As I worked, I soon realized that I was not able to foresee the best pictures and often could not identify the better negative until much later. This meant that in my future efforts there would be an element dedicated … Continue reading
Clearing out stored links: Good Copy, Bad Copy, which got boingboinged awhile back. I’ll be using it the next time I teach IP. Dylan Hears a Who. When a musician recorded “Green Eggs and Ham” in the voice of vintage … Continue reading
I’m usually barefoot as much as possible in the summer, but today was chilly enough that I put on some socks. I hadn’t seen these since I bought them and filed them in the sock drawer. They have Mighty Mouse … Continue reading
John Logie’s new book, Peers, Piracy and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates, is now out from Parlor Press. I’m interested to see that the author and publisher have chosen to carry on Lessig’s publication model from Free Culture: the … Continue reading
Oh, the blessing and curse that is the “keep new” feature in Bloglines. It means that I’ve cluttered up that place with all sorts of good stuff, some of it a year old now. It’s all links that I meant … Continue reading
Back in the spring, John Logie, who’s been chairing the CCCC Intellectual Property Committee, proposed an annual series of briefs on major legal developments that impact the discipline. The briefs that Jim Porter, Martine Courant-Rife, Jessica Reyman, and I wrote … Continue reading
Since remix issues often get treated as a late 90′s or even post-millennial phenomenon, I thought I’d link up a few sources on Plunderphonics for future reference: Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Perogrative, presented by John Oswald to … Continue reading
When we teach intellectual property (and particularly copyright complements) in the Comp or Tech Comm classroom, it’s very easy to burble on about distributing knowledge and preservation of cultural heritage and open access/source/content and then play a couple of mash-ups … Continue reading
I just scampered into the living room to inform Mister Husband that the Apple Corps v Apple Computer arguments* began this week in London, and oh my gosh, I had forgotten! And blah blah trademark interpretation! Questionable dilution of market! … Continue reading
It’s late for the Great Pumpkin, but this fan-fic marriage of Peanuts and H.P. Lovecraft is worth filing: As you are no doubt aware, I am the issue of solid Dutch stock—the prosperous Van Pelt family of St. Paul. Mine … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
