Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Scrap Choices
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 29, 2010
So, when I’m working on a big project, like the comprehensive one I’m trying to propose or the syllabus I’m trying to put together, I’m constantly facing this really annoying question of where the heck to write stuff down. There are so many options: on the computer or on paper; in this little notebook or [...]
Revision
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 21, 2010
In the midst of rearranging and revising, the only consolation I can summon up is: at least I don’t have to do this on paper or on a typewriter.
Writing and the Environment
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2010
Writing is an academic activity. It takes place in the mind. Some might say it’s even a spiritual process — so much about it is tough to explain. Somehow words end up on the page. Somehow paragraphs develop and pages accumulate. The remains are physical. But the process is totally physical too, of course. Hands [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 1, 2010
“If the steam-boat and the railway have thus abridged space and time, and made a large addition to the available length of human existence, why may not our intellectual journey be also accelerated, — our knowledge more cheaply and quickly acquired, — its records rendered more accessible and portable, its cultivators increased in number, — [...]
Post-It Notes
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 31, 2009
I’m reading Marginalia by H. J. Jackson, and I started wondering how marginalia — and the whole practice of writing in/on books — might have begun to change with the invention of the Post-it note. Then I realized that I don’t even know when Post-it notes were invented! Then I thought of Romy and Michele’s [...]
On Anonymity, Collecting, and Connecting
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 16, 2009
A great video by a student in one of Mike Wesch’s Digital Ethnography classes at Kansas State University featuring: Found, Post Secret, Fmylife, Facebook, Twitter, and Mortified and commenting on: collecting, archiving, and soul-searching; anonymity, treasured objects, networks, and scrap writing, of course.
Another Book!
Posted by: dkoupf on: May 14, 2009
Another book has come out of a successful (pseudo scrap writing) website: Postcards From Yo Momma is sort of a scrap writing website, neglected by me until now because what it contains is not exactly scrap writing. Subtitled “A repository of modern day maternal correspondence,” the site solicits goofy, odd, embarrassing, passive-aggressive, and otherwise humorous [...]
Thinking
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 19, 2009
In what follows, I’d like to make some preliminary attempts at synthesizing some of the material on this blog. This is tough. While working on this project, I’ve come across tons of interesting stuff, but I often wonder what it all means. First, some comments on form: blog + “archive” Working on a blog rather [...]
Scrap Writing in the Twitter Age
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 12, 2009
An interesting development for scrap writing in the digital age: PostSecret is on Twitter and unsurprisingly, has many followers (65,014 to be exact). This morning PostSecret re-tweeted this question from a follower: “The comic book one at the bottom… What’s on the other side?” The question refers to the last scrap secret posted on PostSecret [...]
Update on Tablet PCs
Posted by: dkoupf on: April 9, 2009
I just came across this interesting video about the use of tablet PCs in some college classrooms, via A Collage of Citations. So in response to my questions first posed here, students are using tablet PCs — and in ways that seem to improve their learning experiences.
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