarly-collaboration-day-2/"/>
<updated>2008-01-12T14:56:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scholarly-collaboration-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">This morning’s first panel was on campus strategic planning initiatives.<br />
Joel Cooper, Egohsa Awaah, Andrea Nixon, “Study of Visual Materials Use at Carleton College”<br />
— collaborative ethic at Carleton, but sense of needing to move...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scholarship in New Media</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scholarship-in-new-media/"/>
<updated>2008-01-11T22:04:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scholarship-in-new-media/</id>
<content type="html">Final presentation of the day, from Dan Schnaidt, below the fold.<br />
“Repositioning the Academic Media Studio”<br />
— background: 2000, pilot faculty digitization project, development of media database (oracle-based, worked with librarians...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Web 2.0 in the Classroom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/web-20-in-the-classroom/"/>
<updated>2008-01-11T21:04:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/web-20-in-the-classroom/</id>
<content type="html">Three excellent presentations in this session, below the fold.<br />
Alex Juhasz, Learning from YouTube<br />
— in large part about the failures of YouTube as a learning environment<br />
— negatives in going public: mainstream media’s reflections...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scholarly Collaboration in the Digital Age</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scholarly-collaboration-in-the-digital-age/"/>
<updated>2008-01-11T14:53:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scholarly-collaboration-in-the-digital-age/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s the NITLE conference on campus, beginning with a plenary panel on Scholarly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Completism</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/completism/"/>
<updated>2008-01-10T14:02:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/completism/</id>
<content type="html">Why is it that, even when I’ve realized that the book I’ve started reading isn’t the text I actually need to be reading — either it doesn’t do the thing I thought it did, or it occurs to me that my attention would be more fruitfully placed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Keynote</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/keynote/"/>
<updated>2008-01-09T14:24:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/keynote/</id>
<content type="html">I spent most of yesterday working on cutting a 35-page paper down into the 15-20 minute talk I’ll be giving on Friday at a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Geaux!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/geaux/"/>
<updated>2008-01-08T14:44:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/geaux/</id>
<content type="html">Four years ago, I live-blogged the game (let’s count: one, two, three, four, five,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Emerging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/emerging/"/>
<updated>2008-01-07T15:08:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/emerging/</id>
<content type="html">I’m finally acknowledging this morning that the holidays are over, that there are two weeks left before classes start, and that if I’m going to get anything done, now’s the moment. I’m hoping to return to some regular writing here in this new...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Hate Hackers Right Now</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-hate-hackers-right-now/"/>
<updated>2007-12-30T14:25:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-hate-hackers-right-now/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve noticed in my stats over the last couple of days that I’ve been getting some hits off some genuinely vile googlings, things I’m not going to reproduce here. The hits have been on pages that contain no such content, and no content...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MLA Thoughts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mla-thoughts/"/>
<updated>2007-12-30T13:57:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mla-thoughts/</id>
<content type="html">Recovering today after a quite wonderful MLA. I got to meet several people that I’d been hoping to introduce myself to for a while, I got to catch up with some old friends, and I got to attend and participate in a number of fantastic panels....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Sum Total of My Negative Thoughts Regarding My New iPhone</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-sum-total-of-my-negative-thoughts-regarding-my-new-iphone/"/>
<updated>2007-12-29T00:06:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-sum-total-of-my-negative-thoughts-regarding-my-new-iphone/</id>
<content type="html">1. Man, do I have some greasy fingers.<br />
2. I have to take my gloves off to answer the phone? In the snow?<br />
3. What do you mean there’s no iChat client?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Another Year, Another MLA</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/another-year-another-mla/"/>
<updated>2007-12-27T01:38:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/another-year-another-mla/</id>
<content type="html">The last few days have been a blur of travel and family, all of which I survived, though not without some bumps along the way. I’m happily ensconced in my hotel room in Chicago now, though, awaiting what promises to be the most action-packed MLA...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>No, Seriously</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/no-seriously/"/>
<updated>2007-12-20T16:53:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/no-seriously/</id>
<content type="html">I received a very nice and fairly apologetic note today, informing me that I was not elected to the Delegate Assembly of the MLA.<br />
This is one of those cases when saying “it’s an honor just to have been nominated” really, really applies....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ahhhh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ahhhh/"/>
<updated>2007-12-20T16:18:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ahhhh/</id>
<content type="html">The real beauty part of having teeny tiny little classes, as I’ve always suspected but never really gotten to experience, is that grading goes fast. One can zip through everything in a day or two, and get on with the important business of one’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Trend</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/trend/"/>
<updated>2007-12-20T11:27:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/trend/</id>
<content type="html">With one exception, every single Christmas card I have received so far this year has been produced by Shutterfly.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kindle, Part Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/kindle-part-two/"/>
<updated>2007-12-19T18:08:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/kindle-part-two/</id>
<content type="html">So a pal of mine has just drawn my attention to an interesting article in the L.A. Times from about ten days or so ago on responses to the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Outstanding</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/outstanding/"/>
<updated>2007-12-19T16:44:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/outstanding/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just found out that The Anxiety of Obsolescence has been named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by CHOICE, the publication of the Association of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two Things I Have Decided</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-things-i-have-decided/"/>
<updated>2007-12-19T04:19:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-things-i-have-decided/</id>
<content type="html">… since R. took off for the holidays:<br />
1. Some percentage of my not-blogging is directly attributable to his presence here in Claremont. Which is to say not that he’s interfering with the writing process, but that some percentage (that same...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hitting Bottom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hitting-bottom/"/>
<updated>2007-12-11T22:55:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hitting-bottom/</id>
<content type="html">Every semester has an emblematic moment. This semester’s finally arrived today, in the moment when, walking along talking with the dean, I stumbled on a bit of uneven sidewalk and completely face-planted on the pavement.<br />
Falling gets harder...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I&#39;ve Missed Commenting Upon While the Urge to Blog Has Been More or Less Absent, Part 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-ive-missed-commenting-upon-while-the-urge-to-blog-has-been-more-or-less-absent-part-1/"/>
<updated>2007-12-09T19:52:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-ive-missed-commenting-upon-while-the-urge-to-blog-has-been-more-or-less-absent-part-1/</id>
<content type="html">Amazon Kindle: My Writing Machines class spent a fair chunk of the week of its release discussing the Kindle, the things that make it...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to Work</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-work/"/>
<updated>2007-11-25T14:22:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-work/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I are just finishing up a long weekend away, spent in a very low-key way, if not exactly in a very low-key place, mostly holed up in a hotel working. I’ve gotten a good bit done — about two-thirds of my MLA presentation is now written...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hornets</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hornets/"/>
<updated>2007-11-14T21:49:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hornets/</id>
<content type="html">For the last three days, as I’ve faced my computer in my office, I’ve heard this insistent tapping at the windows in front of me; dozens of hornets buzzed outside, looking for ways in. A couple each day succeeded, sending me in search of campus...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LinkedIn?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/linkedin/"/>
<updated>2007-11-07T21:00:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/linkedin/</id>
<content type="html">I am, at the moment, just freaked out enough to feel the need to post this right away, though it’s one of those things that on further reflection may make me wish I’d waited. But…<br />
I got a request from a former student a few minutes ago...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mark Twain Project</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mark-twain-project/"/>
<updated>2007-11-06T17:21:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mark-twain-project/</id>
<content type="html">My friends at the University of California Press and the California Digital Library project last week launched a beta version of the Mark Twain Project, an astonishing archive bringing together more...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Slight Snag</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-slight-snag/"/>
<updated>2007-11-06T00:23:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-slight-snag/</id>
<content type="html">The only problem with refocusing this blog on my research is that, of late, I’m not doing any, as, well, it’s November. This week, I have a set of project outlines and a set of term paper proposals to comment on, and then a series of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.3.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-831/"/>
<updated>2007-10-20T17:37:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-831/</id>
<content type="html">This morning’s keynote speaker was one of my favorite people, John Willinsky, head of the Public Knowledge Project, which has produced both the Open Journal Systems and the Open Conference Systems, among other projects. Again, problems in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.2.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-823/"/>
<updated>2007-10-20T14:27:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-823/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s keynote was from Henry Jenkins, entitled “The Moral Economy of Web 2.0: Reconsidering the Relations Between Producers and Consumers.” I’m posting my notes below the fold; anything goofy therein should be attributed to flaws in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.2.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-822/"/>
<updated>2007-10-20T14:01:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-822/</id>
<content type="html">I sorta dropped the ball on conference blogging yesterday, as I got increasingly caught up in conferencing itself — but I’m going to attempt to catch up on the rest of the day:<br />
The second panel I attended yesterday, just after lunch, was...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.2.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-821/"/>
<updated>2007-10-19T17:23:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-821/</id>
<content type="html">The first panel I made it to today (I slept in a tiny bit, and then got so irate over the Chronicle that I missed the first session) focused on the question of the openness of ostensibly open communities, including wiki contributors, YouTube...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Private Communications</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/private-communications/"/>
<updated>2007-10-19T12:47:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/private-communications/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, I’m in the middle of reading today’s Chronicle Careers column, and have just hit a paragraph (or two) that has me positively gobsmacked. The column is about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>At the Blogging Crossroads</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/at-the-blogging-crossroads/"/>
<updated>2007-10-19T02:46:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/at-the-blogging-crossroads/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve read (and written) any number of blog posts over the last few years analyzing the phenomenon of meta-blogging — posts that creep up on meta-meta-blogging, I guess: blogging about blogging about blogging. Some of these have focused on the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.1.4</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-814/"/>
<updated>2007-10-18T21:46:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-814/</id>
<content type="html">The last panel for me for today was a collection of papers focused on methodological questions, ranging from the formulation of research premises, through the collection of data, to the publication of results. Radhika Gajjala began with a paper on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.1.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-813/"/>
<updated>2007-10-18T19:49:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-813/</id>
<content type="html">Post-lunch panel today on blogging, with four excellent papers: Sean Lawson, on milblogging in relationship to the military’s official attempts to regulate and restrict such online writing by military personnel; Gina Walejko on academic bloggers’...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.1.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-812/"/>
<updated>2007-10-18T15:47:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-812/</id>
<content type="html">The first keynote of the conference was from John Lester of Linden Labs, on Second Life. It was an interesting talk, for someone (like me) who has paid very little attention to what’s been going on there — a broad swath of the kind of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 8.1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-811/"/>
<updated>2007-10-18T13:45:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-811/</id>
<content type="html">First panel of the day, on sexuality and gender online; several excellent papers. I’m particularly compelled by Michele White’s exploration of the heteronormative pressures of eBay’s official discourses and the ways that individual sellers wind up...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cool, I Think...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cool-i-think/"/>
<updated>2007-10-17T19:10:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cool-i-think/</id>
<content type="html">Does this mean that when I’m back in Paris next summer, I can buy an Orange SIM card for the iPhone I’ll have by then and use it natively?<br />
Or perhaps that I could...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Internet Research, Eh?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/internet-research-eh/"/>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:05:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/internet-research-eh/</id>
<content type="html">I’m headed here later today, for this. I’m certain to see him, and</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My Week in Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-week-in-publishing/"/>
<updated>2007-10-16T15:44:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-week-in-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">Apparently this is the week when everything I’ve done for the last four months hits the metaphorical stands: today, the newest issue of Vectors was released; I served as peer-reviewer on a project...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Return of the Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-return-of-the-review/"/>
<updated>2007-10-15T15:15:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-return-of-the-review/</id>
<content type="html">The other thing I’ve been meaning to post about: my friend Bill Tipper has for the last several months been overseeing the rebirth of editorial content at Barnes &amp;amp; Noble online, in the form of the new</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commentpress-new-social-structures-for-new-networked-texts/"/>
<updated>2007-10-15T14:05:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commentpress-new-social-structures-for-new-networked-texts/</id>
<content type="html">Late last spring, I attended “New Structures, New Texts,” a very exciting one-day meeting of folks from various academic publishing units, both press-affiliated and library-affiliated, who are all engaged...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Most Brilliant Thing I&#39;ve Read All Month</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-most-brilliant-thing-ive-read-all-month/"/>
<updated>2007-10-03T21:04:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-most-brilliant-thing-ive-read-all-month/</id>
<content type="html">That would be this hint on how to force Apple Mail.app to display messages in plain-text. Even those annoying messages from the assistant who insists on using an image as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RCCS Reviews</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rccs-reviews/"/>
<updated>2007-10-01T14:30:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rccs-reviews/</id>
<content type="html">As hinted yesterday, I spent part of last week working on a response to some reviews of The Anxiety of Obsolescence. Those reviews (five of them!), and my response, are now up at the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deadlines</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deadlines/"/>
<updated>2007-09-30T14:25:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deadlines/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s where I’ve been, and where I’ll continue to be for a bit yet:<br />
<br />
Due early last week: invites to speakers for spring symposium; completed.<br />
Due late last week: a chunk of grading for both of my classes; completed. (At...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Marketing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/marketing/"/>
<updated>2007-09-25T14:13:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/marketing/</id>
<content type="html">I just got the following email message from a colleague on the far side of the country, with whom I actually haven’t been in contact in at least four or five years:<br />
<br />
Hi, Kathleen–<br />
I hope you’re well. I wanted to tell you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on CommentPress</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-commentpress/"/>
<updated>2007-09-25T12:39:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-commentpress/</id>
<content type="html">The Chronicle covers the Institute for the Future of the Book’s release of CommentPress this week. Overall, it’s a strong...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Googlization of Everything</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-googlization-of-everything/"/>
<updated>2007-09-24T14:07:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-googlization-of-everything/</id>
<content type="html">From my friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book today comes the launch of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s new book-in-progress, The Googlization...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thankfully</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thankfully/"/>
<updated>2007-09-21T17:29:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thankfully/</id>
<content type="html">I’m utterly flabbergasted by this story, from the afternoon update of the Chronicle of Higher Education:<br />
<br />
MIT Student Sporting Circuit-Board Artwork Is Arrested...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Personal Technology Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/personal-technology-updates/"/>
<updated>2007-09-20T17:57:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/personal-technology-updates/</id>
<content type="html">An odd assortment of things:<br />
1. I’ve intended, since they were released, to buy an iPhone as soon as my contract with my current non-AT&amp;amp;T wireless company expired. I’ve been operating for the last couple of months under the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I&#39;d Really Like</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-id-really-like/"/>
<updated>2007-09-18T21:18:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-id-really-like/</id>
<content type="html">Is another three hours in the day, only available for reading and writing. No meetings, no meals, no phone calls, no email. Preferably — and this will no doubt make me sound like even more of a misanthrope than I actually am — no human contact at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>September Is the Cruelest Month</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/september-is-the-cruelest-month/"/>
<updated>2007-09-15T13:36:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/september-is-the-cruelest-month/</id>
<content type="html">Seriously: forget April.<br />
September hereabouts brings together the end of summer (as in the always-insane beginning of the fall semester, in which the red [i.e., meetings] takes over my iCal) with the onset of the worst of summer (as in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Theory...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-theory/"/>
<updated>2007-09-04T13:07:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-theory/</id>
<content type="html">From the Chronicle of Higher Education today comes an announcement of a report...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deblogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deblogging/"/>
<updated>2007-08-31T16:42:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deblogging/</id>
<content type="html">What is it about being at home that makes me stop blogging? I posted ever so regularly during the Paris sojourn, and even managed the occasional post during the three frenetic weeks of travel that followed. But now I’ve been home for over a week,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;University Publishing in a Digital Age,&#39; in a Digital Age</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age-in-a-digital-age/"/>
<updated>2007-08-23T14:39:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age-in-a-digital-age/</id>
<content type="html">A while back, I mentioned the release of the Ithaka report on University Publishing in a Digital Age. Ithaka has...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Have I Really Been Gone That Long?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/have-i-really-been-gone-that-long/"/>
<updated>2007-08-20T21:04:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/have-i-really-been-gone-that-long/</id>
<content type="html">I just got an email message from MoveOn.org, with the subject line “Vigil to End the War in Claremont,” and for a few seconds longer than I’d like to admit, I was mightily confused. We have a movie theater now, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kicked</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/kicked/"/>
<updated>2007-08-12T19:44:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/kicked/</id>
<content type="html">A nine-hour time zone change in one direction, followed two days later by a three-hour change back the other direction.<br />
One apparently lost, and then merely destroyed suitcase. One two-and-a-half-hour airport delay.<br />
Two days,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Flying</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/flying/"/>
<updated>2007-08-07T19:48:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/flying/</id>
<content type="html">We left the flat this morning at 9, headed into the various queues that make up pretty much the entirety of the CDG experience. The taxi was fine, the airport was fine, the boarding was fine. And the first flight was fine: 10 hours, CDG to IAH,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Abjection</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/abjection/"/>
<updated>2007-08-05T09:00:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/abjection/</id>
<content type="html">I am completely up to my eyeballs in theories of subjection right now, and am thoroughly enjoying the connections that the reading that I’m doing is helping me to make, but I just want to note, for the record, that I long to be able to read (and,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ignore the Line Beneath This One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ignore-the-line-beneath-this-one/"/>
<updated>2007-08-02T10:43:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ignore-the-line-beneath-this-one/</id>
<content type="html">Have not posted in part because I don’t want my very own blog to confront me with the knowledge that it’s no longer July. But must suck it up: August is both going to blow, and to blow by…</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Series Casefiles</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-series-casefiles/"/>
<updated>2007-07-31T12:15:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-series-casefiles/</id>
<content type="html">Among the kinds of texts that we’ve repeatedly noted as potential forms for MediaCommons to explore is what I’ve previously referred to as the “digital casebook,” an evolution of the anthology that allows scholars working on a single text, such as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This is a Test Post</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-a-test-post/"/>
<updated>2007-07-31T07:46:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-a-test-post/</id>
<content type="html">In which I attempt to figure out whether my computer, or WordPress, or the internet more generally has a problem with the 31st of July. I posted an entry on the MediaCommons blog earlier this morning, but for whatever reason the permalinks to that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to Work with You, Then</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-work-with-you-then/"/>
<updated>2007-07-30T18:05:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-work-with-you-then/</id>
<content type="html">There’s much I’d like to post about, but there’s only been steadfast, nose-to-grindstone work today, in part because I’m feeling that last week running through the hourglass mighty quickly, but in part because I spent the weekend with Harry...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Completion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/completion/"/>
<updated>2007-07-27T06:07:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/completion/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been taking all my research notes in TextMate for a while now, which, as text editors go, is really way more powerful than what I need. What I like about it, though, is the notion of the “project”...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Anxiety, Other Obsolescences</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-anxiety-other-obsolescences/"/>
<updated>2007-07-26T13:17:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-anxiety-other-obsolescences/</id>
<content type="html">I had a great IM chat with Stephanie Booth this morning. I met Stephanie at Blogtalk back in October, and she pinged me today to tell me about an article of hers that’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>University Publishing in a Digital Age</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age/"/>
<updated>2007-07-26T06:26:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/university-publishing-in-a-digital-age/</id>
<content type="html">I haven’t gotten to read the full report yet, but the Chronicle’s article today on the release of the Ithaka report,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>CommentPress</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commentpress/"/>
<updated>2007-07-25T15:59:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commentpress/</id>
<content type="html">The Institute for the Future of the Book has today announced the release of its open source WordPress theme,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Introduction to Literary Research</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/introduction-to-literary-research/"/>
<updated>2007-07-24T10:56:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/introduction-to-literary-research/</id>
<content type="html">The database anthology I’m on the editorial board of is going into a second edition, of sorts — we’re adding a fair number of new texts and cleaning up some issues with the old ones. For this second...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Happiest Person in Paris</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-happiest-person-in-paris/"/>
<updated>2007-07-23T04:36:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-happiest-person-in-paris/</id>
<content type="html">It’s raining again! And it looks like it’s going to rain all day!</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Brighter Side</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-brighter-side/"/>
<updated>2007-07-22T15:47:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-brighter-side/</id>
<content type="html">First off, there are still two full weeks left, plus a full day of packing. And the longest time I’ve spent here before was two weeks, so it’s just like that trip all over again.<br />
Secondly, I’ve begun thinking to myself of things that I will...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Undone</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/undone/"/>
<updated>2007-07-21T07:21:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/undone/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I have been back at work this week after our weekend of picnics, and I’ve been attempting to knock some smallish tasks off the to-do list. The article that I was at work on last week is fully drafted, and is out to some folks for comment....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Good Reading</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/good-reading/"/>
<updated>2007-07-18T05:51:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/good-reading/</id>
<content type="html">I got sucked into a conversation last night over at Unfogged that started out with ogged’s annoyance over what he refers to as the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Et le Quinze, Aussi</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/et-le-quinze-aussi/"/>
<updated>2007-07-17T06:01:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/et-le-quinze-aussi/</id>
<content type="html">This was the weekend of picnics — first Saturday’s explosion-filled French-speaking one, and then Sunday’s, which was a bit more peaceful and overwhelmingly more Anglophone. We met</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Le Quatorze Juillet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/le-quatorze-juillet/"/>
<updated>2007-07-15T08:50:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/le-quatorze-juillet/</id>
<content type="html">As I remarked to R. midway through dinner last night, as we sat in the courtyard of the house of a friend of a friend of a friend up in the 20th, listening to sporadic pétards exploding in the surrounding streets, it’s good to know that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogging: Firstborn or Second Coming?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogging-firstborn-or-second-coming/"/>
<updated>2007-07-13T06:10:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogging-firstborn-or-second-coming/</id>
<content type="html">This was originally going to be another comment on the previous post, which I’ve been thinking about a bunch. Partially because meg seems to have gotten the idea that I’ve got...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Again with the Blegging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/again-with-the-blegging/"/>
<updated>2007-07-12T05:41:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/again-with-the-blegging/</id>
<content type="html">Somewhere, not terribly long ago, I heard or read someone make the argument that blogging was the first genuinely internet-native mode of publishing. I’ve been searching around for such a statement, and am coming up a bit dry. My fear is that this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But Before I Get to That</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-before-i-get-to-that/"/>
<updated>2007-07-11T06:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-before-i-get-to-that/</id>
<content type="html">It astonishes me how frequently I say to myself, I’m going to write an article about x, and then realize that in order to make the argument about x that I really want to make, I must set up a whole series of background issues,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pinxo</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pinxo/"/>
<updated>2007-07-10T12:26:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pinxo/</id>
<content type="html">An email correspondent has asked about — nay, demanded — that post about the meal. I feel honor-bound to comply:<br />
Last week, R. took me back to the 1er, to the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Météo</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/meteo/"/>
<updated>2007-07-09T10:00:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/meteo/</id>
<content type="html">Everyone here has been complaining about the weather non-stop, or, when not complaining about it, apologizing for it. “The weather,” they say, shrugging in that French way, “has not been so nice.”<br />
The validity of that statement depends very...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>07.07.07</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/070707/"/>
<updated>2007-07-07T11:07:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/070707/</id>
<content type="html">Simply marking the moment. Carry on.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not So Terrifically Random Friday Thoughts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-so-terrifically-random-friday-thoughts/"/>
<updated>2007-07-06T12:18:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-so-terrifically-random-friday-thoughts/</id>
<content type="html">— The box has been resent, via a much more expensive but apparently trackable commercial carrier, who promises that it will arrive on Monday, July 9, at 11.30 pm. I am fascinated, both by the apparently round-the-clock deliveries they provide and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Good News, Bad News</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/good-news-bad-news/"/>
<updated>2007-07-05T05:57:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/good-news-bad-news/</id>
<content type="html">The good news is that the mystery box has been found!<br />
The bad news is that it has been found at my house in California.<br />
The good news is that I have a housesitter armed and ready to ship it again!<br />
The bad news is that I have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh Yeah, Happy, Uh...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oh-yeah-happy-uh/"/>
<updated>2007-07-04T12:57:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oh-yeah-happy-uh/</id>
<content type="html">There’s always something very odd about being in a place where the 4th of July is only… July 4.<br />
Have a happy one back there, all. Eat something flame-grilled for me.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Semi-Random Thoughts about Books</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/semi-random-thoughts-about-books/"/>
<updated>2007-07-04T06:47:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/semi-random-thoughts-about-books/</id>
<content type="html">1. The box of them (a.k.a. le colis de mystère) is still nowhere to be found. The USPS remains clueless. La Poste no longer acknowledges that there was once a package with the number they’d assigned to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So Many Projects, So Little Focus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-many-projects-so-little-focus/"/>
<updated>2007-07-03T06:34:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-many-projects-so-little-focus/</id>
<content type="html">It’s gray and rainy here in Paris today, which is actually kind of awesome because it enables me to refrain from feeling guilty that I’m sitting here at the computer, again, rather than being out in the streets wearing fabulous scarves and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There Are No Items to Show in This View</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/there-are-no-items-to-show-in-this-view/"/>
<updated>2007-07-02T09:43:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/there-are-no-items-to-show-in-this-view/</id>
<content type="html">Must post quickly, because I know it won’t last, but: as of 2.43 pm CET today, my email inbox is completely, 100% empty. In fact, so are the inboxes for all four of my accounts. I’ve taken care of everything that had been lingering in there, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Authority 3.0</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/authority-30/"/>
<updated>2007-07-01T08:14:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/authority-30/</id>
<content type="html">One of the speakers at the “New Structures, New Texts” summit in early June was Michael Jensen, the director of web communication for the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>*hic*</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hic/"/>
<updated>2007-06-29T12:07:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hic/</id>
<content type="html">We were down for a few hours in the early a.m., PDT (around 1 p.m. ish here) for some site maintenance, which I got a little carried away with. All seems okay now, but let me know if you encounter any weirdness, okay?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Life in the Interstice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/life-in-the-interstice/"/>
<updated>2007-06-29T06:26:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/life-in-the-interstice/</id>
<content type="html">I’m currently reading Empire of Signs (one of the few books that actually went...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>David Mitchell, &lt;i&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;/i&gt;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/david-mitchell-cloud-atlas/"/>
<updated>2007-06-28T10:01:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/david-mitchell-cloud-atlas/</id>
<content type="html">One of the greatest joys of summer, for me, is getting a brief glimpse of that seemingly long-ago period of my life when I used to Read for Fun. Which is something different from having fun while reading; it’s reading utterly divorced from...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Your Amazon.co.uk order has dispatched</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/your-amazoncouk-order-has-dispatched/"/>
<updated>2007-06-28T05:33:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/your-amazoncouk-order-has-dispatched/</id>
<content type="html">No sign of box-o-books. Paid approx. $67 yesterday to have two books I already own sent to the woman whose name is on the mailbox, who will hopefully receive them on 3 July.<br />
On the up side: slept like a big dog last night, for something...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/updates/"/>
<updated>2007-06-27T04:49:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/updates/</id>
<content type="html">Sleeping: improved, but not perfect.<br />
Box of books: still missing. The United States says, with absolute certainty, that the package is still in France, where it should remain for 30 days. We haven’t talked to France again yet, but will hope...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Un Post sur La Poste</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/un-post-sur-la-poste/"/>
<updated>2007-06-25T07:25:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/un-post-sur-la-poste/</id>
<content type="html">I have to admit, I’ve gotten a bit complacent these days. Since moving to an address that the postal system and the various private shipping companies actually believe exists — a place where my packages actually arrive, taking a reasonably direct...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where Is Everybody?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-is-everybody/"/>
<updated>2007-06-25T05:21:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-is-everybody/</id>
<content type="html">Since my migration from ExpressionEngine to WordPress, my site traffic has fallen off by something between 60 and 75 percent. I want to attribute this to the change in my feed address, but if I’m being honest, I should also...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Solstice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/solstice/"/>
<updated>2007-06-22T06:33:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/solstice/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday was the summer solstice, of course, the longest day of the year, which hereabouts began with the first bits of sun, sometime around 5.15 am, and ended with the last bits, well after 10.30 pm. Last night was also the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Precedings</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/precedings/"/>
<updated>2007-06-20T08:31:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/precedings/</id>
<content type="html">Ben has just reminded me of something that I meant to post, both here and at MediaCommons,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Five</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/five/"/>
<updated>2007-06-19T13:24:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/five/</id>
<content type="html">I swore I wasn’t going to miss it this year, as I did last year and the year before (and the year before that, and the year before that). I even...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Les Pauvres</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/les-pauvres/"/>
<updated>2007-06-19T07:15:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/les-pauvres/</id>
<content type="html">Poor, poor beleaguered experts. How can one possibly survive the onslaught of the unwashed (and uncredentialed) blogospheric...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tee-totaling</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tee-totaling/"/>
<updated>2007-06-19T06:58:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tee-totaling/</id>
<content type="html">I’m quite behind the times on this (appropriate for mon état, quand je souffre du décalage horaire), but the talk of the lefty blogosphere a couple of weeks ago was the much that was being made of W’s having been spotted drinking what his advisors...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update from Paris</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/update-from-paris/"/>
<updated>2007-06-18T09:57:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/update-from-paris/</id>
<content type="html">In no particular order:<br />
— My sleep problems continue unabated. Last night, I slept fairly well from shortly after midnight until sometime around 4 am, and then was awake between 4 and 8 am (and actually out of bed and reading between 5 and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Who Needs Sleep?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/who-needs-sleep/"/>
<updated>2007-06-16T00:13:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/who-needs-sleep/</id>
<content type="html">Well, I’m never gonna get it.<br />
Since arriving here in Paris, I’ve been waiting for the bad night, the one in which sleep eludes me regardless of what counter-measures I take. That night is tonight, apparently. I went fairly directly to sleep...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Feed Me!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/feed-me/"/>
<updated>2007-06-14T09:51:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/feed-me/</id>
<content type="html">Incidentally, if you’ve been reading Planned Obsolescence via an RSS feed, you’ll no doubt have noticed that the feed URLs have changed since the migration to WordPress. The feed is now available, conveniently, at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It Goes On and On and</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/it-goes-on-and-on-and/"/>
<updated>2007-06-14T06:25:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/it-goes-on-and-on-and/</id>
<content type="html">I suddenly find myself with about a dozen things I’d like to write about, which is a remarkable change from the blankness that I’ve experienced when pondering the blog. At least a couple of these things I’m quite behind the curve on, given our...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Packing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/packing/"/>
<updated>2007-06-12T00:46:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/packing/</id>
<content type="html">The last three days have been utterly consumed with departure-for-Paris business. We head off tomorrow morning, and there are at least three things I need to do before I go. The most pressing of those is sleep, which I’m off to do now. More from...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Categories</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/categories-2/"/>
<updated>2007-06-08T20:33:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/categories-2/</id>
<content type="html">I’m tinkering a bit with my categories, trying to make them a bit more tree-like, but given that I’ve already got two systems represented here (the old tripartite novels/networks/inbetween structure and the more recent whatever-occurs-to-me...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But It&#39;s Summer!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-its-summer/"/>
<updated>2007-06-08T19:01:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-its-summer/</id>
<content type="html">So why am I attending meetings and writing reports?<br />
The good news is that I’ve got approximately three more days during which to do any college-related business; then we’re off to Paris for seven blissful weeks. The two of us, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Economics</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-economics/"/>
<updated>2007-06-06T13:44:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-economics/</id>
<content type="html">Session 4: New Economics<br />
(This was in many ways the most interesting session of the day, in part because of the real overlap between Michael Jensen’s vision of the peer-review system of the future with MediaCommons’s goals, and in part...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Structures</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-structures/"/>
<updated>2007-06-06T13:36:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-structures/</id>
<content type="html">Finishing up the notes from yesterday’s meeting:<br />
Session 3: New Structures<br />
Maria Bonn, Director, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan; Phil Pochoda, Director, University of Michigan Press<br />
SPO: publishing unit...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Texts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-texts/"/>
<updated>2007-06-05T18:14:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-texts/</id>
<content type="html">Session 2: New “Texts”<br />
Lynne Withey, director, UC Press; Catherine Candee, director of strategic publishing initiatives, California Digital Library<br />
“New Texts, New Tasks: A Case Study from the University of California”<br />
6-8 year...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Directions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-directions/"/>
<updated>2007-06-05T17:23:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-directions/</id>
<content type="html">Notes from this morning’s first session follow. Any misrepresentations herein are solely the fault of the note taker.<br />
Dan Greenstein, Vice Provost, University of California<br />
“New Directions, Different Possibilities”<br />
UC libraries...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Structures, New Texts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-structures-new-texts/"/>
<updated>2007-06-05T13:17:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-structures-new-texts/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in Oakland for the day today, at a thoroughly exciting meeting: “New Structures, New Texts: A Summit on the Library and the Press as Partners in the Enterprise of Scholarly Publishing.” I’ll hope to post my notes either during the day today or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It&#39;s Not TV</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/its-not-tv/"/>
<updated>2007-06-04T16:08:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/its-not-tv/</id>
<content type="html">Last night, I have to say, was a heck of a night of television — the second-to-last episode of The Sopranos (EVER, as the trailer for next’s week’s episode informed us, in case we hadn’t been paying...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Welcome, Almost</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/welcome-almost/"/>
<updated>2007-06-04T13:08:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/welcome-almost/</id>
<content type="html">The transition to WordPress has thus far gone fairly well, and what you see is roughly the site you’ll see once I’m done. However, I’ve got one significant problem that’s going to require me to go offline briefly this morning, I think: I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AAAAARGH!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aaaaargh/"/>
<updated>2007-06-03T18:20:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aaaaargh/</id>
<content type="html">mod_rewrite is determined to kill me. Here’s what I managed to figure out: I can use mod_rewrite to rewrite my URLs from...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Because I Am Precisely That Nuts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/because-i-am-precisely-that-nuts/"/>
<updated>2007-06-02T20:22:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/because-i-am-precisely-that-nuts/</id>
<content type="html">And because I didn’t feel like working today: I managed to find a way to export my content from ExpressionEngine and import it into WordPress. And I’ve found a theme I rather like, and futzed with it until I like it even better. And I’ve gotten...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Thousand One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-thousand-one/"/>
<updated>2007-06-01T15:50:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-thousand-one/</id>
<content type="html">Hey! Regardless of what my permalinks seem to tell you, that last entry was entry number 1000 here at Planned Obsolescence. It took me a little less than five years to get here, but it’s a nice week for the milestone, given my hopes for returning...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Social Entrepreneurship and Design</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/social-entrepreneurship-and-design/"/>
<updated>2007-06-01T15:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/social-entrepreneurship-and-design/</id>
<content type="html">For the last year or so, I’ve been an extended faculty member of Claremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems and Technology, though that affiliation has been mostly theoretical to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blog, Dammit</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blog-dammit/"/>
<updated>2007-05-31T14:06:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blog-dammit/</id>
<content type="html">I finished up the looming-deadline project a full two days early, I’m happy to report, and am now turning to other phases of my summer work. I’ve got a zillion things I hope to accomplish, ranging from lots of MediaCommons stuff (with the goal of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Trackbacks, R.I.P.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/trackbacks-rip/"/>
<updated>2007-05-31T01:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/trackbacks-rip/</id>
<content type="html">Today, somebody figured out how to overcome my trackback URL randomization and leave me 20-plus spam trackbacks. All from different IP addresses.<br />
Here marks the (hopefully temporary) end of trackbacks on Planned Obsolescence.<br />
A big...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Procrastination</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/procrastination/"/>
<updated>2007-05-22T19:03:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/procrastination/</id>
<content type="html">Major editorial project due June 1. Approximately 50% of work on project remains ahead of me. I hate deadlines.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/home-again/"/>
<updated>2007-05-21T12:48:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/home-again/</id>
<content type="html">We’ve made it back to Claremont, a little less than a week after I set off for Louisiana. The trip was a whirlwind: I arrived there Monday night, R.’s movers showed up Tuesday morning, we finished last details there (and I spent some time with my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Graduation Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/graduation-day/"/>
<updated>2007-05-13T12:45:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/graduation-day/</id>
<content type="html">It’s graduation day here in Claremont, and for the first time ever we’re holding the ceremony outside, where it promises to be 75 and sunny and breezy, rather than in the big auditorium, where it is invariably non-airconditioned, stuffy, crowded,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Still Not Dead</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/still-not-dead/"/>
<updated>2007-05-04T12:28:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/still-not-dead/</id>
<content type="html">Just grading. Classes ended Wednesday, senior grades are due today, and graduation’s in a little over a week. I’ve been completely buried under a big pile of end of semester work for the last several weeks, and I’m just now beginning to see a bit...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>HASTAC 1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hastac-11/"/>
<updated>2007-04-20T11:34:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hastac-11/</id>
<content type="html">The notes that follow are entirely my fault, and not at all the fault of the speakers. That said, I’m going to attempt to give a sense of what I take from various sessions at the conference. Various talks are available via webcast at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Call Me &#39;Needle&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/call-me-needle/"/>
<updated>2007-04-19T14:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/call-me-needle/</id>
<content type="html">In Houston, on my way to North Carolina for HASTAC. If you’re there, look me up. And with any luck, there might be actual posting from the scene.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Good Lord</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/good-lord/"/>
<updated>2007-04-16T16:10:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/good-lord/</id>
<content type="html">I don’t think I know anyone at Virginia Tech. But if any of you are there, I hope you and your colleagues and loved ones are okay.<br />
We actually had a psycho-on-campus drill earlier this semester, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reserves? Depleted</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reserves-depleted/"/>
<updated>2007-04-15T20:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reserves-depleted/</id>
<content type="html">To say that I’ve been a bad blogger of late is to underestimate the situation pretty seriously. There have been moments, over the course of the spring, when I’ve wondered if I was losing interest in blogging. In fact, I think the paucity of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apply Directly to the Forehead</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/apply-directly-to-the-forehead/"/>
<updated>2007-04-09T16:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/apply-directly-to-the-forehead/</id>
<content type="html">This is just to say that the guys who are tearing down the building that is directly outside my office window–and, conveniently, directly outside the window of the classroom where I’ll be spending two and a half hours this afternoon–are currently...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>At Last, Almost</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/at-last-almost/"/>
<updated>2007-04-08T15:31:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/at-last-almost/</id>
<content type="html">R.’s been here for the last week, hanging out during his spring break, taking care of some odds and ends. It was fabulous having him here, as it always is, and somewhat hard taking him to the airport this morning.<br />
But only somewhat. Because...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Effects</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-effects/"/>
<updated>2007-03-31T13:24:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-effects/</id>
<content type="html">Timothy Burke has posted one of the most sensible assessments I’ve seen of the problems with “effects” research, spurred on by the vastly over-reported study recently released suggesting a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-updates/"/>
<updated>2007-03-30T11:26:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-updates/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier this week, I spent a couple of days on the Jersey shore with the guys from the Institute for the Future of the Book, my MediaCommons...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Time&#39;s Arrow (But Not In A Martin Amisy Way)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/times-arrow-but-not-in-a-martin-amisy-way/"/>
<updated>2007-03-30T02:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/times-arrow-but-not-in-a-martin-amisy-way/</id>
<content type="html">I cannot stop looking at this. There’s something about the flatness of the subjects’ affect (apparently a learned pose, which sinks in sometime around age 4) and something about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Have the Right to an Apology</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-have-the-right-to-an-apology/"/>
<updated>2007-03-24T13:51:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-have-the-right-to-an-apology/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a lot of talk about the need for an Air Traveler’s Bill of Rights of late, particularly since February’s</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Punishing California</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/punishing-california/"/>
<updated>2007-03-23T20:20:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/punishing-california/</id>
<content type="html">Or, Threatening Other States Not to Follow Our Lead:<br />
I’ve long been aggravated by gas prices in California, prices that, where I live, average about 30 cents a gallon more than prices for comparable fuel in Louisiana. But I’ve always known...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;Your date&#39;s over, mister&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/your-dates-over-mister/"/>
<updated>2007-03-22T01:04:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/your-dates-over-mister/</id>
<content type="html">Good grief, do I love these women.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Ed Board Meeting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-ed-board-meeting/"/>
<updated>2007-03-20T22:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-ed-board-meeting/</id>
<content type="html">What little time I’ve got these days, outside of teaching, preparing to teach, grading, feeling guilty about not grading, and going to meetings, is being spent getting ready for next week’s</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Ethics of Class Blogs</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-ethics-of-class-blogs/"/>
<updated>2007-03-16T16:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-ethics-of-class-blogs/</id>
<content type="html">Grrr. I’m having an utterly infuriating time with air-l, one of the listservs that I’m subscribed to, because my subscription was apparently set up from my actual technical email address (which has a login id composed of a seemingly random...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>That&#39;s Better!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thats-better/"/>
<updated>2007-03-15T02:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thats-better/</id>
<content type="html">I’m positively breathless about it all: we worked all morning, and then we went out to lunch today, and lunch had spices in it, and then we went shopping, and then I finished my grading, and then we went to the pool! And now we’re going...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It&#39;s About Time</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/its-about-time/"/>
<updated>2007-03-14T18:17:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/its-about-time/</id>
<content type="html">A quick post to say thanks to Chuck for letting me know that the New York Times has finally made its Times Select features</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Take Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/take-two/"/>
<updated>2007-03-13T20:02:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/take-two/</id>
<content type="html">So, we were able to get out and take a bit of a walk and have a little lunch, and the walk and the lunch seem to have gone well, not least because I was able to put my finger on exactly what’s had me feeling so stifled and on the cusp of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>*Sigh*</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sigh/"/>
<updated>2007-03-13T16:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sigh/</id>
<content type="html">Two of my favorite things in the world: spring break and Hawaii. Neither has quite panned out, this go-round.<br />
