May 2013

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The other: "needs re-structuring". I'll cede, but re-structuring always feels the most "damaging" at the time, even if I like the result!

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Got the fun situation of two conflicting reader reports on recent article. One says (paraphrased) "this is great: publish as is".

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Just attended a rather fine Mark Knopfler gig in Brighton. A good birthday weekend after Beckett's Not I last night!

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I love some of the reviewers for Orbit. Asked for evaluation of article. Incredibly detailed feedback 6 hours later.

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That can happen even with closed articles. In both cases, the terms have been broken. And with that, I retreat back to my sick bed.

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Latest scholarly kitchen article says problem with CC-BY is that people are republishing without attribution. But that's not a prob w/ CC.

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Spent the afternoon finishing off reading Colin Koopman's (absolutely fantastic) book on Foucault. Re-situated firmly in Kantian realm.

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Mostly focused on making the library a bi-directional hub for the university. Need to /communicate with/ and /educate/ researchers.

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An enjoyable afternoon with Jisc and RLUK. Thanks to @benshowers for the invite. Think it went pretty well considering sickness level!

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I got really geekily excited about writing the intro to my second book this evening. I know a wild time when I see it.

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Larry Page railing against medical privacy in a "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" fashion. Easy for him to say. #employment #recession

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Reading Koopman's Genealogy as Critique. Really not convinced that Foucault's roots in a Kantian lineage have been overlooked...

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Getting free_cite running on your own server

I decided that the best way to spend this Sunday morning was to try to get free_cite, a citation parsing system, running on my server. Turns out this is easier said than done; the README provides no information on which versions of different software you need and also gives no advice on setting up…

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Am (a bit) saddened to report that Zizek did not come to the UCU OA debate, by the way.

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A good evening debating open access at Birkbeck UCU with @MeeraSabaratnam and @PabloK - lots of good union action points.

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Ok, so Zizek just walked past me. Sure as hell hope he isn't coming to the session I'm about to speak at.

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New mission after overhearing most tedious commuter conversation ever: I won't tell anyone how busy I am. Everyone is busy; will just assume

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New London-based Infinite Jest reading group. First meeting Wed. May 15th 2013, 6-8 PM, Senate House Lib., Room 218; shame I can't make it.

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Ha ha, the British Library @_Americas Studies account has changed its "Twitter name" to an appropriately themed #Pynchon2013 moniker

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Happy 76th birthday to Thomas Pynchon! Some great Pynchon in Public Day photos coming in already.

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Self-help book read by person next to me on tube. "our negative forces: <bullet point list in comic sans>"

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Yahoo! acquires Astrid. Guess they'll kill it off and I'll have to move task manager. Again.

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Tell you what, if I do your peer review, will you waive your APC on my next submission?

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My day today is mostly writing about Willa Cather and populist contexts for understanding My Ántonia.

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Just to say that it would be better if the MLA database didn't store passwords in plaintext format (can recover passwords) @MLAconvention

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MA symposium today was brilliant - some startlingly good papers. Then farewell to Prof Barker & a productive train meeting w/ @the_blochian

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Today is all about our MA symposium where our excellent students will be presenting their work!