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 …
Category Archives: Technology
New Tape Will Make Your Life Easier
Here’s a promo for RCA’s first go at the cassette concept.
Why I hate WebCT, Part III
This is part of an <a href=”http://superbon.net/?p=599″>ongoing</a> <a href=”http://superbon.net/?p=612″>series</a>. Coursepacks are due at the bookstore in mid July, and so I thought I’d get my big course together on time for a change, since I only require a few changes. So I started plotting out my calendar for the year. I go into WebCT …
Analog vs. Digital (Part MCM)
The other night, <a href=”http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/” target=”_blank”>Tobias</a> treated me to a demonstration of <a href=”http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=traktorscratch” target=”_blank”>Traktor Scratch</a>, a digital DJ setup. Basically, it involves the usual two turntables and a mixer, plus a digital interface and a laptop. The DJ uses special records striped with timecode, special needles and a digital interface reads the timecode off …
The Phonautograph Gets Its 15 Minutes. . .
. . .and I ride its coattails, or help it, or something. The story is now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, which also has a picture of the device. The quotes are of mixed quality and the guy appears …
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1860 Audio Recording
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison UPDATE (Saturday): It’s now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, though they are of mixed quality and the guy appears to think that McGill is in West Montreal (a loaded error if there ever …
Shorthand Troubles
Shorthand Troubles, an Edison film that makes an appearance in chapter 4 of The Audible Past is now available online. Here’s a link to the place I found it (or rather, where google alerts found it for me).