Earlier this semester, during the height of the negotiation-related stress, I made the decision to cash in a bunch of miles and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Big Novel (Redux)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-big-novel-redux/"/>
<updated>2007-03-07T13:07:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-big-novel-redux/</id>
<content type="html">I’m teaching my Big Novel class for the second time this semester, having struggled a bit while teaching it the first time during Spring...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to Life?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-life/"/>
<updated>2007-03-04T12:57:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-life/</id>
<content type="html">One can only hope. It appears that the various crises that resulted in my protracted silence have now all passed, and that I can do at least a little, partial explaining, and then get back — schedule willing — to something approaching blogging as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>From YouTube to YouNiversity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/from-youtube-to-youniversity/"/>
<updated>2007-02-13T13:52:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/from-youtube-to-youniversity/</id>
<content type="html">Henry Jenkins has a new article in this morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education, suggesting the ways that the field of media studies needs to shift in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gosh, Is She Ever Going to Start Blogging Again?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/gosh-is-she-ever-going-to-start-blogging-again/"/>
<updated>2007-02-13T03:47:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/gosh-is-she-ever-going-to-start-blogging-again/</id>
<content type="html">Perhaps after I finish with this week’s four department meetings and two program meetings. Not to mention the departmental social event, and the conference call, and the two one-on-one meetings, and the lecture.<br />
And then there’s that little...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-update/"/>
<updated>2007-02-09T20:17:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons-update/</id>
<content type="html">Incidentally, one thing that I can write about is MediaCommons, which is making fabulous progress. We’ve migrated the site to a new, much more flexible platform (multi-user WordPress), we’ve got In Media Res going full-bore, with new...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Admitting the Obvious</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/admitting-the-obvious/"/>
<updated>2007-02-07T12:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/admitting-the-obvious/</id>
<content type="html">I’m apparently on something of a hiatus, at the moment. In part it’s due to the issues I last wrote about (I’m too busy for much of interest to happen, and what of interest is happening, I can’t write about), but it’s also in part due to the fact...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Curse of the Confidential (and the Tedious)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-curse-of-the-confidential-and-the-tedious/"/>
<updated>2007-01-28T17:31:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-curse-of-the-confidential-and-the-tedious/</id>
<content type="html">Part of the recent silence has been produced by the fact that everything I’ve been doing over the last however many days it’s been since I got back to Claremont (just checked; it’s eleven. I can’t decide if it seems like it’s been more or less...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Trail</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-trail/"/>
<updated>2007-01-28T16:48:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-trail/</id>
<content type="html">So apparently what it takes to get me something to blog about is leaving town. I’m traveling today, and am currently sitting in a Crown Room in Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. Sitting 100 feet due in front of me is John...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I&#39;m Not Dead Yet!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/im-not-dead-yet/"/>
<updated>2007-01-23T18:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/im-not-dead-yet/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve honestly just been too busy even to contemplate blogging, much less to write anything. (Or even read anything; I’m about as out of touch with bloglandia as I’ve been anytime in the last five years.) I’m hoping to get caught up enough to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Halfway Back</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/halfway-back/"/>
<updated>2007-01-15T09:25:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/halfway-back/</id>
<content type="html">I’m currently here, doing this. The return to the U.S. was only moderately painful...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Against Phalloblogocentrism</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/against-phalloblogocentrism/"/>
<updated>2007-01-13T04:34:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/against-phalloblogocentrism/</id>
<content type="html">A bit belatedly, a post mostly serving to bookmark for myself Scott McLemee’s IHE column growing out of the MLA blogging panel, with a very interesting conversation...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sign Me Up Already</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sign-me-up-already/"/>
<updated>2007-01-09T19:06:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sign-me-up-already/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, I’ve drunk the koolaid. But holy crap. That’s all I’m sayin’.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hail Fellow, Almost Met</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hail-fellow-almost-met/"/>
<updated>2007-01-09T13:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hail-fellow-almost-met/</id>
<content type="html">An MLA moment I haven’t written about, as yet: I had three and a half minutes between meetings, at one point, and so I grabbed the laptop and headed for the corridor in the conference center, where there was a nice strong free wifi signal. Just as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Pleasure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-pleasure/"/>
<updated>2007-01-04T10:03:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-pleasure/</id>
<content type="html">File this under “things I really ought to have read a long time ago, but am just now getting to”: I’ve spent the last few days slowly working my way through The Pleasure of the Text. And I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Back Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-back-again/"/>
<updated>2007-01-03T09:29:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-back-again/</id>
<content type="html">This has been a weird month. Weird enough that my last transatlantic flight seemed astonishingly easy. Heck, weird enough that I can use a phrase like “my last transatlantic flight.” ?áa suffit.<br />
(Not incidentally, somewhere along the line...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Happy New Year!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/happy-new-year/"/>
<updated>2007-01-01T07:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/happy-new-year/</id>
<content type="html">Greetings from Paris! I’ll attempt to catch up on The Story Thus Far later today. For now, a warm welcome to 2007, and best wishes that it be a happy, healthy, and fruitful year for us all.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Report from the Blogger Meetup</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/report-from-the-blogger-meetup/"/>
<updated>2006-12-29T10:25:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/report-from-the-blogger-meetup/</id>
<content type="html">Folks I’d met before, whom I was happy to see again:<br />
— Chuck;<br />
— John;<br />
— Scott;<br />
—</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The MLA, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-mla-day-2/"/>
<updated>2006-12-29T02:41:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-mla-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">Today was a heck of a day at the MLA. I actually experienced the conference, and the way it was meant to be experienced, I think.<br />
In part, I mean having had a full night’s sleep, which was blissful and amazing, and which I hope to repeat...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The MLA, Thus Far</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-mla-thus-far/"/>
<updated>2006-12-28T08:50:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-mla-thus-far/</id>
<content type="html">It’s pretty much been a non-MLA, due to complete and total physical collapse. When I arrived in Philadelphia, after the shuttle bus, the first plane, the shuttle bus, the second plane, the “air train,” the real train, and the cab, I checked into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It&#39;s the Most Ridiculous Time of the Year</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/its-the-most-ridiculous-time-of-the-year/"/>
<updated>2006-12-26T06:13:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/its-the-most-ridiculous-time-of-the-year/</id>
<content type="html">I woke up this morning around 3.30, almost on purpose–my wake-up call was set for 4.30, so I went ahead and got out of bed, rather than spend an hour wondering if I were going to fall asleep and miss the alarm. R. walked me downstairs around 5.15,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Beginning, Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/beginning-again/"/>
<updated>2006-12-25T06:47:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/beginning-again/</id>
<content type="html">Amusingly enough, my very last post of 2005 was about the difficulities of beginning a new large-scale project. That project, which I planned on spending my sabbatical with during spring 2006, got somewhat overcome by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merry Christmas, from Prague</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/merry-christmas-from-prague/"/>
<updated>2006-12-25T05:19:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/merry-christmas-from-prague/</id>
<content type="html">I’m now completely convinced that this place really is the capital of Christmaslandia. And I mean that in a good way. All week, we’ve wandered out in the evenings to see the families and the friends enjoying the Christmas market, with its festival...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Five Things You Quite Possibly Don&#39;t Know About Me</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/five-things-you-quite-possibly-dont-know-about-me/"/>
<updated>2006-12-24T03:37:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/five-things-you-quite-possibly-dont-know-about-me/</id>
<content type="html">The good news is that I get spared most memes; for whatever reason, they seem to pass me by. Liz just tagged me with this one, though, and since she...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>That&#39;s Just Mean</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thats-just-mean/"/>
<updated>2006-12-22T12:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thats-just-mean/</id>
<content type="html">After waking up at 3 this morning, utterly unable to sleep, and after struggling both before and after lunch to take a stupid nap, but finding myself too exhausted, and thus too hopped-up, to doze off, I finally fell asleep for a little while this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Failure of Open Peer Review?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-failure-of-open-peer-review/"/>
<updated>2006-12-22T04:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-failure-of-open-peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">About six months ago, I published a lengthy post, both on Planned Obsolescence and on if:book, about the future of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Décalage Horaire</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/decalage-horaire/"/>
<updated>2006-12-22T02:03:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/decalage-horaire/</id>
<content type="html">Our first full day in Prague was spent in a state of mild to moderate delirium. After we finally arrived at the hotel on the evening of the 18th, R. and I found some food, drank a couple of beers, wandered briefly through the Christmas market in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Waiting for the Bomb Squad[^1]</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/waiting-for-the-bomb-squad/"/>
<updated>2006-12-20T06:45:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/waiting-for-the-bomb-squad/</id>
<content type="html">[This post was written on 19 December; internet access has been a bit non-ideal, so things are coming on a bit of a time delay.]<br />
I hate to admit it, but Meg’s right: I’m clearly cursed. I want very much to say that I make an exceedingly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Have the Best Boyfriend Ever, In One Short Sentence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-have-the-best-boyfriend-ever-in-one-short-sentence/"/>
<updated>2006-12-16T11:26:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-have-the-best-boyfriend-ever-in-one-short-sentence/</id>
<content type="html">“That new haircut really makes you look thin.”</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s Wrong with This Phrase?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-wrong-with-this-phrase/"/>
<updated>2006-12-11T21:31:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-wrong-with-this-phrase/</id>
<content type="html">With apologies to the student who wrote it: I know something is wrong with what follows, but I can’t quite make my brain kick up information about what and why.<br />
<br />
9% of the Senate consists of women…<br />
<br />
When you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Not to Get There</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-get-there/"/>
<updated>2006-12-10T17:15:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-get-there/</id>
<content type="html">I took a fairly long drive west yesterday, to go to a barbeque hosted by Bitch Ph.D. and attended by some other bloggy folks...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>in memoriam literati</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-memoriam-literati/"/>
<updated>2006-12-05T14:12:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-memoriam-literati/</id>
<content type="html">Ben has opened a discussion over at if:book about Gore Vidal’s recent BookForum interview, in which, among other...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There&#39;s Supposed to Be a Lull!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/theres-supposed-to-be-a-lull/"/>
<updated>2006-12-05T13:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/theres-supposed-to-be-a-lull/</id>
<content type="html">This is supposed to be a relatively slow week, the quiet before the storm: classes end tomorrow, and I won’t have any substantive grading to do until Friday, most likely. Pre-registration is done. Meetings are winding down. I’m supposed to have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Because That Isn&#39;t Enough...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-because-that-isnt-enough/"/>
<updated>2006-11-27T12:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-because-that-isnt-enough/</id>
<content type="html">(image missing)<br />
This is a slightly blurred screenshot of my actual calendar, for this week, Monday through Friday, from 8 am to 9.30 pm. This is only scheduled events, and doesn’t take into account stuff like getting ready for class, or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Teach Thyself</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/teach-thyself/"/>
<updated>2006-11-27T02:11:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/teach-thyself/</id>
<content type="html">Thanksgiving was lovely, if much too fast. I spent a fair percentage of it just clearing my head and attempting to improve my attitude.<br />
And I’ve been moderately successful. Though I’ve had my moments of extreme grouchitude of late, I’m not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>U.S. Copyright Office Announces New Exemptions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/us-copyright-office-announces-new-exemptions/"/>
<updated>2006-11-24T12:08:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/us-copyright-office-announces-new-exemptions/</id>
<content type="html">(crossposted from making MediaCommons: )<br />
Via Jeremy Butler and the SCMS-TV list comes news that the U.S. Copyright Office announced...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deep Breath</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deep-breath/"/>
<updated>2006-11-20T13:29:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deep-breath/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s going to be filled with nuttiness. And this time tomorrow, I’m going to be over halfway to Houston, on my way to BTR for Thanksgiving. I’m having one of those moments where I’m just not sure how everything that needs to be done between now...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>From McKenzie Wark, G4M3R 7H30RY</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/from-mckenzie-wark-g4m3r-7h30ry/"/>
<updated>2006-11-18T23:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/from-mckenzie-wark-g4m3r-7h30ry/</id>
<content type="html">From “Agony”:<br />
<br />
Even critical theory, which once took its distance from damaged life, becomes another game. Apply to top ranked schools. Find a good...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Whew</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whew/"/>
<updated>2006-11-17T14:15:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whew/</id>
<content type="html">There is very little in the world like waking up on Friday and realizing you’ve survived the week, and that it was not even half as bad as you expected.<br />
I’ve got a pretty ridiculous amount of reading that needs to get done this weekend,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now This Is What I Want to Sing Next Year in Choir</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-this-is-what-i-want-to-sing-next-year-in-choir/"/>
<updated>2006-11-15T21:18:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-this-is-what-i-want-to-sing-next-year-in-choir/</id>
<content type="html">The Helsinki Complaints Choir:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Faculty Lecture</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/faculty-lecture/"/>
<updated>2006-11-15T16:04:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/faculty-lecture/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve discovered something today: either I was a whole lot braver eight years ago, or a whole lot dumber. I’m giving a talk in our faculty lecture series in about an hour. The last time I did this was during my first year here at the college. And I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Air iPod</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/air-ipod/"/>
<updated>2006-11-14T14:56:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/air-ipod/</id>
<content type="html">Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM &amp;amp; United to Deliver iPod Integration.<br />
<br />
CUPERTINO, California–November 14, 2006–Apple¬Æ...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Notes on making MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/notes-on-making-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-11-14T13:57:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/notes-on-making-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">making MediaCommons is up and rolling, but we really need your help. One of our major benefactors is watching the planning site carefully, using it as a metric to gauge potential future...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>/whine</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whine/"/>
<updated>2006-11-13T15:19:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whine/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to all of you who commented and emailed yesterday and this morning; sympathetic noises were much desired, and much appreciated. Yesterday’s post arose, obviously, out of a well of frustration, both with the core situation and with my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Days I Wish I Were Anonymous</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/days-i-wish-i-were-anonymous/"/>
<updated>2006-11-12T18:05:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/days-i-wish-i-were-anonymous/</id>
<content type="html">The thing that has taken up the vast majority of my time this semester — and something on the order of 95% of my emotional energy — is something I absolutely, positively cannot write about. Not even in allegorized form. And it’s less of an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Morning After</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-morning-after/"/>
<updated>2006-11-08T14:08:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-morning-after/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted from making MediaCommons)<br />
No doubt like many of you, I spent much of my evening last night glued to my television set, flipping between CNN and the networks, trying to keep...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So Far, So Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-far-so-good/"/>
<updated>2006-11-07T23:21:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-far-so-good/</id>
<content type="html">Senate races in Ohio, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania appear to have gone to the Democrats. I am, however, not counting my chickens as yet. I’m still waiting for the after-10-pm-PST-election-day surprise, which has bitten us in the ass too many times...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on Making MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-making-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-11-06T13:17:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-making-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">As I mentioned during Flow, the guys at the Institute for the Future of the Book have helped my co-editor Avi Santo and I me create a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Guess What I Did Yesterday</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/guess-what-i-did-yesterday/"/>
<updated>2006-11-04T21:39:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/guess-what-i-did-yesterday/</id>
<content type="html">My hairdresser was so impressed with the enormous pile of hair surrounding me after my cut yesterday that I had to take a picture of it. She decided to put the broom and the scoop...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Decide</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-decide/"/>
<updated>2006-11-01T20:05:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-decide/</id>
<content type="html">She’s at it again. I’ve just gotten an email message from tagged.com asking me to confirm my new account with them. I didn’t sign up for any such account. And it’s the same bloody...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Squishy Cow</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/squishy-cow/"/>
<updated>2006-10-31T19:16:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/squishy-cow/</id>
<content type="html">Some time back, I emailed the Accordion Guy, asking to be added to his list of folks who wanted a squishy cow of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I&#39;m Just Saying</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/im-just-saying/"/>
<updated>2006-10-31T03:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/im-just-saying/</id>
<content type="html">The person who happened upon The Anxiety of Obsolescence by googling how long to bleed to death lacerated liver has me quite worried.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is Why I Love Computers</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-why-i-love-computers/"/>
<updated>2006-10-30T02:15:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-why-i-love-computers/</id>
<content type="html">What I know about music honestly (as George once said here) would not fill the thimble of a small-fingered seamstress. But</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Notes from Flow: Academic Publishing for the Digital Age</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-academic-publishing-for-the-digital-age/"/>
<updated>2006-10-29T10:34:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-academic-publishing-for-the-digital-age/</id>
<content type="html">Notes from my session at Flow, below the fold. I’ll be cross-posting these at making MediaCommons shortly.<br />
saturday, 28 october<br />
session 3: academic publishing for the digital...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Notes from Flow:; Watching Television Off-Television</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-watching-television-off-television/"/>
<updated>2006-10-29T10:17:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-watching-television-off-television/</id>
<content type="html">More notes from a very interesting session of Flow.<br />
session 3: watching television off-television<br />
will brooker: watching television on download; removing program from television flow and moving it into larger flow (“overflow”);...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Notes from Flow: On Taste</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-on-taste/"/>
<updated>2006-10-28T13:04:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/notes-from-flow-on-taste/</id>
<content type="html">I’m posting some of my notes from yesterday’s sessions here. These notes should be taken primarily as my impressions of the conversations that took place; any misimpressions created by these notes are solely the fault of yours...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Making &#39;making MediaCommons&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/making-making-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-10-27T16:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/making-making-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">Greetings from Austin, and the Flow conference. Things here have been fabulous so far — the conference organizers have developed a great new open format, in which brief papers were posted online,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Meeting Aunt B.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/meeting-aunt-b/"/>
<updated>2006-10-25T11:34:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/meeting-aunt-b/</id>
<content type="html">Happily, two other things have happened in the last couple of days that have begun to turn my mood around a bit, diminishing the stress somewhat and making it all seem, if not exactly bearable, at least worthwhile. One was meeting up with a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thank You, DMV!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thank-you-dmv/"/>
<updated>2006-10-24T13:59:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thank-you-dmv/</id>
<content type="html">I’m reeling. Absolutely astonished. My worldview has been shaken to its core.<br />
I wanted to write about this over the weekend, but held off, afraid that the release of the first part of this story onto the internets might result in a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Is &#39;Managing&#39; Really What We Want?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/is-managing-really-what-we-want/"/>
<updated>2006-10-22T13:13:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/is-managing-really-what-we-want/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s presentations were overall quite provocative, and have been wonderfully blogged by Bryan, James, and</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open and Closed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-and-closed/"/>
<updated>2006-10-21T12:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-and-closed/</id>
<content type="html">This morning’s first talk, by John Appley and Albert Borroni of Oberlin College, raises a very interesting problem: as the LMS becomes increasingly popular, its functionality will be increasingly desired by groups and organizations (such as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;A Loose Assortment of Annoying Tools&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-loose-assortment-of-annoying-tools/"/>
<updated>2006-10-20T21:39:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-loose-assortment-of-annoying-tools/</id>
<content type="html">Ooh, boy, is this going to be interesting. I’m arguing in my presentation tomorrow that (in a very small nutshell) the so-called “learning management system” is not about learning at all; it’s content management, sure, but active learning...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>NITLE Symposium</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/nitle-symposium/"/>
<updated>2006-10-20T20:14:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/nitle-symposium/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in Portland for the weekend, attending a NITLE symposium on Learning Management Systems in the Liberal Arts College at Reed. It promises to be interesting, not least at the moment when I stand up and say...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where I’ve Been, and Where I’m Likely to Be</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-ive-been-and-where-im-likely-to-be/"/>
<updated>2006-10-16T22:27:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-ive-been-and-where-im-likely-to-be/</id>
<content type="html">While the panic has subsided (in no small part due to my having woken the fuck up and said NO, thank you, to a new administrative task that I was being asked to take on), my workload has not diminished. If anything, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Panic, or Something Close to It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/panic-or-something-close-to-it/"/>
<updated>2006-10-10T09:49:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/panic-or-something-close-to-it/</id>
<content type="html">I completely collapsed again last night, apparently not as recovered from my jet lag as I’d thought. I was dead asleep before 10 pm last night — but then woke up in a cold sweat sometime before 2 am. A serious cold sweat — I actually had to move...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>La Rétour</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/la-retour/"/>
<updated>2006-10-08T20:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/la-retour/</id>
<content type="html">I’m back in SoCal, and so is my suitcase, though it decided to take a little breather in Houston halfway through the journey. (So yes, for those of you keeping score at home, I’ve now had a bag delayed two out of the last three times I’ve checked...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Media Life</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/media-life/"/>
<updated>2006-10-05T09:59:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/media-life/</id>
<content type="html">Right before I left for Paris and Vienna, I did an email interview with a writer from Media Life magazine who was working on an article about The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 2.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-23/"/>
<updated>2006-10-03T10:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-23/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 3<br />
Anne Bartlett-Bragg and Ricardo Cambiassi<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
anne bartlett-bragg<br />
“reflections on pedagogy: understanding adult learners’ experiences of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My BlogTalk Talk</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-blogtalk-talk/"/>
<updated>2006-10-03T10:13:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-blogtalk-talk/</id>
<content type="html">So the talk went extremely well, I think; I got some good, challenging questions that I’m looking forward to pondering at some length. And I’d point you toward the talk, so that I could get more feedback from you guys, too–but, at least at this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 2.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-22/"/>
<updated>2006-10-03T05:45:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-22/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 1<br />
Elmine Wijnia &amp;amp; Ton Zijlstra and<br />
Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin &amp;amp; Alexandre Passant<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
Elmine Wijnia &amp;amp; Ton Zijlstra<br />
“the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 2.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-21/"/>
<updated>2006-10-03T05:05:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-21/</id>
<content type="html">Keynote 1<br />
Rod Smith (IBM) on Mashups<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
evolution of applications–diy web<br />
new vein of ‘instant’ web appliations connecting and aggregating...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-day-2/"/>
<updated>2006-10-03T04:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">Did I mention that the presentations are available on video? They’re generally posted within several minutes of being completed. Which means that mine should ostensibly be up by around 12.30ish CET....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.7</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-17/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T12:29:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-17/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 5: Frank Mantek and Jeremy Ruston<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
panel 5<br />
frank mantek<br />
“the google data api”<br />
ways software can suck<br />
apis hinder usage...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.6</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-16/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T11:28:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-16/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 4: Wolfgang Zeglovits and Raymond Elferink &amp;amp; Graham Atwell<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
wolfgang zeglovits<br />
“the practice of social software development: case...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.5</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-15/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T10:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-15/</id>
<content type="html">Keynote 2: Matt Mullenweg, “WordPress and Jazz”<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
“Originality’s the thing. You can have tone and technique…” –Lester Young<br />
— originality’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.4</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-14/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T08:30:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-14/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 3: Alexandre Passant and Suw Charman<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
alexandre passant (philippe laublet and jean-david sta)<br />
“folksonomies, ontologies, and corporate...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-13/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T07:32:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-13/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 2: Lee Bryant and Dieter Rappold<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
lee bryant, “building a social interface onto corporate systems”<br />
headshift (</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-12/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T05:58:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-12/</id>
<content type="html">Panel 1: Adolfo Estallela and Jan Schmidt<br />
(tags: blogtalkreloaded)<br />
adolfo estallela<br />
“blogs, from communicative to connective artifacts”<br />
cannot reduce blogs to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk Reloaded 1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-11/"/>
<updated>2006-10-02T05:37:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk-reloaded-11/</id>
<content type="html">I’m going to attempt to blog as much of the conference as I can. This is the usual caveat about the fact that what follows is my notes from these talks; any flaws in my representations of papers or conversations are mine, and not those of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ONT to IAH to CDG to VIE</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ont-to-iah-to-cdg-to-vie/"/>
<updated>2006-10-01T10:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ont-to-iah-to-cdg-to-vie/</id>
<content type="html">I haven’t exactly recovered from my décalage horaire yet, but the trip thus far has gone quite well. I got up at 4 am on Thursday and was, thankfully, ready to go when my cab showed up 20 minutes early. I had about an hour to kill in ONT,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the CMS</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-cms/"/>
<updated>2006-09-27T18:06:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-cms/</id>
<content type="html">JD asked me the other day about my experiences using Sakai, and how I liked it as compared with something like Moodle. This is something I’ve been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Imminent BlogTalk</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/imminent-blogtalk/"/>
<updated>2006-09-24T14:07:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/imminent-blogtalk/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent the last three days madly working on the article from which my talk at BlogTalk will be drawn. And late last night, as I was trying to fall asleep, it hit me: I’m leaving for Europe on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Got Nothing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-got-nothing/"/>
<updated>2006-09-20T21:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-got-nothing/</id>
<content type="html">Except looming deadlines, and deadlines already past. I’ll be back with more scintillating thoughts soon, I hope.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Dreary Little Tale of the Grocery Store</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-dreary-little-tale-of-the-grocery-store/"/>
<updated>2006-09-17T18:34:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-dreary-little-tale-of-the-grocery-store/</id>
<content type="html">Every once in a great while, I get home from the grocery store and discover that they’ve failed to bag something I bought. It’s always annoying, but never worth returning to the store for whatever it was they left out.<br />
Today, for the first...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Studio 60</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/studio-60/"/>
<updated>2006-09-12T16:08:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/studio-60/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to Liz and Lori, I spent a chunk of last night watching a little, tiny...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Best War Ever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/best-war-ever/"/>
<updated>2006-09-11T23:33:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/best-war-ever/</id>
<content type="html">I want to call attention to this for ever so many reasons, not least among them that it’s perhaps the first effective trailer for a book that I’ve ever seen.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tick Tick Tick</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tick-tick-tick/"/>
<updated>2006-09-11T20:33:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tick-tick-tick/</id>
<content type="html">Why do things like this only ever happen when you’re late?<br />
I was on my way to the office today, running late after having dragged my heels all morning. I’m not sure quite what was wrong, but I really didn’t want to get dressed and leave the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Chicken, Meet Egg</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/chicken-meet-egg/"/>
<updated>2006-09-11T14:23:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/chicken-meet-egg/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s a bit of irony*: Chest pain is a primary symptom of a heart attack. A panic attack can produce chest pain that mimics that of a heart attack. But other kinds of chest pain can produce the symptoms of a panic attack, as you freak out over...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ridiculous Question I Should Have Long Since Learned the Answer To</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ridiculous-question-i-should-have-long-since-learned-the-answer-to/"/>
<updated>2006-09-09T18:22:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ridiculous-question-i-should-have-long-since-learned-the-answer-to/</id>
<content type="html">Say you’re quoting a passage from a text, and within that passage, the author uses a parenthetical citation to refer to another text. Do you:<br />
(a) Quote the passage exactly as printed in the text, including the citation?<br />
(b) Quote the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Former Students Make Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/former-students-make-good/"/>
<updated>2006-09-09T17:52:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/former-students-make-good/</id>
<content type="html">So I really honestly did add them to my blogroll a couple of hours before Liz popped up in the comments, and had made a note-to-self to post an actual bloggy link this afternoon, before...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Exactly Is the Deal with Technorati?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/"/>
<updated>2006-09-09T14:56:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/</id>
<content type="html">This time last week, something on the order of 72 blogs apparently linked here; today, it’s 58. (I’ve also dropped from a nice, solid rank of 36,000ish to well into the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Fakery and Fictiveness</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-fakery-and-fictiveness/"/>
<updated>2006-09-08T13:34:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-fakery-and-fictiveness/</id>
<content type="html">So word is spreading throughout the blogosphere this morning that the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Graduate Employee Strike Abandoned</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/graduate-employee-strike-abandoned/"/>
<updated>2006-09-08T12:41:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/graduate-employee-strike-abandoned/</id>
<content type="html">Good lord, but this is depressing.<br />
So depressing, in fact, that I can’t even comment any further.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kfitzpatrick</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/kfitzpatrick/"/>
<updated>2006-09-04T12:11:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/kfitzpatrick/</id>
<content type="html">I just did something that was either absolute genius or pretty much evil. Or maybe just borderline stupid.<br />
There’s someone out there, someone young and female, who is convinced that my mac.com email address is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Linky Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/linky-update/"/>
<updated>2006-09-01T13:54:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/linky-update/</id>
<content type="html">You might not have noticed without my pointing it out, but several of the links at right have changed. I now have my very own subdomain for networked teaching projects, machines.pomona.edu, and so I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bleh.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bleh/"/>
<updated>2006-08-31T11:41:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bleh/</id>
<content type="html">Someday I will discover the secret to making the first day of class not desperately dull. Alas, I haven’t figured it out yet. The dullness has in part to do with the emphasis on policy-download during that first session, which is simply tedious,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>File That Under &#39;Ouch&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/file-that-under-ouch/"/>
<updated>2006-08-29T19:17:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/file-that-under-ouch/</id>
<content type="html">In his new memoir, “The Discomfort Zone,” Mr. Franzen turns his unforgiving eye on himself and succeeds in giving us an odious self-portrait of the artist as a young jackass: petulant, pompous, obsessive, selfish and overwhelmingly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Potty Mouth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/potty-mouth/"/>
<updated>2006-08-29T12:37:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/potty-mouth/</id>
<content type="html">As long as I’m on the subject: one of the things that I actually have spent a bit of time worrying about — worrying, mind you, but not enough to really do anything about it — since I discovered among my readership a number of folks in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to (Professional) Life</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-professional-life/"/>
<updated>2006-08-27T12:06:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-professional-life/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve had a few conversations about this here website of late, conversations with folks who seem uncomfortable with the personal nature of some of what I’ve blogged here. Nobody’s upset with me about having been indiscreet, or about having said...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Okay, Make with the Good Wishes Already</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/okay-make-with-the-good-wishes-already/"/>
<updated>2006-08-23T08:53:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/okay-make-with-the-good-wishes-already/</id>
<content type="html">It’s not to be helped or avoided at this point: it’s my birthday. The first one I’ve really dreaded in about… well, in pretty much precisely a decade. Interestingly, it’s not a big round number type birthday, but the one before it, which to my way...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Da-Na-Dah! Da-Na-Dah!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/da-na-dah-da-na-dah/"/>
<updated>2006-08-22T00:41:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/da-na-dah-da-na-dah/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, (a): Did you realize that Rocky is, and I shit you not, thirty years old, this year?<br />
(b): Did you know that it was possible, tonight, somewhere in the world, to sit outside...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New York Times, aka the Al Qaeda Newsletter (and Coupon Book)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-york-times-aka-the-al-qaeda-newsletter-and-coupon-book/"/>
<updated>2006-08-20T18:40:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-york-times-aka-the-al-qaeda-newsletter-and-coupon-book/</id>
<content type="html">On another note: what the New York Times looks like to the Right, courtesy of the Huffington Post. Make sure you roll over the masthead a few times. (Hat tip:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Guilt and Exhaustion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/guilt-and-exhaustion/"/>
<updated>2006-08-20T18:30:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/guilt-and-exhaustion/</id>
<content type="html">So I’m on the road again, in NYC, and I’m desperately trying to get done at least a small fraction of the stuff that has to be completed by a week from Tuesday. In the meantime, I’m completely exhausted from all the travel–my body clock is pretty...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Grading Policy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/grading-policy/"/>
<updated>2006-08-17T14:20:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/grading-policy/</id>
<content type="html">After a particularly obnoxious argument over a final grade a couple of semesters ago, I decided to dramatically revamp the grading policy that I include in all my syllabi. The dispute made clear to me that certain students (by no means all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Free of Duty</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/free-of-duty/"/>
<updated>2006-08-15T12:43:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/free-of-duty/</id>
<content type="html">There’s good news, for me, at least: because, on returning to the U.S., one goes through customs on the Canadian side of the border, and because one can’t check one’s suitcase until after customs, one goes through the duty-free store dragging...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>To Delete, or Not to Delete</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/to-delete-or-not-to-delete/"/>
<updated>2006-08-15T09:25:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/to-delete-or-not-to-delete/</id>
<content type="html">I spent much of last night lying awake, primarily suffering under what I’m pretty sure was a bit of bad salmon. I wasn’t anywhere near as sick as I could have been, but I did at one point wonder whether TSA would let me board my plane today if the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Paging Walter Kirn</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/paging-walter-kirn/"/>
<updated>2006-08-14T17:55:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/paging-walter-kirn/</id>
<content type="html">Or anyone with Walter Kirn’s mailing address. I’ve got a book I’d like to send...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Productivity, On the Road</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/productivity-on-the-road/"/>
<updated>2006-08-14T17:24:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/productivity-on-the-road/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve written before about how productive I manage to be while I’m on the road, whether it’s a matter of working on planes or in hotels (something I’d swear I’ve blogged, but can’t find an appropriate link for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Other People&#39;s Conferences, Part Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/other-peoples-conferences-part-two/"/>
<updated>2006-08-13T11:06:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/other-peoples-conferences-part-two/</id>
<content type="html">So I’m in Montreal for the American Sociological Association meeting, where we’re doing some interviewing. I have to reiterate that there’s something lovely about attending conferences for organizations to which you do not belong, but in this case...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So I Totally Lied</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-i-totally-lied/"/>
<updated>2006-08-11T19:23:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-i-totally-lied/</id>
<content type="html">No way I can leave it at that. Not when there’s so much more to tell.<br />
So I left my house at 5 am yesterday, headed to LAX. The morning began with two bits of dumb luck: first, that the trip to Montreal is going to last five days, and thus I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yeesh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yeesh/"/>
<updated>2006-08-10T11:10:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yeesh/</id>
<content type="html">I’ll just say that today was not the ideal day to fly out of LAX, and leave it at that.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How to Do Things with Words</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-to-do-things-with-words/"/>
<updated>2006-08-09T17:19:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-to-do-things-with-words/</id>
<content type="html">…and why it matters. Two unrelated links:<br />
meg on the meaning of the phrase “WT,” and how those who use it might benefit from learning to diagram sentences.<br />
And</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Other People&#39;s Conferences</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/other-peoples-conferences/"/>
<updated>2006-08-07T12:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/other-peoples-conferences/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been in San Diego with my mother since Friday; she’s here for a conference, and I’m here as her date. The conference is that of a national organization that links a bunch of state and local organizations that are in the business of dealing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Free Advice from Aunt B.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/free-advice-from-aunt-b/"/>
<updated>2006-08-04T12:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/free-advice-from-aunt-b/</id>
<content type="html">And it’s really good advice, too: how to write an academic book that folks might actually want to read.<br />
Though she doesn’t quite say...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ways in Which Today Sucks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ways-in-which-today-sucks/"/>
<updated>2006-08-02T19:14:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ways-in-which-today-sucks/</id>
<content type="html">1. I was awake from approximately 1.30 am to approximately 5.00 am, for no apparent reason. And when the sun rose, and when the construction guys commenced jackhammering outside my bedroom window, I was awake again. And none too happy about it, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Somewhere or Other</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-somewhere-or-other/"/>
<updated>2006-08-01T16:18:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-somewhere-or-other/</id>
<content type="html">I’m not sure I ever publicly admitted this, but over the last year-plus, while I was contemplating this past spring’s leave and the work that I’d do then, I’d pretty much concluded that my next major project was going to be more creative in scope...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is the End</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-the-end/"/>
<updated>2006-07-31T13:30:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-the-end/</id>
<content type="html">Sigh. My end-of-summer blues have kicked in full-force today. They’ve arrived at a moment that no doubt seems premature, but really, everything’s rushing to a close. R. is leaving Friday, ending a fabulous seven-month stretch together. I hit the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cyberinfrastructure-and-the-humanities/"/>
<updated>2006-07-28T13:25:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cyberinfrastructure-and-the-humanities/</id>
<content type="html">I’m still running pretty much a day behind–meant to post this yesterday, but never got to it. In any event, and in a hurry:<br />
The Chronicle reported yesterday that the ACLS had...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More from MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-from-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-07-27T12:32:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-from-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">I’m a day late on this — finishing that draft and other emergencies got in my way — but I want nonetheless to direct your attention to MediaCommons...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It&#39;s a Draft!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/its-a-draft/"/>
<updated>2006-07-26T14:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/its-a-draft/</id>
<content type="html">A bouncing baby draft, and not a moment too soon.<br />
I’ve got a long list of other tasks that need doing, a list that has had me feeling increasingly anxious over the last couple of weeks. Perhaps I’m a little slow on the uptake, but it took...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Current Stats</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/current-stats/"/>
<updated>2006-07-25T15:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/current-stats/</id>
<content type="html">The article draft nears completion: I’m at 32 pages, with about two pages to go. And then a whole heckuva lot of editing and revision. So lots of work to go, but oh, the bliss of knowing that there will shortly be an object with which I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Want to See My Picture on the Cover</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/want-to-see-my-picture-on-the-cover/"/>
<updated>2006-07-24T12:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/want-to-see-my-picture-on-the-cover/</id>
<content type="html">…on the cover of the Chronicle of Higher Education.<br />
Not quite the same ring to it, alas. And it’s not like I’m there yet, thankfully, but I’m close.<br />
Today’s cover story...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Hundred Twelve</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-hundred-twelve/"/>
<updated>2006-07-23T15:49:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-hundred-twelve/</id>
<content type="html">As in degrees.<br />
As in temperature, not heat index.<br />
As in yesterday’s high here in Claremont.<br />
They’re predicting 107 for today, but they’ve been consistently five or six degrees low on their predictions all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Progress, Sorta</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/progress-sorta/"/>
<updated>2006-07-21T13:23:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/progress-sorta/</id>
<content type="html">I’m now 28 pages into an article that I wanted to be around 25 pages long, and I’ve got at least another 5 pages of analysis and conclusion to write before the thing is complete. Annoyingly, the first 20-ish pages of the article hold together...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Search Inside</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/search-inside/"/>
<updated>2006-07-19T14:18:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/search-inside/</id>
<content type="html">Hey, this is cool: the Amazon page for The Anxiety of Obsolescence now has “Search Inside” capability. So now, in addition to the bits of text I put up...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Initial Responses to MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/initial-responses-to-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-07-19T12:04:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/initial-responses-to-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">Ben Vershbow has posted a nice round-up of the reaction, over the last couple of days, to Monday’s MediaCommons announcement. There’s also a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Introducing MediaCommons</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/introducing-mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2006-07-17T10:33:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/introducing-mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted from if:book)<br />
I’ve got the somewhat daunting pleasure of introducing the readers of if:book to one of the Institute’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Let the Reader Beware</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/let-the-reader-beware/"/>
<updated>2006-07-15T17:28:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/let-the-reader-beware/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a lot of hubbub about the Pynchon-speaking universe over the last couple of weeks, as Viking/Penguin let it be known that there would be a Big New Novel by the man himself released near the end of this year. I’ve been watching the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Editorial Policy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-editorial-policy/"/>
<updated>2006-07-14T13:36:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-editorial-policy/</id>
<content type="html">Hey: this site is not your own personal publicity organ. Any future comments that are clearly serving no other purpose than promoting your work–not contributing to a conversation, not responding...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Community Building: Just Add Fire</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/community-building-just-add-fire/"/>
<updated>2006-07-13T16:47:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/community-building-just-add-fire/</id>
<content type="html">Sitting here at my desk in the niche on the second-floor landing a little while ago, I started to realize that I had been hearing some kind of small aircraft overhead for a few minutes. I didn’t think terribly much of it, as there’s a small...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rice University Press 2.0</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rice-university-press-20/"/>
<updated>2006-07-13T15:22:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rice-university-press-20/</id>
<content type="html">As I’ve mentioned several times of late (so many, in fact, that I’m not going to link; you can check out the “electrapress” category, if you’re interested), I’ve been working with the Institute for the Future of the Book this year on a project...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Key to the Dream, In Case You Care</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-key-to-the-dream-in-case-you-care/"/>
<updated>2006-07-13T14:07:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-key-to-the-dream-in-case-you-care/</id>
<content type="html">So here’s what’s going on around here, that made my dream so open to Meg’s instant analysis: as I’ve mentioned before, my department has suffered some major losses recently, with three senior colleagues all departing at the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shoot the Piano Player</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shoot-the-piano-player/"/>
<updated>2006-07-12T12:59:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shoot-the-piano-player/</id>
<content type="html">I had this dream the other night, which I’d almost forgotten, but which came back to me just now for a reason I’m not at all sure of. I’d been drafted to be the accompanist for some musical theater production that I was involved with. How I’d...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Am Speechless</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-am-speechless/"/>
<updated>2006-07-11T13:25:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-am-speechless/</id>
<content type="html">Here are some quotes from a pro-abortion person, Miss Caroline Weber, who wrote an article at The Onion online magazine.<br />
<br />
The rest, you must read</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Upcoming Travel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/upcoming-travel/"/>
<updated>2006-07-09T13:40:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/upcoming-travel/</id>
<content type="html">Confirmed and ticketed:<br />
<br />
August 10-15 — Montréal; American Sociological Association.*<br />
September 28-October 6 — Paris and Vienna; BlogTalk Reloaded.**<br />
October 26-29 — Austin;</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bikram Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bikram-update/"/>
<updated>2006-07-08T14:16:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bikram-update/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been attending relatively regular Bikram yoga classes since late May, and it occurred to me yesterday that the time might have come to take stock of my practice and reflect on how it’s going.<br />
I took extremely well to Bikram right off...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Student Use of Wikipedia</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/student-use-of-wikipedia/"/>
<updated>2006-07-07T14:25:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/student-use-of-wikipedia/</id>
<content type="html">Via if:book, an interesting draft policy statement proposed by Alan Liu on</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Pissed Am I?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-pissed-am-i/"/>
<updated>2006-07-05T23:40:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-pissed-am-i/</id>
<content type="html">Seriously pissed.<br />
Remember this?<br />
It just broke again.<br />
