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June 2013

Ah, back in Blighty. Now have a very short period in which to overcome jetlag before next week's conferences!

Great day speaking at Harvard w @the_blochian. Huge thanks to @DavidRArmitage & @iceskatingbears. Deeply honored in such company #OLHtalk

Withnail & I quotations sustaining @the_blochian and I through a delayed Amtrak journey. "We're not from London" but we're "making time".

Just noticed the "dubious author" role in eprints. Assume this is for uncertain authorship conditions. Still aspire to achieve it.

Love this: “She will be like everyone, putting on the things she sees the constructions she expects to find there” Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

Highlight of today, needing to urgently sign a form at distance. I've given them a GPGP cryptographic hash. Waiting for uni admin to implode

I've got a chapter in there and, yes, I would have gone for a more liberal licence given the choice, but this is a good start anyway.

OK, even I'm going to draw the line at subjecting my stream to an article on Foucault's influence on accounting.

Amazing work by @adam42smith -- just this afternoon he's updated the Zotero Talis translator so reading lists can be harvested into Zotero.

On travels off up to Lincoln for a few days. Hoping to avoid getting drenched on walk to our away day tomorrow.

Ever the romantic type, on my wife's significant birthday I am on a tocilizumab drip. Great NHS staff speeding things along to get me home!

of an article on the web than registering an ISBN number keeps a book in print". Unless I'm mistaken, CrossRef terms specify that...

Let me quibble on a minor point in Egan's article. "DOIs can be registered by anyone and having one no more guarantees the availability...

Remembering seeing Iain Banks with @GreatDismal last year or so at the @britishlibrary with @MsTick68. A great shame he's gone.

“common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it”

Really not getting on with Lynne Tillman's /This is Not It/. Am I missing something? Seems crass and overly self-aware.

Too much interesting stuff on what "Wikimedians in Residence" actually do from Andy Mabbett. Encouraging open practices for GLAMs #wmuk

Interestingly, though, I don't agree re PDFs. Despite digital savvy, I'm still fairly paper-centric. Or at least hard edged. #wmuk

Wikimedia is well suited to reuse, adaptation, remixing and redistribution for OERs says @sjgknight #wmuk

Writing today about differentiations between literary & academic conditions of production and intersections of market-defined "democracies".

Heading over to #WMUK shortly to speak about "Opening Up Humanities Sources". Hoping I can dodge the EDL protests :/

Looking forward to speaking at WikiConference UK 2013 tomorrow on open access, the humanities and @openlibhums.

1. Create nebulous uni ranking system 2. Write "news" items about own rankings 3. Profit from free content of academic outrage via page hits

Fantastic cafe and book shop combined in Lincoln: @bookstopcafe. Great for local authors who want to get their work out.