Towards a Taxonomy of Failure

January 30th 2019
Introductory note: I intended this talk, given at the "On the Benefits of Failure" workshop [https://novel-tm.ca/?p=807] at the University of Alberta in March 2018 (video available here [https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/avalon:42992])... read more

AcWriMo: a postmortem

December 2nd 2012
Here comes winter [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8159721512_9667e624b2_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/8159721512/AcWriMo completely failed to have the effect I'd hoped for, but I'm taking it as a sign of a positive change... read more

AcWriMo

November 3rd 2012
[/assets/blog/acwrimo.png]http://www.phd2published.com/2012/10/15/announcing-acwrimo/At the beginning of August, I moved from Chicago to Berkeley. It's been a wonderful change that has come with many upsides... read more

Alternate uses for a Slavic degree: dummy content generator

July 10th 2012
As I've announced elsewhere [http://drupal.forhumanists.org/blog/2012/07/11/drupal-humanists-now-website], Drupal for Humanists is launching today on its own domain. I wanted to make sure that there was at least one case study available before launch... read more

Drupal book progress (or lack thereof)

June 26th 2012
Writing a book is hard. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5463/7422686278_3afba45850_n.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7422686278/It's been about six months since Elijah Meeks and I kicked off our plan to write a book on Drupal for an audience of humanists... read more

Scav hunt or Art? (a guessing game)

May 7th 2012
When spring comes to the University of Chicago campus, there are two annual events that inject a certain whimsical randomness into my work week: Scav Hunt [http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/] and FOTA (Festival of the Arts) [http://fota.uchicago.edu/]... read more

Please don't ask me for permission

February 10th 2012
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5028/5582659213_8c8e8aa8a3_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5582659213/A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a blog post by Nina Paley [http://ninapaley.com]... read more

Drupal for Humanists

January 26th 2012
One question I continue to hear from digital humanists and higher ed IT folks is "what book should I pick up to learn Drupal?" I never have a particularly good answer-- not because there aren't any good books out there (I assume there are)... read more