And it’s got the disc we were watching last night — disk 3 of 6 of season 3 of 24 — stuck inside it.<br />
I’m about to take the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What, Like Beer?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-like-beer/"/>
<updated>2006-07-05T22:41:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-like-beer/</id>
<content type="html">Subtitle: Why I Should Not Be Allowed to Listen to the News on the Way Home from the Gym.<br />
I swear I thought the announcer said something about an inquiry into whether Barry Bonds perjured himself by testifying under oath that he had never...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Managed and Unmanaged</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/managed-and-unmanaged/"/>
<updated>2006-07-05T14:39:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/managed-and-unmanaged/</id>
<content type="html">Managed this week:<br />
— Have made significant headway on article, via intensive half-hour morning sessions, and whatever little bits of time I want to add to those. Now have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There Was Something Back There About Practice, Right?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/there-was-something-back-there-about-practice-right/"/>
<updated>2006-06-29T12:37:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/there-was-something-back-there-about-practice-right/</id>
<content type="html">I realized over the weekend that I’ve been struggling for so long with the article I’m writing — or, to be honest, not writing — that it’s (a) now pretty heavily overdue, and (b) threatening to take on the albatross-like status that only things I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Future of Peer Review in Electronic Scholarly Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-peer-review-in-electronic-scholarly-publishing/"/>
<updated>2006-06-28T12:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-peer-review-in-electronic-scholarly-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted from if:book)<br />
Over the last several months, as I’ve met with the folks from if:book and with the quite impressive</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>For Once, I&#39;ve Got Nothing Whatsoever to Complain About</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/for-once-ive-got-nothing-whatsoever-to-complain-about/"/>
<updated>2006-06-27T23:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/for-once-ive-got-nothing-whatsoever-to-complain-about/</id>
<content type="html">So, I’m sitting in Houston, waiting on the inbound aircraft that will take my outbound flight merrily back to the west coast. We’re going to be about an hour late. I am absolutely, positively, not complaining.<br />
Here’s why: I don’t have the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Send Me Back to the Desert</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/send-me-back-to-the-desert/"/>
<updated>2006-06-26T18:45:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/send-me-back-to-the-desert/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been a fabulous visit, but I’m about up to here with both the heat and the humidity. Not to mention the crazy fattening food, the omnipresent alcohol, and the general sloth. I think I need a week at a spa to recover from my weekend in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There&#39;s a Story Behind This I&#39;m Too Tired to Tell</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/theres-a-story-behind-this-im-too-tired-to-tell/"/>
<updated>2006-06-23T00:52:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/theres-a-story-behind-this-im-too-tired-to-tell/</id>
<content type="html">Two and a half hours on the runway in Houston. Fortunately, there was beer after that.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BlogTalk</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogtalk/"/>
<updated>2006-06-19T12:52:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogtalk/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve had a paper accepted for this October’s BlogTalk Reloaded, and so it appears I’m headed to Vienna in October. This looks like a fascinating set of papers, from a broad range of folks doing work on and in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tagging the Library</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tagging-the-library/"/>
<updated>2006-06-17T14:04:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tagging-the-library/</id>
<content type="html">Under the category of things I’ve been meaning to note for a while: David Weinberger at Many-to-Many brought my attention to</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moves</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moves/"/>
<updated>2006-06-16T14:23:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moves/</id>
<content type="html">We’ve suffered a series of losses in my department this semester, and are about to find ourselves in a very different department, come fall. I’ll put it this way: as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Okay, Now I Believe It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/okay-now-i-believe-it/"/>
<updated>2006-06-15T18:32:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/okay-now-i-believe-it/</id>
<content type="html">They arrived yesterday, proving that this project, begun in 1996, is finally, one-hundred percent, completely and totally done.<br />
Celebration commenced...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Housekeeping</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/housekeeping/"/>
<updated>2006-06-12T18:29:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/housekeeping/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been a week of major housekeeping since I returned from New York: first, I needed to unpack all the stuff that I moved back from Louisiana, which arrived while I was away; after that, the condo needed some serious organizing and cleaning....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Much Do I Fucking Love Heather Havrilesky?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-much-do-i-fucking-love-heather-havrilesky/"/>
<updated>2006-06-11T15:17:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-much-do-i-fucking-love-heather-havrilesky/</id>
<content type="html">A whole fucking lot.<br />
[NOTE: It’s “Deadwood”-speak week at Salon; them with tender sensibilities should consider themselves fucking warned.]</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Comment Spam M.O.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-comment-spam-mo/"/>
<updated>2006-06-09T13:56:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-comment-spam-mo/</id>
<content type="html">So there was a piece of comment spam loitering hereabouts for a couple of days, while I debated what to do with it. I finally deleted it, as the last thing I want is to encourage this kind of behavior. But what the culprit did is half ingenious...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Three Belated Notes from the Road</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/three-belated-notes-from-the-road/"/>
<updated>2006-06-07T14:09:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/three-belated-notes-from-the-road/</id>
<content type="html">I flew back from NYC on Monday, and have been trying to recover and unpack from the trip, as well as unpacking the stuff that arrived from Louisiana while I was gone, ever since. I’d hoped to post this sooner, but getting the house relatively...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on That Book</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-that-book/"/>
<updated>2006-06-02T18:50:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-that-book/</id>
<content type="html">If you live in a market that carries Wisconsin Public Radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, you may be able to catch me flogging The Anxiety of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Am Too Dumb to Lead the Network Revolution</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-am-too-dumb-to-lead-the-network-revolution/"/>
<updated>2006-06-02T14:37:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-am-too-dumb-to-lead-the-network-revolution/</id>
<content type="html">So, I noted some time back that I’d built a website for my book, including excerpts from the text (the introduction and first chapter, the opening...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Another Update from GSOC</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/another-update-from-gsoc/"/>
<updated>2006-06-02T11:21:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/another-update-from-gsoc/</id>
<content type="html">This update on the strike at NYU, today, from GSOC:<br />
<br />
Jerrold Nadler, Congressman from New York, 8th District, has...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Whoa.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whoa/"/>
<updated>2006-05-31T22:21:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whoa/</id>
<content type="html">For the first time in, oh, a little less than five years, my flight into LaGuardia today flew straight up over Manhattan. As in, I looked out my window, and there was the Empire State Building. Like right there.<br />
I’d forgotten that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Things That Occur to Me While I&#39;m in the Shower</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-things-that-occur-to-me-while-im-in-the-shower/"/>
<updated>2006-05-29T12:09:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-things-that-occur-to-me-while-im-in-the-shower/</id>
<content type="html">What’s the relationship between the Kantian sublime and Freudian sublimation? Is the apparent relationship merely a coincidence of translation? Or is there some deeper connection that I’d never noticed before? It sounds as though sublimation ought...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dragging My Heels</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dragging-my-heels/"/>
<updated>2006-05-28T15:12:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dragging-my-heels/</id>
<content type="html">There’s an article that I need to write, one that, in theory at least, I’ve been at work on for some weeks. In reality, however, I never made it beyond the first day of drafting.<br />
I’ve allowed dozens of things to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spambot University Library</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/spambot-university-library/"/>
<updated>2006-05-28T14:02:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/spambot-university-library/</id>
<content type="html">Somebody else has noted this recently — I’m sorry I can’t remember who — but spambots are getting weirdly smarter. Another blog that I have editorial privileges on gets a fair bit of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bikram, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bikram-day-2/"/>
<updated>2006-05-27T16:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bikram-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">90 minutes is much, much longer than 60. It’s pretty rough at that moment, when my yogalates classes would have been wrapping up, to realize that there’s still a third of the class yet to go.<br />
On the other hand, it all feels good, with the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bikram, Day 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bikram-day-1/"/>
<updated>2006-05-26T18:24:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bikram-day-1/</id>
<content type="html">Holy moly. Having settled back in here in Claremont, and having spent the last five days mourning the loss of my beloved yogalates class, I managed to cart myself down to the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get Hip to This Timely Tip</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/get-hip-to-this-timely-tip/"/>
<updated>2006-05-25T13:11:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/get-hip-to-this-timely-tip/</id>
<content type="html">Having picked up the 40 in Amarillo (despite hearing that Oklahoma City is oh-so-pretty), we sped on through Gallup, New Mexico, as well as Flagstaff, Arizona (don’t forget Winona), Kingman, Barstow —<br />
— only to rediscover the fact that the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Technology on the Road</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/technology-on-the-road/"/>
<updated>2006-05-22T23:26:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/technology-on-the-road/</id>
<content type="html">1. The rest area on Highway 287 a few miles north of Chillicothe, Texas has open wireless. I didn’t use it, but I was sorely tempted to blog from there, the middle of freaking nowhere, solely because I could.<br />
2. I did a pre-interview with a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Watching the Net</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/watching-the-net/"/>
<updated>2006-05-20T10:12:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/watching-the-net/</id>
<content type="html">We’re headed out of town sometime this afternoon, starting down the road toward SoCal.<br />
There’s not that much left to do between now and then, so I’m watching television.<br />
Or not really television. Shows originally broadcast on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Update from GSOC</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-update-from-gsoc/"/>
<updated>2006-05-18T19:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-update-from-gsoc/</id>
<content type="html">This update on the strike at NYU, today, from GSOC:<br />
<br />
New York Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twelve Steps Will Not Cut It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twelve-steps-will-not-cut-it/"/>
<updated>2006-05-16T17:30:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twelve-steps-will-not-cut-it/</id>
<content type="html">One sure way to measure your network dependency is to live in a building in which broadband is included with your rent, and see how you respond when the Internet suddenly, completely, and inexplicably breaks. And there is nothing you can do about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Seditionist Creeps</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/seditionist-creeps/"/>
<updated>2006-05-15T15:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/seditionist-creeps/</id>
<content type="html">This is one of the scariest things I’ve read in quite some time.<br />
<br />
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Commencement</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commencement/"/>
<updated>2006-05-14T18:38:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commencement/</id>
<content type="html">Graduation just began back in Claremont, and it feels mighty weird not being there. Cooler, certainly; I’m not missing sweltering under the klieg lights in my fluorescent purple triple-knit polyester robe. But I miss the ceremony, nonetheless–miss...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jazz Fest Photos</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jazz-fest-photos/"/>
<updated>2006-05-14T14:53:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jazz-fest-photos/</id>
<content type="html">I took a few pictures during Jazz Fest using the less crappy than you’d expect but still crappier than you’d like camera on my cell phone. They’re now up on flickr,[^1] if you’re interested. In this particular photo, you can get a good sense of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Long-Overdue Open Letter to John Sexton</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-long-overdue-open-letter-to-john-sexton/"/>
<updated>2006-05-11T18:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-long-overdue-open-letter-to-john-sexton/</id>
<content type="html">Dear President Sexton,<br />
As an alumna of New York University (Ph.D. English, 1998), I receive the usual set of appeals for donations, both from the university’s annual giving fund and from other fundraising bodies within NYU. In the past, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Let This Be a Lesson to You</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/let-this-be-a-lesson-to-you/"/>
<updated>2006-05-10T16:21:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/let-this-be-a-lesson-to-you/</id>
<content type="html">This post has taken me an unconscionably long time to write. I didn’t have net access in Nassau–or, more accurately, I didn’t seek out net access in Nassau–and have had a bit of a hard time getting myself going again since I’ve been back. But at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Product Placement</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/product-placement/"/>
<updated>2006-05-04T11:10:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/product-placement/</id>
<content type="html">On another note: last night’s Alias contained what I have to call the worst moment of product placement in the history of crass commercialism. It went something like this (names have been elided to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Last Gasp</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/last-gasp/"/>
<updated>2006-05-04T10:47:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/last-gasp/</id>
<content type="html">This weekend, as others are celebrating the end of classes for the spring semester, I’m flying off to Nassau. This trip is in the main a girls’ trip, a long weekend with my mother and my sister, to be spent on the beach and by the pool and in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Me &amp; the Boss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/me-the-boss/"/>
<updated>2006-05-02T15:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/me-the-boss/</id>
<content type="html">Or, On Not Being a Bruce Springsteen Fan.<br />
Such a subtitle will be greeted as sacrilege by a subset of my old grad school pals, or would be if they were still reading here, as their adolescences were entirely framed by his music. My...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jazz Fest</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jazz-fest/"/>
<updated>2006-04-30T14:31:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jazz-fest/</id>
<content type="html">What I had intended was a series of daily updates. Of course, I also thought that I was going to use my hotel’s gym several times this weekend, so I clearly had some misunderstandings about how general time management was going to function while...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-orleans-jazz-heritage/"/>
<updated>2006-04-28T12:58:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-orleans-jazz-heritage/</id>
<content type="html">I drove into New Orleans late last night, and will be heading out to Jazz Fest later this afternoon. Given the darkness, I wasn’t able to get an overall sense of the city’s state, though I did see, right...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iSync and the Verizon CDMA RAZR V3c</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/isync-and-the-verizon-cdma-razr-v3c/"/>
<updated>2006-04-28T12:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/isync-and-the-verizon-cdma-razr-v3c/</id>
<content type="html">Two posts this morning, the first of which makes the second one possible. Post the first:<br />
Back in December, I think, when I first got my Verizon CDMA RAZR V3c, I found a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Inexplicably</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/inexplicably/"/>
<updated>2006-04-26T10:24:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/inexplicably/</id>
<content type="html">The alarm went off this morning at 4.30, waking me after a much too brief four and a half hours of sleep. I woke up groggy and dehydrated and otherwise feeling the effects of the two glasses of Shiraz I drank last night. I stumbled into the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Futurology</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/futurology/"/>
<updated>2006-04-24T14:38:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/futurology/</id>
<content type="html">I’m at USC today, in a room with a bunch of smart folks, thinking about the future of academic publishing. So far, the conversation has been fascinating. I’m taking notes, and will look...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Beginning the Weekend, a Little Bit Early</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/beginning-the-weekend-a-little-bit-early/"/>
<updated>2006-04-21T15:44:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/beginning-the-weekend-a-little-bit-early/</id>
<content type="html">Good gravy, but I’m useless on a Friday afternoon. I’ve gotten nowhere in the drafting process today, not least because my usual morning yogalates class completely and totally kicked my ass. Since then, I’ve changed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drafting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/drafting/"/>
<updated>2006-04-20T16:45:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/drafting/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in the initial stages today of drafting an article that I’ve promised for a volume. And I’m having no fun whatsoever.<br />
The first day of drafting is always painful: I cobble together what few thoughts I have about the article’s structure...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Repositories</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-repositories/"/>
<updated>2006-04-19T12:57:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-repositories/</id>
<content type="html">A very interesting post today by Jill Walker on institutional repositories, their benefits, and the ways that they fall short of the ideal networked publication archive she’d like. There’s of course a key...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Networked Texts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-networked-texts/"/>
<updated>2006-04-18T14:04:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-networked-texts/</id>
<content type="html">Partially just a couple of links for my benefit; partially stuff I’d like to discuss further at a less-rushed moment:<br />
Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Wealth of Networks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-wealth-of-networks/"/>
<updated>2006-04-17T10:22:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-wealth-of-networks/</id>
<content type="html">Henry over at Crooked Timber posted over the weekend about Yochai Benkler’s new book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Anxiety of Obsolescence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-anxiety-of-obsolescence/"/>
<updated>2006-04-13T19:16:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-anxiety-of-obsolescence/</id>
<content type="html">In preparation for the release of my book (also available</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Spring Break</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/spring-break/"/>
<updated>2006-04-10T14:18:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/spring-break/</id>
<content type="html">It’s spring break here in Baton Rouge; all the students in our apartment complex have decamped for the Florida coast, the restaurants are empty, traffic is light, and life is generally good. It’s been years, though, since I’ve lived in a place —...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News Updates from the Land of the Shallow</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/news-updates-from-the-land-of-the-shallow/"/>
<updated>2006-04-09T13:35:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/news-updates-from-the-land-of-the-shallow/</id>
<content type="html">Friday afternoon, I got into the skinny pants. The ones that have been hanging in the closet for at least the last nine months, untouched. And they looked mighty fine, if I do say so myself.<br />
(This post brought to you by the part of me that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Championship</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/championship/"/>
<updated>2006-04-07T15:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/championship/</id>
<content type="html">Strange and interesting things that I have learned from the NCAA website in the course of an extended email exchange with a colleague about college sports:<br />
1. LSU has won the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Silence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-silence/"/>
<updated>2006-04-06T14:12:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-silence/</id>
<content type="html">I have days when I really wish this blog were anonymous, or that I had another anonymous blog in which I could write without the kind of self-censorship that comes with knowing that many of my students, colleagues, and friends are reading along....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Worst of It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-worst-of-it/"/>
<updated>2006-04-02T10:23:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-worst-of-it/</id>
<content type="html">The worst of it is that there’s now no one left to root for in the men’s final. As I told a colleague of mine via email last week, I am constitutionally incapable of rooting for any team that comes from the state of Florida. In any sport. Call it...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Can&#39;t Watch</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-cant-watch/"/>
<updated>2006-04-01T23:20:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-cant-watch/</id>
<content type="html">It’s just too painful. I’m going out for ice cream instead.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Importance of the Collective in Electronic Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-importance-of-the-collective-in-electronic-publishing/"/>
<updated>2006-03-31T00:56:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-importance-of-the-collective-in-electronic-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted at The Valve)<br />
One of the concerns that often gets raised early in discussions of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two of Eight</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-of-eight/"/>
<updated>2006-03-30T13:16:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-of-eight/</id>
<content type="html">As you might guess, this week everybody’s pretty much all about the Final Four around here — both of them. It...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yoga Brain</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yoga-brain/"/>
<updated>2006-03-28T16:23:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yoga-brain/</id>
<content type="html">For the last month, R. and I have been exercising a lot. A lot. And well. It’s the first time since the marathon — hell, it’s the first time since longer ago than that — that I’ve really felt in some kind of decent shape, in an all-around sense:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>We Now Return to Our Regular Cardiac Rhythm</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/we-now-return-to-our-regular-cardiac-rhythm/"/>
<updated>2006-03-25T22:01:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/we-now-return-to-our-regular-cardiac-rhythm/</id>
<content type="html">A philosophical question that, at the moment, seems worthy of Berkeley: would they be my Tigers without the palpitations?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Catching Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-catching-up/"/>
<updated>2006-03-25T16:41:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-catching-up/</id>
<content type="html">This has not been the most productive week ever, I have to admit. Not only did I spend a fair chunk of time watching</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anti-Performatives</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/anti-performatives/"/>
<updated>2006-03-24T18:48:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/anti-performatives/</id>
<content type="html">DN points out in the comments down below that he called last night’s victory. This post is for DN:<br />
Yeah, you totally did. I only felt safe enough to call it once Bérubé made the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thank You, Michael Bérubé</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thank-you-michael-berube/"/>
<updated>2006-03-23T23:42:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thank-you-michael-berube/</id>
<content type="html">From the bottom of my heart, for that most misguided first-round pick, which allowed me to snark at you in a way that the gods of March clearly heard.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Catching Up with the Rest of the World</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/catching-up-with-the-rest-of-the-world/"/>
<updated>2006-03-22T18:21:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/catching-up-with-the-rest-of-the-world/</id>
<content type="html">Not only have I spent the week watching Brideshead Revisited (but on VHS; you remember VHS tapes, don’t you? I’d nearly forgotten that you have to rewind...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So Much for Suspense</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-much-for-suspense/"/>
<updated>2006-03-20T11:21:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-much-for-suspense/</id>
<content type="html">Over the last 24 hours, I’ve gotten hundreds of hits off of a pack of googlers looking for spoilers for the current season of The Sopranos. Which is odd. Here I was trying to be all scrupulous about not giving...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ElectraPress, Moving Forward</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/electrapress-moving-forward/"/>
<updated>2006-03-19T13:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/electrapress-moving-forward/</id>
<content type="html">(crossposted from ElectraPress)<br />
As I mentioned sometime back, things have been happening behind the scenes at ElectraPress, and all that set-building and light-hanging has prevented me from...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And They’re Out, in the Regional Semi-Final</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-theyre-out-in-the-regional-semi-final/"/>
<updated>2006-03-17T11:28:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-theyre-out-in-the-regional-semi-final/</id>
<content type="html">I haven’t been paying much attention to LSU basketball this season, though my stepfather has repeatedly told me that I should. And I didn’t watch much of yesterday’s first round games in the annual celebration of Madness (except, of course, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Now for Something Completely Different</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-now-for-something-completely-different/"/>
<updated>2006-03-16T18:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-now-for-something-completely-different/</id>
<content type="html">So I just got what is probably the best — and without question the cheapest — french manicure I’ve ever gotten. Weigh that on the one side.<br />
On the other, I’m a teency bit skeeved by a couple of things. First, granted, it was 2.30 in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Categories</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/categories-2006/"/>
<updated>2006-03-15T23:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/categories-2006/</id>
<content type="html">Hey — how come none of you guys told me that all of my category links in the archive menus were broken?<br />
Well… they’re fixed now.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Is it Just Me, Or Is This Beginning to Sound a Little Familiar?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-beginning-to-sound-a-little-familiar/"/>
<updated>2006-03-14T19:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/is-it-just-me-or-is-this-beginning-to-sound-a-little-familiar/</id>
<content type="html">Remember back when I was asking all those questions about why an FBI task force had shown up on campus asking questions of a Venezuelan-American colleague?<br />
Can anybody say “</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Sopranos, Season 6</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-sopranos-season-6/"/>
<updated>2006-03-14T17:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-sopranos-season-6/</id>
<content type="html">And yes, we need a SPOILER ALERT already…<br />
Perhaps it’s just me, but I found myself intensely frustrated with Sunday’s season opener. I’ve felt shades of this frustration during the first episodes of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gee, Now What?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/gee-now-what/"/>
<updated>2006-03-13T13:48:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/gee-now-what/</id>
<content type="html">I confess to having a very bad case of “yeah, but what have I accomplished lately,” something against which I’ve struggled pretty much my entire adult life. And boy, there’s nothing like...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now to Commence the Lying Around Reading Novels Portion of Our Program</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-to-commence-the-lying-around-reading-novels-portion-of-our-program/"/>
<updated>2006-03-12T15:05:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-to-commence-the-lying-around-reading-novels-portion-of-our-program/</id>
<content type="html">The best news I’ve gotten in a long time: that the index, completed and submitted about an hour ago, is pleasing unto my publishers.<br />
And that the next thing I’ll see from them is books.<br />
Which means that this bloody project, begun a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Further Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/further-update/"/>
<updated>2006-03-10T22:35:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/further-update/</id>
<content type="html">Again, via email:<br />
<br />
To the Pomona College Community:<br />
This afternoon, I received a phone call from the Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI, who apologized for any disruption caused on our campus by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/update/"/>
<updated>2006-03-10T12:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/update/</id>
<content type="html">Miguel’s story has now been picked up by the Pacific News Service.<br />
Come on, LA Times; we’re</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Good Grief</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/good-grief/"/>
<updated>2006-03-09T19:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/good-grief/</id>
<content type="html">This came in just now, via email:<br />
<br />
To the Pomona College community:<br />
On Tuesday, March 7, Miguel Tinker Salas, Arango Professor of Latin American History and Chicano Studies, was visited in his Pearsons Hall office by two...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The State of the Forgotten Part of the Union Address</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-forgotten-part-of-the-union-address/"/>
<updated>2006-03-08T17:56:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-forgotten-part-of-the-union-address/</id>
<content type="html">From Katrenema, a short documentary on the state of New Orleans, over six months later. It’s devastating,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Really Ought to Get Done Today</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-really-ought-to-get-done-today/"/>
<updated>2006-03-07T15:25:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-really-ought-to-get-done-today/</id>
<content type="html">— Finish the index, already, which is already four days overdue and still 80 pages from complete.<br />
— Call the cable company to make sure we’ve got HBO in time for Sunday’s big</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thinking about the M</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thinking-about-the-m/"/>
<updated>2006-03-06T12:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thinking-about-the-m/</id>
<content type="html">Last time I went to SCMS, in 2004, was I think the first conference the organization had held since the addition of the M to its name and, as I’ve snarked about before, it was pretty clear then that the M remained...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>While Watching the Oscars</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/while-watching-the-oscars/"/>
<updated>2006-03-05T23:59:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/while-watching-the-oscars/</id>
<content type="html">Does it strike anybody else that all this “there’s no place else to really see a movie other than the big screen” stuff smacks just a teeny bit of desperation?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Moment of Unrepentant Horn Self-Tooting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-moment-of-unrepentant-horn-self-tooting/"/>
<updated>2006-03-05T16:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-moment-of-unrepentant-horn-self-tooting/</id>
<content type="html">So I walk into a session after lunch on Friday, a workshop entitled “An Economy of the Gift”: Should Scholarship Be Available for Free?, where I am handed a handout. Said...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documenting the Self</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/documenting-the-self/"/>
<updated>2006-03-04T12:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/documenting-the-self/</id>
<content type="html">For archival purposes (as well as for anyone else interested) this is a link to the page of links I used in my talk yesterday.<br />
As to blogging the conference: it’s been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SCMS-ward Bound (2006 edition)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scms-ward-bound-2006-edition/"/>
<updated>2006-03-02T22:50:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scms-ward-bound-2006-edition/</id>
<content type="html">After what seems like way more hassle than was strictly warranted for a little ERJ jaunt from BTR to IAH, I’m sitting in my favorite President’s club waiting for my flight to Vancouver and the SCMS. I’m talking about blogs, twice, in</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>February</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/february/"/>
<updated>2006-03-01T13:26:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/february/</id>
<content type="html">Where, exactly, did it go?<br />
February 1, I returned from a five-day trip to New York.<br />
February 8-13, I was in SoCal.<br />
February 21-27, I was back in SoCal.<br />
What this means is that I got to sabbaticalize — I mean really...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Identity Protection Matters</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/identity-protection-matters/"/>
<updated>2006-02-27T04:23:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/identity-protection-matters/</id>
<content type="html">I’m not sure why, but I’m a bit obsessed with a piece of spam I got earlier today, one of the bajillions of “update your PayPal account” messages I get each week. Perhaps it’s because most of these get sucked up by</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shouting Down a Well</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shouting-down-a-well/"/>
<updated>2006-02-22T22:03:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shouting-down-a-well/</id>
<content type="html">Gee, spend one little day traveling and the blogosphere goes a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yes, Still</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yes-still/"/>
<updated>2006-02-20T16:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yes-still/</id>
<content type="html">Have I mentioned, in my many rants about electronic...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Galatoire&#39;s</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/galatoires/"/>
<updated>2006-02-19T20:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/galatoires/</id>
<content type="html">Taking the opportunity to gloat about being in Louisiana while I can: last night, my parents took me and my sister, who was visiting this weekend, to the new location of Galatoire’s (this one...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Almost the Opposite of Schadenfreude</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/almost-the-opposite-of-schadenfreude/"/>
<updated>2006-02-19T14:29:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/almost-the-opposite-of-schadenfreude/</id>
<content type="html">Surely there should be a Germanic compound word for this — not the shameful joy one takes in someone else’s suffering, but the feeling best captured by that Gore Vidal line, “Whenever a friend of mine succeeds, a little something in me dies.” The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Indexing Bleg</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/indexing-bleg/"/>
<updated>2006-02-16T19:33:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/indexing-bleg/</id>
<content type="html">I need help with a bit of phrasing, index-wise. A bit of necessary background: at one point in the book, I discuss at length the various pronouncements of the death of the novel. These are indexed as:<br />
<br />
death of the novel,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Then There&#39;s the Other Problem</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-then-theres-the-other-problem/"/>
<updated>2006-02-16T11:20:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-then-theres-the-other-problem/</id>
<content type="html">Which is my complete and total inability to maintain focus on the index. I am much too easily distracted.<br />
The bad news is that I’m only up to page 28. The good news is that the last five pages have introduced all of the major terms of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Anxiety of Indexing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-anxiety-of-indexing/"/>
<updated>2006-02-14T20:33:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-anxiety-of-indexing/</id>
<content type="html">I begin to suspect that, if anything, I’m too obsessive-compulsive for this job.<br />
I’m on page 26 and I’ve already listed 153 items and sub-items. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do some crafting once it’s all been done, eliminating...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Indexing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/indexing/"/>
<updated>2006-02-12T15:49:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/indexing/</id>
<content type="html">Proper names, searchability of.<br />
Titles, searchability of.<br />
Keywords, searchability of.<br />
Major concepts, pervasiveness of.<br />
Major concepts, variable phrasing of.<br />
Major concepts, searchability of, lack...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Non-Rhetorical Questions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-non-rhetorical-questions/"/>
<updated>2006-02-10T13:37:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-non-rhetorical-questions/</id>
<content type="html">Am I completely nuts for attempting to do my own index? Have any of you done any indexing? Do you have advice on method?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Homesque</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/homesque/"/>
<updated>2006-02-09T11:38:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/homesque/</id>
<content type="html">I’m back in Claremont for a few days, for a couple of departmental events. Because I’ve rented out the condo, I’m spending these few days crashed on a friend’s sofa. Not to mention hiding from anyone who might want to take advantage of my presence...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Party of One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/party-of-one/"/>
<updated>2006-02-07T11:26:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/party-of-one/</id>
<content type="html">At some point in December, during a conversation over dinner with one of R.’s colleagues, I said something that prompted him to hand me Anneli Rufus’s</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anxiety, Obsolescence, Etc.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/anxiety-obsolescence-etc/"/>
<updated>2006-02-06T12:10:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/anxiety-obsolescence-etc/</id>
<content type="html">So the forthcoming book now has a page at B&amp;amp;N.com and</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Absolute Madness, I&#39;m Sure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/absolute-madness-im-sure/"/>
<updated>2006-02-03T18:07:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/absolute-madness-im-sure/</id>
<content type="html">You know what’s crossing my mind these days? Attempting to migrate this here blog over to WordPress. WP is both faster and lighter, and is much more integrated with a number of other services (like Technorati, for instance) than my current...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Future of the Book</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-the-book/"/>
<updated>2006-02-03T12:30:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-future-of-the-book/</id>
<content type="html">(Crossposted from ElectraPress.)<br />
The protracted silence at the ElectraPress blog has no doubt produced an unfortunate dissipation of attention and energies, but I hope that those of you still...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bleh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bleh-2/"/>
<updated>2006-02-02T12:58:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bleh-2/</id>
<content type="html">Suffering a bout of post-travel flatness. Wishing to be back in bed, or perhaps under it, where it’s darker. Will hope to resume normal operations shortly.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remix Culture</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/remix-culture/"/>
<updated>2006-02-01T13:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/remix-culture/</id>
<content type="html">Sounds to me like last night we had the first SOTU put together entirely out of samples of previous recordings.<br />
Or at least that’s how it reads. I wouldn’t know, because I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Frey Them!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/frey-them/"/>
<updated>2006-01-31T13:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/frey-them/</id>
<content type="html">So I spent much of yesterday attempting to compile my meager thoughts about l’affaire Frey into something halfway worthy of a post. After all, this little crisis around the truth value of the memoir is hardly the first such I’ve</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not a Loser, Thank You Very Much</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-a-loser-thank-you-very-much/"/>
<updated>2006-01-31T02:07:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-a-loser-thank-you-very-much/</id>
<content type="html">Via unrequited narcissism, the affirmation I’ve been waiting for:<br />
<br />
The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Say Goodbye</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/say-goodbye/"/>
<updated>2006-01-30T16:28:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/say-goodbye/</id>
<content type="html">News comes this afternoon that ogged‘s taking down the shingle. Things in the blogosphere feel different to me already.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Heart N Y</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-heart-n-y/"/>
<updated>2006-01-29T19:35:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-heart-n-y/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been in New York for the last couple of days, and though I’ve had the computer with me, and have been having a fabulous time, I haven’t felt the least bit compelled to post. I’m here for some meetings which are beginning tomorrow, about which...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Know What You Can&#39;t Take a Sabbatical From?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-know-what-you-cant-take-a-sabbatical-from/"/>
<updated>2006-01-25T13:35:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-know-what-you-cant-take-a-sabbatical-from/</id>
<content type="html">Letters of recommendation.<br />
*sigh*</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Advocating</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/advocating/"/>
<updated>2006-01-24T12:44:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/advocating/</id>
<content type="html">I spent much of yesterday in the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library, reading through the microfilm archive of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, the predecessor of today’s Advocate, the sole remaining...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Software I Love Right Now</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/software-i-love-right-now/"/>
<updated>2006-01-22T17:35:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/software-i-love-right-now/</id>
<content type="html">— OmniOutliner Pro, whose praises I’ve sung in the past, and which continues to rock. In conjunction...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Archive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-archive/"/>
<updated>2006-01-20T13:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-archive/</id>
<content type="html">I finally get it — why researchers develop archive fever. I spent part of yesterday afternoon in the special collections of the LSU Libraries, and am completely entranced. Not only was the staff...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not Just a Rhetorical Question (or Three)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-just-a-rhetorical-question-or-three/"/>
<updated>2006-01-19T14:52:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-just-a-rhetorical-question-or-three/</id>
<content type="html">Is the plural of “roof” roofs or rooves? Is one U.S. usage and the other a Britishism? Which is which?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So What&#39;s Up in Canada, Eh?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-whats-up-in-canada-eh/"/>
<updated>2006-01-19T13:45:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-whats-up-in-canada-eh/</id>
<content type="html">In the last few days, I’ve gotten hundreds of hits from various Canadian browsers, nearly all of whom have come from some variant on a Google search for obsolescence, planned or otherwise. Is there something going on up there I ought to know...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How It&#39;s Supposed to Be</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-its-supposed-to-be/"/>
<updated>2006-01-18T11:18:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-its-supposed-to-be/</id>
<content type="html">Sabbaticals are good. But, like, really no-kidding good. I spent the early part of yesterday in my pajamas, in front of the computer, working on the new project. And then I pulled myself together that afternoon and went grocery shopping, laying in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home Again, and Home Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/home-again-and-home-again/"/>
<updated>2006-01-16T20:26:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/home-again-and-home-again/</id>
<content type="html">The trip to SoCal to gather the last of my stuff, cram it in my car, and turn the condo over to my tenant (which concept weirds me out a bit) passed in a bit of a blur. There was something surreal about finding myself back in California after what...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Road</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-road/"/>
<updated>2006-01-11T01:46:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-road/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday:<br />
— 4-hour train ride from Paris to Amsterdam<br />
— 3-hour layover in Amsterdam<br />
— 11-hour flight from Amsterdam to Houston<br />
— 3-hour layover in Houston<br />
— 1-hour flight from Houston to Baton...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on Electronic Scholarly Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-electronic-scholarly-publishing/"/>
<updated>2006-01-08T07:49:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-electronic-scholarly-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">A bibliography-in-progress, bringing together resources and discussions on electronic scholarly publishing, as well as other links useful to particular issues in the ElectraPress project.<br />
Bibliographies<br />
Bailey, Charles W., Jr.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pardon Our Dust</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pardon-our-dust/"/>
<updated>2006-01-06T15:53:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pardon-our-dust/</id>
<content type="html">Site design conversion in progress. Things are likely to be wonky for an hour or so, and then just… different. Change is good, folks. It’s long past time.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Future of Academic Publishing, Peer Review, and Tenure Requirements</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-academic-publishing-peer-review-and-tenure-requirements/"/>
<updated>2006-01-06T05:30:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-academic-publishing-peer-review-and-tenure-requirements/</id>
<content type="html">(Or, Remaking the Academy, One Electronic Text at a Time)<br />
cross-posted from The Valve:<br />
Inside Higher Ed reported a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Some Months Later</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/some-months-later/"/>
<updated>2006-01-05T11:23:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/some-months-later/</id>
<content type="html">It’s funny the things your old friends will remind you of. Like the embarrassing things you said in college. Or like the funny haircuts you used to think looked good.<br />
Or, say, like you said months ago that you were going to post more...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lingua Franca</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lingua-franca/"/>
<updated>2006-01-04T07:47:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lingua-franca/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been having this series of moments of late that can only be adequately described using R.’s wonderful phrase, “light dawns over Marblehead,” the moment at which the utterly obvious becomes glaringly apparent. Perhaps it’s a function of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Paris</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-paris/"/>
<updated>2006-01-03T06:26:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-paris/</id>
<content type="html">We took an early morning train from Amsterdam to Paris yesterday and, after checking into our pretty over-the-top wonderful hotel here, wandered down to the Arc de Triomphe. One thing I’ll say so far: it’s a radically different experience being in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two Thousand Six</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-thousand-six/"/>
<updated>2006-01-01T05:55:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-thousand-six/</id>
<content type="html">I’m hard at work this morning on a hefty post that I’ll hope to publish soon. In the meantime, a quick Happy New Year to you all, and a wish that all your projects take flight in the coming days.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Beginning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/beginning/"/>
<updated>2005-12-31T05:22:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/beginning/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I were talking yesterday just before lunch about the strange anxieties and difficulties that I’m having with writing right now. Some of it’s been about jetlag, of course; some of it’s about a more general unfocusedness. Some of it’s about...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Here and Now</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/here-and-now/"/>
<updated>2005-12-30T08:30:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/here-and-now/</id>
<content type="html">The end of the year comes in a great rush of late — the leap from Thanksgiving to the end of classes; the sprint from the end of classes to finish grading; the mad dash from the end of grading to Christmas. Most years, that sense of speed is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Warming Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/warming-up/"/>
<updated>2005-12-29T04:38:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/warming-up/</id>
<content type="html">A sabbatical is a good thing. As is the change of scenery that comes with a trip abroad. R. and I are definitely on vacation, but these two weeks are very much a working vacation for the both of us; he’s got a long-term project that he’s hard at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Guilt-Free</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/guilt-free/"/>
<updated>2005-12-28T06:24:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/guilt-free/</id>
<content type="html">There is something quite lovely about reading everybody’s early MLA</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Amsterdam</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/amsterdam/"/>
<updated>2005-12-27T08:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/amsterdam/</id>
<content type="html">The flights were fine. The hotel is grand. And Amsterdam is, as we remembered, gorgeous.<br />
But it is cold. Not just cold, but snowing. And as any of my pals from my days at NYU will...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merry Christmas, All</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/merry-christmas-all/"/>
<updated>2005-12-25T11:12:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/merry-christmas-all/</id>
<content type="html">Thus far, R. and I have managed to survive our holidays with only a modicum of fallout, which is not a thing to be said lightly. In fact, it may well be tempting fate, something I hope to undo with the acknowledgment of fate’s infinite power for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Next Year, Miracle-Ear for Everybody!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/next-year-miracle-ear-for-everybody/"/>
<updated>2005-12-23T13:06:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/next-year-miracle-ear-for-everybody/</id>
<content type="html">The subject line of this post is what I muttered at my mother after several hours of hanging out with my family, each and every last member of which is suddenly deaf as a post, except for my mother, and she just doesn’t listen. Here’s a sample...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Free</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/free/"/>
<updated>2005-12-20T11:13:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/free/</id>
<content type="html">It’s taken me a few days since arriving in Baton Rouge to clear up the last details of the semester, but grades are now filed, comments have all been sent to the proper students, various administrative tasks have been checked off the list, and my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Almost</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/almost/"/>
<updated>2005-12-15T04:01:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/almost/</id>
<content type="html">Not too much left:<br />
— One job talk.<br />
— One committee meeting.<br />
— One literary interpretation final paper.<br />
— Eight new media final projects.<br />
— Two...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add Them to the List</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/add-them-to-the-list/"/>
<updated>2005-12-13T19:12:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/add-them-to-the-list/</id>
<content type="html">Of institutions with which I will no longer do business, that is: FTD.com. I will so no longer do business with them that I’m not even going to throw them the link. Anyone who wants to ignore my boycott recommendation...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Notes on Class Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/notes-on-class-blogging/"/>
<updated>2005-12-12T04:49:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/notes-on-class-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just posted what follows on Machine, the aggregator blog from this semester’s Theories of New Media class. I’d asked the class to post concluding thoughts thinking about the blog...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Trackation of Deliveration</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/trackation-of-deliveration/"/>
<updated>2005-12-11T17:29:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/trackation-of-deliveration/</id>
<content type="html">I ordered some jeans online last week, and just attempted to track the package, in order to figure out when they’ll be here, and hence, when the single pair of jeans that I currently own that I like — and thus the single pair of jeans that I wear,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Counting Down</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/counting-down/"/>
<updated>2005-12-10T21:50:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/counting-down/</id>
<content type="html">Before my sabbatical can begin, I must:<br />
— Attend three committee meetings.<br />
— Have one meeting with a program administrator.<br />
— Eat lunch with the dean.<br />
— Go to two job talks.<br />
— Grade sixteen literary interpretation final...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ergh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ergh/"/>
<updated>2005-12-10T15:11:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ergh/</id>
<content type="html">I was never really one for drinking and dialing. Probably because I so loathe the telephone as a medium of communication.<br />
Drinking and blogging, however…<br />
Perhaps I should run a breathalyzer through the wi-fi.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Formerly</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/formerly/"/>
<updated>2005-12-10T07:40:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/formerly/</id>
<content type="html">So, sure, I read the press releases, and I even wrote about it somewhere that I’m too lazy to go seek out a link for right now, at 2.38 in the bloody morning, so I knew it was coming, but I still want to say that I’m completely over the top...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tulane</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tulane/"/>
<updated>2005-12-09T13:43:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tulane/</id>
<content type="html">Word in this morning’s Chronicle is that Tulane University is entering a period of major restructuring as it attempts to reopen. This</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reading the Wire</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reading-the-wire/"/>
<updated>2005-12-09T02:36:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reading-the-wire/</id>
<content type="html">What does it say about me that my first thought was “suicide pact“?<br />
Nothing good, I’m sure.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wha?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wha/"/>
<updated>2005-12-08T04:06:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wha/</id>
<content type="html">Chuck Henry, NBC 4 News, 11 pm broadcast: apparently the sky marshal program was begun “in 1968, under President Reagan.”<br />
I wish I were kidding.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Last Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/last-day/"/>
<updated>2005-12-07T13:40:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/last-day/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s the last day of classes here in Claremont, and given that I’m very, very shortly outta here (first, holidays; then, vacation; after, blissful months-long period of reading and writing) — well, needless to say, I’m happy. But also sad. And...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dreams</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dreams/"/>
<updated>2005-12-04T22:05:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dreams/</id>
