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  • Literary Event of 2015 and it’s Only February

    Harper (the publishing company, subset of HarperCollins) is publishing a SECOND novel written by Harper Lee in July of 2015. The story released last week from AP says that the novel was found recently by Lee’s lawyer and is scheduled for release on July 14. The publisher first print run is 2 million copies. To put that Read more

  • Weak Ties and London

    I came across the term weak ties in Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson. Weak ties are people within your network, social or physical real, who are not your close friends. Thompson says,”In a world of status updates, tangential, seemingly minor ties become part of your social fabric. And they can bring in some extremely Read more

  • Currently Overwhelmed By Life

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  • The Key to this is Diversity: Digital Humanities

    Today was the first day of a new quarter at DePaul for me. I’m taking two electives, both centered on digital humanities, one in theory (pray for me) and one in practice. I’ll post a lot about it for at least the next 10 weeks [fair warning]. I didn’t even know what digital humanities was Read more

  • More Devices, Kindle Paperwhite

    My Christmas was awesome! I hope everyone else’s was as well. This will be my last post of 2014, so Happy New Year too! I got a Kindle Paperwhite. I was completely floored. I had been throwing the idea around, but I had no intention of anyone hearing it and thinking to buy it for Christmas. Read more

  • Media in Media Series

    I’ve noticed that my posts about new media and popular culture receive a lot of attention and interaction. I’m going to keep the posts on this theme coming regularly. Below are the links to the other posts in this “series,” yeah, that’s what I’m going to call it: the Media in Media series. Some of my Read more