a bubbling cauldron of rank miscellany

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-23

• nice to see the old gang is still alive and… WELL: via @boingboing: The WELL is bought by its users http://t.co/P6kxHPFe #
• Teaching web design? This short offers a nice intro for the topic: The Art of Web Design | PBS Off Book: http://t.co/lm8eXsz7 via @youtube #

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Look Ma! Your Little Boy is (kinda) Famous!

Yesterday, I reached a milestone of sorts: My YouTube channel surpassed the 20,000 view mark. I couldn’t have done it without you (well, I suppose if I had never uploaded the content in the first place, you wouldn’t have had anything to watch, so yay me!). To celebrate this moment of Internet D-list celebrity status, I thought I’d take a moment to remind us of where it all started:

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-16

• Harvey Pekar statue to be dedicated at Cleveland Heights' Lee Road library next month: http://t.co/ZQA9HXzt #
• When I first saw this, I LITERALLY laughed my guts up… new #XKCD Cautionary Ghost http://t.co/l7t3icPZ #
• via Open Culture: William S. Burroughs Shows You How to Make “Shotgun Art” http://t.co/VxGBOYxy #
• Interview (1 of 3) w/ Godfather of Cyberpunk: William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong http://t.co/mi1TEdtB #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-09

• I've just updated my professional profile on LinkedIn. Connect with me and view my profile. http://t.co/MDIqMZbe #in #
• A Competition! #DefineRhetoric @HarlotTweets | Harlot http://t.co/cqAO9h83 #
• I defy you to find a creepier writing technology: The Isolator Helmet For Extreme Focus http://t.co/ohMxVCE6 #
• University of Michigan's Computer & Video Game Archive: over 3,000 different games, roughly 35 unique consoles. http://t.co/iOxqWTYD #
• WolframAlpha – my facebook http://t.co/b7redhaw via @sharethis #
• our dog's back end was a garden hose for the past 2 days; now, it's somewhere between a spray bottle and a play-doh fun factory. #PoorPuppy #
• FontShop Plugin | FontShop http://t.co/MOTGcEKw #
• Visiting Scholars in DMAC: Elaine Richardson: http://t.co/pbcUL4BU via @youtube #
• Visiting Scholars in DMAC: Melanie Yergeau: http://t.co/FPFlpey5 via @youtube #
• #BretEastonEllis Calls #DavidFosterWallace “Most Tedious, Overrated, Tortured, Pretentious Writer of My Generation” http://t.co/t10Zt1SZ #
• License Plate http://t.co/efFcP8Z7 #

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Two New “Visiting Scholars in DMAC” Profiles

From this past year’s Digital Media And Composition program (DMAC) comes this pair of profiles of our Visiting Scholars for the year (program participants invited to attend based upon their specific research agendas). As the two-week digital media-intensive program was wrapping up, I sat down with Melanie Yergeau (U of Michigan) and Elaine Richardson (OSU) for a brief chat, and here’s what they had to say…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-02

• For the David Carson fans/haters alike: "The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography" http://t.co/9jfNFBK8 #
• I checked in at Ray Ray's Hog Pit on #Yelp http://t.co/AijO01qU #
• hey, @jbono: our chapter is in the can! that is all. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-26

• just out on @ccdigitalpress: http://t.co/MtQM5jQV #
• New 'mindset list' helps academics understand the freshmen | Inside Higher Ed http://t.co/ET7A2F0k #
• See the trailer for @peraltastacy's new film BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY http://t.co/klfWvEys #
• Super Mario clone for Atari 2600 demo footage: http://t.co/oRFcADTz via @youtube #
• Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens Poems — “The Planet on The Table” and “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” | Open Culture http://t.co/XBl2Qs5X #
• The new edition of CORNFIELD REVIEW: ONLINE (digital media "insert" for our print journal) is out now: http://t.co/uVBLXwei #
• I checked in at Ray Ray's Hog Pit on #Yelp http://t.co/AijO01qU #
• the latest round of shameless self-promotion: read my new interview in @figure_ground at http://t.co/f8Sg29FC #

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Cornfield Review: Online–Out Now!

Hot on the heels of the release of the 2012 print edition of Cornfield Review comes the latest installment of CR:Online, the digital media supplement featuring artists, photographers, writers, and designers from the OSUM/MTC/CSCC community. Give it  a gander.

Cornfield Review 2012 Out Now

Hey, you guys: The latest installment of Cornfield Review, OSU Marion’s long-lived student-edited literary magazine, is currently available for your reading pleasure. Print copies are available for free at various locations around campus, and a downloadable version of it is available at: http://cornfieldreview.osu.edu/issue/view/96/showToc. Get yours today!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-08-19

• Embrace the Remix: http://t.co/CvhdbhB2 via @youtube #
• Hackitat – A film about political hacking, world wide: http://t.co/QL5DqFv2 via @youtube #
• 1% of my followers are fake. How many fake followers do you have..? http://t.co/b614QTy1 @StatusPeople #FollowerSpam #
• at long last, the final freshman orientation session of the summer. #TheLongSlog #EsFinito #
• Judge slaps down injunction request in Georgia State copyright case http://t.co/Jbl52BZC #
• #OperationFirstPass is set to commence, @jbono. Please stand by… #
• I checked in at Ray Ray's Hog Pit on #Yelp http://t.co/AijO01qU #
• #OperationFirstPass has successfully concluded, @jbono. Now, we should begin thinking about #OperationSecondPass #

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