<content type="html">The last couple of nights, I’ve dreamed about running, a little way for my unconscious to attempt to guilt-trip me into getting back into my running shoes. It’s been one thing after another for the last week: a strained something in my left knee...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>T Minus Fourteen Days</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/t-minus-fourteen-days/"/>
<updated>2005-12-03T22:25:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/t-minus-fourteen-days/</id>
<content type="html">Three teaching days.<br />
Five class sessions.<br />
One session of office hours.<br />
Two committee meetings.<br />
One meeting with a program administrator.<br />
Two lunches with deans.<br />
One department...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Strike at NYU</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-strike-at-nyu/"/>
<updated>2005-12-02T15:58:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-strike-at-nyu/</id>
<content type="html">My doctoral institution, that private university in the public service, was at one point not too many years ago ahead of the pack in its recognition of its grad-student union. That recognition has of course now been withdrawn, and the university’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sign Up! Get Involved!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sign-up-get-involved/"/>
<updated>2005-12-01T15:13:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sign-up-get-involved/</id>
<content type="html">(cross-posted from ElectraPress)<br />
I’m having many behind-the-scenes email conversations with many folks interested in contributing to the future of ElectraPress. These conversations have been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stupid Back</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stupid-back/"/>
<updated>2005-12-01T14:52:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stupid-back/</id>
<content type="html">Massive muscle spasm, just left of my right shoulderblade, as I was sitting here writing an email message. Can no longer raise my head. Have cleared my schedule until 4 this afternoon, so muscle relaxers are imminent. But infuriating: today is one...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ticker, Still Ticking</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ticker-still-ticking/"/>
<updated>2005-11-30T03:11:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ticker-still-ticking/</id>
<content type="html">Remaining:<br />
<br />
Four teaching days.<br />
Seven class sessions.<br />
One session of office hours.<br />
Three committee meetings.<br />
Two meetings with a program administrator.<br />
One department dinner.<br />
One...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Electronic Scholarly Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-electronic-scholarly-publishing/"/>
<updated>2005-11-26T15:10:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-electronic-scholarly-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">What follows is lengthy, a draft of the ElectraPress proposal that I was circulating before my dean decided that he loved the electronic part and hated the cooperative/open source/open access parts, which were of course the parts that were most...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bad Karma, Or Why I Will Never Ever Tempt Fate Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bad-karma-or-why-i-will-never-ever-tempt-fate-again/"/>
<updated>2005-11-24T13:16:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bad-karma-or-why-i-will-never-ever-tempt-fate-again/</id>
<content type="html">Sunday, I think it was, R. and I were driving back into my neighborhood, and he was asking how my finances were. I’ve been what my mother refers to as “condo poor” all year, working pretty hard paycheck to paycheck to keep the mortgage and other...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Yesterday Was a Bad Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-yesterday-was-a-bad-day/"/>
<updated>2005-11-22T13:52:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-yesterday-was-a-bad-day/</id>
<content type="html">R. and I had gone out to have lunch at a place near my office; I’d walked and met him there, but he’d driven since he was planning on running errands after lunch. Both of us were already grouchy, as things just weren’t going terribly well for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Aargh!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aargh/"/>
<updated>2005-11-20T15:27:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aargh/</id>
<content type="html">So after yesterday’s post, and Meg’s going all Nike on me, I just did it: began the process of starting up a multiply-authored site at ElectraPress.com. In fact, I’ve started up two such sites, one using</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to the Future</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-the-future/"/>
<updated>2005-11-19T13:42:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-the-future/</id>
<content type="html">For some months, I’ve had a project on hold, one that I wish I’d had the time, the energy, the funding, and the general wherewithal to push forward much sooner than I have, but… haven’t. My leave is now coming up, just around the corner, and I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Ticker</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-ticker/"/>
<updated>2005-11-16T21:18:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-ticker/</id>
<content type="html">Certainly this is more for my benefit than for yours, but here’s what now remains before the sabbatical begins:<br />
<br />
Seven teaching days.<br />
Twelve class sessions.<br />
Three sessions of office...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on CPU Resources</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-cpu-resources/"/>
<updated>2005-11-14T14:20:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-cpu-resources/</id>
<content type="html">This is just to say that my usage of precious CPU seconds is down from a peak of 7460.44 a week ago to 29.29 yesterday.<br />
Now to reconstruct my embedded templates.<br />
That is all.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log 2.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-23/"/>
<updated>2005-11-14T13:41:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-23/</id>
<content type="html">Planned mileage for week: 15<br />
Actual mileage for week: 3<br />
Planned number of run days: 4<br />
Actual number of run days: 1<br />
Long run for week:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Tinkering</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/tinkering/"/>
<updated>2005-11-13T05:04:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/tinkering/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent much too much of this weekend wrestling with a series of thorny and utterly unnecessary technical problems related to various of my websites. And I’m having a hard time making myself stop and do the things I actually need to be doing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cold</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cold/"/>
<updated>2005-11-11T13:35:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cold/</id>
<content type="html">There are few sensations more ominous than the sore throat, and particularly the throat that is sore in that peculiar spot where it meets the soft palate. This is never a portent of good, in my experience, and nearly always means that I’m coming...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Remains</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-remains/"/>
<updated>2005-11-09T19:38:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-remains/</id>
<content type="html">As I’ve mentioned before, as of December 17, I’m outta here. Between now and then, however, there remain:<br />
<br />
Five weeks and three days.<br />
Ten teaching days.<br />
Seventeen class...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coke Light</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/coke-light/"/>
<updated>2005-11-09T14:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/coke-light/</id>
<content type="html">The other day, I was unloading a 12-pack of diet Coke cans into my refrigerator, and about halfway through the package pulled out one that felt… wrong. I couldn’t have told you why at first; something about it just wasn’t right. I froze, can in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log 2.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-22/"/>
<updated>2005-11-08T00:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-22/</id>
<content type="html">Grrrr.<br />
Planned mileage for week: 14<br />
Actual mileage for week: 9<br />
Planned number of run days: 4<br />
Actual number of run days: 3<br />
Long run for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Working on Planes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/working-on-planes/"/>
<updated>2005-11-03T15:51:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/working-on-planes/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve had several conversations with folks over the course of the week, conversations that were mostly about my stress level and general bad attitude, that resulted in my confessing my dread of the conference trip I’m taking this weekend. I’m going...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Olive or Twist?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/olive-or-twist/"/>
<updated>2005-11-01T13:42:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/olive-or-twist/</id>
<content type="html">Do you ever have fantasies about running away? About shelving this whole academic (or corporate, or whatever) life, maybe moving to some other city, and just doing something different?<br />
I do. Not so often that I think they should be taken...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Well, There Went That</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/well-there-went-that/"/>
<updated>2005-10-31T13:22:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/well-there-went-that/</id>
<content type="html">So it turns out that it wasn’t really so much optimism that was in the air as schadenfreude, and lord knows the universe always manages to</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Category Mistake</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/category-mistake/"/>
<updated>2005-10-30T16:02:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/category-mistake/</id>
<content type="html">Sigh. When I began this here blog, it never occurred to me that I’d find myself, three and a half years and 680 entries down the line, desirous of a better organizational system. I had this cutesy tag line — novels, networks, and some stuff...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log 2.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-21/"/>
<updated>2005-10-30T14:05:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-21/</id>
<content type="html">Planned mileage for week: 9<br />
Actual mileage for week: 9<br />
Number of run days: 3<br />
Long run for week: 4<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: None so...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Ethical Dilemma of a Hypothetical Nature</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/"/>
<updated>2005-10-29T16:30:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-ethical-dilemma-of-a-hypothetical-nature/</id>
<content type="html">Meg’s recent hints of students in crisis over at xoom raises a question for me, one I’ve been wondering about for some time. This really is more hypothetical than actual, at the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gestalt</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/gestalt/"/>
<updated>2005-10-28T22:42:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/gestalt/</id>
<content type="html">After two martinis and a glass of wine, I found it extraordinarily funny that Marion Barry pled guilty to tax evasion on</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Only Wish</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-only-wish/"/>
<updated>2005-10-28T19:07:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-only-wish/</id>
<content type="html">Somebody found this site the other day by googling “fitzpatrick investigation.” And oh, man, do I wish I’d had something to do with it. Patrick may be a Fitzgerald, but I’ll happily claim the brotherhood nonetheless.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>All the Kids are Doing It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/all-the-kids-are-doing-it/"/>
<updated>2005-10-27T20:21:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/all-the-kids-are-doing-it/</id>
<content type="html">Readership maps, that is. Go add yourself to mine.<br />
[UPDATE, 10.28.05, 4.37 pm: Thanks to those of you who are playing along. The rest of you are making me look bad.]</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>See, This Is What I Meant</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/see-this-is-what-i-meant/"/>
<updated>2005-10-27T13:55:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/see-this-is-what-i-meant/</id>
<content type="html">Not blogging regularly. Not practicing. And as a result, the world looks deadly dull to me, with nothing offering itself up as deserving to be recorded.<br />
Classes are good. Reports are getting...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Return of Running Log</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/return-of-running-log/"/>
<updated>2005-10-25T10:30:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/return-of-running-log/</id>
<content type="html">This is the official announcement of the return of the running log. The announcement comes in no small part because I have discovered, much to my dismay, that I have become one of those people who is incapable of doing anything without a specific...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I&#39;ve Accomplished This Weekend</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-ive-accomplished-this-weekend/"/>
<updated>2005-10-23T21:24:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-ive-accomplished-this-weekend/</id>
<content type="html">After long struggle, with numerous setbacks, I have at last gotten myself entirely caught up on Lost.<br />
That is all.<br />
(No, seriously: that is all. That and making a big pot of red beans. It has been a lovely, lazy,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Worm Turns, or Begins to Turn, or Begins to Think of Turning</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-worm-turns-or-begins-to-turn-or-begins-to-think-of-turning/"/>
<updated>2005-10-20T11:09:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-worm-turns-or-begins-to-turn-or-begins-to-think-of-turning/</id>
<content type="html">Despite all the destruction and devastation around the globe, despite soaring inflation and</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Research Dream</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/research-dream/"/>
<updated>2005-10-19T14:11:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/research-dream/</id>
<content type="html">I just remembered, like just this second, that at some point in the last few days I had a dream in which I was bartering with someone, and had given her something that she valued sufficiently to offer to compensate me by indexing 100 pages of my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recovery</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/recovery/"/>
<updated>2005-10-19T10:59:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/recovery/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday’s travel was relatively painless, and generally productive; I managed to get the batch of project proposals that I needed to comment on done, which felt like something of a triumph. And then, miracle of all miracles, I came home and paid...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Conference Format</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-conference-format/"/>
<updated>2005-10-18T10:13:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-conference-format/</id>
<content type="html">As Alex notes, the AOIR folks are debating the next conference’s structure, trying to decide whether to include more alternative session formats in amongst what someone at the general meeting referred...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fall Break, Broke</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fall-break-broke/"/>
<updated>2005-10-17T22:39:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fall-break-broke/</id>
<content type="html">The last five days have been absolutely dreamy — arrived in BTR at 9.30am, delirious and vaguely cranky, but got taken home to the fabulous apartment I’ll be spending the spring in, where I got to take a shower and a nap before beginning a serious...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rather Than Working</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rather-than-working/"/>
<updated>2005-10-16T15:39:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rather-than-working/</id>
<content type="html">Something in my brain went a bit kerflooey in that last push to get the needed stuff done before getting out of town, so I’ve spent the bulk of this weekend just recuperating. Some of that recuperation has happened by way of tinkering with web...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Red Eye Redux</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/red-eye-redux/"/>
<updated>2005-10-13T07:56:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/red-eye-redux/</id>
<content type="html">Tired, headachy, IAH, wi-fi, blah blah blah. You know the drill.<br />
More when I get where I’m going, and when my brain catches up with me.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I&#39;m Not Doing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-im-not-doing/"/>
<updated>2005-10-12T11:59:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-im-not-doing/</id>
<content type="html">A junior colleague of mine, not long ago, reported being asked by some senior faculty members how she had managed to participate in a faculty seminar last year. “What did you have to give up in order to do that?” they asked, not so much...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What to Do with 72 Hours at Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-to-do-with-72-hours-at-home/"/>
<updated>2005-10-11T10:37:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-to-do-with-72-hours-at-home/</id>
<content type="html">Traveling weekend number four of four begins with the red-eye Wednesday night. This leaves me — or left me, in any case — approximately 72 hours between getting home from Chicago and heading off again. In the interim, I need to:<br />
—...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.3.1: Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Internet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-631-scholarly-communication-in-the-age-of-the-internet/"/>
<updated>2005-10-09T10:53:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-631-scholarly-communication-in-the-age-of-the-internet/</id>
<content type="html">It’s taken me since yesterday evening to be able to post this, first because the presentations were so inspiring for me that I took notes that were more copious than organized, and second, because I went from these two panels into the general...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Confession</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-confession/"/>
<updated>2005-10-08T11:01:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-confession/</id>
<content type="html">I’m playing a bit of hooky this morning, hoping to get a little work done. Day three of any given conference is usually the day when my brain says “enough!” and takes a hiatus; true to form, I simply could not persuade myself to get out of bed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Now for Something Completely Different</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-now-for-something-completely-different-2/"/>
<updated>2005-10-07T18:35:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-now-for-something-completely-different-2/</id>
<content type="html">Via my friend Tim, Georgie. It takes a bit to load, so be patient; it’s worth it. You can either just enjoy the spectacle of him falling, or you can move him around with your mouse.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.2.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-623/"/>
<updated>2005-10-07T16:34:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-623/</id>
<content type="html">I wasn’t really able to take notes during the roundtable on “revolution or reform” I participated in at noon today, but I wanted to note a few things from it.<br />
First off, this was a great combination of folks: Taso Lagos from UW, Victor...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.2.2: Saskia Sassen</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-622-saskia-sassen/"/>
<updated>2005-10-07T13:11:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-622-saskia-sassen/</id>
<content type="html">What follows are my notes on Saskia Sassen’s keynote address, “Digital Formations: The Intersection of Technical and Social Logics in Electronic Space.” A reminder that any mischaracterization or misunderstanding is my fault, not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.2.1: The Whinging Continues</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-621-the-whinging-continues/"/>
<updated>2005-10-07T11:40:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-621-the-whinging-continues/</id>
<content type="html">On the up side, I slept like a big dog. Apparently, there was a choice to be made between sleep and breakfast, one I thought I’d sorted out — the concierge lounge remains open on Friday mornings until 11, so no sweat. Alas, my one crack at a free...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.1.2: A Moment of Whinging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-612-a-moment-of-whinging/"/>
<updated>2005-10-06T18:57:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-612-a-moment-of-whinging/</id>
<content type="html">This is the roundtable I’m speaking on, not that you’d be able to tell from the program. Not that, in fact, you’d even know I was at the conference. Grrr.<br />
Tagged:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 6.1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-611/"/>
<updated>2005-10-06T18:47:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-611/</id>
<content type="html">Well, there’s wireless. Sort of. It was there for a second and then it totally died, so this is going to be less liveblogging than intermittent blogging, much like AOIR 4. I’m going to capture what I can here, or rather what happens to catch my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thursday Morning, 4 am</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thursday-morning-4-am/"/>
<updated>2005-10-06T07:41:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thursday-morning-4-am/</id>
<content type="html">Otherwise known as 6 am in Houston. Greetings, once again, from mid-red eye IAH. The flight out of ONT was relatively painless, due to an upgrade: got on the plane, downed a vodka and cranberry, and dozed off. The odd thing about plane sleep for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why We Should All Stand in Line to Bear His Children, or at Least to Buy Him a Beer</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-we-should-all-stand-in-line-to-bear-his-children-or-at-least-to-buy-him-a-beer/"/>
<updated>2005-10-05T16:09:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-we-should-all-stand-in-line-to-bear-his-children-or-at-least-to-buy-him-a-beer/</id>
<content type="html">Ethan J. A. Schoonover has made Kinkless GTD, an OmniOutliner Pro-based</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Chicago</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/chicago/"/>
<updated>2005-10-04T12:29:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/chicago/</id>
<content type="html">I’ll be there. Lilia will be there. Alex will be there.<br />
Will...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Argument in Favor of the Digitization of the Library</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-argument-in-favor-of-the-digitization-of-the-library/"/>
<updated>2005-10-03T11:56:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-argument-in-favor-of-the-digitization-of-the-library/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve nearly gotten through the copy-edited manuscript, which has been a pretty overwhelming and, at moments, frustrating task. I’ve got six small queries yet to finish dealing with, three of which have to do with whether an emphasis appeared in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Same Song, Second Verse</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/same-song-second-verse/"/>
<updated>2005-10-02T10:19:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/same-song-second-verse/</id>
<content type="html">Another panicky weekend with three times as much to get done as can conceivably be crammed into the days. The bad news is that once again I’ll be beginning Monday way more unprepared for the week than I want to be.<br />
The good news is that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shining</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shining/"/>
<updated>2005-09-30T11:51:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shining/</id>
<content type="html">This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks.<br />
And man, did I need that.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blog as Narrative Archive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blog-as-narrative-archive/"/>
<updated>2005-09-28T12:03:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blog-as-narrative-archive/</id>
<content type="html">The lecture that I’m set to give tomorrow, which I’m doing some heavy-duty work on this morning, is part of a series of lectures, classes, and screenings collectively titled “The New Documentary Impulse.” Much of this series, as you might expect,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Just to Show Ogged I&#39;m No Prude</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/just-to-show-ogged-im-no-prude/"/>
<updated>2005-09-27T17:42:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/just-to-show-ogged-im-no-prude/</id>
<content type="html">And also because the wisdom contained therein is pretty damned good: Fontana Labs’s advice for new grad students. Even if it does contain the word “fellatio.”<br />
Worse...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>De-escalating</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/de-escalating/"/>
<updated>2005-09-27T14:04:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/de-escalating/</id>
<content type="html">Navigated classes with only a modicum of humiliation.<br />
Have completed another revision of proposal; one more draft to go before seeking committee comment.<br />
Have begun drafting lecture; will complete tomorrow.<br />
Review of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Panic</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/panic/"/>
<updated>2005-09-26T12:12:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/panic/</id>
<content type="html">Two classes to teach today, both of them unprepared.<br />
Review of copy-edited manuscript due tomorrow, only about half-completed.<br />
Lecture...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Some Things I Love About the Internet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/some-things-i-love-about-the-internet/"/>
<updated>2005-09-25T11:24:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/some-things-i-love-about-the-internet/</id>
<content type="html">One day, you write something about a guy’s first book, and the next day, you get an email message from that guy thanking you for your comments and offering help with a critical issue...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Academic Social Software Wish List</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/academic-social-software-wish-list/"/>
<updated>2005-09-24T14:49:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/academic-social-software-wish-list/</id>
<content type="html">Hey, could I persuade somebody to build this application for me? What I want is something that combines the functionality of something like Library Thing with the functionality of a bibliographic software...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s With the Blimps?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-with-the-blimps/"/>
<updated>2005-09-24T12:32:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-with-the-blimps/</id>
<content type="html">So BT yesterday mentioned a weird blimp-congregation in the skies over Manhattan, and perhaps it’s only that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Near-Miss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-near-miss/"/>
<updated>2005-09-22T17:45:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-near-miss/</id>
<content type="html">A few days ago, I came within a couple of inches of hitting a pedestrian.<br />
I was waiting at a stop sign, making a right-hand turn into traffic, watching for a break in the cars approaching from the left. A six-foot fence wraps around the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Words I&#39;ve Decided I Hate, Volume 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/words-ive-decided-i-hate-volume-1/"/>
<updated>2005-09-21T12:40:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/words-ive-decided-i-hate-volume-1/</id>
<content type="html">Migraineur. One who has migraines.<br />
Every time I hear this word, my brain jumps to connoisseur and flaneur, and it just pisses me off. As though having migraines was some kind of lifestyle choice. As though their...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yippee!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yippee/"/>
<updated>2005-09-20T22:25:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yippee/</id>
<content type="html">I got nothing more to say but this. It seems to be coming a few months later than I expected, but it’s on the internets, so it must be real. Right?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Maybe It&#39;s Just Me</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/maybe-its-just-me/"/>
<updated>2005-09-20T14:22:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/maybe-its-just-me/</id>
<content type="html">Something very weird is afoot. I’ve been daypopped for no reason that I can discern. Through some weird glitch in the matrix, I own spots 9-16 out of the top 40, and number 14, the one of the batch that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Apocalypse Confirmed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/apocalypse-confirmed/"/>
<updated>2005-09-20T10:06:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/apocalypse-confirmed/</id>
<content type="html">I was awakened just before 1.00 this morning by one heck of a thunderstorm.<br />
In Southern California.<br />
In September.<br />
And it’s still raining.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Manhole Cover Go Boom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/manhole-cover-go-boom/"/>
<updated>2005-09-19T22:33:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/manhole-cover-go-boom/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s one way to get out of the office before dark: have the power go out. The Claremont Colleges are on one of those reduced-cost power dealies (I think that’s the technical term), whereby we have to shut off the power in the event of rolling...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Can&#39;t Stop That Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cant-stop-that-day/"/>
<updated>2005-09-19T09:59:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cant-stop-that-day/</id>
<content type="html">Every semester for the last two and a half years, I’ve arranged things such that my scheduled commitments for the week all fall between Monday and Wednesday. The good news in this is that generally speaking, by Wednesday at 5.00 pm, I’m free to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Weekend Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/weekend-update/"/>
<updated>2005-09-18T18:17:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/weekend-update/</id>
<content type="html">Things that have been accomplished:<br />
— Writing the first draft of a position planning document.<br />
— Catching up on reading and commenting on a backlog of student writing.<br />
— Re-reading the volume of poems for one of tomorrow’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Last Days of Academic Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-last-days-of-academic-publishing/"/>
<updated>2005-09-16T11:50:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-last-days-of-academic-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">In the category of things I failed to blog yesterday: Bill Germano, vice-president and publishing director at Routledge, has apparently been forced out by a restructuring of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Go, Me</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/go-me/"/>
<updated>2005-09-15T18:46:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/go-me/</id>
<content type="html">After what feels like days, my head is at last clearing, and I have my sights set on a productive weekend. Today, however, began with (a) me sleeping in, still recovering from the skull-splitting of the day before, and (b) an early-morning...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>At a Loss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/at-a-loss/"/>
<updated>2005-09-14T22:29:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/at-a-loss/</id>
<content type="html">For sheer absurdity, perhaps the most dumbfounding thing I’ve seen all day.<br />
This is the so-called leader of the free world, folks. But you gotta...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Migraine</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/migraine/"/>
<updated>2005-09-14T11:54:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/migraine/</id>
<content type="html">The first one I’ve had in almost five years, I think. I used to get one roughly every six months, until my doctor decided that getting my allergies under control would help rid me of the migraines. Weirdly enough, it worked. But the downside of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Activism for the Radically Lazy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/activism-for-the-radically-lazy/"/>
<updated>2005-09-13T15:58:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/activism-for-the-radically-lazy/</id>
<content type="html">Follow these directions:<br />
1. Call Governor Schwartzenegger: 916-445-2841 (they’re apparently accepting calls from anywhere).<br />
2. Push: 2 (voice your opinion on legislation).<br />
3. Push: 1 (gender-neutral marriage bill – Senate Bill...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on Practice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-practice/"/>
<updated>2005-09-13T10:52:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-practice/</id>
<content type="html">Collin took the notion of “practice” that I raised on Sunday and ran with it, thinking both about the ways that academics...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oops.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oops/"/>
<updated>2005-09-12T23:15:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oops/</id>
<content type="html">Somebody somewhere apparently crossed the streams earlier today, and everything around here</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Before and After</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/before-and-after/"/>
<updated>2005-09-12T10:43:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/before-and-after/</id>
<content type="html">My stepfather just forwarded me a couple of photos sent to him by his junior partner in his real estate firm. The junior partner received these from a fraternity brother of his, who took the pictures before and after Katrina, from roughly the same...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Earworm of the Week</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/earworm-of-the-week/"/>
<updated>2005-09-12T10:19:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/earworm-of-the-week/</id>
<content type="html">I am frequently plagued by earworms. You know earworms, right — the songs that get stuck in your head? They seem inevitably to be the most annoying songs...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Practice, Practice, Practice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/practice-practice-practice/"/>
<updated>2005-09-11T16:06:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/practice-practice-practice/</id>
<content type="html">Folks out there in Bloglandia seem really often to run up against the same kinds of concerns at the same moments, without necessarily knowing about one another, as though there’s something in the zeitgeist that suddenly makes its way to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Days When It&#39;s A Good Thing You&#39;ve Got Tenure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/days-when-its-a-good-thing-youve-got-tenure/"/>
<updated>2005-09-09T10:16:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/days-when-its-a-good-thing-youve-got-tenure/</id>
<content type="html">When you completely fail to show up for dinner at the dean’s house, because you’ve written it on the wrong day on your calendar.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Never Feeling Like You&#39;ve Done Enough</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-never-feeling-like-youve-done-enough/"/>
<updated>2005-09-08T17:53:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-never-feeling-like-youve-done-enough/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve given to the Red Cross, and to Catholic Charities USA.<br />
I’ve given minor (mostly moral) support to a student here who has organized fundraising here on campus.<br />
I’ve made an open offer of help to our administration, as they</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jon Stewart on Katrina</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jon-stewart-on-katrina/"/>
<updated>2005-09-07T21:02:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jon-stewart-on-katrina/</id>
<content type="html">If you haven’t seen it, go watch.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More on Those Dreams</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-on-those-dreams/"/>
<updated>2005-09-07T16:02:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-on-those-dreams/</id>
<content type="html">I woke up appallingly early this morning, considering how late I’d gotten to sleep last night, and lay there thinking about those dreams I’ve been having the last several days.<br />
It occurred to me that the worst of the dreams — worse than the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But One More Thing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-one-more-thing/"/>
<updated>2005-09-06T13:41:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-one-more-thing/</id>
<content type="html">This, I can’t resist (from a wire story on Salon:<br />
<br />
“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stemming the Flood</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stemming-the-flood/"/>
<updated>2005-09-06T10:08:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stemming-the-flood/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve found myself, since mid-weekend, with a vastly reduced desire to write about Katrina and its aftermath. I’ve spent a bit this morning trying to figure out why, and have come up with a number of possible reasons why I no longer feel so...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Katrina PeopleFinder Project</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-katrina-peoplefinder-project/"/>
<updated>2005-09-05T13:40:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-katrina-peoplefinder-project/</id>
<content type="html">Via a listserv I’m in, information about the Katrina PeopleFinder Project:<br />
<br />
Donated money? Please donate a little time. Join the Katrina<br />
PeopleFinder Project.<br />
It’s easy. All you need is an internet connection and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Other News</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-other-news/"/>
<updated>2005-09-05T09:05:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-other-news/</id>
<content type="html">Things I don’t have the energy to write about right now:<br />
— Rehnquist died. I’m sure you know that by now.<br />
— Tribble’s back. See Collin’s analysis, in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Folks We&#39;re Still Trying to Find</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/folks-were-still-trying-to-find/"/>
<updated>2005-09-05T00:20:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/folks-were-still-trying-to-find/</id>
<content type="html">A friend of mine from back in the day directs me to the Hurricane Poets Check-In, where some information has been gathered about the status, as known, of a number of New Orleans writers....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Air America Public Voicemail</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/air-america-public-voicemail/"/>
<updated>2005-09-03T10:06:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/air-america-public-voicemail/</id>
<content type="html">Air America has announced a service that they hope will assist people looking for missing loved ones: Air America Public Voicemail. From their announcement:<br />
<br />
Air America...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More from Baton Rouge</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-from-baton-rouge/"/>
<updated>2005-09-02T17:17:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-from-baton-rouge/</id>
<content type="html">A pal of mine, whose mother works for one of the region’s power companies, passed on some information that she’d gotten via email. I’m not going to quote the message directly, but will report a few of the facts that it includes, below the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Waiting for the Locusts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/waiting-for-the-locusts/"/>
<updated>2005-09-02T12:10:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/waiting-for-the-locusts/</id>
<content type="html">I think horseman number three of four has just arrived on the scene: the city of New Orleans is on fire. And there’s no water pressure, and no equipment, to put it out.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Parents Are In The House!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-parents-are-in-the-house/"/>
<updated>2005-09-02T10:38:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-parents-are-in-the-house/</id>
<content type="html">My parents arrived last night, and while both of them look a little wrung-out, and both are clearly very upset about what’s happening to the state they both love, they’re doing quite well. They brought news from Baton Rouge, some of which I’ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lake George</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lake-george/"/>
<updated>2005-09-01T20:31:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lake-george/</id>
<content type="html">So they’re calling the city of New Orleans at the EPA, as reported by Wonkette:<br />
<br />
We’re naming it Lake George, ‘cause it’s his...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Updates from Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/updates-from-home/"/>
<updated>2005-09-01T18:25:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/updates-from-home/</id>
<content type="html">Rumors are running rampant. No one seems to know what’s actually happening, and what’s just talk. But the chaos seems to be spreading outside New Orleans.<br />
More below the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Went Wrong</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-went-wrong/"/>
<updated>2005-09-01T11:26:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-went-wrong/</id>
<content type="html">Many, many things, but I’ll only name three:<br />
10,000 members of the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama National Guards are in Iraq, and so are unable...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Race and Class of Disaster</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-race-and-class-of-disaster/"/>
<updated>2005-09-01T11:04:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-race-and-class-of-disaster/</id>
<content type="html">Watching CNN’s coverage of the disaster in New Orleans, the thing that isn’t being said by most observers comes screaming out of the screen: New Orleans has a majority-black population. And there’s a very strong correlation between poverty and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Beauty Part</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-beauty-part/"/>
<updated>2005-08-31T21:50:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-beauty-part/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s the brilliant thing. And that I am saying this is not just attributable to the martini(s) earlier this evening imbibed, but said beverages no doubt don’t hurt. The brilliant thing is that my parents got their power back this morning, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now Here&#39;s Something I Never Thought I&#39;d Say</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-heres-something-i-never-thought-id-say/"/>
<updated>2005-08-31T15:51:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-heres-something-i-never-thought-id-say/</id>
<content type="html">Thank god for Texas.<br />
Texas governor Rick Perry earlier today</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And What I Can&#39;t Figure Out</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-what-i-cant-figure-out/"/>
<updated>2005-08-31T11:17:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-what-i-cant-figure-out/</id>
<content type="html">Is how the rest of the world can be going about its business so nonchalantly. Like BT, I’ve got the peculiar kind of obsession with what’s happening that, I suppose, only someone with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>From Bad to Worse, and Worse to Worser</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/from-bad-to-worse-and-worse-to-worser/"/>
<updated>2005-08-31T10:38:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/from-bad-to-worse-and-worse-to-worser/</id>
<content type="html">Governor Kathleen Blanco is ordering everyone who didn’t evacuate from New Orleans before the storm to evacuate now; she’s sending in buses and boats, and getting...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Folks I&#39;m Still Looking For</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/folks-im-still-looking-for/"/>
<updated>2005-08-30T16:08:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/folks-im-still-looking-for/</id>
<content type="html">They live in New Orleans, but have families and other connections elsewhere in the state, and so — I hope — almost certainly evacuated early. But their email servers have been shut down, or destroyed, or both, and so no messages are getting...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Day After</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-day-after/"/>
<updated>2005-08-30T12:30:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-day-after/</id>
<content type="html">The news out of New Orleans is perversely getting worse instead of better; a two-block long breach in the levee surrounding Lake Pontchartrain resulted in water pouring into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Power of Suggestion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-power-of-suggestion/"/>
<updated>2005-08-30T09:04:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-power-of-suggestion/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s the first day of classes. Today’s also the day I decided to start eenching (which is like inching, only more painful) my alarm clock earlier.<br />
This morning, despite the fact that my alarm...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Do You Know What It Means, to Miss New Orleans?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans/"/>
<updated>2005-08-29T14:40:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/do-you-know-what-it-means-to-miss-new-orleans/</id>
<content type="html">This is why I love NOLA, courtesy of Wonkette:<br />
<br />
SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coverage</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/coverage/"/>
<updated>2005-08-29T10:59:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/coverage/</id>
<content type="html">So I’ve spent the last twenty-four hours watching obsessive amounts of CNN coverage of Katrina’s onslaught on the Gulf Coast. The good news, insofar as there is good news, is that none of the nightmare projections of what...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Katrina</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/katrina/"/>
<updated>2005-08-28T15:55:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/katrina/</id>
<content type="html">My parents have done what they can to protect their boat, which is just on the other side of Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, and have motored back up the road to Baton Rouge, where they’re busy battening down the hatches.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>By the By</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/by-the-by/"/>
<updated>2005-08-26T11:03:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/by-the-by/</id>
<content type="html">Just so you know.<br />
I’m experimenting with moving the bulk of entries under the fold, so that more entries are immediately visible on the index page, with a minimum of scrolling. If this is too annoying, let me know.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Early Birds, and All That</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/early-birds-and-all-that/"/>
<updated>2005-08-26T10:57:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/early-birds-and-all-that/</id>
<content type="html">I have this genius plan, whereby I get up super early every morning this semester, do the requisite teeth-brushing and contact-lens-in-putting, and then plop myself down in front of the computer for at least one hour, and conceivably two, of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Denial</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/denial/"/>
<updated>2005-08-25T18:17:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/denial/</id>
<content type="html">The thing is, it’s not that I don’t want to go back to teaching. I’m fairly well prepared for my classes, and I think they’re going to be a lot of fun this semester.<br />
It’s that I don’t want to go back to my administrative life. And so I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Grrrr.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/grrrr/"/>
<updated>2005-08-25T11:48:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/grrrr/</id>
<content type="html">Remember the buying spree I had the luxury to go on this summer? A quick recap: under the auspices of a collection of small grants, I got to purchase some new equipment and some software that I’d been meaning to pick up for a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One of These Things Is Not Like the Others</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others/"/>
<updated>2005-08-24T16:30:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others/</id>
<content type="html">So I’ve still got Six Feet Under on the brain. Spoilers, below the fold.<br />
I’ve been bothered, since watching the final episode’s final episodes, the flash-forwards to the deaths of all the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Huh</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/huh/"/>
<updated>2005-08-24T14:02:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/huh/</id>
<content type="html">Djever find yourself wondering exactly how the penny got into your garbage disposal?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>When Anonymity Fails</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/when-anonymity-fails/"/>
<updated>2005-08-24T11:33:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/when-anonymity-fails/</id>
<content type="html">Tribble’s still got me thinking, folks. Not about the propriety (or lack thereof) of academic blogging, but about the anonymous Chronicle rant.<br />
Witness yesterday’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pandering?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pandering/"/>
<updated>2005-08-24T03:52:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pandering/</id>
<content type="html">As in, pandering for my own anxieties, yes, apparently, I was. I’ll post about the anxieties that produced such pandering in the morning. In the meantime, thanks for letting me know you’re still out there. And thanks, in other comments, for the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ways That Today Is Thus Far Much Better Than Yesterday</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ways-that-today-is-thus-far-much-better-than-yesterday/"/>
<updated>2005-08-23T14:15:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ways-that-today-is-thus-far-much-better-than-yesterday/</id>
<content type="html">Today began utterly unceremoniously, with a trip to the eye doctor. Things were not looking good when I arrived; the waiting room was completely full, and about fifteen minutes into my wait my eye doctor herself appeared and began calling patients...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>***crickets***</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/crickets/"/>
<updated>2005-08-23T14:05:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/crickets/</id>
<content type="html">So I’m wondering: have I completely alienated what little audience I ever had, such that no one’s reading this thing except for the bots and the crawlers, or have I somehow cowed everyone (except for a few hardy souls who know me personally) into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Six Feet Under, Now Six Feet Under</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/"/>
<updated>2005-08-22T23:23:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/six-feet-under-now-six-feet-under/</id>
<content type="html">Spoilers abound. Read at your peril.<br />
I spent the last twenty minutes of last night’s final episode of Six Feet Under crying my eyes out. And rewatching it tonight was not much different. There...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Quick Poll</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-quick-poll/"/>
<updated>2005-08-22T18:18:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-quick-poll/</id>
<content type="html">You’ve just received a birthday present from your mother via UPS, but your birthday isn’t until tomorrow. Do you open the present right away, or do you wait?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Some Days</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/some-days/"/>
<updated>2005-08-22T16:16:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/some-days/</id>
<content type="html">Some days are destined to be expensive. This, alas, is one of them. I knew it was bound to be, because I had my appointment with Mike the blinds guy, but it didn’t quite go like I expected.<br />
The morning began with $200 worth of dentistry,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Headed Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/headed-home/"/>
<updated>2005-08-18T22:40:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/headed-home/</id>
<content type="html">Sitting in the club lounge in HNL, waiting for a flight that is still hours away. The last day in Hawaii is always hard, not least because your flight never leaves until late evening, but your hotel boots you out in the early afternoon. And the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hear, Hear!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hear-hear/"/>
<updated>2005-08-16T22:34:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hear-hear/</id>
<content type="html">Via meg, a new response to the Ivan Tribble column, “Bloggers Need Not Apply,”, this one published as a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Radio Silence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/radio-silence/"/>
<updated>2005-08-16T21:34:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/radio-silence/</id>
<content type="html">There’s not been much in the way of posting from here, in part because that trickle of leaky wi-fi has been erratic at best (damn leaky wi-fi! Be reliable!), and in part because I’ve been too relaxed even to recognize material around me worth...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Life Without HBO</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/life-without-hbo/"/>
<updated>2005-08-15T14:33:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/life-without-hbo/</id>
<content type="html">So last night, we’re flipping through the channels and trying to pretend like we don’t realize that we’re missing the second-to-last Six Feet Under ever, and we stumble across a Japanese-language...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Snap Out of It!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/snap-out-of-it/"/>
<updated>2005-08-14T16:15:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/snap-out-of-it/</id>
<content type="html">Say, for reasons that are absolutely, positively, Nobody’s Fault, you find yourself in one seriously grouchy goddamn mood. Like fight-picking grouchy. Fight-picking with total strangers grouchy. And say, for the sake of argument, that you find...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Joys of the Working Vacation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-joys-of-the-working-vacation/"/>
<updated>2005-08-12T12:33:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-joys-of-the-working-vacation/</id>
<content type="html">So my last post garnered me more than one slightly shocked “you brought your laptop to Hawaii?” from my faithful correspondents, which didn’t make me reconsider that decision, but which did make me think through why the choice...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One of My Favorite Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-of-my-favorite-things/"/>
<updated>2005-08-10T11:06:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-of-my-favorite-things/</id>
<content type="html">I’d completely forgotten, since I was last here, that one of my favorite things about Hawaii is its time zone. Hawaii is to California as California is to the east coast: three hours earlier. Coming here, I try to avoid resetting my internal...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pheromones</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pheromones/"/>
<updated>2005-08-07T15:15:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pheromones/</id>
<content type="html">During the time that R. was in Washington — the most recent time, that is, the last ten months he spent on active duty there — we had a running gag over the phone and via email in which I would tell him, among other things, that “those kitties is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Quoted</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/quoted/"/>
<updated>2005-08-05T17:00:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/quoted/</id>
<content type="html">A couple of days ago, I received first an email message and then a phone call from an L.A. Times reporter doing a story on the white women in peril phenomenon. We had a longish and interesting...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Less Depressed, Still Annoyed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/less-depressed-still-annoyed/"/>
<updated>2005-08-02T20:54:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/less-depressed-still-annoyed/</id>
<content type="html">So I managed to knock two major items off the mile-long to-do list, and it’s an accomplishment in no small part because (1) these were the two things that I most dreaded doing, and (2) they were the most pressing things on the list. (1) + (2) =...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Doldrums</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-doldrums/"/>
<updated>2005-08-01T18:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-doldrums/</id>
<content type="html">I was about to open by asking whether there was a physical equivalent to depression, because that’s what I think I’ve got. And of course there is: it’s called depression. Duh.<br />
I don’t want to overstate my current situation; things are just...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And What Did You Accomplish Today?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-what-did-you-accomplish-today/"/>
<updated>2005-07-31T23:25:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-what-did-you-accomplish-today/</id>
<content type="html">Me? Nada. I didn’t even get the load of laundry I meant to do done (though there’s still time for that, I guess). Best yet, I didn’t even pretend to work — instead, I laid around, read purely for fun, got caught up on Six Feet Under, talked on the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Dumbest Thing I&#39;ve Done Lately</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-dumbest-thing-ive-done-lately/"/>
<updated>2005-07-29T12:34:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-dumbest-thing-ive-done-lately/</id>
<content type="html">Gave our work-study students a stack of four photocopied articles that I’ve used in coursepacks for the last few years, asking them to track down and photocopy the title and copyright pages for the texts that each came from, so that I can scan the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More from Matt Taibbi</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-from-matt-taibbi/"/>
<updated>2005-07-28T17:40:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-from-matt-taibbi/</id>
<content type="html">The folks who are coming here looking for info on Matt Taibbi have led me to his most recent New York Press column, on the Ohio voting irregularities of 2004. Provocative...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Hacks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-hacks/"/>
<updated>2005-07-28T12:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-hacks/</id>
<content type="html">I hit the treadmill yesterday for my second post-orthotic run, with much the same results as the first: overall, the run felt good; no problems whatsoever with the left foot/ankle/leg; minor complaining from the right foot. So far, so good. I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Haven&#39;t Posted About the Roberts Nomination</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-havent-posted-about-the-roberts-nomination/"/>
<updated>2005-07-27T10:14:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-havent-posted-about-the-roberts-nomination/</id>
<content type="html">Because, for the moment, I’m tired of getting my stupid little heart broken every time the Democrats roll over and play dead. I tell myself that I’m trying to conserve my energies for battles that we have some prayer of winning, but honestly, I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Roma</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/roma/"/>
<updated>2005-07-26T18:37:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/roma/</id>
<content type="html">The photos are at last somewhat organized, and posted: all the Rome you could possibly stand.[^1] I went a bit camera-happy while I was there, in no small part because I was photographing for four — my sister didn’t bring her camera, my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Surreal City</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/surreal-city/"/>
<updated>2005-07-25T15:24:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/surreal-city/</id>
<content type="html">So just after my last post, I headed out for my first run since getting my orthotics. It went quite well, overall; I ran two miles of the 2.5 mile course I took, and my left foot (the one with the bad arch) was just...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Baggage Claim</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/baggage-claim/"/>
<updated>2005-07-25T10:10:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/baggage-claim/</id>
