Dear Search Committees,

August 7, 2012

A guest post over at Antenna, on some ways to improve job searches for candidates and letter writers.

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The Citizenship Ceremony

August 3, 2012

Yesterday Carrie and I were sworn in as Canadian citizens. Our ceremony took about two hours. First, all 40-odd immigrants (from 25 countries) had to have their IDs checked, and get one last set of questions as to whether we’d been in trouble with the law or immigration since we submitted our forms. We also [...]

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“As Canadian as Possible Under the Circumstances”

August 2, 2012

Footnotes to a transition.

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Post Publication Cleanup: Old School Word Clouds

July 25, 2012

I’m in the somewhat laborious process of decommissioning files from two books. I hate sorting through paper. I’m organized inside computers, not outside them. There are tons of things that were important at the time and can now be recycled, including these two pages (which as you can see from the scan-through are already recycled [...]

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New Text: about 900 pages of it

July 19, 2012

(also available on wax cylinder, via 128kbps mp3): I returned home from Europe to find both my new books waiting for me. Although Amazon lists North American release dates in early August (and MP3 comes out on my birthday), the books are starting to reach people. MP3 is a gorgeous book and I have to [...]

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…and oops, we’re in the summer hiatus

June 26, 2012

and I’m in Europe for 4 weeks. We just got to Paris, which is lovely (I’d never been). We’re near the Bastille for two days before moving into an apartment. In England, I had a wonderful time at the Supersonix conference, and the highlight was recording a bit of the intro to MP3 onto a [...]

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MP3 Intro is Live Online

June 6, 2012

My new monograph MP3: The Meaning of a Format will be available in August. In the meantime, Duke University Press has posted the introduction on Scribd, so you don’t have to wait for the print copy or ebook to get a taste of the argument. Plus? The cover looks great.

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