Over at Differences and Repetitions, Ted Striphas wonders whether authors in academic publishing could change the industry the way comic book authors did: So what might we do to improve the situation for academic authors? We might take a cue from the comic book industry. In the 1990s, star writers and illustrators such as Todd …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
When good software goes bad
Somewhere in these pages I have extolled the virtues of Entourage as an email client. I used to be a devotee of Eudora, but I switched over to allow Entourage to interface more fully with McGill’s exchange server. Plus, I liked how it integrated email, calendar and address book. But today, somehow, my “database” got …
New Tape Will Make Your Life Easier
Here’s a promo for RCA’s first go at the cassette concept.
New Text
I see that I’ve been neglecting this feature of the blog. Here’s a catch-up post starting with something hot off the internet: Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker and Ariana Moscote Freire, “The Politics of Podcasting.” In “After Convergence, What Connects?” a special issue of Fibreculture edited by Caroline Bassett, Maren Hartmann and Kate …
So there I was tonight
in the theater, watching “Get Smart” with Carrie and a couple friends, and what do I see? The Arts Building! The place where I work. Then the main character drives around the driveway in front of the Arts building. And you can see the McGill red and white colored flowers, and the banner hanging off …
Surprise: Predatory Lending Hits the Poorest Hardest
I mostly read magazines in bed and I have an on-again off-again relationship with The Nation. However, I spent a couple nights mulling over this disturbing story about what the mortgage crisis is doing to the black middle class. Meanwhile, the papers here have been running congratulatory editorials because the conservatives finally got it together …
Continue reading “Surprise: Predatory Lending Hits the Poorest Hardest”