<content type="html">I did make it home yesterday, though not without a snippet of travel drama. The flight was smooth, overall, though we got put into the fly-past-the-airport-and-land-from-the-west flight pattern that usually accompanies the Santa Anas here in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There&#39;s No Place Like Not Quite Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/theres-no-place-like-not-quite-home/"/>
<updated>2005-07-24T09:58:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/theres-no-place-like-not-quite-home/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve only got a minute before dashing for this morning’s flight, which will finally get me within spitting distance of home. This delay was mostly planned-for, as my EWR to IAH flight got me in after the last flight for ONT had left. I’d even...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Lied</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-lied/"/>
<updated>2005-07-23T03:15:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-lied/</id>
<content type="html">First, I left Santa Maria Maggiore off the litany. It should have come between the Catacombs and the Pantheon.<br />
Second, there was no rest for the weary. Yesterday included Santa Maria degli Angeli and Martyri, San Giovanni in Laterno, and,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Litany</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/litany/"/>
<updated>2005-07-21T17:55:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/litany/</id>
<content type="html">Spanish Steps. Piazza Venezia. Trevi Fountain. Via del Corso.<br />
Villa Borghese. Borghese Gallery. Via del Corso.<br />
Palatine Hill. Colosseo. Foro Romano. Piazza Venezia. Via del Corso.<br />
Via Appia Antica. Catacombs. Pantheon. Via del...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Hate Jetlag</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-hate-jetlag/"/>
<updated>2005-07-19T02:00:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-hate-jetlag/</id>
<content type="html">Every time I think I’ve got it beat, it comes back and kicks me in the ass. Several trips back, I was unable to sleep the first night I arrived in Europe. The next trip, I slept like a rock that first night, and thought, “heh, that wasn’t bad.”...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ply Me With Prosecco</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ply-me-with-prosecco/"/>
<updated>2005-07-18T04:25:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ply-me-with-prosecco/</id>
<content type="html">Ah, Italia. Life is good, if the Internet access ain’t exactly easy. I’ll post more when there’s not a line waiting for the business center’s computer; for the moment, suffice it to say, so far, so good. I think today’s schedule includes the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Head-Spinning Shifts in Travel Plans</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/head-spinning-shifts-in-travel-plans/"/>
<updated>2005-07-15T14:08:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/head-spinning-shifts-in-travel-plans/</id>
<content type="html">Actually, my head spins in a light breeze, at this point. But this was nonetheless annoying:<br />
Remember that I took the red-eye to Houston to meet up with my parents, and that the three of us were then going to fly here (oh, yes, I’m here;...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More True Confessions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-true-confessions/"/>
<updated>2005-07-15T07:49:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-true-confessions/</id>
<content type="html">Perhaps it’s the lack of sleep making me dopey. Or perhaps it’s the head-spinning shifts in travel plans going on by cell phone right now.* One way or another, I’m prompted to a bit of the kind of self-revelation that I’m not ordinarily prone to....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Heading East</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/heading-east/"/>
<updated>2005-07-15T02:33:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/heading-east/</id>
<content type="html">Way east. I’m back in the airport — my wonderful little airport, with the free wifi (though it’s behaving like free wifi, I’m afraid — flashing on and off, four bars, no bars, three bars, one bar, three bars, like a little strobe in my menu bar)....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>OmniOutliner</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/omnioutliner/"/>
<updated>2005-07-14T16:05:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/omnioutliner/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been on the hunt for some time now for a more adequate tasks manager, something that would enable me to combine the benefits of the digital with the clarity of print-on-paper lists. None of the to-do type things I’ve used have really been...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stats Watching</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stats-watching/"/>
<updated>2005-07-14T12:09:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stats-watching/</id>
<content type="html">A moment of true confessions: I’m an obsessive stats watcher. I love knowing who’s coming in and out of here, and how long they’re sticking around. And I’m a bit obsessed, in a weird audience-research sort of way, with seeing what posts draw a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Query</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-query/"/>
<updated>2005-07-14T00:27:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-query/</id>
<content type="html">Did either Mike or Matt Taibbi just do something nefarious or something? Because in the last, say, four hours, I’ve had what can only be called a bajillion hits off various searches for some combination of the father/son team. Seriously: of my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Reminder</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-reminder/"/>
<updated>2005-07-13T11:11:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-reminder/</id>
<content type="html">To do tomorrow:<br />
___ Get up.<br />
___ Kick ass.<br />
(Thanks to Shhh, and of course to Eddy, for this reminder, which I use whenever I need a little extra motivation in the ass-kicking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Orthotics</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/orthotics/"/>
<updated>2005-07-12T11:51:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/orthotics/</id>
<content type="html">You haven’t heard much from me about running since the marathon. Mostly that’s because there hasn’t been any.<br />
Actually, that’s an exaggeration. I took a week or so off to recover, and then tied the old running...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Byron Preiss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/byron-preiss/"/>
<updated>2005-07-11T16:59:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/byron-preiss/</id>
<content type="html">Back in grad school, I did a bunch of freelance work in electronic publishing, working first for the Voyager Company, and then for</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SCMS 2006</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scms-2006/"/>
<updated>2005-07-11T15:40:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scms-2006/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just posted a CFP for a panel for the 2006 meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies to the SCMS bulletin board. Despite the group’s name change (from Society for Cinema Studies), there’s still a paucity of work on digital media at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Saw Yesterday</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-saw-yesterday/"/>
<updated>2005-07-10T11:13:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-saw-yesterday/</id>
<content type="html">Last night, I went downtown with some folks from the college to picnic in California Plaza, before last night’s performance, in the Grand Performances series, of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Bloggers Need Not Apply</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bloggers-need-not-apply/"/>
<updated>2005-07-08T10:54:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bloggers-need-not-apply/</id>
<content type="html">I’m in a hurry this morning, needing to get myself ready to drive into LA, but I simply cannot refrain from comment on this morning’s Chronicle Careers column, “Bloggers Need Not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The News Today</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-news-today/"/>
<updated>2005-07-07T10:45:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-news-today/</id>
<content type="html">I woke up this morning to news of the London bombings on NPR, as, I imagine, did much of the west coast. I’m devastated by this news, not least because of how much I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer, Part Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-part-two/"/>
<updated>2005-07-06T11:23:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-part-two/</id>
<content type="html">Today begins the second half of my summer. I’d say that it began yesterday, except that that would mean that I’ve already missed a day of the second half, and I’m already in something of a panic this morning about the fact that the summer is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home Again, But Not Alone</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/home-again-but-not-alone/"/>
<updated>2005-07-05T01:00:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/home-again-but-not-alone/</id>
<content type="html">The fireworks down the street have finally stopped. Six Feet Under has just ended. And I’m home again, from another great weekend, settling back in with the cats.<br />
But we’re not alone, alas. My...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Post-Red Eye</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/post-red-eye/"/>
<updated>2005-07-01T12:05:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/post-red-eye/</id>
<content type="html">All things considered, the red-eye went quite well. R. has thanked me repeatedly for flying “all night” to come out here to see him, which is extremely sweet but a little befuddling to my poor scrambled brain, because what it feels like more than...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IAH</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/iah/"/>
<updated>2005-06-30T07:41:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/iah/</id>
<content type="html">The Houston airport is an absolute wonder at 5.40 in the morning — ghostly quiet, deserted, just beginning to stir to life. Though the circumstances surrounding getting here weren’t ideal, I’m awfully glad I got to see this.<br />
Even better,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>First, The Whining</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/first-the-whining/"/>
<updated>2005-06-30T03:11:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/first-the-whining/</id>
<content type="html">Greetings from the twelfth circle of hell, one Dante missed on his little tour: the airport at midnight. I’m waiting for the red-eye to IAH, which is going to be a serious red-eye, as the stupid flight is only three hours long, but it’ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But Is He Going to Disneyland?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-is-he-going-to-disneyland/"/>
<updated>2005-06-29T18:10:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-is-he-going-to-disneyland/</id>
<content type="html">What do you get the Russian president and former KGB leader who has everything? Perhaps a Super Bowl ring.<br />
I’m not quite sure why I find this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Commenting Trouble?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/commenting-trouble/"/>
<updated>2005-06-28T18:23:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/commenting-trouble/</id>
<content type="html">In my stats of late, I’ve noticed a rash (read: 2) of folks whose path through the site appears to indicate that they’re trying unsuccessfully to comment. It may be that they don’t want to leave email addresses (which my commenting system...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Shelves</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/shelves/"/>
<updated>2005-06-28T18:04:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/shelves/</id>
<content type="html">I found myself so discombobulated yesterday after the toe event that I couldn’t sit down and get back to work, and so instead...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Better Late than Never</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/better-late-than-never/"/>
<updated>2005-06-27T23:01:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/better-late-than-never/</id>
<content type="html">Take the MIT Weblog Survey.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Hate Confrontation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-hate-confrontation/"/>
<updated>2005-06-27T17:09:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-hate-confrontation/</id>
<content type="html">Honest to god, call me a wuss, but if there were any way I could opt never again to be in a room with people who are yelling, or in a tearful rage, I’d sign up PDQ.<br />
As it is, I live with the fight-or-flight response produced by such...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twenty-One Years</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twenty-one-years/"/>
<updated>2005-06-26T16:21:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twenty-one-years/</id>
<content type="html">At last, some images from the class reunion. I didn’t take many pictures of the people at the reunion, and swore to several that I wouldn’t post any pictures of them online. So...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back Down to Earth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-down-to-earth/"/>
<updated>2005-06-26T00:28:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-down-to-earth/</id>
<content type="html">Djever have one of those days where you get up at like seven o’clock in the morning and pull the sheets off your bed because they’re totally overdue to be washed, and you put them in the washer and then the dryer and go about your day, and then...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Toys!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/toys/"/>
<updated>2005-06-25T21:00:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/toys/</id>
<content type="html">Today has begun the summer’s intended mad spending of money. There is, as with everything, an up side and a down side to these expenditures. The up side is that it isn’t wholly my money I’ve been spending; I’ve got a collection of small grants...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How I Always Manage to Overload Myself</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-i-always-manage-to-overload-myself/"/>
<updated>2005-06-24T12:01:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-i-always-manage-to-overload-myself/</id>
<content type="html">You know what I love? Designing new classes. I love sitting at my computer with about ten browser tabs running, each with some bibliographic source or somebody else’s online syllabus, just imagining possibilities: what if I paired the Bush and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deconstruction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deconstruction/"/>
<updated>2005-06-22T14:35:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deconstruction/</id>
<content type="html">So I’ve finally given in and drunk the kool-aid, and have uploaded my first photoset to flickr.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reunited</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reunited/"/>
<updated>2005-06-21T23:35:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reunited/</id>
<content type="html">So the storied twenty-one year high school reunion has come and gone. And I have to say, I had way more fun than I imagined I would. It was a bit of a blur — there are dozens of people I’d have liked...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Anniversaries</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/anniversaries/"/>
<updated>2005-06-19T14:59:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/anniversaries/</id>
<content type="html">I’m not usually one for remembering anniversaries, my own or other people’s. I’m not sure why. It’s not that milestones don’t register with me; call it a problem of data storage and retrieval.<br />
The reason I mention this now is that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ONT to BTR</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ont-to-btr/"/>
<updated>2005-06-17T10:30:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ont-to-btr/</id>
<content type="html">The travel day yesterday went completely smoothly, utterly without any of the usual delays and aggravations. But there’s a moment I need to share, about a homecoming of a very different order.<br />
There was an Army sergeant on the IAH-BTR leg...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Flaherty, Day Five</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-five/"/>
<updated>2005-06-16T10:46:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-five/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday was a fabulous day at documentary boot camp, and a very good note for me to go out on. There are, in fact, two more days to go in the Flaherty, but I’m off to Louisiana this morning. And though I’m a little burned out, I’m still...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Flaherty, Day Four</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-four/"/>
<updated>2005-06-15T11:45:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-four/</id>
<content type="html">Another foreshortened day at the Flaherty; in the middle of the afternoon screening, I began developing a massive headache, so when it was over, I headed home, took a nap, had a quiet dinner, and did some reading. Print is so soothing after such...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Flaherty, Day Three</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-three/"/>
<updated>2005-06-14T11:24:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-three/</id>
<content type="html">A shorter day at documentary bootcamp yesterday; I only caught the beginning of the evening session, as I wanted to get home and relax a bit. The films are amazing, but the pace is intense, and I needed a bit more downtime.<br />
Anyhow,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>After Further Thought</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/after-further-thought/"/>
<updated>2005-06-13T16:40:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/after-further-thought/</id>
<content type="html">After further thought, I’ve decided that there was something more to last night’s film than I’ve given it credit for, and that the protracted nature of its brutal imagery was up to something more serious than what it seemed, on first glance....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Flaherty, Day Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-two/"/>
<updated>2005-06-13T10:54:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/flaherty-day-two/</id>
<content type="html">[UPDATE 6.14.05, 8.27 am: edit to correct stupid day/date mistakes.]<br />
Yesterday was an up-and-down day at documentary boot camp — more up than down, though it ended on a stunningly bad note.<br />
<br />
Sunday, June 12, 9.00...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentary Boot Camp</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/documentary-boot-camp/"/>
<updated>2005-06-12T09:27:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/documentary-boot-camp/</id>
<content type="html">[UPDATE, 6.14.05, 8.28 am: edit to correct stupid day/date mistake.]<br />
This week, the 51st Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is being held here in town, and so I’m embroiled in what feels...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Couple of Updates</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-couple-of-updates/"/>
<updated>2005-06-10T16:36:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-couple-of-updates/</id>
<content type="html">A quick update on that music meme there: I’ve discovered another excellent way to keep up with the hip kids and their music — serve as thesis advisor for the radio station’s music director. I got some great recommendations from him that I’ll be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ack!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ack/"/>
<updated>2005-06-08T14:45:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ack/</id>
<content type="html">I just got what is without question — and by an astronomical degree — the WORST set of teaching evaluations I’ve ever gotten. These come from my graduate cultural studies seminar, which I will here admit I totally phoned in all semester. The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wherein I Actually Complete One of Those Meme Thingies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wherein-i-actually-complete-one-of-those-meme-thingies/"/>
<updated>2005-06-07T21:15:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wherein-i-actually-complete-one-of-those-meme-thingies/</id>
<content type="html">My old pal BT passed me this musical-meme baton a while back, but I not only managed to let the damned thing drop, I kinda stopped in my tracks, hands on hips, staring at it, thinking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moving On</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moving-on/"/>
<updated>2005-06-06T10:47:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moving-on/</id>
<content type="html">As evidenced by yesterday’s meandery post, I’ve been trying over the last few days to face my sense of directionlessness, thinking through it as something other than a crisis, or a cause for alarm, but nonetheless trying...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Meandering</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/meandering/"/>
<updated>2005-06-05T08:11:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/meandering/</id>
<content type="html">So as I’ve mentioned before, this is the summer I finally get to reap the benefits of having gotten tenure; I’m free to think, to read, to explore as I see fit. The thing about such freedom, though, is that it can be disorienting, particularly for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fighting AIDS in Mozambique</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fighting-aids-in-mozambique/"/>
<updated>2005-06-03T11:28:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fighting-aids-in-mozambique/</id>
<content type="html">A former student of mine, Adam Graham-Silverman, recently spent five weeks in Mozambique as an International Reporting Project Fellow, through Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MSY to BWI</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/msy-to-bwi/"/>
<updated>2005-06-02T13:51:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/msy-to-bwi/</id>
<content type="html">The return, thus far, is going more smoothly than the venture out. For one thing, this is perhaps the first time that I’ve traveled at entirely reasonable hours — neither getting up well before dawn nor getting in after my usual bedtime — in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BWI to MSY</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/bwi-to-msy/"/>
<updated>2005-05-30T07:08:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/bwi-to-msy/</id>
<content type="html">Frequent flyer summer continues today with a quick dash to Louisiana to see my pal Marcus. I decided at the last minute to drag the Powerbook with me, but given that I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Instant Gratification</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/instant-gratification/"/>
<updated>2005-05-28T21:54:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/instant-gratification/</id>
<content type="html">This has been a quiet week, hereabouts, in no small part because I spent the first four days of it taking the first of the classes I hope to take this summer. By the end of an intensive day sitting six inches away from an aged, flickering CRT, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dennis-lehane-a-drink-before-the-war/"/>
<updated>2005-05-24T08:36:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dennis-lehane-a-drink-before-the-war/</id>
<content type="html">At Steve’s urging, I picked up Dennis Lehane’s first novel for my trip to DC, and am happy now to second that recommendation. This first of the Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro novels introduces many of the tropes that resurface in his work to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deadwood</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deadwood/"/>
<updated>2005-05-23T08:51:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deadwood/</id>
<content type="html">I admit this morning I’m pretty astonished. Season 2 of Deadwood was astonishing throughout, but I just didn’t see the final episode coming together terribly well. There were just so many subplots, and so many of them had become either maudlin or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Follow-ups</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/follow-ups/"/>
<updated>2005-05-22T08:38:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/follow-ups/</id>
<content type="html">Purely FYI, IYI —<br />
— These turn out to be cysts, as I’d expected.<br />
— This one is growing back in nicely.<br />
— This one...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Archived Self</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-archived-self/"/>
<updated>2005-05-21T09:32:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-archived-self/</id>
<content type="html">BT hits on something in the comments to a previous post that I want to bring up to top-level:<br />
<br />
My point is that my own experience of knowing you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Snark and the Chronicle</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/snark-and-the-chronicle/"/>
<updated>2005-05-20T08:15:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/snark-and-the-chronicle/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s something I wouldn’t quite have expected to see: the Chronicle of Higher Education actively making fun of an institution of… well, higher education. (Subscription required,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something You Want to Tell Us, Maybe?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/something-you-want-to-tell-us-maybe/"/>
<updated>2005-05-19T16:02:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/something-you-want-to-tell-us-maybe/</id>
<content type="html">Should I be concerned that somebody with the IP address of a midwestern regional airlines found my site by googling “Pan Am 759”? (Here’s the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hiding in Plain Sight</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hiding-in-plain-sight/"/>
<updated>2005-05-18T17:06:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hiding-in-plain-sight/</id>
<content type="html">So the summer has now really and truly begun: the freeway sprints are over, my students have graduated, my desk has been cleaned off, and I’ve split for the east coast. Things have been quiet and lazy so far, which is much needed; the end of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Graduation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/graduation/"/>
<updated>2005-05-14T17:25:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/graduation/</id>
<content type="html">This is a mighty busy weekend, under normal circumstances, but this weekend is decidedly not normal. Theoretically, today is Class Day — departmental receptions for graduating seniors in the morning; big awards ceremony in the afternoon. Tomorrow...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Free</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/free-2/"/>
<updated>2005-05-11T19:33:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/free-2/</id>
<content type="html">I finished yesterday. Filed the grades and everything. Summer began today.<br />
I’m leaving aside the part where it began with jackhammers outside my bedroom window at 7.30 am, a fact about which I wish I were kidding. Instead, I’m going to say...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Harbingers</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/harbingers/"/>
<updated>2005-05-10T11:16:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/harbingers/</id>
<content type="html">So in my evening down-time, which I’ve actually had some of over the last week, as I try to clear my head from all the grading (which, by the way:<br />
— 2 graduate Cultural Studies projects<br />
— 9 Media Studies term papers<br />
so I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Not to Graduate</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-graduate/"/>
<updated>2005-05-09T10:38:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-graduate/</id>
<content type="html">Remaining:<br />
— 5 graduate Cultural Studies projects<br />
— 12 Media Studies term papers<br />
I’m still holding out hope that today’s the day.<br />
On a not-unrelated note: I’ve been heard to complain, over the last few days, that my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Further Updates, and Into the Summer</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/further-updates-and-into-the-summer/"/>
<updated>2005-05-07T20:42:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/further-updates-and-into-the-summer/</id>
<content type="html">Remaining:<br />
— 5 graduate Cultural Studies projects<br />
— 22 Media Studies term papers<br />
Not bad. It’s not out of the question that I could be done by Monday.<br />
As usual, though, the nearness of the finish line is resulting in my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Countdown, Updated</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-countdown-updated/"/>
<updated>2005-05-06T12:37:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-countdown-updated/</id>
<content type="html">What remains:<br />
— 12 graduate Cultural Studies projects<br />
— 28 Media Studies term papers<br />
And I’m cranking along. Alas, I have four hours of meetings with the board of trustees ahead today, so today’s accomplishments are likely to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Leaning Shelves</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/leaning-shelves/"/>
<updated>2005-05-05T17:17:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/leaning-shelves/</id>
<content type="html">So I’ve been thinking about my home work space a bunch lately, in part because I’m about to get a new desktop computer (on which subject, more later), and I’m not sure I’ve got an optimal set-up right now. My desk is in a very small niche, just...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Before I Get Ahead of Myself</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/before-i-get-ahead-of-myself/"/>
<updated>2005-05-05T09:54:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/before-i-get-ahead-of-myself/</id>
<content type="html">The semester-proper is now over; yesterday was the last day of classes. But there’s some grading yet to be done before all that summer travel can launch:<br />
— 1/2 of the last senior thesis<br />
— 16 graduate Cultural Studies...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer Travel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-travel/"/>
<updated>2005-05-03T11:47:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-travel/</id>
<content type="html">Claremont is lovely. My job is fabulous. My students are wonderful.<br />
But I can’t wait to get the heck out of here.<br />
Summer plans are consolidating, and here’s the schedule thus far:<br />
May 16 – May 30: DC<br />
May 30 – June 2:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Grading Count</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-grading-count/"/>
<updated>2005-05-02T12:45:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-grading-count/</id>
<content type="html">What must be done, before the summer can begin:<br />
— read 6 senior theses (5 of which have been turned in)<br />
— grade 26 Race, Gender, and Science Fiction term papers (25 of which have been turned in)<br />
— grade 33 Media Studies term papers...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Not to Begin a Weekend</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-begin-a-weekend/"/>
<updated>2005-04-30T22:57:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-begin-a-weekend/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been in a positively vile mood all day today; chalk it up to a very trying afternoon of senior thesis presentations yesterday (which I shouldn’t write about here, given my heavy student readership, but about which I will say that 6 of 12 were...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Warning: This Post Is All About Boobs, But Not In A Good Way</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/warning-this-post-is-all-about-boobs-but-not-in-a-good-way/"/>
<updated>2005-04-28T10:51:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/warning-this-post-is-all-about-boobs-but-not-in-a-good-way/</id>
<content type="html">So I spent several hours yesterday having my boobs crushed in order to have various pictures of their insides taken.<br />
Actually, it was only one boob, and the crushing part of the festivities didn’t last all that long. For those of you who...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How RSS Killed My Blog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-rss-killed-my-blog/"/>
<updated>2005-04-27T10:38:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-rss-killed-my-blog/</id>
<content type="html">About a month ago, I very, very belatedly hopped the Bloglines train, putting together a tidy pile of feeds and using them to keep up with all my favorite blogs. It was a bit of a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Marcus, They Don&#39;t Want Us Back</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/marcus-they-dont-want-us-back/"/>
<updated>2005-04-19T15:23:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/marcus-they-dont-want-us-back/</id>
<content type="html">So I was at home this morning, getting dressed to my usual KCRW soundtrack, when the station cut away to CNN’s audio feed, covering the announcement of the new</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My Next Book</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-next-book/"/>
<updated>2005-04-15T14:27:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-next-book/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just figured out what the title of my next book ought to be, and it’s my referrer logs and googlings that have told me so:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Internet, Everybody Knows You&#39;re a Dog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-internet-everybody-knows-youre-a-dog/"/>
<updated>2005-04-15T10:15:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-internet-everybody-knows-youre-a-dog/</id>
<content type="html">Just heard a story on Morning Edition reporting on a push by federal officials to force domain-name owners to identify themselves accurately in the WHOIS database, a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Never Grade Papers Again!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/never-grade-papers-again/"/>
<updated>2005-04-12T11:27:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/never-grade-papers-again/</id>
<content type="html">In yesterday’s mail, the following, from Educause:<br />
<br />
COMPUTER APPLICATION GRADES ESSAYS<br />
A professor at the University of Missouri has developed a computer application that grades papers and offers advice on writing. Ed Brent,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Same Song, Third Verse</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/same-song-third-verse/"/>
<updated>2005-04-11T11:45:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/same-song-third-verse/</id>
<content type="html">Why, oh why, do I persist in flying through Houston?<br />
Actually, it’s not the flying-through-Houston part that’s the problem; it’s the expecting to do so without incident part. I need to settle myself into the knowledge that every Sunday...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Airport</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-airport/"/>
<updated>2005-04-07T14:15:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-airport/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s a sign of how spoiled I’ve become: I’m sitting in the President’s Club in the Houston airport, using the free wi-fi, and bitching and moaning because the coverage in the lounge is a little spotty, and for a while my connection kept...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Here I Am</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/here-i-am/"/>
<updated>2005-04-07T01:51:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/here-i-am/</id>
<content type="html">So everybody’s on about the Google satellite maps feature, which I’ll admit, is mighty groovy. It’s wonderful and disorienting seeing that eye-in-the-sky view of the mundane places in which my everyday life is carried out. But despite all that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Saul Bellow, 1915-2005</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/saul-bellow-1915-2005/"/>
<updated>2005-04-06T11:35:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/saul-bellow-1915-2005/</id>
<content type="html">News of the latest in the recent flood of notable passings reached me late last night: Saul Bellow is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Catching Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/catching-up/"/>
<updated>2005-04-05T11:46:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/catching-up/</id>
<content type="html">There’s something very satisfying about scratching things off a list, particularly when they’ve hung around that list for much longer than they ought. Knocked off two senior thesis drafts over the weekend, and just finished a household task that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where Am I?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-am-i/"/>
<updated>2005-04-04T12:41:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-am-i/</id>
<content type="html">Why, roughly 34.095, -117.719.[1] Of course.<br />
I’ve gotten a new toy in the last few days, and I’m just the teeniest bit obsessed with it: the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Illustration, If You Needed One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-illustration-if-you-needed-one/"/>
<updated>2005-04-03T12:10:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-illustration-if-you-needed-one/</id>
<content type="html">So, moved as I was yesterday by the solemn, sonorous tolling of the bells at the church just a block from me, whose bell tower I can see from my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-holy-catholic-and-apostolic-church/"/>
<updated>2005-04-02T17:39:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-holy-catholic-and-apostolic-church/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent the morning sitting on my balcony reading student papers and enjoying the quiet. The church two blocks from me had been ringing its bells for about two minutes before I realized that it wasn’t noon, and wasn’t Sunday, and there wasn’t a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RIP, So to Speak</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rip-so-to-speak/"/>
<updated>2005-04-02T16:22:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rip-so-to-speak/</id>
<content type="html">I report with heavy heart that my right second toenail passed from this world yesterday morning, 1 April 2005, at approximately 10.15 am, Pacific time. Friends and family were by its side as it found, at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Aw, Shucks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aw-shucks/"/>
<updated>2005-04-01T13:48:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aw-shucks/</id>
<content type="html">Support has been coming to me from all over in the last few days, from Eric’s comment on the original whiny post, to Jason’s comment on the followup, to several email messages and conversations with colleagues and friends. Most moving to me in all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Saga of the Toenail</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-saga-of-the-toenail/"/>
<updated>2005-04-01T04:10:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-saga-of-the-toenail/</id>
<content type="html">So it’s clearly time to stop thinking about all this pointless, whiny nonsense about my “career,” and whether or not any recent markers of “success” or “failure” indicate that perhaps I’ve made some colossal “miscalculation” about whether I was in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Regrets</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/regrets/"/>
<updated>2005-03-31T03:30:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/regrets/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve never deleted a post from the site before, and somehow I can’t quite bring myself to do so now. But I am moving the previous post below the fold, because I don’t want to have to look at it. I feel like a real schmuck, and I need to find a way...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Utterly Self-Indulgent Moment of Whining</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-utterly-self-indulgent-moment-of-whining/"/>
<updated>2005-03-30T18:33:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-utterly-self-indulgent-moment-of-whining/</id>
<content type="html">[UPDATE, 3.30.05, 10.30 pm: Post moved below fold. Details in post to follow.]<br />
How do you cope with having a colleague who has been crowned the official poster-boy for Research Super-Geniusness when you can’t get anybody to pay attention to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Package Tracking via RSS</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/package-tracking-via-rss/"/>
<updated>2005-03-30T03:13:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/package-tracking-via-rss/</id>
<content type="html">This may be just about the coolest thing ever:<br />
<br />
We are pleased to announce our newest feature, package tracking. Now, you can have Bloglines track the status of your UPS,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And the Moral of the Story Is</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is/"/>
<updated>2005-03-29T17:45:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-the-moral-of-the-story-is/</id>
<content type="html">Be careful who you ask to write your papers for you.<br />
Better yet, write them yourself! It’s far less trouble.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Almost Familiar</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/almost-familiar/"/>
<updated>2005-03-29T02:43:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/almost-familiar/</id>
<content type="html">On the way home tonight, I heard a DJ on KCRW refer to a new film that’s out as “a story replete with sex and cultural theory.”<br />
And after I stopped laughing, the first...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Skeev Factor</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-skeev-factor/"/>
<updated>2005-03-28T14:05:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-skeev-factor/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, the world is determined to leave me running around with a permanent case of the willies. Last night I went to the grocery store, and you know how they print those coupons at the end of ringing you up, tailored to the kind of stuff you’re...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lines, Fine and Not-So-Fine</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lines-fine-and-not-so-fine/"/>
<updated>2005-03-27T14:59:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lines-fine-and-not-so-fine/</id>
<content type="html">Where is the line between being that cool professor who shows up to student events and that skeezy professor who used to be cool but still shows up to stuff? Is it 40? Tenure? Marriage?<br />
Wherever the line lies — and it’s a preciously fine...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Probably the Dumbest Tech-Related Question Ever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/probably-the-dumbest-tech-related-question-ever/"/>
<updated>2005-03-24T22:01:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/probably-the-dumbest-tech-related-question-ever/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s the thing: I’ve resisted the whole syndication wave for eons. I’ve provided various feeds for this site, mostly because the software made it really easy, but also because I knew there were folks out there who I wanted to keep up with the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogrolling Problem</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogrolling-problem/"/>
<updated>2005-03-24T20:01:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogrolling-problem/</id>
<content type="html">Why are my blogrolling.com pings suddenly producing database errors? There, I mean, not here. Other folks’s blogs are showing up as updated in my blogroll; is this retribution for the Foghat debacle?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Do Rock Hard, But Not That Hard</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-do-rock-hard-but-not-that-hard/"/>
<updated>2005-03-24T15:46:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-do-rock-hard-but-not-that-hard/</id>
<content type="html">From my pal BT, comes word of a dangerous ripple in the blog/reality interface. A couple of weeks ago, after my back-self-patting assertion of my general rockin’ status, BT generously</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The State of the Blog</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-blog/"/>
<updated>2005-03-22T12:41:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-blog/</id>
<content type="html">GZombie wrote a few days ago about his concern that his blog had jumped the shark, and I’ve got to admit, I’ve been wondering something of the same thing about Planned Obsolescence over...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Confessions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/confessions/"/>
<updated>2005-03-18T11:11:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/confessions/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been watching since the beginning of the year, I think — yes, in fact, my first sighting was Liz back on January 4 — as first one and then another of my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>So Far, So Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/so-far-so-good-2/"/>
<updated>2005-03-16T12:21:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/so-far-so-good-2/</id>
<content type="html">Break has thus far been a great thing, though I’m appalled, as always, by the speed with which it is rushing past. I’m holed up here in NoVa working my way through the book, trying to clarify a couple of key points. Exhaustion, though, or at least...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Break!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/break/"/>
<updated>2005-03-12T14:45:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/break/</id>
<content type="html">The good news first: I’ve finally gotten close to caught up on sleep. I’ve managed to get through almost all of the dumb administrative tasks that have landed on my desk in the last two weeks. And it’s officially spring break, so I’m packing up...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/delayed-onset-muscle-soreness/"/>
<updated>2005-03-08T22:24:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/delayed-onset-muscle-soreness/</id>
<content type="html">Oh, yeah. Things that felt perfectly fine 48 hours ago are now whining and complaining. And my knees look like water balloons. And I feel as though I could crawl into bed and stay there for a couple of days, given the opportunity. But other than...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thanks</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thanks/"/>
<updated>2005-03-07T16:35:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thanks/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks, everybody, for the kind congrats. They mean a lot. Particularly being compared to Foghat. Man, I haven’t even thought about Foghat in a decade, at least.<br />
Thanks, too, to Ogged for his</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How It Went</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-it-went/"/>
<updated>2005-03-06T20:32:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-it-went/</id>
<content type="html">Before I go collapse, a quick update. I had three goals set for the marathon (whose name I am able to speak for the first time in two weeks):<br />
— The fairly-likely-to-make-it goal: just finishing.<br />
— The if-everything-goes-well goal:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Carbolicious</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/carbolicious/"/>
<updated>2005-03-05T18:10:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/carbolicious/</id>
<content type="html">There are not many moments in this post-Atkins world in which I can indulge in my most favored comfort food — macaroni and cheese — utterly without guilt.<br />
I am having one of those moments. And...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Synchronicity</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/synchronicity/"/>
<updated>2005-03-02T03:35:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/synchronicity/</id>
<content type="html">I remember these lovely moments from college, moments that continued into grad school, though without quite the wonder they’d earlier produced. Moments at which it seemed that all my classes were suddenly speaking to one another, and I’d get a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Marcus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-marcus/"/>
<updated>2005-02-24T13:00:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-marcus/</id>
<content type="html">My great friend Marcus, who has popped up around these parts periodically, has finally launched his own site, MarcusMcAllister.com. There you can see a wide range of Marcus’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Leaky</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/leaky/"/>
<updated>2005-02-22T17:26:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/leaky/</id>
<content type="html">The leak in my garage continues unabated, through three plumbers who can’t seem to figure out what the problem is, when I keep telling them that the leak isn’t coming from my condo, it’s only ending up in my condo. They run my...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 14</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-14/"/>
<updated>2005-02-20T22:51:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-14/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 16 (was meant to be 28)<br />
Number of run days: 2 (was meant to be 4)<br />
Long run for week: 13<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: I’m tired. Seriously tired. And overstressed. And tired. I made it through my 13 today, though...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Editing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/editing/"/>
<updated>2005-02-20T13:49:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/editing/</id>
<content type="html">Is it a problem to have produced a 6800-word outline for a 5000-word essay?<br />
(The good news is that I somewhat arbitrarily set the word-limit myself, so I can probably violate it at will. The other good news is that the essay is, by and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Weekend</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-weekend/"/>
<updated>2005-02-17T13:51:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-weekend/</id>
<content type="html">Things that must get done in the next four days:<br />
— Write 5000-word essay on critical methodologies in literary interpretation for Intro to Literature anthology.<br />
— Comment on senior thesis chapter.<br />
— Grade second batch of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Must. Write. Again.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/must-write-again/"/>
<updated>2005-02-16T03:18:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/must-write-again/</id>
<content type="html">‘Djever have one of those days where you find yourself expending energy trying to make everybody happy and only succeed in pissing everybody off?<br />
Yeah, me neither.<br />
A colleague of mine who’s been reading around in here noted the other...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Word to the Wise</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/word-to-the-wise/"/>
<updated>2005-02-14T12:24:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/word-to-the-wise/</id>
<content type="html">If you have one of those weekends where you have a big pile of work to do — say, a couple of books to read and a stack of papers to grade — and intend to do something ridiculous like run 17 miles on Sunday, don’t leave half of the work undone on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 13</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-13/"/>
<updated>2005-02-13T18:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-13/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 29<br />
Number of run days: 4<br />
Long run for week: 17<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: I just got back in from that 17, so this is probably not the best taking-stock moment ever — but good gravy, everything hurts. The 17...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ahhhhhh...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ahhhhhh/"/>
<updated>2005-02-12T22:29:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ahhhhhh/</id>
<content type="html">I was just about to head out the door to a party a few minutes ago, when I got a phone call from James Earl Jones telling me that my DSL was ready.<br />
It’s the most remarkable thing: I click on links, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Plea for Geek Advice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-plea-for-geek-advice/"/>
<updated>2005-02-12T13:52:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-plea-for-geek-advice/</id>
<content type="html">If you’re still reading after that title, thanks already.<br />
Here’s the deal: For the last two and a half years, I’ve been living in campus housing, in which pretty much every room was hardwired onto the campus network. There was thus no...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kernel Panic</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/kernel-panic/"/>
<updated>2005-02-11T16:43:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/kernel-panic/</id>
<content type="html">So, my first-generation flat-panel iMac at home crashed this morning, for the first time in at least a year. I’d rebooted the machine about three weeks ago, but only because of the move; unless I’m updating software, there’s never any reason for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s Going On</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-going-on/"/>
<updated>2005-02-08T16:04:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-going-on/</id>
<content type="html">Things that have been happening of late, or are happening in my immediate future, that prevent me from doing any substantive writing, a fact which is beginning to make me chafe a bit, but that ought to be ameliorated in the days to come:<br />
—...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 12</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-12/"/>
<updated>2005-02-06T18:21:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-12/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 17 (was meant to be 11+)<br />
Number of run days: 3<br />
Long run for week: 10 (wasn’t specified; was meant to be a tune-up race)<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: Ay. The 14-miler of last Sunday left me a bit more battered...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update Number Two: The Contract</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/update-number-two-the-contract/"/>
<updated>2005-02-04T16:32:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/update-number-two-the-contract/</id>
<content type="html">I’d heard this was coming about a week and a half ago, but like the Jewish taboo on pre-birth baby gifts, I couldn’t celebrate it until hard copy was well in hand: I have a contract for my book!<br />
I don’t have an estimated publication date...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update Number One: The Condo</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/update-number-one-the-condo/"/>
<updated>2005-02-03T19:51:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/update-number-one-the-condo/</id>
<content type="html">So, for my first update on old business: I’m entirely settled into the condo, though I’ve spent even less time there over the last week than I did before the movers showed up. Things are almost entirely unpacked, with the exception of my workspace...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Is Not What I Need</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-is-not-what-i-need/"/>
<updated>2005-02-01T15:51:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-is-not-what-i-need/</id>
<content type="html">So I arrived at work this morning to discover that an old class blog of mine got hit overnight with a cluster bomb of comment and trackback spam. And, alas, it’s running on MT 2.6, so I’m having to go through and delete and close comments and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 11</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-11/"/>
<updated>2005-01-30T15:44:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-11/</id>
<content type="html">Wait, hold up. Week 11? What happened to weeks 9 and 10?<br />
You don’t want to know.<br />
Um, in fact, yes. Yes, I do.<br />
*Sigh.* Week 9 started well. I had four runs...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Newsflash: Blogs Moving into Academia!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/newsflash-blogs-moving-into-academia/"/>
<updated>2005-01-24T23:03:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/newsflash-blogs-moving-into-academia/</id>
<content type="html">I just received this via my pals at Educause:<br />
<br />
BLOGS MOVING INTO ACADEMIA<br />
On a number of campuses in the United Kingdom, blogs have begun to migrate from the technology fringes to the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Other Thing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-other-thing/"/>
<updated>2005-01-19T14:14:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-other-thing/</id>
<content type="html">The other thing is that moving makes it completely impossible to do anything else other than move. Because I can’t find any of the stuff that I need to do it with.<br />
Posting’s likely to be a little light here for a while, given that (1) I’m...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Theorem</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/theorem/"/>
<updated>2005-01-16T20:57:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/theorem/</id>
<content type="html">It takes moving to demonstrate to yourself how bad a housekeeper you really are.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Moving Rohrschach Test</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-moving-rohrschach-test/"/>
<updated>2005-01-13T14:45:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-moving-rohrschach-test/</id>
<content type="html">Two parts:<br />
1. You’re about to move house, and you’re dying to be in your new digs. You’re lucky enough to have access to the new place a full week before you really have to be out of the old place, so you figure you’ll schlep some stuff...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 8</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-8/"/>
<updated>2005-01-10T22:15:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-8/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 4 (was meant to be 20)<br />
Number of run days: 1 (was meant to be 4)<br />
Long run for week: 4 (was meant to be 8)<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: Abort! Abort! Abort! This was a disastrous week, beginning with the bloody...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Adventures in Travel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-adventures-in-travel/"/>
<updated>2005-01-08T23:09:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-adventures-in-travel/</id>
<content type="html">Why is it that I invariably return from a big trip with some crazy travel saga? And why is it that so many of those sagas revolve around Washington, DC? I’m only halfway back to SoCal now, and so probably shouldn’t yet start telling the tale, as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Some People Never Learn</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/some-people-never-learn/"/>
<updated>2005-01-07T15:26:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/some-people-never-learn/</id>
<content type="html">It’s not as if I didn’t have prior evidence to go on; no, me, I apparently need repeated confirmation of the fact that the Sour Apple Martini is Not My Friend.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wow.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wow/"/>
<updated>2005-01-06T15:58:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wow/</id>
<content type="html">Take that, LJ-hating-type snobs.<br />
Or that, or</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Alias, Season 4</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/alias-season-4/"/>
<updated>2005-01-06T13:45:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/alias-season-4/</id>
<content type="html">So how much you wanna bet that this APO thing turns out to have some super-secret evil underside? Because just like that Vadik/Tomazaki guy says, the best place to hide evil-doing is right out there in the open. And how much more unsubtle can you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>As a Demonstration of How Much Work I&#39;ve Gotten Done Today</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/as-a-demonstration-of-how-much-work-ive-gotten-done-today/"/>
<updated>2005-01-04T18:19:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/as-a-demonstration-of-how-much-work-ive-gotten-done-today/</id>
<content type="html">I’m contemplating a switch from Safari to Firefox, but am hampered by the fact that This Very Site displays crappily therein. The top banner here is composed of a DIV with a background color of the blue you see at left, and said DIV contains a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Things Might Be a Little Quiet Around Here for the Next Few Days, Gods Willing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-things-might-be-a-little-quiet-around-here-for-the-next-few-days-gods-willing/"/>
<updated>2005-01-04T14:14:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-things-might-be-a-little-quiet-around-here-for-the-next-few-days-gods-willing/</id>
<content type="html">Though what I really need to do, as G Zombie suggests, is lighten up on my blog reading, rather than writing, which has already become pretty desultory as it is, I nonetheless...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Utilities</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/utilities/"/>
<updated>2005-01-03T12:23:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/utilities/</id>
<content type="html">So here’s the good news: the utilities transferred easily; everything will be in my name as of tomorrow, no sweat.<br />
But there’s one little complication left to be dealt with: the phone. Last time I had a non-college phone, there was no...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 7</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-7/"/>
<updated>2005-01-03T11:27:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-7/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 26<br />
Number of run days: 5<br />
Long run for week: 10<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: Oh, man. What doesn’t hurt? I did my first ten-miler yesterday (admittedly interspersed with short walking breaks), and the run was...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Time, Last Year</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-time-last-year/"/>
<updated>2005-01-01T14:52:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-time-last-year/</id>
<content type="html">Last New Year’s Eve, I spent some time counting my blessings over a big pot of gumbo and an Angel marathon, and then spent the first day...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stupid Bloody Toe</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stupid-bloody-toe/"/>
<updated>2004-12-30T16:44:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stupid-bloody-toe/</id>
<content type="html">Sigh. I just finished today’s run, which was harder than I’d have liked, mostly because of the vast quantities of beer and ice cream I consumed yesterday in celebration of my official entry into the ranks of the real-estate-owning bourgeoisie. But...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Procrastination</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-procrastination/"/>
<updated>2004-12-29T16:37:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-procrastination/</id>
<content type="html">What I’m supposed to be doing during break:<br />
<br />
Updating a grant proposal for our development folks<br />
Finishing the Media Studies program’s self-study report<br />
Finishing a long-overdue article on Richard...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something That Can&#39;t Reflect Too Well On Me, I&#39;m Sure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/something-that-cant-reflect-too-well-on-me-im-sure/"/>
<updated>2004-12-29T14:41:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/something-that-cant-reflect-too-well-on-me-im-sure/</id>
<content type="html">Why is it that, at the same time I’m reading a story in which it’s announced that the death toll in the South Asian earthquake and tsunami now tops 80,000, and is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Susan Sontag, 1933-2004</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/susan-sontag-1933-2004/"/>
<updated>2004-12-28T18:22:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/susan-sontag-1933-2004/</id>
<content type="html">According to the New York Times, Susan Sontag died today of complications from acute myelogenous...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Feature: Gallery</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-feature-gallery/"/>
<updated>2004-12-28T16:18:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-feature-gallery/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been poking around all day in the recent upgrade to ExpressionEngine, which I installed yesterday. The major add-on in this release is a new image gallery module, which I’ve decided to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 6</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-6/"/>
<updated>2004-12-26T22:05:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-6/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 24<br />
Number of run days: 5<br />
Long run for week: 8<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: I’m much too blown up from that eight-miler, which I just did a couple of hours ago, to have any real sense of how I’m doing. I got all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merry Merry</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/merry-merry/"/>
<updated>2004-12-25T17:45:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/merry-merry/</id>
<content type="html">Hear that?<br />
…<br />
That is the sound of the complete absence of my family from the immediate vicinity. Let’s all just enjoy it for a minute, shall we?<br />
…<br />
Ahhhh.<br />
I’m sitting in the President’s Club in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 5</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-5/"/>
<updated>2004-12-20T16:28:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-5/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 21<br />
Number of run days: 4<br />
Long run for week: 7<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: This was supposed to be a 22-mile, 5-run day week, but the grading and the condo and the travel and the family interfered, so I took two...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Done!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/done/"/>
<updated>2004-12-17T04:27:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/done/</id>
<content type="html">Well, finished, at least. Grades are turned in, and everything that needed to get read got read (and please don’t ask me to be more specific about that). And just in the nick of time, as I’m now madly doing a last load of laundry and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Something You Don&#39;t Want to Hear Five Hours Before Your Walk-Through</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-five-hours-before-your-walk-through/"/>
<updated>2004-12-16T13:06:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/something-you-dont-want-to-hear-five-hours-before-your-walk-through/</id>
<content type="html">“KF? This is A., from the O. Company? I know you’re coming in at one o’clock today, and I’m just calling to let you know that we had a little leak in your unit last night, but there was no damage. We just want everything to be up front. It was the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Updated Count</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/updated-count/"/>
<updated>2004-12-15T01:37:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/updated-count/</id>
<content type="html">(11 x 100-page screenplays) + (8 x 20-page term papers) = two very long days before I leave town<br />
<br />
[UPDATE to the Update, 12.11 am, 12.15.04: 3 term papers remain. I’ve had much caffeine, and so may attempt to press...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Not to Get It Done</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-get-it-done/"/>
<updated>2004-12-13T14:39:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-not-to-get-it-done/</id>
<content type="html">First, figure out how much of it there is to do:<br />
<br />
(11 x 100-page screenplays) + (25 x 20-page term papers) + (4 x remaining grad-school recommendation letters) = Holy Effing Crap<br />
<br />
Find yourself so daunted by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 4</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-4/"/>
<updated>2004-12-12T17:01:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-4/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 15<br />
Number of run days: 5<br />
Long run for week: 3<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: This was a lower-mileage week designed to get me over the hump from running four days a week to running five. It went okay, though that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 13:&amp;nbsp; Small Things</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-13-small-things/"/>
<updated>2004-12-06T16:35:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-13-small-things/</id>
<content type="html">As I expected, work is continuing apace on the condo, but the changes, though significant, are mostly small. There are some larger things happening, such as the installation of the bathroom counters and sinks (witness here the righthand side of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-3/"/>
<updated>2004-12-05T14:24:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-3/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 18<br />
Number of run days: 4<br />
Long run for week: 6<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: Ach. Mostly I’m just tired and a bit grumpy. But I’ve been having a little trouble with my hips and lower back, so I’ve had to step up...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 12: The Late-Night, Too-Sleepy Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-12-the-late-night-too-sleepy-edition/"/>
<updated>2004-11-30T03:20:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-12-the-late-night-too-sleepy-edition/</id>
<content type="html">Let the general whining about being too busy to post commence: I’ve been too busy to post today.<br />
But the whining is too boring even to me, and so I’ll just call a halt to it there.<br />
Except to say that one of the things that I was also...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-2/"/>
<updated>2004-11-29T00:33:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-2/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 16<br />
Number of run days: 4<br />
Long run for week: 5<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: None, really. A bit tired, but that’s mostly the travel, and the overeating. It’s astonishing how much difference lugging an extra three...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>For the Blessings We Are About to Receive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/for-the-blessings-we-are-about-to-receive/"/>
<updated>2004-11-26T09:56:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/for-the-blessings-we-are-about-to-receive/</id>
<content type="html">Despite last year’s suspicion that this year’s Thanksgiving would be spent with my family, at the usual New Jersey Italian feast, things changed. My mother decided to stay in Louisiana; my sister decided to join...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 11: The Kitchen</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-11-the-kitchen/"/>
<updated>2004-11-22T14:02:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-11-the-kitchen/</id>
<content type="html">I walked down to check on the condo’s progress yesterday afternoon, and stumbled across a colleague, who came to check the place out with me. This was the first time that anyone other than R. has seen the joint, so I was pleased when I discovered...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-1/"/>
<updated>2004-11-21T15:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-1/</id>
<content type="html">Mileage for week: 15<br />
Number of run days: 4<br />
Long run for week: 4<br />
Aches, pains, complaints: A little tired, but that’s got far less to do with the running than it does with the insanity of this week’s work schedule. The running,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>One Website to Rule Them All</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/one-website-to-rule-them-all/"/>
<updated>2004-11-18T13:25:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/one-website-to-rule-them-all/</id>
<content type="html">As if enough of my life weren’t already spent googling, there now comes — and I kid you not — Google Scholar, wherein one can ostensibly search for scholarly literature, including “peer-reviewed papers,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Um... Excuse Me?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/um-excuse-me/"/>
<updated>2004-11-18T00:06:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/um-excuse-me/</id>
<content type="html">So I walk out of the building tonight on my way home to find that the intersection I have to walk through at College and Sixth is cordoned off, and surrounded by fire trucks and cops and campus safety and all kinds of other nervous looking guys....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The State of the Profession</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-profession/"/>
<updated>2004-11-17T22:21:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-state-of-the-profession/</id>
<content type="html">Via George (and, as he points out, a host of sources before him), the Guardian’s article, Cracks in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 10: The Arrival of the Cabinets</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-10-the-arrival-of-the-cabinets/"/>
<updated>2004-11-15T13:31:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-10-the-arrival-of-the-cabinets/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, that’s right: the cabinets are in!<br />
In a big pile in the living room, that is:<br />
<br />
There also begin to be doors, much like this one, which leads to the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Log, Week 0</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-0/"/>
<updated>2004-11-14T18:05:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-log-week-0/</id>
<content type="html">Actual marathon training begins tomorrow; this week was a so-called “base” week, making sure that all was in shape for the gradually intensifying training of the next 16 weeks. I’m hoping that reporting in here will keep me honest and on-track,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Lucky Am I?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-lucky-am-i/"/>
<updated>2004-11-12T22:16:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-lucky-am-i/</id>
<content type="html">This lucky: I had a mildly crappy day yesterday, and was feeling sorry for myself, and so R. bought a plane ticket to fly down to Atlanta and hang out with me for the weekend.<br />
I’ve got the best boy ever. That’s seriously lucky.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>World on Fire</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/world-on-fire/"/>
<updated>2004-11-11T15:30:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/world-on-fire/</id>
<content type="html">I’m a little more than a month behind the zeitgeist, apparently, but I just got a link to Sarah McLachlan’s World on Fire video, and want to point any of you who haven’t seen it yet toward it. McLachlan...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Greeting from the Panopticon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/greeting-from-the-panopticon/"/>
<updated>2004-11-11T01:53:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/greeting-from-the-panopticon/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve arrived and checked into the Atlanta Hyatt Regency. Forgive me for what follows; it’s a deeply unprofessional conference entry, but for whatever reason, it occurred to me as I was walking to my room, and I can’t shake the idea.<br />
Now, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ick</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ick/"/>
<updated>2004-11-10T13:04:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ick/</id>
<content type="html">You know that feeling where you’re eating in a restaurant, and you bite into a piece of stir-fried chicken, and you can immediately tell that it’s been insufficiently stir-fried, and all you can think of is how you have to travel tomorrow, and you...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Atlanta Bound</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/atlanta-bound/"/>
<updated>2004-11-08T01:55:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/atlanta-bound/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just completed a draft of the paper I’ll be giving at next weekend’s American Studies Association conference in Atlanta. It’s on the relationship between simulation and empiricism in</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Running Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/running-again/"/>
<updated>2004-11-06T13:03:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/running-again/</id>
<content type="html">Seven years ago, I did something pretty astonishing, for me, something I never thought I’d be able to accomplish: I ran the New York Marathon. I finished a good bit slower than I wanted to, in no small...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The View From There</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-view-from-there/"/>
<updated>2004-11-04T12:28:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-view-from-there/</id>
<content type="html">Rory’s posted his take on all things U.S.-electoral, and it’s absolutely mesmerizing. Almost dizzying.<br />
There’s something about the graphic, too, that makes me wonder if the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rethinking</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rethinking/"/>
<updated>2004-11-03T14:04:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rethinking/</id>
<content type="html">So, I’ve done a bit of reading, and a bit of thinking, and taken a nice shower, and cleared my head a bit. And I’ve got two somewhat contradictory things to say now.<br />
The first is that I now understand, viscerally, how my American Government...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Toronto is Definitely My Kinda Town</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/toronto-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/"/>
<updated>2004-11-03T10:31:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/toronto-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/</id>
<content type="html">I hear Vancouver’s very nice, too.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Vote Early and Often</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/vote-early-and-often/"/>
<updated>2004-11-02T12:02:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/vote-early-and-often/</id>
<content type="html">By which invocation of the ethos of my former home, I do not mean to invite voter fraud. Nothing of the sort. Merely some good advice: get to the polls early, when lines are shortest, and vote every time you have the opportunity.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Long-Distance?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-long-distance/"/>
<updated>2004-11-01T15:49:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-long-distance/</id>
<content type="html">Something I forgot to mention: the state of Vermont was so welcoming that it simply did not want me to leave. Or something. The result may have been the most bipolar travel day I’ve ever had, bouncing between panic and relief, fury and amazement,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 9: Long-Distance Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-9-long-distance-edition/"/>
<updated>2004-11-01T14:15:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-9-long-distance-edition/</id>
<content type="html">Last time we popped by the soon-to-be homestead, we discovered that the stuccoing had begun.<br />
<br />
In fact, the building was frozen in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Vermont of the Mind</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-vermont-of-the-mind/"/>
<updated>2004-10-29T16:32:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-vermont-of-the-mind/</id>
<content type="html">Greetings from Vermont.<br />
<br />
I’m here for a Mellon-sponsored workshop on Cinema and Media...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Boston Is Definitely My Kinda Town</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/boston-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/"/>
<updated>2004-10-28T07:42:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/boston-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/</id>
<content type="html">It’s 4.24 am as I begin this entry. I’m sitting in the Ontario (California; you have no idea how many times I’ve been asked for my passport when trying to fly here) airport, availing myself of the free wi-fi, feeling mighty blessed, the hour...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Andrew Sullivan, &#39;Why I Am Supporting John Kerry&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/andrew-sullivan-why-i-am-supporting-john-kerry/"/>
<updated>2004-10-27T16:08:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/andrew-sullivan-why-i-am-supporting-john-kerry/</id>
<content type="html">And I say unto you, holy moly.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Protecting Your Right to Vote</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/protecting-your-right-to-vote/"/>
<updated>2004-10-27T13:23:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/protecting-your-right-to-vote/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just gotten an email message from my pals at MoveOn.org about dealing with potential voting rights infringements next Tuesday, and while I expect that many of the like-minded readers of this site already get...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More Meta-Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-meta-blogging/"/>
<updated>2004-10-25T13:12:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-meta-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s something odd: a screenshot of my recent keyword analysis, looking at what searches have brought folks hither, from yon.<br />
(image missing)<br />
I’m trying to decide whether to be heartened by this. It’s got to be good news, right,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Out of the Garden</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-garden/"/>
<updated>2004-10-25T09:37:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-garden/</id>
<content type="html">This weekend, I discovered and zapped the first two pieces of this (dare not even to mention the name) that have appeared here since the migration. I’ve zapped, as I said, and I’ve updated the blacklist. But now...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Chalk One up for My Powers of Prediction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/chalk-one-up-for-my-powers-of-prediction/"/>
<updated>2004-10-20T22:55:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/chalk-one-up-for-my-powers-of-prediction/</id>
<content type="html">I’m pleased to admit, here (the Internet) and now (approximately 7.55 pm, Wednesday, October 20), that I declared the ALCS “over” last Saturday, after the Yankees went up 3-0 in the series, having shellacked the Sox 19 to 8.<br />
I’ll also...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I Did During My Fall Break</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-i-did-during-my-fall-break/"/>
<updated>2004-10-19T11:59:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-i-did-during-my-fall-break/</id>
<content type="html">It’s actually not yet over, fall break, that glorious moment marking the halfway point of the semester. It’s brief, a mere two days, but if (like me) you already don’t teach on Friday, having Monday and Tuesday off can result in a beautiful...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sara Paretsky, Blacklist</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sara-paretsky-blacklist/"/>
<updated>2004-10-19T00:14:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sara-paretsky-blacklist/</id>
<content type="html">At last! I’m posting! About a book! A book I read! For fun!<br />
I bought Sara Paretsky’s Blacklist in the airport bookstore as I was departing for Sussex. I also picked up James Lee Burke’s Last Car to Elysian Fields. I devoured them both, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Wire</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-wire/"/>
<updated>2004-10-18T22:50:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-wire/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, so no shock: it’s an HBO Sunday night drama, and I’m there. I have to say, though, The Wire started out a little rockily for me in the first season–so many characters, so many streetnames, so hard to keep everybody straight–but I nonetheless...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ron Suskind, &#39;Without a Doubt&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ron-suskind-without-a-doubt/"/>
<updated>2004-10-18T22:34:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ron-suskind-without-a-doubt/</id>
<content type="html">I recognize that I’m the million-and-oneth blogger to link to this, but for all our sakes, if you haven’t yet read it, go read Ron Suskind’s New York Times Sunday Magazine profile of Dubya. It’s astonishing, to say the least.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 8: Fall Break Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-8-fall-break-edition/"/>
<updated>2004-10-18T14:03:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-8-fall-break-edition/</id>
<content type="html">This past week we experienced three major developments in the land of condo construction. First, of course, the officially sanctioned walk-through with the construction manager; I’d expected all to be pretty much as I’d left it three days before,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moore and Moore Odd</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moore-and-moore-odd/"/>
<updated>2004-10-17T17:44:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moore-and-moore-odd/</id>
<content type="html">The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, yesterday published a lovely editorial about the role of Michael Moore in contemporary political discourse. And I’m thrilled...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kerry Didn&#39;t Gay-Bait</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/kerry-didnt-gay-bait/"/>
<updated>2004-10-16T13:34:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/kerry-didnt-gay-bait/</id>
<content type="html">The key argument is in the subtitle: He used Mary Cheney to shame Bush for gay-baiting. On Slate, by Timothy Noah. (Via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Big?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-big/"/>
<updated>2004-10-16T13:07:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-big/</id>
<content type="html">In the event you’re the last person on the planet who hasn’t seen this clip (and don’t worry — I’m quite sure I was second-to-last), go watch this: Jon Stewart on Crossfire....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Killers, Hot Fuss</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-killers-hot-fuss/"/>
<updated>2004-10-15T17:03:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-killers-hot-fuss/</id>
<content type="html">Worth checking out if you haven’t yet. Not un-Strokes-like.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Call to Action</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-call-to-action/"/>
<updated>2004-10-13T12:44:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-call-to-action/</id>
<content type="html">So I was poking around a bit on the FCC website today, trying to come up with some more information about their regulation of calls to action. The closest I was able to come up with was the 1986</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Radio</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-radio/"/>
<updated>2004-10-12T20:24:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-radio/</id>
<content type="html">One of my students had been asking me for a few weeks if I’d appear on his Monday-night call-in show at the college’s radio station, and I have to admit that I was dragging my feet a bit about the whole thing, partly because of the hour (he...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 7: Inside Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-7-inside-edition/"/>
<updated>2004-10-11T14:54:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-7-inside-edition/</id>
<content type="html">It was a big weekend for condo picture-taking. R. and I wandered over Sunday morning after breakfast, camera at the ready, and found that the building next to ours has not only been fully stuccoed but is also mostly painted. Our building’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Feeling Wretched</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/feeling-wretched/"/>
<updated>2004-10-11T00:39:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/feeling-wretched/</id>
<content type="html">Reading Fanon for tomorrow’s class, and finding it all a bit alarmingly familiar, this year:<br />
<br />
The...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jacques-derrida-1930-2004/"/>
<updated>2004-10-09T14:27:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jacques-derrida-1930-2004/</id>
<content type="html">Word comes this morning of the death of Jacques Derrida, and the summing-up-the-career obituaries are coming fast and furious. Says the BBC:<br />
<br />
Fellow academics have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Did Dick Cheney Break the Law on 9/11?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/did-dick-cheney-break-the-law-on-911/"/>
<updated>2004-10-06T00:07:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/did-dick-cheney-break-the-law-on-911/</id>
<content type="html">Salon’s War Room [yeah, yeah; subscription or ad-viewing required] reports this evening on a story set to appear in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 6: The Tuesday Morning Edition</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-6-the-tuesday-morning-edition/"/>
<updated>2004-10-05T12:10:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-6-the-tuesday-morning-edition/</id>
<content type="html">Ah, at last: the stars have aligned, the cables are plugged in, and my schedule has a free moment in it, allowing for a brief return to the subject of my obsession, real estate.<br />
To begin, I’ll give you a few quick shots of the building as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Survived</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-survived/"/>
<updated>2004-10-01T14:47:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-survived/</id>
<content type="html">Did you?<br />
The entire experience was excruciating. I bit my nails, pulled my hair, screamed at the screen, covered my face with my hands. Afterward, I was drained, but it still took hours to get my blood pressure back down to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Updating AutoUpdate</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/updating-autoupdate/"/>
<updated>2004-09-28T12:09:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/updating-autoupdate/</id>
<content type="html">From the logic of Redmond:<br />
<br />
This update fixes an error in the AutoUpdate download progress bar, which did not accurately display the progress...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 5</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-5/"/>
<updated>2004-09-27T16:07:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-5/</id>
<content type="html">So now that I’m back in the land of connectivity —<br />
— well, I have to qualify that. Not long ago, we moved office, and when we arrived in our newly-refurbished, fabulously modern and yet not characterless...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Know What Would Be Cool?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-know-what-would-be-cool/"/>
<updated>2004-09-26T22:04:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-know-what-would-be-cool/</id>
<content type="html">If someone would write a script that would work with… well, let’s say, just hypothetically, a software package like ExpressionEngine, that would allow an author to take full advantage of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Life and Death in the Electronic Age</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/life-and-death-in-the-electronic-age/"/>
<updated>2004-09-25T13:37:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/life-and-death-in-the-electronic-age/</id>
<content type="html">[UPDATE, 06.15.07: Dude, where’s my content? There was a post here about some guy in Japan, I think, who’d been dead for something like eighteen months before anyone found out, because he had auto-bill-paying set up, along with other such...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>At Conference&#39;s End</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/at-conferences-end/"/>
<updated>2004-09-22T17:13:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/at-conferences-end/</id>
<content type="html">Above is the loveliest conference room I spent any time in during my four days on the University of Sussex campus. It is also the scene of the previously mentioned conference...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 5.2: Not Enough Less Grouchy to Really Be Posting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-52-not-enough-less-grouchy-to-really-be-posting/"/>
<updated>2004-09-21T06:44:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-52-not-enough-less-grouchy-to-really-be-posting/</id>
<content type="html">I wish I could say things were on an upswing. Here’s the good news: the panels I attended yesterday were, by and large, quite good; the two keynotes thus far (Ted Nelson and Sara Kiesler) were worthwhile; the shower had hot water this morning at 6...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 4: The Grouchy One Without Pictures</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-4-the-grouchy-one-without-pictures/"/>
<updated>2004-09-20T04:39:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-4-the-grouchy-one-without-pictures/</id>
<content type="html">This has not been the greatest morning in the history of conference attendance. I woke up late today, had to rush through my shower–which turns out to have been a blessing in disguise, like really really in disguise, as I ran out of hot...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 5.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-51/"/>
<updated>2004-09-19T09:24:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-51/</id>
<content type="html">Friday was travel day — SuperShuttle at 9.55 am; flight out of Ontario at 12.40 pm (yes, SuperShuttle requires the better part of three hours to get you 15 miles); arrival in Houston at 5.49 pm, followed by traditional GHWBIA sprint to 6.40 flight...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AOIR 5.0</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-50/"/>
<updated>2004-09-17T12:24:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-50/</id>
<content type="html">Off to Sussex. More from there, as connectivity allows.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 3, Only Two Weeks and One Day Late*</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-3-only-two-weeks-and-one-day-late/"/>
<updated>2004-09-13T20:45:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-3-only-two-weeks-and-one-day-late/</id>
<content type="html">You’d think I’d forgotten about this lovely feature, the way I’ve been not posting about the imminent condo. But two things serve to remind me to post something real-estate oriented today: first, my new digital camera arrived today. Thanks for all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>By the Numbers</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/by-the-numbers/"/>
<updated>2004-09-08T14:06:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/by-the-numbers/</id>
<content type="html">There’s an interesting analysis out from the Wall Street Journal showing the potential effects of the results from the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I&#39;ve Been Doing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-ive-been-doing/"/>
<updated>2004-09-07T22:26:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-ive-been-doing/</id>
<content type="html">— Chairing the Media Studies program, for the first time, which involves a significant increase in student advising and general administrative paperwork.<br />
— Beginning the ten-year self-study that Media Studies must this year conduct. I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pentagon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pentagon/"/>
<updated>2004-08-31T19:46:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pentagon/</id>
<content type="html">If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d be completely flipped out by this.<br />
Guess it’s a good thing I’m not.<br />
[Courtesy of my old pal Marc.]</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Manifesto of the PRKA</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-manifesto-of-the-prka/"/>
<updated>2004-08-30T19:24:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-manifesto-of-the-prka/</id>
<content type="html">Via Unfogged, George Saunders’s manifesto of the PRKA, or the People Reluctant to Kill for an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>To the Wonderful Folks Who&#39;ve Blogrolled Me</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/to-the-wonderful-folks-whove-blogrolled-me/"/>
<updated>2004-08-30T01:05:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/to-the-wonderful-folks-whove-blogrolled-me/</id>
<content type="html">Friends:<br />
For the last three months, I’ve manually pinged blogrolling.com every time I’ve updated, so that the old URL (</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ready, at Last</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ready-at-last/"/>
<updated>2004-08-29T20:20:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ready-at-last/</id>
<content type="html">Over the last several days, I’ve been madly building this semester’s course websites, and remembering, once again, why I adore Liz Lawley.<br />
I’ve branched...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Write Your Own Bush Acceptance Speech!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/write-your-own-bush-acceptance-speech/"/>
<updated>2004-08-27T00:13:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/write-your-own-bush-acceptance-speech/</id>
<content type="html">My good pals at Salon are holding a Be Bush’s Speechwriter contest, in which one can win a year of Salon Premium (plus other valuable prizes!) for writing the best 500-word acceptance...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Goodbye, Summer</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/goodbye-summer/"/>
<updated>2004-08-24T13:28:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/goodbye-summer/</id>
<content type="html">I’m sitting in an airport lounge, using the stupidly expensive wifi to post this entry, not least because it’s distracting me from the fact(s) that:<br />
<br />
I’m still a year older today, but the celebratory part is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging, vol. 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-2/"/>
<updated>2004-08-23T08:14:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging-vol-2/</id>
<content type="html">Of course, the builders of my new condo complex poured most of their attention for the first several months of construction into the buildings that house the models; of the loft-style buildings, two are complete. My building constituted the sixth...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The View From Here</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-view-from-here/"/>
<updated>2004-08-21T09:12:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-view-from-here/</id>
<content type="html">I left SoCal on Thursday, headed to DC for a little birthday-related celebration activity. Between the day of flying (in which one gets up at what R. refers to as zero-dark-thirty, gets on a plane, deplanes and runs across an airport to one’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Further Note</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-further-note/"/>
<updated>2004-08-21T09:10:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-further-note/</id>
<content type="html">This one’s particularly aimed at all you Mac geeks out there: My Powerbook (running 10.3.5) has suddenly started assigning bizarre icons to new documents. For instance: if I download a JPG, the PB assigns it an iPod icon. I downloaded a new copy...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Counts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-counts/"/>
<updated>2004-08-18T18:36:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-counts/</id>
<content type="html">There has been a series of conversations of late, both here and elsewhere, about the nature of academic work, whether sparked by anxieties about the impending end of the summer, or by the perception that we in the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Photoblogging the Old-Fashioned Way</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/photoblogging-the-old-fashioned-way/"/>
<updated>2004-08-17T10:28:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/photoblogging-the-old-fashioned-way/</id>
<content type="html">So here’s the part where I whine a bit about the process of building yesterday’s entry. I shall do this by delineating for you the steps involved in creating your own photoblog, the old-fashioned way:<br />
<br />
Take random pictures of your...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Monday Morning Condo Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging/"/>
<updated>2004-08-16T14:33:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/monday-morning-condo-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">Jake wrote me a while back to suggest that my condo-in-process might provide a useful opportunity for some photoblogging. Of course, as I’ll no doubt...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Got Good News, And I Got Bad News</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-got-good-news-and-i-got-bad-news/"/>
<updated>2004-08-15T22:48:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-got-good-news-and-i-got-bad-news/</id>
<content type="html">The good news: I found out this evening that I’ve got the Olympics in high-definition.<br />
The bad news? I’ve got the Olympics. In high-definition. 24 hours...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There&#39;ll Be a Load of Compromisin&#39;, on the Road to My Horizon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/therell-be-a-load-of-compromisin-on-the-road-to-my-horizon/"/>
<updated>2004-08-14T12:40:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/therell-be-a-load-of-compromisin-on-the-road-to-my-horizon/</id>
<content type="html">I cannot explain it.<br />
Not only that, I cannot imagine a reasonable explanation.<br />
But for the last twenty-four hours, I have been plagued by an endless loop of Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy.”<br />
Ordinarily, I can trace such an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The End of an Era</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-end-of-an-era/"/>
<updated>2004-08-13T13:59:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-end-of-an-era/</id>
<content type="html">Julia Child, the woman who single-handedly saved American cuisine, died yesterday at age 91.<br />
I suddenly need to go home,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Program Notes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/program-notes/"/>
<updated>2004-08-12T12:08:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/program-notes/</id>
<content type="html">Updates to the blogroll, at left; probably no further updates today, as I attempt to rectify the not-working situation noted yesterday. The fall looms.<br />
More soon.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Not-Working</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-not-working/"/>
<updated>2004-08-11T12:19:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-not-working/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a repeated refrain in my posts this summer: not-working, something I’ve been doing a lot of for the last two and a half...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lather.&amp;nbsp; Rinse.&amp;nbsp; Repeat.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lather-rinse-repeat/"/>
<updated>2004-08-10T10:16:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lather-rinse-repeat/</id>
<content type="html">Spent most of the day yesterday with R., as he negotiated the semi-treacherous waters of new-car purchasing. The genius part of his purchase was that the car isn’t new, per se; it’s a 2003, but it’s only got 4000 miles on it, having spent...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New Switch Campaign</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-switch-campaign/"/>
<updated>2004-08-09T13:23:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-switch-campaign/</id>
<content type="html">Courtesy of our friends at MoveOn.Org comes an updated version of Apple’s Switch campaign: a series of ads directed and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I Love Technology</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-i-love-technology/"/>
<updated>2004-08-08T16:59:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-i-love-technology/</id>
<content type="html">Because now, instead of having to set up an escape route with a friend, it can be automated (Salon.com; subscription or ad-viewing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Returning, Though Not Quite</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-returning-though-not-quite/"/>
<updated>2004-08-03T14:00:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-returning-though-not-quite/</id>
<content type="html">So aside from the connectivity issues, Hawaii was fantastic. But it got me out of the habit of writing, sad to say, and left me hopelessly behind on all my summer projects. Which, now that I’m back in SoCal, I’m madly attempting to catch up on. So...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Just a Word or Two Before I Go</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/just-a-word-or-two-before-i-go/"/>
<updated>2004-07-22T19:16:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/just-a-word-or-two-before-i-go/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve got about ten minutes of wi-fi left on yesterday’s nickel, so just a quick note about the book reviews I alluded to yesterday. I’ll be dropping them over there on the right once they’re ready; that sidebar is its own separate blog, one of the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Just Another Day in Paradise</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/just-another-day-in-paradise/"/>
<updated>2004-07-21T20:57:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/just-another-day-in-paradise/</id>
<content type="html">Internet access here in Wailea sucks. Which is the only bad thing I have to say about the place.<br />
These two factors together should serve as explanation for my silence. That, and if you imagine a really huge rum-based drink, you’ll start to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to the Origin</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-the-origin/"/>
<updated>2004-07-11T11:53:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-the-origin/</id>
<content type="html">Planned Obsolescence was born a bit over two years ago on the island of Oahu. As has been true for many others, a journey back to the origin is inevitable. Like a salmon swimming upstream...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dude, I&#39;m (Almost) Famous!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dude-im-almost-famous/"/>
<updated>2004-07-09T16:10:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dude-im-almost-famous/</id>
<content type="html">So I just got my copy of the American Literary Scholarship 2002 in the mail, and for the first time ever, I’m mentioned in it.<br />
Well, sorta.<br />
In Jerome Klinkowitz’s review article...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ah, the Irony</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ah-the-irony/"/>
<updated>2004-07-07T12:54:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ah-the-irony/</id>
<content type="html">I received in yesterday’s mail a survey asking me to rate my recent experience with the Sony Service Center. I am forwarding, along with said survey, a hard copy of this.<br />
They asked. I answered.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer Plans, Revised</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-plans-revised/"/>
<updated>2004-07-06T17:33:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-plans-revised/</id>
<content type="html">Things I have not been doing this summer, that I still hold some hope of getting to soon:<br />
1. Finishing the three half-written articles that really ought to have been done a long time ago.<br />
2. Figuring out how those three articles...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fifth of July</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fifth-of-july/"/>
<updated>2004-07-05T13:45:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fifth-of-july/</id>
<content type="html">Something about the day after the fourth-of-July holiday makes me start contemplating musical renditions of Americanness. It’s not just the Sousa being piped into my local Walgreens as I’m trying to get my prescriptions refilled. It’s not just the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Which I Lose My Cool, and Succumb to a Fit of Pique</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-which-i-lose-my-cool-and-succumb-to-a-fit-of-pique/"/>
<updated>2004-07-02T16:43:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-which-i-lose-my-cool-and-succumb-to-a-fit-of-pique/</id>
<content type="html">Ogged finds the country we live in mighty funny indeed, but I’ve just got to say: a world in which one person can slap together a tell-all blog documenting her way...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>David Foster Wallace, Oblivion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/david-foster-wallace-oblivion/"/>
<updated>2004-07-01T15:20:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/david-foster-wallace-oblivion/</id>
<content type="html">As today’s main entry might suggest, I’ve been reading Oblivion of late. I’m a little over halfway through, and I absolutely love it. Screw Walter Kirn; he’s wrong. Period.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Matt Taibbi, New York Press</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/matt-taibbi-new-york-press/"/>
<updated>2004-07-01T14:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/matt-taibbi-new-york-press/</id>
<content type="html">Via Unfogged, Mike Matt Taibbi’s takedown of Christopher Hitchens and his fellow...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oblivion</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oblivion/"/>
<updated>2004-07-01T13:10:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oblivion/</id>
<content type="html">All day yesterday, the guy down the hall was the cover story on Salon (subscription or ad-viewing required). Which would have been weirder than it was, except that he’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>An Open Letter to All Those Blogging Folks I Love to Read</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/an-open-letter-to-all-those-blogging-folks-i-love-to-read/"/>
<updated>2004-06-30T16:04:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/an-open-letter-to-all-those-blogging-folks-i-love-to-read/</id>
<content type="html">George recently issued a plea for bloggers to make full-text RSS feeds of their sites available, such that folks who, like him, are hooked on Bloglines and other newsreaders can...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fahrenheit 9/11</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fahrenheit-911/"/>
<updated>2004-06-29T15:14:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fahrenheit-911/</id>
<content type="html">So, being the registered lefty and the media scholar that I am (though which was more dominant at this precise moment is open to some debate), I went out this weekend to see Michael Moore’s newest,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Goes Around Comes Around. And Around.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-goes-around-comes-around-and-around/"/>
<updated>2004-06-28T17:11:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-goes-around-comes-around-and-around/</id>
<content type="html">Ah, one of those moments at which I know that my life has meaning, because all my usually scattered interests seem to be connected by what one of my trippier college pals insisted on referring to as “tendrils”: In today’s New York Newsday,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Gmail, Anyone?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/gmail-anyone/"/>
<updated>2004-06-26T17:14:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/gmail-anyone/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been too busy hyperventilating over the financial machinations that have taken over my life of late to post this in anything like a timely fashion, but it turns out that I’ve got 6 Gmail invites to distribute. If you want one, comment below...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where I&#39;ve Been</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-ive-been/"/>
<updated>2004-06-23T13:49:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-ive-been/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been an eventful couple of weeks around here; I’ve gotten settled into my new office, I’ve been hard at work on projects both new and old, and, in my spare time, I’ve begun the process of buying a condo.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Six Feet Under</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/six-feet-under/"/>
<updated>2004-06-17T13:16:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/six-feet-under/</id>
<content type="html">Heavy sigh. I’d missed the last episode of Season 3 when it first aired, so I caught that one for the first time Sunday before last. Moving right from that episode into the first episode of Season 4 was pretty dramatic; as opposed to our pals at...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why I&#39;m Pretty Glad I&#39;m Not (Any Longer) in Dixie</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-im-pretty-glad-im-not-any-longer-in-dixie/"/>
<updated>2004-06-17T11:21:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-im-pretty-glad-im-not-any-longer-in-dixie/</id>
<content type="html">Less because stuff like this happens, than because some day it might work: via XX, a plan to</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Looking Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/looking-up/"/>
<updated>2004-06-16T16:06:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/looking-up/</id>
<content type="html">Things are looking pretty good, from where I sit. I’ve settled into my new office, which is small by the standards of our building, but huge by any reasonable standard, and which has both north- and west-facing windows (giving lots of sunshine and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moving Office</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moving-office/"/>
<updated>2004-06-14T13:55:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moving-office/</id>
<content type="html">We’re moving out of our temporary digs today, at long last. (For temporary office space, where we were was more than adequate, but:<br />
<br />
We were in the basement, and thus had no windows at all.<br />
<br />
The office suite had an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/daily-reason-to-dispatch-bush/"/>
<updated>2004-06-12T20:53:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/daily-reason-to-dispatch-bush/</id>
<content type="html">Undoubtedly, you’ve been there; you’ve done that. But who couldn’t use a reminder: McSweeney’s Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush is cumulative, growing by the day.<br />
Go there again. Do that one...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Myth of the Persecuted Campus Conservative</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-myth-of-the-persecuted-campus-conservative/"/>
<updated>2004-06-11T13:27:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-myth-of-the-persecuted-campus-conservative/</id>
<content type="html">Michael Bérubé has published a brilliant reconsideration of an early run-in he had with Dinesh D’Souza, on the occasion of D’Souza’s being hired as</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Proverbs for Postmodern Paranoids, Part 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/proverbs-for-postmodern-paranoids-part-1/"/>
<updated>2004-06-10T16:22:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/proverbs-for-postmodern-paranoids-part-1/</id>
<content type="html">If you think they might be hiding something from you, it’s entirely possible that they are.<br />
For those unfamiliar with the robots.txt function, this file keeps all web-robots, such as those...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Now?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-now/"/>
<updated>2004-06-09T12:18:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-now/</id>
<content type="html">There’s been a mighty lot of silence on my end here, and though I wish I could ascribe it to being terribly, terribly busy, that is simply not the case. Continuing issues with the manuscript have left me feeling...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Technolust</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/technolust/"/>
<updated>2004-06-08T14:34:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/technolust/</id>
<content type="html">I want one of these…</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pedro the Lion, Achilles&#39; Heel</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pedro-the-lion-achilles-heel/"/>
<updated>2004-06-05T19:33:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pedro-the-lion-achilles-heel/</id>
<content type="html">Just snagged this yesterday off eMusic. Turns out they played in Pomona last night. Of course, I’m in San Diego this weekend, so that does me no good. And they’re here in SD tonight, but I’m booked. It’s a shame: the album’s worth a listen, and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Today in History</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/today-in-history/"/>
<updated>2004-06-05T18:53:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/today-in-history/</id>
<content type="html">Today: Ronald Reagan dies at the age of 93, Smarty Jones just misses winning the Triple Crown by a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pecked to Death</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/pecked-to-death/"/>
<updated>2004-06-03T11:27:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/pecked-to-death/</id>
<content type="html">Returning to a topic from way back: Dale Peck, who wields the book review like a truncheon, has published a collection of his articles, entitled, appropriately,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why, So Long As I Live, Neither I Nor Any of Mine Will Ever Purchase a Sony Product Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-so-long-as-i-live-neither-i-nor-any-of-mine-will-ever-purchase-a-sony-product-again/"/>
<updated>2004-05-31T13:18:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-so-long-as-i-live-neither-i-nor-any-of-mine-will-ever-purchase-a-sony-product-again/</id>
<content type="html">[None of what follows is made up. None of it is even exaggerated for effect.<br />
I do hope that you’ll take note of this and, if you feel so inclined, reproduce this elsewhere. I’d be thrilled if this spread memetically around this here...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Naming the Future</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/naming-the-future/"/>
<updated>2004-05-30T13:52:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/naming-the-future/</id>
<content type="html">Well, the site renovations seem pretty much in hand — things are basically working (though you should let me know if you find something that isn’t), and the redirects and 404s are doing their respective jobs.<br />
So, given that, like</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stage 2, Complete</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stage-2-complete/"/>
<updated>2004-05-28T19:30:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stage-2-complete/</id>
<content type="html">Whew again. Stage 2 of the migration is now complete. You’re looking at the new (and, one hopes, improved) Planned Obsolescence. Here’s what’s happened since the last update:<br />
<br />
Installed</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Sopranos</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-sopranos/"/>
<updated>2004-05-27T14:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-sopranos/</id>
<content type="html">I have not yet recovered from the most recent episode (“Long Term Parking”). I’m astonished by the extent to which Chase et al have radically deromanticized the family (as well as the “family”) this season.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blonde Redhead, Misery Is a Butterfly</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blonde-redhead-misery-is-a-butterfly/"/>
<updated>2004-05-27T14:18:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blonde-redhead-misery-is-a-butterfly/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve only gotten a chance to listen to this a couple of times, but I adore it already.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jeffrey-eugenides-middlesex/"/>
<updated>2004-05-27T00:05:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jeffrey-eugenides-middlesex/</id>
<content type="html">In process.<br />
[UPDATE, 7.1.04: I finally did finish this a couple of weeks back, and thoroughly loved it. It’s got all the things I love in a novel: a deeply personal story, a substantive intersection with a larger cultural and social...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Stage 1, Complete</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/stage-1-complete/"/>
<updated>2004-05-24T20:21:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/stage-1-complete/</id>
<content type="html">Whew. Stage 1 of the migration is at last complete (interrupted over the weekend by a trip to Vegas, about which more later). For the interested, here’s how it went:<br />
<br />
Copied all relevant files as-was from the old host to the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Help!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/help/"/>
<updated>2004-05-20T13:33:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/help/</id>
<content type="html">Am in mid-migration. Desperately need a copy of mt.cfg in order to reconfigure mt for new hosting environment.<br />
This would happen this week, after 6A removes MT 2.661 from their site…<br />
Any help would be much...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/update-2/"/>
<updated>2004-05-16T01:54:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/update-2/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks to all who have responded to my various technological pleas over the last few days. My hosting provider’s waning is producing massive unreliability — my site’s been down more than it’s been up over the last week — and so I’ve done the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Harrumph.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/harrumph/"/>
<updated>2004-05-15T17:41:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/harrumph/</id>
<content type="html">So everybody’s talking about the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Richard Powers, Gain</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/richard-powers-gain/"/>
<updated>2004-05-15T00:15:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/richard-powers-gain/</id>
<content type="html">A second reading. I still insist that this book is underrated, maligned by critics who love the technology stuff but can’t deal with the personal.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Take Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/take-two-2/"/>
<updated>2004-05-14T13:06:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/take-two-2/</id>
<content type="html">The irony is of course that within moments of my having posted yesterday’s entry, my hosting provider’s service went down, so no one could get to the message in which I was asking for help with finding a new hosting provider. Coincidence? I think...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Request for Hosting Recommendations</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/request-for-hosting-recommendations/"/>
<updated>2004-05-13T13:20:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/request-for-hosting-recommendations/</id>
<content type="html">Just a quick one, as I’m in the midst of enormous piles of grading that I really want done by the end of the day tomorrow: I’ve just gotten an email message from my hosting provider saying that they’re shutting down as early as two weeks from now....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Marriage: It&#39;s What&#39;s for Dinner!*</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/marriage-its-whats-for-dinner/"/>
<updated>2004-05-03T17:58:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/marriage-its-whats-for-dinner/</id>
<content type="html">*Courtesy of my genius pal, Shasta, over at majorweather:<br />
<br />
HOUSE BILL NO. 751<br />
Offered January 14, 2004<br />
Prefiled January 14, 2004<br />
A BILL to amend the Code of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oy.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oy/"/>
<updated>2004-04-29T16:13:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oy/</id>
<content type="html">A listserv I frequent has, on and off, had a bit of conversation about the plight of adjuncts in the academy, and one listmember this morning posted a link here, mentioning my recent post on the Chronicle article...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Visibility, of a Sort</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/visibility-of-a-sort/"/>
<updated>2004-04-27T12:59:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/visibility-of-a-sort/</id>
<content type="html">This entry comes with an Irony Alert, though it’s an irony more in the Alanis Morissette sense, rather than irony in the classical sense.<br />
The Chronicle...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/neal-stephenson-cryptonomicon/"/>
<updated>2004-04-27T00:16:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/neal-stephenson-cryptonomicon/</id>
<content type="html">A third reading, for class, but sadly partial; too much grading prevented me from finishing.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back at It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-at-it/"/>
<updated>2004-04-26T15:52:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-at-it/</id>
<content type="html">I’m upright, today, and out from under quarantine. Both of these things feel like victories.<br />
With a week and a half remaining in the semester, one must take one’s victories where one can.<br />
Thanks, all, for the good wishes. More...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Is This What It Feels Like to Be a Windows User?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/is-this-what-it-feels-like-to-be-a-windows-user/"/>
<updated>2004-04-23T19:41:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/is-this-what-it-feels-like-to-be-a-windows-user/</id>
<content type="html">So, that incipient case of the “chicken pox”?<br />
Is not the chicken pox at all.<br />
It is now, according to my doctor, a “virus of unknown origin.” Something almost certainly infectious, but untraceable without major lab analyses, which...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reclaiming &#39;Patriotism&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reclaiming-patriotism/"/>
<updated>2004-04-22T17:01:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reclaiming-patriotism/</id>
<content type="html">In far too many ways, for too many election cycles now, the political right has had a lock on several key campaign buzzwords, despite their repeated violations of everything that I’ve understood those concepts to mean. Like “family values,” which...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Too Angry Not to Comment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/too-angry-not-to-comment/"/>
<updated>2004-04-22T00:12:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/too-angry-not-to-comment/</id>
<content type="html">Well, the Bush campaign has finally dug up somebody to call John Kerry’s military record into question. Apparently, as Scott notes, they’re now claiming that Kerry may not...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Marcus</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/marcus/"/>
<updated>2004-04-21T23:16:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/marcus/</id>
<content type="html">A quick story from the France trip that I’ve been looking forward to telling, but hadn’t quite found the right moment for:<br />
I took the TGV back up from Tours to Paris, as it turned out, with the organizer of the conference I’d just attended,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>BookSense</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/booksense/"/>
<updated>2004-04-21T22:37:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/booksense/</id>
<content type="html">On George’s recommendation, I’m attempting to move my book links from Amazon to BookSense, which links...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Like, Ghirardelli, or What?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/like-ghirardelli-or-what/"/>
<updated>2004-04-20T20:36:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/like-ghirardelli-or-what/</id>
<content type="html">We’re discussing Cryptonomicon right now in the Big Novel class,</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>For Liz</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/for-liz/"/>
<updated>2004-04-20T12:47:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/for-liz/</id>
<content type="html">And courtesy of Marcus: the famous sofa-baignoire:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home, Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/home-again-2/"/>
<updated>2004-04-20T00:45:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/home-again-2/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, I returned to Claremont eight days ago, after a fabulous trip through Paris and Tours. Yes, I’ve been meaning to post every day since I got back, but have been massively unable to do so, due to one crisis and another.<br />
And yet, here I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Headed Home</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/headed-home-2/"/>
<updated>2004-04-11T03:28:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/headed-home-2/</id>
<content type="html">Returned to Paris last night, and will head toward the airport shortly for the long trek home. I’ll post more either from Houston or from home. It’s been a great trip, of course, and there are more stories to tell, but I’m ready to get back into...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Tours</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-tours/"/>
<updated>2004-04-09T04:24:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-tours/</id>
<content type="html">What of Wednesday I spent in Paris was mostly spent in the post-travel fog I always find myself in; once I got to Marcus’s apartment, I showered, and then he and I headed out toward the gallery where he was that evening having a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Checking In</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/checking-in/"/>
<updated>2004-04-08T09:34:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/checking-in/</id>
<content type="html">[The following was written on the Powerbook in Paris at 6 am today, and is being transcribed in an internet cafe in Tours now. I’m not sure how much posting I’ll actually wind up doing from here; the cafe is fine, and darned conveniently located,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Up in the Air</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/up-in-the-air/"/>
<updated>2004-04-06T18:59:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/up-in-the-air/</id>
<content type="html">[What follows was written at 30,000 feet. I’m no longer there, but firmly on the ground, for another fifteen minutes or so…]<br />
I should have known right from the start that this was going to be a particularly surreal trip. I went online the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I&#39;m Not Dead Yet</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/im-not-dead-yet-2/"/>
<updated>2004-04-05T14:29:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/im-not-dead-yet-2/</id>
<content type="html">But I am drowning.<br />
Jake writes to ask where the heck I’ve been, which is a really, really good question.<br />
Alas, I’ve been more or less right here, grading papers for class,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Saying Goodbye</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/saying-goodbye/"/>
<updated>2004-03-24T01:29:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/saying-goodbye/</id>
<content type="html">Invisible Adjunct is calling it quits, both leaving the academy and shutting down the blog. Having given herself a deadline for finding full-time employment, and having been failed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Campus Center</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-campus-center/"/>
<updated>2004-03-23T13:56:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-campus-center/</id>
<content type="html">Gee, it’s nice to be in the news for something other than hate crimes or hoaxes thereof. This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education [subscription required] has a lovely...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Confessions of a Semi-Successful Author</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/confessions-of-a-semi-successful-author/"/>
<updated>2004-03-22T12:46:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/confessions-of-a-semi-successful-author/</id>
<content type="html">Today, on Salon [subscription or ad-viewing required], the travails of the mid-list author in contemporary publishing:<br />
<br />
If you don’t want to hear...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Can I Take a Mulligan on This Semester?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/can-i-take-a-mulligan-on-this-semester/"/>
<updated>2004-03-19T14:23:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/can-i-take-a-mulligan-on-this-semester/</id>
<content type="html">Or perhaps it would be best just to cut our losses, hold our collective breath, and just plunge on through.<br />
Really, I’ve never been one to look longingly backward in time. I wouldn’t go back to my childhood, I’m fond of saying, not even for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Honestly Don&#39;t Know What to Say</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-honestly-dont-know-what-to-say/"/>
<updated>2004-03-17T22:41:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-honestly-dont-know-what-to-say/</id>
<content type="html">The Claremont Police and the FBI have released a statement saying that they have concluded their investigation into last week’s apparent hate crime, and in so doing have announced that the victim is now the primary...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why? So He Can Begin Planning the Invasions?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-so-he-can-begin-planning-the-invasions/"/>
<updated>2004-03-16T17:21:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-so-he-can-begin-planning-the-invasions/</id>
<content type="html">From the New York Times:<br />
<br />
WASHINGTON, March 16 — The White House continued...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Press Release</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/press-release/"/>
<updated>2004-03-12T17:12:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/press-release/</id>
<content type="html">HATE CRIME INCIDENT ON MARCH 9TH, 2004<br />
Detectives from the Claremont Police Department and Agents from the FBI are continuing to follow-up on many leads regarding the hate crime incident that occurred on 3-9-04 at the Claremont Colleges. As...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And Not a Moment Too Soon</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-not-a-moment-too-soon/"/>
<updated>2004-03-12T15:15:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-not-a-moment-too-soon/</id>
<content type="html">It’s spring break here. I’ve got a conference paper to write, and some sleep to catch up on. Things may be quiet around these parts this week, but rest assured that there is much thought going on beneath the surface. As Ralph Ellison suggests,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What I Would Have Said</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-i-would-have-said/"/>
<updated>2004-03-11T15:02:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-i-would-have-said/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, Pomona College held a teach-in on Marston Quad, a usually-deserted lawn in the center of campus. Faculty from across the curriculum had been invited to speak, and after their brief talks, the mike was opened to anyone else who had...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the News</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-news/"/>
<updated>2004-03-11T01:48:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-news/</id>
<content type="html">Coverage of events here from the Los Angeles Times, the New...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>More, and Worse</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/more-and-worse/"/>
<updated>2004-03-10T14:10:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/more-and-worse/</id>
<content type="html">Last night, sometime around 9.30, there was a knock at my door. I live in a faculty residence on campus, so I knew that this was going to be a student, but I also knew immediately that something was wrong, because my students never just...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Today, I Am Not Amused</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/today-i-am-not-amused/"/>
<updated>2004-03-09T19:27:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/today-i-am-not-amused/</id>
<content type="html">My satellite TV provider has dropped a slew of channels from its offerings overnight, due to a contract...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Just for Fun</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/just-for-fun/"/>
<updated>2004-03-08T15:13:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/just-for-fun/</id>
<content type="html">Because today, I am Easily Amused: The Man Project.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MediaCommons?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mediacommons/"/>
<updated>2004-03-06T17:01:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mediacommons/</id>
<content type="html">I’m taking a poll, of all two of you who are reading these days. What do you think of the name MediaCommons for an online scholarly publishing imprint, focused (for the moment, at least) on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SCMS, Day 2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scms-day-2/"/>
<updated>2004-03-05T15:29:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scms-day-2/</id>
<content type="html">My obligatory conference day-of-hooky has come a little earlier than usual; under ordinary circumstances, I usually burn out on panels on the third day and zip off to do some shopping or sightseeing or other non-session related activity. Here,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Scariest Plenary Ever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-scariest-plenary-ever/"/>
<updated>2004-03-05T00:22:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-scariest-plenary-ever/</id>
<content type="html">What follow are my notes from this afternoon’s plenary address by Mark Crispin Miller. Miller’s title, as listed in the program, was “Mediating Tomorrow’s History: Live Coverage and Documentary in the Digital Era,” but in fact his talk had nothing...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SCMS, Day 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scms-day-1/"/>
<updated>2004-03-04T23:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scms-day-1/</id>
<content type="html">What follows are my notes from the first session I attended today. They’re a little sketchy and a little incomplete (I got there about 10 minutes late), but they’ll at least remind me of what I heard.<br />
Session 1, Thursday, March 4, 12.00...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SCMS-ward Bound</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scms-ward-bound/"/>
<updated>2004-03-02T19:36:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scms-ward-bound/</id>
<content type="html">Just as things in Claremont begin to slow a bit, my travel schedule picks up. I’m headed to Atlanta tomorrow morning, to attend SCMS. I’ll be speaking on a panel put together by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s Been Going On</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-been-going-on/"/>
<updated>2004-02-27T01:02:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-been-going-on/</id>
<content type="html">It’s been some time since I’ve been able to update, as the month of February just hasn’t been a great one around these parts. There was the madness of job candidate season, though the candidates...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Who Says People Suck?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/who-says-people-suck/"/>
<updated>2004-02-21T20:26:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/who-says-people-suck/</id>
<content type="html">A couple of guys in Minneapolis may have had one of the finest ideas of all time:<br />
<br />
Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh. My. God.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oh-my-god/"/>
<updated>2004-02-14T17:02:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oh-my-god/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve just gotten the scariest Google referral ever. My skin is positively crawling.<br />
To my good...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>It&#39;s the End of the Buffyverse as We Know It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/its-the-end-of-the-buffyverse-as-we-know-it/"/>
<updated>2004-02-14T14:34:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/its-the-end-of-the-buffyverse-as-we-know-it/</id>
<content type="html">Ack. After years of devoted Buffy fandom, it took months for me to recover from the show’s semi-untimely (though extraordinarily well-done) end.<br />
Now, after finally...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Simple Math, or a Word Problem</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/simple-math-or-a-word-problem/"/>
<updated>2004-02-12T13:58:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/simple-math-or-a-word-problem/</id>
<content type="html">((Many job candidates + very large classes) * a series of committee crises) + hours of dealing with comment spam = zero ability to post actual new thoughts this week.<br />
Thinking will return soon. (I hope.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh, That’s Just Charming</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oh-thats-just-charming/"/>
<updated>2004-02-10T13:38:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oh-thats-just-charming/</id>
<content type="html">Sometime last night I got slammed with comment spam — more than 250 comments before I was able to stem the tide — all of which were ostensibly advertising a series of blogs. Here’s the cute thing, though: many of them were positively...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;We&#39;ve Been Misread!&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/weve-been-misread/"/>
<updated>2004-02-07T13:33:54Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/weve-been-misread/</id>
<content type="html">There’s a certain irony hanging over Christopher Dreher’s followup [Salon.com; subscription or ad-viewing required] on the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Random Links</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/random-links/"/>
<updated>2004-02-06T13:32:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/random-links/</id>
<content type="html">Via Jake: a nice slice of pi.<br />
Via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The New New York Times Book Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-new-new-york-times-book-review/"/>
<updated>2004-02-04T16:01:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-new-new-york-times-book-review/</id>
<content type="html">Following up on the recent mini-rant on the decline and fall of the New York Times Book Review: Yankee Pot Roast has uncovered the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Perhaps the Dumbest Teaching Question Ever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/perhaps-the-dumbest-teaching-question-ever/"/>
<updated>2004-02-03T14:32:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/perhaps-the-dumbest-teaching-question-ever/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s something I probably ought to have thought of before the semester started, perhaps even before planning on teaching a class like The Big Novel: It’s really, really hard to get students...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oh, Sure, It Was Super</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oh-sure-it-was-super/"/>
<updated>2004-02-02T13:42:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oh-sure-it-was-super/</id>
<content type="html">Everybody’s talking about the Super Bowl, whether they watched it or not. It’s the big game, the final conflict, the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Productivity in Sharp Decline</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/productivity-in-sharp-decline/"/>
<updated>2004-02-02T10:12:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/productivity-in-sharp-decline/</id>
<content type="html">Why, oh why, did I ever follow that link?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Uhhhh....</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/uhhhh/"/>
<updated>2004-01-30T12:45:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/uhhhh/</id>
<content type="html">You know that feeling, where you’re lying in bed with a head stuffed full of nastiness it doesn’t do to describe, doped-up on NyQuil and yet unable to sleep, and the thoughts are flickering through your simultaneously overly-insulated and jangly...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Cats and Rats and Elephants</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/cats-and-rats-and-elephants/"/>
<updated>2004-01-28T12:30:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/cats-and-rats-and-elephants/</id>
<content type="html">So this morning, I’m flipping through a copy of the New Yorker from several weeks back, and I stumble upon this</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How It Turned Out</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-it-turned-out/"/>
<updated>2004-01-27T17:24:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-it-turned-out/</id>
<content type="html">[Part 3 in a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2.]<br />
My father remarried soon after the divorce, married the woman he’d left my mother for (this piece of information my mother does...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Palimpsest</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/palimpsest/"/>
<updated>2004-01-26T12:38:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/palimpsest/</id>
<content type="html">Announcing the launch of Palimpsest, a group-authored weblog devoted to open-source teaching resources. Thanks to George for getting it off the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>brightly colored food</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/brightly-colored-food/"/>
<updated>2004-01-24T17:18:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/brightly-colored-food/</id>
<content type="html">I just discovered, through roundabout linkage, the blog of a former student of mine, now in grad school studying interaction design. It’s always nice stumbling across familiar folks doing new...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Book May Not Be Dead...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-book-may-not-be-dead/"/>
<updated>2004-01-23T16:06:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-book-may-not-be-dead/</id>
<content type="html">…but it’s possible that the book review is.<br />
Or at least that the serious book-review publication is. Witness this demoralizing development at the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Publishing and the Public</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-publishing-and-the-public/"/>
<updated>2004-01-23T14:26:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-publishing-and-the-public/</id>
<content type="html">To continue yesterday’s thoughts: The exchange between Matt and Rory in the comments of my last post leads me to ponder the viability of a genuinely open-source model for the exchange of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Future of Academic Publishing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-academic-publishing/"/>
<updated>2004-01-22T13:17:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-future-of-academic-publishing/</id>
<content type="html">Dorothea Salo and Timothy Burke have both turned their sights on the state of academic...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>From Day One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/from-day-one/"/>
<updated>2004-01-21T14:12:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/from-day-one/</id>
<content type="html">A new semester. One old class, and two new ones. (One overload.) Three new manila folders. One new courseware package. And I’m good to go.<br />
The courses, if...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>National Book Critics Circle Nominations</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/national-book-critics-circle-nominations/"/>
<updated>2004-01-20T13:49:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/national-book-critics-circle-nominations/</id>
<content type="html">Ah, having made our way through the madness of the top-ten lists, award season is upon us. The Bloggies are of course...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Open Foot, Insert Mouth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/open-foot-insert-mouth/"/>
<updated>2004-01-20T02:14:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/open-foot-insert-mouth/</id>
<content type="html">I was going to leave this in the comments of my last post, but found myself doing so much fulminating until it seemed worth turning this into a whole nother entry.<br />
So the ugly story: I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Once Again, Ignored by the Academy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/once-again-ignored-by-the-academy/"/>
<updated>2004-01-19T17:20:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/once-again-ignored-by-the-academy/</id>
<content type="html">The nominations for the 2004 Bloggies are out.<br />
Here’s where I invoke Don DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen on the ways that an artist is cheapened by the presence of an audience.<br />
Or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reason Number One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/reason-number-one/"/>
<updated>2004-01-16T13:42:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/reason-number-one/</id>
<content type="html">Why I’m glad I moved to California. If it’s a choice between this:<br />
<br />
and this:<br />
(missing image of whatever was happening in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Terrible Idea</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-terrible-idea/"/>
<updated>2004-01-14T17:27:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-terrible-idea/</id>
<content type="html">George has had a no-good, very bad idea, in which I absolutely do not want to participate. Don’t read his entry.<br />
Oh, and don’t look</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fitzpatrick&#39;s First Law</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fitzpatricks-first-law/"/>
<updated>2004-01-13T17:16:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fitzpatricks-first-law/</id>
<content type="html">John Brockman, president of Edge Foundation, has posed his annual question to his collection...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Difficulty, Professionalism, and Literary Studies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/difficulty-professionalism-and-literary-studies/"/>
<updated>2004-01-12T15:48:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/difficulty-professionalism-and-literary-studies/</id>
<content type="html">Last month’s MLA-bashing controversy, which surfaced here, at Invisible Adjunct, and at</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sharing Teaching Resources</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sharing-teaching-resources/"/>
<updated>2004-01-12T13:43:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sharing-teaching-resources/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been following with great interest a conversation developing over at George’s place on the possibility of creating an open-source collection of resources for teaching literature....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>1984</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/nineteen-eighty-four/"/>
<updated>2004-01-08T16:32:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/nineteen-eighty-four/</id>
<content type="html">The appearance of my old pal Trent in the comments below reminds me: I’m fast approaching an altogether alarming milestone — the 20-year high school reunion.<br />
Which means that I’ve lived (in my case,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Two Days Later</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/two-days-later/"/>
<updated>2004-01-06T19:13:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/two-days-later/</id>
<content type="html">I’m still obsessing about the LSU-Oklahoma game, reading everything I can get my hands (or my mouse) on, and generally relishing the little glow that comes with seeing your — well, I’m not going to go so far as to call it an “alma mater,” as that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Am Alarmed to No End</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-am-alarmed-to-no-end/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T12:04:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-am-alarmed-to-no-end/</id>
<content type="html">…by the fact that this very site, your own Planned Obsolescence, comes in number 2 in the Google Japan rankings for “onanism...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Final Score: LSU 21, OU 14</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/final-score-lsu-21-ou-14/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T01:13:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/final-score-lsu-21-ou-14/</id>
<content type="html">It was an ugly, ugly fourth quarter. And a particularly ugly close. (Really, even at the end of this brain-scrambling game, and after more beer than I might ought to have drunk, even I can do the math: 1.47 to go, and 3 downs to burn, and a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>2.46 to Play</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/246-to-play/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T00:55:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/246-to-play/</id>
<content type="html">Incomplete.<br />
Where’s my defibrillator?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>3.41 to Play</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/341-to-play/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T00:47:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/341-to-play/</id>
<content type="html">And I’m sad to say, it’s anybody’s game. This should have been over by now, but LSU has a long history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, so I should not be surprised.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now That&#39;s the LSU I Remember</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-thats-the-lsu-i-remember/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T00:32:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-thats-the-lsu-i-remember/</id>
<content type="html">Determined to give me an early coronary. That’s my Tigers.<br />
9.30-ish to go in the game. We’ll see if I survive.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSU 21, OU 14</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lsu-21-ou-14/"/>
<updated>2004-01-05T00:19:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lsu-21-ou-14/</id>
<content type="html">11.01 to go in the game. It ain’t over.<br />
(Cats? What cats?)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>WTF???</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wtf/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T23:57:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wtf/</id>
<content type="html">Walk me through it, okay? It’s fourth and goal, pushed somewhere back of the 5. So LSU attempts a field goal, and makes it. But there are two flags against the offense (one during the play, and one after), so they get pushed back, what,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>During the Commercial Break</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/during-the-commercial-break/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T23:43:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/during-the-commercial-break/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, what’s with Snoop and the “who stole the trophy” Ultimate Bling thing? I’ll admit, he looked pretty good in an LSU uniform (though the semiotics of LSU=hair down/OU=cornrows strike me as ripe for interpretation). But… but… what was that all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSU 21, OU 7</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lsu-21-ou-7/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T23:33:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lsu-21-ou-7/</id>
<content type="html">Holy crap. And that is all I have to say. (Though it took me a while to tear myself away from the set in order to say it.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Halftime</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/halftime/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T23:08:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/halftime/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, heart. Slow down.<br />
Now, a bit of assessment: it’s absolutely a defensive game, so far, with the exception of that last touchdown drive by LSU, which was a nice glimpse of what their offense can do, when they get out of their own...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSU 14, OU 7</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lsu-14-ou-7/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T22:55:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lsu-14-ou-7/</id>
<content type="html">4.21 to go in the half. Justin Vincent is my new hero. (Sorry, Vernel.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSU 7, OU 7</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lsu-7-ou-7/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T22:43:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lsu-7-ou-7/</id>
<content type="html">Okay. Okay. Okay. Things have quieted down somewhat downstairs. The cats have emerged from hiding.<br />
7.31 to go in the half. It’s going to be a long night.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convergence, Please!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/convergence-please/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T22:35:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/convergence-please/</id>
<content type="html">Why, oh why, did I decide that it was a good idea to put my computer in a different room from my television set?<br />
Then again, if it weren’t for the running back and forth, would I find myself frantically posting like this every time I got...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Huh?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/huh-2/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T22:22:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/huh-2/</id>
<content type="html">Musberger: “And now, in a battle of field position, Oklahoma has a great opportunity.”<br />
Isn’t football by definition a battle of field position?<br />
This is only topped by the color commentator I once heard during a college...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSU 7, OU 0</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lsu-7-ou-0/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T21:53:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lsu-7-ou-0/</id>
<content type="html">9.00 to go in the first, and I have officially scared my cats half to death. “She doesn’t usually scream at the picture-box,” they shrieked before running off to hide upstairs.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>G-E-A-U-X!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/g-e-a-u-x/"/>
<updated>2004-01-04T21:33:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/g-e-a-u-x/</id>
<content type="html">Less than two minutes in and already I’m on the verge of a heart attack.<br />
Just thought I’d share.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Weather Project</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-weather-project/"/>
<updated>2004-01-02T18:38:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-weather-project/</id>
<content type="html">All of a sudden, everybody’s reminding</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>January</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/january/"/>
<updated>2004-01-02T13:39:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/january/</id>
<content type="html">Welcome to 2004. The year started while I was asleep, as I predicted; after a minor DVD-marathon (yeah, yeah, yeah; I’ve been a Buffy-fan for years, but...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Year&#39;s Eve</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-years-eve/"/>
<updated>2003-12-31T21:26:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-years-eve/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve returned from the MLA adventure, and the Louisiana adventure before that, and the London adventure before that. I’m not, as Liz is, the kind of person...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Last Days of Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-last-days-of-blogging/"/>
<updated>2003-12-30T13:16:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-last-days-of-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">Mabel, pack up the kids. We’re outta here.<br />
Okay, not really. But this was nonetheless my first reaction when I picked up the USA Today left on my hotel room doorstep this morning.<br />
Right on the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Holidays</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/holidays/"/>
<updated>2003-12-23T11:17:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/holidays/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve apparently gone on another hiatus, without really intending to do so; the hubbub surrounding the MLA issues discussed here caught me a little by surprise. Once that died down, and I cleared out a bit of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MLA and the Single Girl</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mla-and-the-single-girl/"/>
<updated>2003-12-18T05:49:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mla-and-the-single-girl/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, on Invisible Adjunct, a post referencing an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ach! My Eyes!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ach-my-eyes/"/>
<updated>2003-12-18T05:25:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ach-my-eyes/</id>
<content type="html">Always on the hunt for a way to be of greater service, Planned Obsolescence hereby brings you The World’s Worst Newspaper-Headline Pun Ever, which, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Jet Lag</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/jet-lag/"/>
<updated>2003-12-17T07:22:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/jet-lag/</id>
<content type="html">I’m back in London, this week, and so this marks my fourth experience of the bone-crushing Los Angeles-to-Europe time-zone-change in the last six months. Complaining about such a set of experiences would be unseemly, of course; let me be clear...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Interim</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-interim/"/>
<updated>2003-12-16T11:57:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-interim/</id>
<content type="html">This is a difficult post to write. Every post after an unintended hiatus is hard — how to explain the absence; how to rediscover momentum — but this one carries its own peculiar difficulties.<br />
When last I wrote...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ahem.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ahem/"/>
<updated>2003-12-08T18:44:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ahem/</id>
<content type="html">This used to be a screenshot celebrating LSU playing for the national championship in the Sugar Bowl, but the image file and the site it linked to are now lost to time. Sigh.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Week</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/this-week/"/>
<updated>2003-12-04T20:13:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/this-week/</id>
<content type="html">The good news: It’s been over 48 hours, and I haven’t yet fallen into the “oh, sure, I got tenure, but what have I done for me lately?” that usually develops mighty quickly.<br />
The bad news: It’s pre-registration week, and the last week of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Definitions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/definitions/"/>
<updated>2003-12-02T13:28:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/definitions/</id>
<content type="html">Anxiety is a phone that doesn’t ring when it’s supposed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>During the Break</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/during-the-break/"/>
<updated>2003-11-29T16:52:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/during-the-break/</id>
<content type="html">Posting plans have been completely overcome by the days-long non-cooperation of my hosting provider. They’re back, but now I find myself with precious little to say, except that it’s been a fabulous trip, and I’m not quite ready to re-enter the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Off Again</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/off-again/"/>
<updated>2003-11-24T12:48:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/off-again/</id>
<content type="html">I’m headed back to London this afternoon for Thanksgiving break. We’re in a hotel this time, where R’s managed to cadge free high-speed access, so I ought to be able to update from there. In fact, I hope to get some good pondering and scribbling...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Memory</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/memory/"/>
<updated>2003-11-22T15:10:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/memory/</id>
<content type="html">[Part 2 in a series. Part 1 is here.]<br />
I have erased my father from my memory. Or memories. My mother tells me that when I was a child, quite young, he was the most important thing in my life, and I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Do You Make Yourself a Body-Without-Organs?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-do-you-make-yourself-a-body-without-organs/"/>
<updated>2003-11-20T17:49:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-do-you-make-yourself-a-body-without-organs/</id>
<content type="html">When asked, via other channels, what twentieth-century theorist I am, I should have known the eventual response:<br />
<br />
You...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now That&#39;s a Cover Letter</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-thats-a-cover-letter/"/>
<updated>2003-11-19T22:15:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-thats-a-cover-letter/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve spent a number of hours that I’m actually afraid to tally over the last week reading applications for the three jobs that my department is seeking to fill this year, and I must say that nary a one had the panache of Alex Golub’s</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Most Recent Incident</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-most-recent-incident/"/>
<updated>2003-11-18T03:15:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-most-recent-incident/</id>
<content type="html">[Part 1 in a series. Read Part 2 and Part 3.]<br />
While in Prague this summer, I got the following email message:<br />
<br />
From:...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>WTF???</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/wtf-2/"/>
<updated>2003-11-17T11:41:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/wtf-2/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, it’s not quite The End of the World, but bloggers all over are waking up to discover that their BlogRolls have been hijacked.<br />
I’ve deleted mine, for the time being; I’ll have to reconstruct over the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Didn&#39;t See the Danger</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-didnt-see-the-danger/"/>
<updated>2003-11-12T03:10:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-didnt-see-the-danger/</id>
<content type="html">From The Onion, “Mom Finds Out About Blog”:<br />
<br />
With the raw materials in my blog, she could actually construct an accurate picture of who I am. This is fucking...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Catching Up</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/catching-up-2/"/>
<updated>2003-11-12T03:03:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/catching-up-2/</id>
<content type="html">First there was AoIR in Toronto. Then a quick trip to Boston for a meeting. Then the conference I organized here. Then several days with</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>For Your (RIAA-Approved) Listening Pleasure</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/for-your-riaa-approved-listening-pleasure/"/>
<updated>2003-11-09T12:38:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/for-your-riaa-approved-listening-pleasure/</id>
<content type="html">Rory, having recently rediscovered the instruction manual from a 1970s-era cassette player, has used the surreal illustrations contained therein to create</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Prenez La Chance</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/prenez-la-chance/"/>
<updated>2003-11-08T02:56:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/prenez-la-chance/</id>
<content type="html">I’d been pondering what one might refer to as the Francois Question for some time —<br />
<br />
who is this guy?<br />
why isn’t he blogging this amazing stuff to his own site?<br />
<br />
— thinking that I was ahead of the game, only to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Weekend</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/weekend/"/>
<updated>2003-11-08T02:25:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/weekend/</id>
<content type="html">I believe this to be the first weekend I’ve had to myself — sort of — in a month. “To myself,” in this case, means no conference, no travel, no grading. Ironically, perhaps, it also means that Mom is here, the only excuse I could grant myself for...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revolutions?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/revolutions/"/>
<updated>2003-11-06T05:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/revolutions/</id>
<content type="html">No. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No. No, no. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In Recognition of My Dorkitude</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-recognition-of-my-dorkitude/"/>
<updated>2003-11-05T22:13:39Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-recognition-of-my-dorkitude/</id>
<content type="html">I’m going to a preview of Matrix: Revolutions tonight.<br />
In IMAX.<br />
Just thought I’d share. (More substance, and perhaps even a review, soon.)</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Troubleshooting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/troubleshooting/"/>
<updated>2003-11-04T12:51:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/troubleshooting/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been having a bit of trouble with my hosting provider — first, of course, there was that ill-timed and unannounced bit of downtime last week, which I can’t be too upset with them about, given that their...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Academic and the Personal</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-academic-and-the-personal/"/>
<updated>2003-10-30T20:56:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-academic-and-the-personal/</id>
<content type="html">[A word to the wise: what follows is twice as long as it ought to be, and very rambly. I’m operating on three nights in a row of three hours of sleep, and am correspondingly stupid beyond belief.]<br />
I’ve expended a tremendous amount of energy...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Bang or a Whimper?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-bang-or-a-whimper/"/>
<updated>2003-10-29T21:08:23Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-bang-or-a-whimper/</id>
<content type="html">Definitely a bang. Or maybe California just breaks off from the rest of the US and goes off to hang with Hawaii. Either way, it’s The End of the World. (But Australia’s down there, like,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Weather Report</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/weather-report/"/>
<updated>2003-10-29T00:47:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/weather-report/</id>
<content type="html">I took off from Ontario this morning, not only on time but a full ten minutes early (Pilot: “Well, folks, everybody’s here, so we’re gonna go”). The skies were relatively clear, much as...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Out of the Ashes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-ashes/"/>
<updated>2003-10-27T23:55:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/out-of-the-ashes/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s the part where I start feeling guilty — because we’ve been spared, largely, here in Claremont. And so I start thinking things like “whew, that was close” and “thank goodness that’s over” when in fact it’s gotten so much worse in other parts...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Grand Prix</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/grand-prix/"/>
<updated>2003-10-26T16:53:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/grand-prix/</id>
<content type="html">Here are words I hope never to have to say again: I have packed my emergency evacuation kit, and can be ready to get out of the house in ten minutes or...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The M.O. of the Comment Spammer?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-mo-of-the-comment-spammer/"/>
<updated>2003-10-26T12:01:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-mo-of-the-comment-spammer/</id>
<content type="html">I’m finding googlings in my recent referrer logs that look like this:<br />
<br />
[MT-Blacklist](&amp;lt;</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But Then, Tragedy Struck</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-then-tragedy-struck/"/>
<updated>2003-10-25T16:56:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-then-tragedy-struck/</id>
<content type="html">On Behind the Typeface, the rise and fall of Cooper Black.<br />
Flash required; serious font-fetish...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Welcome to Toronto. Stick Out Your Tongue and Say &#39;Ah.&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/welcome-to-toronto-stick-out-your-tongue-and-say-ah/"/>
<updated>2003-10-24T21:18:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/welcome-to-toronto-stick-out-your-tongue-and-say-ah/</id>
<content type="html">Accordion Guy, who not only got to attend an extended Q&amp;amp;A with Neal Stephenson but also won one of the door-prizes (a trip backstage to meet the author), lucky...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Sure Sign of the Apocalypse</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-sure-sign-of-the-apocalypse/"/>
<updated>2003-10-24T14:24:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-sure-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</id>
<content type="html">Tuesday’s high temperature here in Claremont was 102 on Mr. Fahrenheit’s scale. Today it’s snowing.<br />
Of course, what it’s snowing is not flakes of frozen water but flakes of ash.<br />
This is, for those of you who’ve been around a while, a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dream/Life</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dreamlife/"/>
<updated>2003-10-24T10:25:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dreamlife/</id>
<content type="html">I should begin with the caveat (possibly disingenuous) that I’m not ordinarily big on the “let me share with you the completely bizarre dream I had last night” conversational gambit. (What was the song that David Silver sang part of to me and Liz...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where Did That Quote Come From, Again?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-did-that-quote-come-from-again/"/>
<updated>2003-10-23T17:24:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-did-that-quote-come-from-again/</id>
<content type="html">Perhaps the best new bit of net technology I’ve seen in some time (okay, right after the iPod/iTunes/iTunes Music Store troika) has...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What to Say Next?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-to-say-next/"/>
<updated>2003-10-23T16:30:38Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-to-say-next/</id>
<content type="html">Insofar as there’s any frisson left in the f-word, it comes now: how to resume “normal” scholarly/bloggerly discourse once that particular word (much less that particular concept) has been introduced. An unforeseen circumstance, but an...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The De-Sexing of Fuck</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-de-sexing-of-fuck/"/>
<updated>2003-10-22T23:03:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-de-sexing-of-fuck/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, I recognize that I’m inviting trouble from googlers seeking something I’m not providing. But I really needed to link to this story, and the phrase just leapt out at me...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>That Color Picker</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/that-color-picker/"/>
<updated>2003-10-22T22:59:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/that-color-picker/</id>
<content type="html">I’m throwing in a link here to the color picker that everybody is</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dictionaraoke</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dictionaraoke/"/>
<updated>2003-10-21T23:35:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dictionaraoke/</id>
<content type="html">Via George comes Dictionaraoke, in which “Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Busyness</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-busyness/"/>
<updated>2003-10-21T14:50:06Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-busyness/</id>
<content type="html">A colleague of mine, whom I haven’t seen frequently enough of late, given our mutually crazy schedules, my increasingly frequent travel, and his life with two small daughters, just stopped in the hall to ask how I was doing.<br />
“Fine,” I told...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Home is Where the Heart Attack Starts</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/home-is-where-the-heart-attack-starts/"/>
<updated>2003-10-21T02:11:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/home-is-where-the-heart-attack-starts/</id>
<content type="html">One trek through downtown Toronto, one bus ride, one longish airport wait (made shorter by the higher alcohol content of Molson Canadian!), and two quite pleasant flights (see above), and I found myself back in SoCal, where it was a steamy 75...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.4.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-441/"/>
<updated>2003-10-19T10:34:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-441/</id>
<content type="html">ON QUALITATIVE RESEARCH<br />
What follows is an extensive set of notes on this morning’s discussion, entitled “Broadening Options and Raising Standards for Qualitative Internet Research: A Dialogue Among Scholars.” The panel was convened by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.3.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-432/"/>
<updated>2003-10-18T23:21:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-432/</id>
<content type="html">MISCELLANY REALLY IS THE LARGEST CATEGORY<br />
What follows is, at best, disjointed and partial. I’m exhausted today (witness my playing hooky), and the brain resists processing everything I’ve heard. I have, moreover,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.3.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-431/"/>
<updated>2003-10-18T16:13:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-431/</id>
<content type="html">ADVENTURES WITH ACCORDION GUY<br />
Yesterday afternoon ended relatively early; just after my last post, the drinks began. The highlight of the evening was being invited to join Liz and</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.2.3</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-423/"/>
<updated>2003-10-17T17:06:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-423/</id>
<content type="html">THE TRIANGLE IS THE BINARY OPPOSITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY<br />
Why is it that scholars are suddenly so drawn to the triangular graphic model, as though three-ness eliminates all of the shortcomings of binary logics? Don’t get me wrong; I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.2.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-422/"/>
<updated>2003-10-17T11:37:25Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-422/</id>
<content type="html">MY BRAIN JUST EXPLODED<br />
The following are the notes I took in Pierre Lévy’s keynote address, “The Collective Intelligence Ontology.” There is little to no commentary here, other than the suggestion that there’s something off-puttingly and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.2.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-421/"/>
<updated>2003-10-17T10:01:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-421/</id>
<content type="html">The conference has been fabulous so far, but I think the highlight for me, personally, has been reconnecting with old colleagues (David Silver, Tara McPherson, and Michele White from the NEH seminar a few years back) and getting a few faces to put...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.1.2</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-412/"/>
<updated>2003-10-16T22:41:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-412/</id>
<content type="html">ON THE QUANTITATIVE VS. THE QUALITATIVE<br />
This reveals my deep humanities-oriented bias, but I must confess that quantitative studies leave me at a complete loss. I do admire anyone who has the patience for the counting-work of quantitative...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR 4.1.1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir-411/"/>
<updated>2003-10-16T13:52:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir-411/</id>
<content type="html">What follows is the first set of what I hope to be a decently full set of entries on my experiences here at the conference. A program note: because of some of the restrictions in wireless access...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hiatus? Or Change of Locale?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hiatus-or-change-of-locale/"/>
<updated>2003-10-15T11:49:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hiatus-or-change-of-locale/</id>
<content type="html">I’m headed to Toronto this afternoon, and will be there through Sunday. As befits the conference, I’m traveling fully wired (wireless-equipped laptop, iPod, PDA-cum-cellphone, noise-cancelling ear buds), so I’m hoping to update from...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Writing the Interface</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/writing-the-interface/"/>
<updated>2003-10-14T16:55:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/writing-the-interface/</id>
<content type="html">This week, in The Literary Machine, we’re reading Ellen Ullman’s Close to the Machine, which has led me to think...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Digging Through the Archive</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/digging-through-the-archive/"/>
<updated>2003-10-13T11:33:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/digging-through-the-archive/</id>
<content type="html">As I was doing a bit of weeding this weekend, I stumbled across this entry in the archives, which made me stop and stare a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Comment Spam</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-comment-spam/"/>
<updated>2003-10-10T11:39:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-comment-spam/</id>
<content type="html">I’d really begun to feel a bit left out: all the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>AoIR</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/aoir/"/>
<updated>2003-10-10T01:08:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/aoir/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been watching various blogs of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lost in Translation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lost-in-translation/"/>
<updated>2003-10-08T21:40:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lost-in-translation/</id>
<content type="html">This site has been making the blog-rounds of late, but it’s still worth playing with, for the odd poetry (and even odder critical commentary) that it’s capable of producing. Input a line of English...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Am Appalled</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-am-appalled/"/>
<updated>2003-10-08T01:08:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-am-appalled/</id>
<content type="html">With two p’s.[1]</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Neil Postman</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/neil-postman/"/>
<updated>2003-10-07T01:04:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/neil-postman/</id>
<content type="html">Late this evening comes news of the death of Neil Postman, University Professor of Culture and Communication at NYU, and author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. I never...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Is Media Studies?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-is-media-studies/"/>
<updated>2003-10-06T20:46:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-is-media-studies/</id>
<content type="html">Part of my recent failure to be especially entertaining or enlightening here in the land of Obsolescence has to do with a smallish project that has absorbed increasing amounts of my already skimpy non-teaching, non-committee,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coetzee</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/coetzee/"/>
<updated>2003-10-02T11:44:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/coetzee/</id>
<content type="html">The Swedish Academy has this morning announced that this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What Happened to September?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/what-happened-to-september/"/>
<updated>2003-10-01T18:58:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/what-happened-to-september/</id>
<content type="html">Aren’t we supposed to ease into the semester?<br />
Or, if the semester begins in complete insanity, aren’t we supposed to reach a point at which it levels off?<br />
How can one begin with madness, and then proceed to grow...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogs, Teaching, and Privacy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogs-teaching-and-privacy/"/>
<updated>2003-09-30T12:14:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogs-teaching-and-privacy/</id>
<content type="html">ogged dropped me a line this morning pointing me to a discussion taking place over at Crooked Timber this...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Need Suggestions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-need-suggestions/"/>
<updated>2003-09-26T16:27:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-need-suggestions/</id>
<content type="html">As you know, I have a new iPod. (No, this is not another gloating entry.)<br />
I have also had for a while now an eMusic account.<br />
I have no facility, however, for keeping up with the music the kids are listening to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RIP, Edward Said</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rip-edward-said/"/>
<updated>2003-09-25T12:40:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rip-edward-said/</id>
<content type="html">Via the New York Times comes...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How Old Am I?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-old-am-i/"/>
<updated>2003-09-24T23:03:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-old-am-i/</id>
<content type="html">I have just discovered something that has completely freaked me out. Ordinarily, I am pretty unfazed by the whole passage-of-time, getting-older, good-lord, what-happened-to-my-early-thirties thing.<br />
However, I’ve just discovered through a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Don&#39;t Vote. No, Do. But Don&#39;t.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dont-vote-no-do-but-dont/"/>
<updated>2003-09-24T00:33:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dont-vote-no-do-but-dont/</id>
<content type="html">An update to last week’s petard-hoisting news: the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>New Toy</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/new-toy/"/>
<updated>2003-09-23T01:35:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/new-toy/</id>
<content type="html">I finally got my hands on my new iPod this morning, after a series of nail-biting delays. I’d paid for the two-day express shipping when I ordered it, and it shipped on September 12, so I’d expected to have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Thursday Evening</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/thursday-evening/"/>
<updated>2003-09-18T23:51:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/thursday-evening/</id>
<content type="html">This was for many semesters the end of my week; I had in front of me a blissful four-day stretch until the next occasion on which I had to walk into a classroom, four days in which I could read, write, and generally fulminate.<br />
Fulminating...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unveiling the Literary Machine</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/unveiling-the-literary-machine/"/>
<updated>2003-09-17T21:02:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/unveiling-the-literary-machine/</id>
<content type="html">Some of you may have noticed the new link that appeared a couple of days ago, unannounced, under “Other Obsolescence.” I’m happy to make the announcement, if belatedly, that my class blog is up...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Apologize in Advance</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-apologize-in-advance/"/>
<updated>2003-09-16T13:02:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-apologize-in-advance/</id>
<content type="html">From the good people who brought you Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers MUSHROOM MUSHROOM, comes the inexplicably-titled</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Supreme Court Hoisted By Own Petard; Film at 11</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/supreme-court-hoisted-by-own-petard-film-at-11/"/>
<updated>2003-09-16T01:08:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/supreme-court-hoisted-by-own-petard-film-at-11/</id>
<content type="html">The big news around these parts today is the potential</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Look Out, Phillip Morris</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/look-out-phillip-morris/"/>
<updated>2003-09-15T02:13:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/look-out-phillip-morris/</id>
<content type="html">Via MetaFilter comes news that won’t really shock anybody, at this point, but ought to horrify all of us: the USA PATRIOT Act and a slew of related state legislation are being</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>After the Silence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/after-the-silence/"/>
<updated>2003-09-12T10:19:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/after-the-silence/</id>
<content type="html">I spent yesterday in my office, behind a closed door, listening to music through noise-cancelling headphones. Reading Habermas, on the disintegration of the public sphere. Unable to admit anything else about the day.<br />
It’s hard to get going...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title> </title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/872/"/>
<updated>2003-09-11T11:46:47Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/872/</id>
<content type="html"></content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Peer-Review</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/peer-review/"/>
<updated>2003-09-10T19:02:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/peer-review/</id>
<content type="html">Thanks much to Jason for his recent entry rounding up some related thoughts at blogs around these...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Things I Wish I Had Written, Part 1</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/things-i-wish-i-had-written-part-1/"/>
<updated>2003-09-09T12:56:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/things-i-wish-i-had-written-part-1/</id>
<content type="html">From Rory comes the Victorian Boy’s Guide to Blogging. Go forth and read it yourself, with the first verse below to entice you:<br />
<br />
The nicely tended...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Need Advice</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-need-advice/"/>
<updated>2003-09-09T00:52:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-need-advice/</id>
<content type="html">Happy consumerist techno-geek advice, that is.<br />
Is there any particular reason you can think of that I shouldn’t buy myself an iPod?<br />
Or perhaps you might want to help talk me into it....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hey, Kettle? It&#39;s Pot. You&#39;re Black.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hey-kettle-its-pot-youre-black/"/>
<updated>2003-09-06T19:35:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hey-kettle-its-pot-youre-black/</id>
<content type="html">Oh, the irony: at roughly the same moment that I was calling somone out in the Invisible Adjunct’s comments for what I took to be the implicit suggestion that professors at small...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rock-Star</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rock-star/"/>
<updated>2003-09-06T12:50:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rock-star/</id>
<content type="html">The question of “rock-star professors” has resurfaced, in the form of a Stanley Fish article...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Rereading. Again.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-rereading-again/"/>
<updated>2003-09-04T16:29:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-rereading-again/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been intermittently concerned, over the last weeks, with questions of repetition, particularly surrounding the scholarly impetus to reread and rewrite. Now I’m replaying those...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Day One</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/day-one/"/>
<updated>2003-09-03T19:30:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/day-one/</id>
<content type="html">I guess there’s no denying it, now — the semester has begun. It actually began yesterday, but as I’ve moved, this semester, from my accustomed Tuesday/Thursday afternoon teaching schedule to a bright-and-early Monday/Wednesday/Friday morning one,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Goodbye, Magic Kingdom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/goodbye-magic-kingdom/"/>
<updated>2003-09-02T11:04:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/goodbye-magic-kingdom/</id>
<content type="html">Via Alas, a blog comes the news:<br />
<br />
Sadly, the Walt Disney company is gradually shutting down its 2-D animation department. They’ve decided that the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Education, Blogs, and Other Ranting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-education-blogs-and-other-ranting/"/>
<updated>2003-09-01T11:10:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-education-blogs-and-other-ranting/</id>
<content type="html">The conversation about professorial personas, professional ethics, and blogging continues over at weezBlog, where Elouise considers the question of virtual fraternization —...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Distraction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/distraction/"/>
<updated>2003-08-31T19:15:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/distraction/</id>
<content type="html">I realized today that over the last weeks, I’ve begun a series of thoughts here that I haven’t fully followed through on — too appropriately, the thoughts seem to obsolesce before they hit the input screen. My</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ouch.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/ouch/"/>
<updated>2003-08-30T17:26:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/ouch/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been away for a bit (as those of you reading this — and I quote — “US person’s boring memoirs about his travel trips” (ahem) already know), and since I’ve been back, I’ve been caught in the thick of semester...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>We Now Resume Our Semi-Regularly Scheduled Broadcast</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/"/>
<updated>2003-08-28T22:20:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/we-now-resume-our-semi-regularly-scheduled-broadcast/</id>
<content type="html">Alas, the blogging-from-London bit didn’t pan out quite as well as I’d hoped — in no small part because I was having too much fun to stop and reflect on the fun that I was in the midst of having.<br />
Now that I’m back in the SoCal heat, and in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Veer Left</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/veer-left/"/>
<updated>2003-08-21T07:11:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/veer-left/</id>
<content type="html">BT has managed to get things up and running here once again (not that we really blame him for the outage, which was admittedly systemic and not individual, but we imagined that a rather delayed...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>In the Internet Cafe</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/in-the-internet-cafe/"/>
<updated>2003-08-18T14:35:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/in-the-internet-cafe/</id>
<content type="html">The internet cafe is a lovely thing — not this particular one, I mean, but the general development. Give the folks behind the counter one unit of the local currency, and receive in exchange some quantity of time on a high-speed connection, to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Recent Googlings</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/recent-googlings/"/>
<updated>2003-08-15T17:23:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/recent-googlings/</id>
<content type="html">Why is it that folks who find Planned Obsolescence via net searches mostly show up in the wee hours of the night?<br />
And why are they searching for:<br />
–</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Geography of Blogging</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-geography-of-blogging/"/>
<updated>2003-08-14T14:26:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-geography-of-blogging/</id>
<content type="html">Having finished with the statement, and returning to the Gibson article, I’ve made the last-minute decision to accompany the Significant...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Qualifying Exam Meets the Cult of Personality</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-qualifying-exam-meets-the-cult-of-personality/"/>
<updated>2003-08-13T16:00:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-qualifying-exam-meets-the-cult-of-personality/</id>
<content type="html">I did abysmally on Marcel’s People test. How did you do?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Truth Value of Memoir</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-truth-value-of-memoir/"/>
<updated>2003-08-12T13:30:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-truth-value-of-memoir/</id>
<content type="html">This thread just goes on: today on Salon (via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the &#39;Personal Statement&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-personal-statement/"/>
<updated>2003-08-12T13:03:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-personal-statement/</id>
<content type="html">I’m a little flat today, and unlikely to find the inspiration I need for a properly ponderable post. The flatness has something to do with the heat here, which has ratcheted back up to the usual August/September levels of misery, bringing along...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Synthesis</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/synthesis/"/>
<updated>2003-08-11T12:38:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/synthesis/</id>
<content type="html">In a bizarre merger of the background materials of my last two posts, Jill...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Rereading Gibson</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-rereading-gibson/"/>
<updated>2003-08-08T13:59:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-rereading-gibson/</id>
<content type="html">Determined to heed Francois’s advice and practice my rereading of Neuromancer in the hope that some of its details might adhere,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Rewriting</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-rewriting/"/>
<updated>2003-08-07T15:18:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-rewriting/</id>
<content type="html">For years I’ve nagged my students to adopt a more critical eye toward the work they turn in to me, to refuse to be content with the first draft, to step back, take a breath, and attempt a real re-vision of their writing. Writing is...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Need to Reread</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-need-to-reread/"/>
<updated>2003-08-06T17:22:41Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-need-to-reread/</id>
<content type="html">I’m about to begin a rereading of Neuromancer for that article on spatial metaphors, geopolitics, and cyberspace I’ve been working on....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Outlast. Outplay. Outtheorize.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/outlast-outplay-outtheorize/"/>
<updated>2003-08-05T12:20:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/outlast-outplay-outtheorize/</id>
<content type="html">Invisible Adjunct reports on Unfogged‘s pitch for a new...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Definition of a Bad Work Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-definition-of-a-bad-work-day/"/>
<updated>2003-08-04T16:36:07Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-definition-of-a-bad-work-day/</id>
<content type="html">Have spent nearly an hour on hold with AAA and the DMV, after having realized that my car registration and insurance both expire this Friday, and I haven’t received any renewal information from either.<br />
Shockingly enough — and I know you’ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogging and the Classroom, Redux</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogging-and-the-classroom-redux/"/>
<updated>2003-08-03T17:54:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogging-and-the-classroom-redux/</id>
<content type="html">A weekend post by Liz Lawley returned me to my recent thoughts about how to integrate a group-authored blog into my fall class on the Literary...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And We&#39;re Back...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-were-back/"/>
<updated>2003-08-01T13:04:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-were-back/</id>
<content type="html">… sort of.<br />
We rolled back northward from SIGGRAPH yesterday, a bit dazed yet from the sensory overflow of the conference and the tradeshow. I’m not sure that I’m quite done processing what I’ve picked up this week (including participating...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My Favorite Advertising Slogan Ever</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/"/>
<updated>2003-07-27T15:02:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/my-favorite-advertising-slogan-ever/</id>
<content type="html">“Attitude is a state of mind.” –billboard for unknown women’s clothing store, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
P.S. Boy, do I seriously wish I had a digital camera.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dear W.A.S.T.E. (2.0)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dear-waste-20/"/>
<updated>2003-07-22T12:10:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dear-waste-20/</id>
<content type="html">Today’s second installment of what has apparently become an ongoing feature brings us further advisories, in over the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SIGGRAPH, Anyone?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/siggraph-anyone/"/>
<updated>2003-07-21T13:10:36Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/siggraph-anyone/</id>
<content type="html">As SIGGRAPH is happening practically in my backyard this year, and as I’m working on trying to get this INP off the ground (and could thus use all the imagination-stimulation...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, and the Web</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/scholarly-publishing-copyright-and-the-web/"/>
<updated>2003-07-18T13:17:13Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/scholarly-publishing-copyright-and-the-web/</id>
<content type="html">In a big hurry to get some non-blogging work done today, so I’m going to beg off by steering you all to Rory‘s thoughts on the manipulation of intellectual property laws by...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On the Humanities, in Theory</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-the-humanities-in-theory/"/>
<updated>2003-07-17T13:39:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-the-humanities-in-theory/</id>
<content type="html">The conversation about David Weddle’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Crime and Punishment</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/crime-and-punishment/"/>
<updated>2003-07-16T13:46:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/crime-and-punishment/</id>
<content type="html">Today on MetaFilter: a link to a report of a Pennsylvania man who, accused of spitting at a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>&#39;Film Theory Has Nothing to Do With Film.&#39;[^1]</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/film-theory-has-nothing-to-do-with-film/"/>
<updated>2003-07-15T15:00:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/film-theory-has-nothing-to-do-with-film/</id>
<content type="html">I resisted posting on this yesterday, in part because I was so angry I couldn’t think of anything worthwhile to say. I’m still not sure I can muster a sufficiently articulate response, but I feel I have to take a crack at it.<br />
The</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lost in Space</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lost-in-space/"/>
<updated>2003-07-14T13:54:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lost-in-space/</id>
<content type="html">I’m working these days on expanding a paper I gave at a recent conference, hoping that it’ll transform in the process into a draft of a chapter of the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Blogging and the Classroom</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/blogging-and-the-classroom/"/>
<updated>2003-07-11T13:48:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/blogging-and-the-classroom/</id>
<content type="html">Since my fantastic meeting with George a couple of days ago, I’ve been thinking more about my plan to fold a group blog into one of my fall classes. George...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Quick Tech Question</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/quick-tech-question/"/>
<updated>2003-07-11T13:24:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/quick-tech-question/</id>
<content type="html">Bill reports that he’s been having some difficulty loading the Planned Obsolescence front page, and this reminded me: back during our European...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Welcome, Sven!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/welcome-sven/"/>
<updated>2003-07-10T13:12:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/welcome-sven/</id>
<content type="html">I’m assuming, and I think not incorrectly, that many of the folks currently reading my meanderings have read and either celebrated or despised (or some deeply ambivalent mixture of the two) Sven Birkerts’</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hype, Literary Anxiety, and Cultural Studies</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hype-literary-anxiety-and-cultural-studies/"/>
<updated>2003-07-09T13:16:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hype-literary-anxiety-and-cultural-studies/</id>
<content type="html">Bill directs our attention to a pretty hefty MeFi discussion of</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unplanned Absence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/unplanned-absence/"/>
<updated>2003-07-08T18:07:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/unplanned-absence/</id>
<content type="html">Sorry for the no-update today, folks (as well as for the unavailability of comments earlier in the day); my hosting provider migrated the site to an upgraded server late last night, and we encountered some minor but pesky database problems as a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Reading Slowly</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-reading-slowly/"/>
<updated>2003-07-07T12:59:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-reading-slowly/</id>
<content type="html">This recent post by vika has made me uncomfortably conscious of the slowness with which the pile of books I’d planned on reading this summer is diminishing — or, more accurately, the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Independence Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/independence-day/"/>
<updated>2003-07-04T17:08:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/independence-day/</id>
<content type="html">Rather than taxing my heat-cramped brain by attempting to come up with a clever ‘why I’m not posting today’ post, here’s instead a smattering of July 4th postings from blogs around the way:</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yes, I Did Go See It</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yes-i-did-go-see-it/"/>
<updated>2003-07-03T14:41:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yes-i-did-go-see-it/</id>
<content type="html">On opening night. And paid full price, at that.<br />
Legally Blonde 2, that is.<br />
A good friend of mine and I have for the last several summers made a point of seeing as many bad...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Future Writing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/future-writing/"/>
<updated>2003-07-02T12:38:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/future-writing/</id>
<content type="html">One of the reasons I’m so concerned about the relationship between this site and my current scholarly work (or lack thereof) is that my new project (or, as I’m beginning to think about it, my Imaginary New Project...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Academic Superstardom (and Its Costs)</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/academic-superstardom-and-its-costs/"/>
<updated>2003-07-01T13:44:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/academic-superstardom-and-its-costs/</id>
<content type="html">There’s a fascinating conversation going on in two different posts on Invisible Adjunct (post...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Not Writing</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-not-writing/"/>
<updated>2003-06-30T14:14:53Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-not-writing/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve intended for the last couple of weeks to begin writing in here about my new project, or about my intent toward that project, in any event. Or, for that matter, about things I’m reading, things I’m watching, and so on. It’s one of my goals...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hey, I’ve Got an RSS Feed!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hey-ive-got-an-rss-feed/"/>
<updated>2003-06-27T19:22:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hey-ive-got-an-rss-feed/</id>
<content type="html">To be found here. Who knew. God love Movable Type.<br />
[UPDATE 5.27.04: post-migration, various feeds are now in the menubar.]</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Actual Book News Contained Herein</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/actual-book-news-contained-herein/"/>
<updated>2003-06-27T14:47:32Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/actual-book-news-contained-herein/</id>
<content type="html">Neal Stephenson, author of the riotous Snow Crash, the envy-inspiring</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hurray for the &#39;So-Called Homosexual Agenda&#39;!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hurray-for-the-so-called-homosexual-agenda/"/>
<updated>2003-06-26T15:02:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hurray-for-the-so-called-homosexual-agenda/</id>
<content type="html">And hurray for the Supreme Court.<br />
According to the New York Times (subscription required), the crotchety ones have briefly emerged from the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Amidst the Gnashing of Teeth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/amidst-the-gnashing-of-teeth/"/>
<updated>2003-06-25T15:57:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/amidst-the-gnashing-of-teeth/</id>
<content type="html">I’d hoped to write something of substance today, something considering the impact that the Supreme Court’s Monday half-decision on affirmative action will have on higher education, or perhaps another bit of reportage from the Amsterdam/Prague...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>And the Winner Is...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/and-the-winner-is/"/>
<updated>2003-06-24T12:50:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/and-the-winner-is/</id>
<content type="html">I’d promised some time back to keep you posted on my adventures in the land of consumer electronics. After a bit of comparison shopping, both for cell-phone/PDA combo devices and for wireless phone services, I...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Split Decision</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/split-decision/"/>
<updated>2003-06-23T12:29:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/split-decision/</id>
<content type="html">According to the wire services, the Supreme Court has issued a</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Oops.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/oops-2/"/>
<updated>2003-06-20T13:12:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/oops-2/</id>
<content type="html">I just discovered this morning that I missed my own one-year anniversary; Planned Obsolescence made its inauspicious debut exactly one year and two days ago, broadcasting from the sunny shores of Waikiki.<br />
Here’s the part that makes me want...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Harry Potter Mania</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/harry-potter-mania/"/>
<updated>2003-06-19T14:30:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/harry-potter-mania/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, mania. According to the Beeb, not only did the Daily News violate the strictest of literary embargoes by running a story that...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>But Do They Play Bar Mitzvahs?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/but-do-they-play-bar-mitzvahs/"/>
<updated>2003-06-18T12:44:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/but-do-they-play-bar-mitzvahs/</id>
<content type="html">One of the things one does as a tourist in Prague — one of those musts, like visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or seeing the Empire State Building in New York — is to make the across-the-Charles-Bridge and up-the-hill hike to the</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Moving Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/moving-day/"/>
<updated>2003-06-17T10:43:55Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/moving-day/</id>
<content type="html">We’re moving office today, as our building is going to be renovated over the next twelve months. Yesterday, I packed up everything that wasn’t to be moved directly into my temporary office and lugged it home. Today, I’m headed in to watch the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Eerste Things Eerste</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/eerste-things-eerste/"/>
<updated>2003-06-16T11:30:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/eerste-things-eerste/</id>
<content type="html">Yes, all you impatient readers (well, Bill), we’re back Stateside, and mostly recovered from the nine-timezone, two-day, train, plane, and automobile journey from Central Europe back to the Far Southwest. Planned...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Obsolete and Away</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/obsolete-and-away/"/>
<updated>2003-05-27T12:49:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/obsolete-and-away/</id>
<content type="html">We’ve gone on a bit of a hiatus here, as you can no doubt tell. The hellish end of semester rituals gave way to travel preparations, which gave way to the actual travel. Planned Obsolescence is spending the week in Amsterdam, and will next week be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>William Gibson...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/william-gibson/"/>
<updated>2003-05-07T01:29:02Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/william-gibson/</id>
<content type="html">…no longer has a blog. Or won’t soon, anyhow. Claiming concerns that, as he puts it, “the ecology of writing novels wouldn’t be able to exist if I’m in daily...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Adventures in Technology, Part Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-technology-part-two/"/>
<updated>2003-05-02T12:45:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/adventures-in-technology-part-two/</id>
<content type="html">I had a microwave. It weighed something near unto 50 pounds, and it cost me something on the order of $400 when I bought it 18 years ago. (The number of numbers in the previous sentence begins to make this look like a word problem — answer: 44...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Life in the Out-of-the-Limelight Limelight</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/life-in-the-out-of-the-limelight-limelight/"/>
<updated>2003-05-01T12:05:50Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/life-in-the-out-of-the-limelight-limelight/</id>
<content type="html">One of my pals here in the English Department at the College Just South of the Hill was the subject of a very odd feature in this past...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Can You Hear Me Now?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/can-you-hear-me-now/"/>
<updated>2003-04-23T17:45:08Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/can-you-hear-me-now/</id>
<content type="html">So the antenna broke off of my cell phone the other day, and I’m imagining all that electromagnetic activity, with no other focal point, penetrating my skull and gradually radicalizing all my brain cells.<br />
Couple that with my general desire...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How You Know Postmodernism Is Dead</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/how-you-know-postmodernism-is-dead/"/>
<updated>2003-04-14T13:20:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/how-you-know-postmodernism-is-dead/</id>
<content type="html">The link will tell you so.<br />
Anyone who can report to me on the whereabouts of my (okay, sure, long defunct, but still) website will be added to the pantheon of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-poetry-of-dh-rumsfeld/"/>
<updated>2003-04-03T05:00:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-poetry-of-dh-rumsfeld/</id>
<content type="html">From Slate. Need I say more?</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SimShakespeare</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/simshakespeare/"/>
<updated>2003-04-02T14:30:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/simshakespeare/</id>
<content type="html">Yesterday, when our good friends at The Morning News linked to this article in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dear W.A.S.T.E.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dear-waste/"/>
<updated>2003-03-28T18:54:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dear-waste/</id>
<content type="html">In over the transom today:<br />
<br />
Having looked through a few pages of “Gravity’s Rainbow”, I found to my shock and horror that it was...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Now That&#39;s Significant</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/now-thats-significant/"/>
<updated>2003-03-25T22:07:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/now-thats-significant/</id>
<content type="html">Anybody who knows me (or who’s been bored enough to peruse the archives of obsolescence) knows that I’m a sucker for the book...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Not Attack Evilania?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/why-not-attack-evilania/"/>
<updated>2003-03-14T04:20:15Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/why-not-attack-evilania/</id>
<content type="html">Whew… the posts just keep coming fast and furious this week. Spring break began for me today (well, yesterday, given that it’s now after midnight) at 5 pm, and I’m just raring to go.<br />
To go to D.C., that is, where I intend to lie around...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Who Was That Masked Literary Researcher?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/who-was-that-masked-literary-researcher/"/>
<updated>2003-03-14T02:59:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/who-was-that-masked-literary-researcher/</id>
<content type="html">According to The Memory Hole, Thomas Pynchon’s lost-ish writings for Boeing, dating between early 1960 and mid-1962, may in fact resurface. These technical...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Big Readers</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/big-readers/"/>
<updated>2003-03-12T12:30:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/big-readers/</id>
<content type="html">Book Magazine has released this list of “America’s Biggest Readers” (via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Meetings: None of Us Is as Dumb as All of Us</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/meetings-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us/"/>
<updated>2003-03-12T01:55:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/meetings-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us/</id>
<content type="html">Perhaps you’re a wholly reasonable person, with the potential to become an irrational fool? Perhaps you’re a team player, with a potentially argumentative loner lurking about inside you? Or perhaps you’re a dreamer, within whom lives...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Whether You Like It Or Not</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whether-you-like-it-or-not/"/>
<updated>2003-03-07T01:06:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whether-you-like-it-or-not/</id>
<content type="html">The following exchange is available for your further perusal in the most recent issue of Harpers.<br />
<br />
TOTO RECALL?<br />
From an October email exchange between Holger Turck and...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back from the Undead</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-from-the-undead/"/>
<updated>2003-02-27T21:14:18Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-from-the-undead/</id>
<content type="html">Well, almost.<br />
Oprah’s back, that is; she announced today that the book club will soon be back from the dead. Interestingly,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Worst. Novel. Ever.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/worst-novel-ever/"/>
<updated>2003-02-24T16:26:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/worst-novel-ever/</id>
<content type="html">Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post believes himself to have found “the worst novel ever published in the English language.” Moreover, he has gotten an</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unplanned Absence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/unplanned-absence-2/"/>
<updated>2003-02-19T23:32:44Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/unplanned-absence-2/</id>
<content type="html">Sorry for the protracted radio silence; we’ve been in the home stretch of a search here, and I’ve been spending an astonishing amount of time going to job talks, conducting interviews, and generally glad-handing about. Then, in the interstices,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Information Security Begins With You!</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/information-security-begins-with-you/"/>
<updated>2003-01-29T19:39:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/information-security-begins-with-you/</id>
<content type="html">The Propaganda Remix Project. Some of these are fantastic.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Do Androids Dream of the Key to the Executive Washroom?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/do-androids-dream-of-the-key-to-the-executive-washroom/"/>
<updated>2003-01-26T19:07:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/do-androids-dream-of-the-key-to-the-executive-washroom/</id>
<content type="html">Spent much of yesterday re-reading Philip K. Dick‘s</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Advance Reading</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/advance-reading/"/>
<updated>2003-01-21T20:53:35Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/advance-reading/</id>
<content type="html">It’s the first day of classes here at the College Just South of the Hill, and we’re all settling down with piles of books and crisp new notebooks. I’m hoping, this semester, to get some mileage out of those classes here in the land of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>You Haven&#39;t Read My Book, Have You?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/you-havent-read-my-book-have-you/"/>
<updated>2003-01-16T04:23:48Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/you-havent-read-my-book-have-you/</id>
<content type="html">Why doesn’t Booknotes sound more like this? (Via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Life Among the Pre-Rich</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/life-among-the-pre-rich/"/>
<updated>2003-01-15T17:57:58Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/life-among-the-pre-rich/</id>
<content type="html">Or, why the Democrats keep shifting rightward in defiance of Marxist theory. With pointed analysis from “the sociologist Jennifer Lopez.” (Via</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Wasp Factory</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-wasp-factory/"/>
<updated>2003-01-10T19:33:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-wasp-factory/</id>
<content type="html">I have in the last few days finished reading Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, and find myself itching...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I&#39;m Gonna Take You on a Surfin&#39;... Oh, You Know</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/im-gonna-take-you-on-a-surfin-oh-you-know/"/>
<updated>2003-01-08T14:45:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/im-gonna-take-you-on-a-surfin-oh-you-know/</id>
<content type="html">Am happily running the public beta of Apple’s very own browser, Safari. It’s got that groovy brushed-metal iInterface that grace all the hippest iApps, even despite its absence of iNess....</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Never Was a Technical Guy, and Never Will Be[^1]</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-never-was-a-technical-guy-and-never-will-be/"/>
<updated>2003-01-07T18:50:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-never-was-a-technical-guy-and-never-will-be/</id>
<content type="html">William Gibson has a blog.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Farewell to the Palindrome</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/farewell-to-the-palindrome/"/>
<updated>2003-01-01T14:13:56Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/farewell-to-the-palindrome/</id>
<content type="html">2002 ended with a lurch: My flight back west was hung up in Houston for 3 hours due to storms, and so arrived at 1:15 am on December 31, rather than 10:15 pm, Dec. 30. Waited for suitcase, grabbed cab, gave directions to difficult-to-find...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Passage to Mordor, by E. M. Forster</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-passage-to-mordor-by-e-m-forster/"/>
<updated>2002-12-30T23:39:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-passage-to-mordor-by-e-m-forster/</id>
<content type="html">Or perhaps Hunt for the Ring, by Tom Clancy. Can’t decide which is my favorite.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Fleeing Times Square</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/on-fleeing-times-square/"/>
<updated>2002-12-30T17:04:16Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/on-fleeing-times-square/</id>
<content type="html">A brief return to the blogsphere, with the promise of more shortly.<br />
Have spent the last four days in the town part of me still considers</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Um... Is This Thing On?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/um-is-this-thing-on/"/>
<updated>2002-11-25T21:38:24Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/um-is-this-thing-on/</id>
<content type="html">Remember me? I used to write stuff here, and periodically even had something to say. Alas, in the last few weeks I’ve been transformed into a committee drone, and have been mucking about in a paperwork swamp. Really. If paper could ooze, I’d be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Deconstruction</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/deconstruction-2/"/>
<updated>2002-11-11T22:23:10Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/deconstruction-2/</id>
<content type="html">An odd weekend: I made the mistake of reaching for a hairbrush on Saturday morning — I should know better — and was rewarded with a muscle spasm between left shoulderblade and spine. The initial sensation — think cattle prod — was bad enough, but...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>None of the Above</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/none-of-the-above/"/>
<updated>2002-11-05T13:02:05Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/none-of-the-above/</id>
<content type="html">Have just come from completing civic duty, which is increasingly difficult to imagine has any beneficial effect in the world, given the awful lesser-of-two-</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The News Just Keeps Getting Worse</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-news-just-keeps-getting-worse/"/>
<updated>2002-10-25T14:42:22Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-news-just-keeps-getting-worse/</id>
<content type="html">One day after Shauny‘s outcry against the ongoing horrors of the morning news, there is</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Arrgh.</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/arrgh/"/>
<updated>2002-10-24T19:49:40Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/arrgh/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been gnashing my teeth over a stupid browser problem, and bemoaning said browser’s total lack of online support, particularly of the discussion group...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fall Break</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/fall-break/"/>
<updated>2002-10-19T00:27:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/fall-break/</id>
<content type="html">Ahhh. A few blissful days to regroup, kick off one’s shoes, sip a warm beverage, grade two stacks of papers, read three books, plan two committee meetings, fly to Albuquerque for a conference, finish the revisions on the manuscript, meet with the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>What&#39;s Next? &#39;Postmodernism! The Musical&#39;?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/whats-next-postmodernism-the-musical/"/>
<updated>2002-10-08T18:20:43Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/whats-next-postmodernism-the-musical/</id>
<content type="html">This is apparently the season of the improbable stage production here in SoCal. Two much-acclaimed works of cultural criticism (each with ties to the journalistic tradition, but with very different results) have been set loose upon the stage in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>A Farewell to Ernest</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/a-farewell-to-ernest/"/>
<updated>2002-10-03T21:24:21Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/a-farewell-to-ernest/</id>
<content type="html">Then in the late summer of that year there was reading, much reading of many books, and many of them were fine books. Some of the books we read were to be written about, and some of the books were just for fun, and some of the books were to be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Where There&#39;s Smoke...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/where-theres-smoke/"/>
<updated>2002-09-30T09:27:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/where-theres-smoke/</id>
<content type="html">Just a few miles north of here — how few can be attested by the near-constant whirring of engines overhead and the overwhelmingly acrid air — the mountains are on fire, and have been for a week. Air quality has deteriorated to the extent that all...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Back to School</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/back-to-school/"/>
<updated>2002-09-25T16:55:51Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/back-to-school/</id>
<content type="html">The new season has at last begun, and eager students are buckling down all over campus, absorbing new materials, debating new ideas, and anticipating developments to come.<br />
I’m referring, of course, to the new television season.<br />
I’ve...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Role of the Book</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-role-of-the-book/"/>
<updated>2002-09-19T12:36:14Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-role-of-the-book/</id>
<content type="html">I have spent much of the last six days cooling my heels through various plane flights (and the inevitably attendant airport delays), dawdling in various hotel rooms, and generally seeking ways to pass the time. My strategies for time-passage have...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Me &amp; Charlie Kurault</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/me-charlie-kurault/"/>
<updated>2002-09-18T12:41:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/me-charlie-kurault/</id>
<content type="html">Planned Obsolescence has been on the road these last five days, and has had only the most tenuous of connections to the Internet. Please forgive our absence; we’ll be back with further ruminations in a day or two.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Today, Of Course</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/today-of-course/"/>
<updated>2002-09-11T03:00:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/today-of-course/</id>
<content type="html">Night before last (meaning Monday night, the 9th), I watched Showtime’s airing of Reflections from Ground Zero, a series of nine short films produced by graduate students...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Violence and the Novel, Part Two</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/violence-and-the-novel-part-two/"/>
<updated>2002-09-09T20:52:57Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/violence-and-the-novel-part-two/</id>
<content type="html">I’m rereading The House of Mirth for class right now, and I’m taking under advisement mariah’s suggestion that I remove Laurence Selden from my list of characters I’d like to smack around. Perhaps...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Orientation</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/orientation/"/>
<updated>2002-09-03T11:16:29Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/orientation/</id>
<content type="html">Classes begin today, my friends, thus ending the long orientation process that precedes every fall semester. The bulk of our students showed up on campus this weekend. Some had been here longer, of course: a very few were here all summer; another...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Because You Didn&#39;t Ask</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/because-you-didnt-ask/"/>
<updated>2002-08-29T12:57:09Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/because-you-didnt-ask/</id>
<content type="html">The Top Five[1] Fictional Characters I’d Like to Slap Around:<br />
1. Lily Bart, The House of Mirth. First, last, and always. How can she not see the mistakes she’s making?...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>I Need a 404 Page</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/i-need-a-404-page/"/>
<updated>2002-08-26T12:12:30Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/i-need-a-404-page/</id>
<content type="html">like this.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Twelve Reasons I Hate Neil LaBute</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/twelve-reasons-i-hate-neil-labute/"/>
<updated>2002-08-23T10:26:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/twelve-reasons-i-hate-neil-labute/</id>
<content type="html">1. For his conviction that he had the right temperament to succeed in his adaptation of Possession, a brilliant novel now stinking up a Multiplex near you: “I loved the parallel stories … really all the things that were in the book...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Perils of Genius</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-perils-of-genius/"/>
<updated>2002-08-22T13:37:20Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-perils-of-genius/</id>
<content type="html">No, not my own.<br />
As promised, some thoughts about Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai, from the cover of which one would be...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coming Soon...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/coming-soon/"/>
<updated>2002-08-20T19:24:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/coming-soon/</id>
<content type="html">I’ve been running hither and yon (mostly yon) these last weeks, and dealing with the complexities of life-in-a-suitcase, and thus failing to resume anything like my normal programming schedule. But I promise, I’ll be back with new things...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Summer Reading</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/summer-reading/"/>
<updated>2002-08-12T12:54:26Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/summer-reading/</id>
<content type="html">Having gotten myself and my stuff by various paths back to Southern California (though I am at a loss to say we all arrived in one piece, as said stuff has yet to be unpacked, and cannot be unpacked until a date by which the promise of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>That, I Didn&#39;t Expect</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/that-i-didnt-expect/"/>
<updated>2002-08-08T13:12:28Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/that-i-didnt-expect/</id>
<content type="html">Hi. You guys are moving me, and I’m trying to get some information about where my stuff is.<br />
— Okay.<br />
— Today’s the last day of my delivery window. And I got a call yesterday telling me that the driver would be showing up with...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Peck, Peck, Peck</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/peck-peck-peck/"/>
<updated>2002-07-24T12:08:34Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/peck-peck-peck/</id>
<content type="html">A quick update to last week’s comment on Dale Peck’s cranky outburst occasioned by his review of Rick Moody’s The Black Veil. Bill has continued the discussion on his site,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Return of the Depressed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/return-of-the-depressed/"/>
<updated>2002-07-23T11:51:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/return-of-the-depressed/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, I’m not really depressed so much as crushed under the weight of the belongings I’ve got to get sorted out and into boxes in the next 24 hours. I’d hoped that, returning from NOLA to SoCal, the long division of my stuff would end. My...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Yikes</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/yikes/"/>
<updated>2002-07-18T10:33:01Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/yikes/</id>
<content type="html">Should a reviewer of contemporary fiction actually be required to, say, like contemporary fiction?<br />
The question is raised for me by Dale Peck’s review...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Academic Obsolescence, Indeed</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/academic-obsolescence-indeed/"/>
<updated>2002-07-15T10:11:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/academic-obsolescence-indeed/</id>
<content type="html">Mail is taking a while to catch up with me these days, given that it’s got to go through the postal service, campus mail, my department, campus mail, and the postal service again before it gets to me. So needless to say, I’m a little behind on...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Not Bloody Likely</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/not-bloody-likely/"/>
<updated>2002-07-12T10:38:04Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/not-bloody-likely/</id>
<content type="html">Um, hi. I’m trying to get an estimate on a small move.<br />
— Where from?<br />
— New Orleans.<br />
— And to?<br />
— Southern California.<br />
— How small a move?<br />
— I’m in a small one-bedroom, but it’s...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hmmm...</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hmmm/"/>
<updated>2002-07-11T10:00:19Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hmmm/</id>
<content type="html">I spent a chunk of this past weekend hanging out in my apartment, not wanting to think about either the quantity of work I have to do in the next two weeks or the fact that somehow all of my belongings in this apartment need to transport...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Silence</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/silence/"/>
<updated>2002-07-10T13:33:46Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/silence/</id>
<content type="html">Well, I managed to conclude the conclusion in a temporarily satisfactory way, despite the deafening roar of absolute silence on your end. Okay, point taken. I’ll do my own work. Sigh.<br />
Having done so, and not being quite ready to begin the...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Here&#39;s a Question</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/heres-a-question/"/>
<updated>2002-07-09T10:42:17Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/heres-a-question/</id>
<content type="html">So, I’m nearing the conclusion of the conclusion of the book I’ve been working on for the last umpteen years. Which of course doesn’t mean I’m done — there’s still the introduction to be written, and the first chapter to be polished up a...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>July 9, 1982</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/july-9-1982/"/>
<updated>2002-07-08T09:27:37Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/july-9-1982/</id>
<content type="html">Tomorrow is the twentieth anniversary of the crash of Pan Am 759, which fell victim to a wind shear during takeoff from New Orleans International, plowing into a nearby Kenner neighborhood, killing eight people on the ground and all 146...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Technologies We&#39;d Like to See Become Obsolete</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/technologies-wed-like-to-see-become-obsolete/"/>
<updated>2002-07-05T22:09:49Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/technologies-wed-like-to-see-become-obsolete/</id>
<content type="html">And the wonderful folks helping steer them that way: Click To Add Title. Genuinely sublime.</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sounds Familiar</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/sounds-familiar/"/>
<updated>2002-07-04T09:48:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/sounds-familiar/</id>
<content type="html">Continuing the Richard Powers binge, I just yesterday finished reading Gain, which traces the corporate history of Clare International,...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Them Singin&#39;, Dancin&#39; Demons Do It Every Time</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/them-singin-dancin-demons-do-it-every-time/"/>
<updated>2002-07-03T10:50:11Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/them-singin-dancin-demons-do-it-every-time/</id>
<content type="html">Inspired in part by the wonderful pulchritude, and in part by my own overindulgences, I’ve undertaken a plan of (somewhat) radical detoxing. The most significant aspect...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>The Times(-Roman), They Are a-Changin&#39;</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/the-times-roman-they-are-a-changin/"/>
<updated>2002-07-02T17:52:42Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/the-times-roman-they-are-a-changin/</id>
<content type="html">Or, Smooth, part two.<br />
After spending a day with the site, and with other sites, and after some extremely useful feedback, I’ve made a little design revision. Things are still malleable, though, so I’m open to...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Smooth</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/smooth/"/>
<updated>2002-07-02T14:39:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/smooth/</id>
<content type="html">Eek! I just downloaded and installed IE 5.2 for OS X, which counts among its improvements “support for the new Quartz text smoothing feature.” And boy, do things look smooth. I’m deeply unsure how I feel about this. For those of you</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rubbed Out</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/rubbed-out/"/>
<updated>2002-07-01T10:41:31Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/rubbed-out/</id>
<content type="html">Entertainment Weekly recently reported on the latest shady doings from the world of la cosa nostra: Fairuza Balk, who appeared in...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Preparing for Re-Entry</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/preparing-for-re-entry/"/>
<updated>2002-06-28T14:51:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/preparing-for-re-entry/</id>
<content type="html">The last day in Hawaii, alas. Packing up the suitcase, hunting for the items lost beneath the bed. Realizing that I only took 8 pictures while I was here, and now this roll of film will languish in my camera until after Christmas, when I’ll...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Lessons I Wish I&#39;d Learned Sooner</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/lessons-i-wish-id-learned-sooner/"/>
<updated>2002-06-27T16:35:59Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/lessons-i-wish-id-learned-sooner/</id>
<content type="html">Just because you read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn five years ago doesn’t mean you’ll remember its details during your orals.<br />
<br />
When told in the early stages of a relationship the excruciating details of...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Influence, Part II</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/influence-part-ii/"/>
<updated>2002-06-26T14:38:33Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/influence-part-ii/</id>
<content type="html">Previously, on Planned Obsolescence: the book list, not as designator of “quality” or “greatness,” but rather of “influence,” which one intrepid reader...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Dept. of Musical Revisionism</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/dept-of-musical-revisionism/"/>
<updated>2002-06-25T14:59:52Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/dept-of-musical-revisionism/</id>
<content type="html">Earlier that day, over lunch:<br />
Me (hearing “Born in the U.S.A.” over the restaurant P.A. system): How on earth did those Republican knuckleheads hear this song and decide it was a patriotic anthem?<br />
He: It makes total sense. Their...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hey, Where&#39;s the Joy of Cooking?</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hey-wheres-the-joy-of-cooking/"/>
<updated>2002-06-24T15:20:12Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hey-wheres-the-joy-of-cooking/</id>
<content type="html">In the spirit of two years ago, I’ve recently been directed to this list of the 100 Most Influential Books of the Century. The shift in directive — influence rather than...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Hawaii Is Good</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/hawaii-is-good/"/>
<updated>2002-06-21T12:43:27Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/hawaii-is-good/</id>
<content type="html">for many things. For getting up at 4 am since your body can still be fooled into thinking it’s 9.<br />
For catching up on that reading you meant to do years ago but could never quite get to.<br />
For keeping...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mining the Backlist</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/mining-the-backlist/"/>
<updated>2002-06-20T14:46:45Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/mining-the-backlist/</id>
<content type="html">I’m one of those folks whose first introduction to Richard Powers was Galatea 2.2, which I suppose is the place that a lot of people...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>True Confessions</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/true-confessions/"/>
<updated>2002-06-19T14:30:03Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/true-confessions/</id>
<content type="html">Okay, time to come clean. I’m in (what I most sincerely hope to be) the end stages of writing a book that focuses on this question of obsolescence, particularly the anxieties that literary culture seems to exude any time it considers its...</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Opening Day</title>
<link href="https://kfitz.info/opening-day/"/>
<updated>2002-06-18T15:35:00Z</updated>
<id>https://kfitz.info/opening-day/</id>
<content type="html">Here’s the main issue: obsolescence. A forum for exploring it, and for producing it. A space in which to think about the intimate interrelationship of new media and old media, and the ways in which newness and oldness are inevitably predicated on...</content>
</entry>
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