Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text

Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...

Posted by mistersquid on September 17, 2009 9:47 PM

Recombinant Media, Chapter 3

Writer Dwayne McDuffie, whose work is the primary subject of the third chapter of Recombinant Media, has expressed curiosity about what I've written. So, here is that third chapter and its notes for handy reference (the notes are included...

Posted by mistersquid on August 27, 2006 5:32 PM

Prototype for a Black Cyborg Subject: A Tinderbox HTML Export Demonstration

In the middle of posting this entry, I found out that one of the writers of Marvel’s 1991 Deathlok series, Dwayne McDuffie, was considering purchasing my dissertation. I don’t even know what my royalty rate is. To be honest,...

Posted by mistersquid on August 27, 2006 2:01 PM

Recombinating . . .

I’m in the process of revising the second chapter of Recombinant Media: the Mutation of Subjectivity in a Post-Print Culture. While I do intend to produce an artifact which my tenure committee will recognize as one that meets the...

Posted by mistersquid on January 22, 2006 12:00 AM

Doctored . . .

Yesterday, near to 10:40 am EST, the present members of my dissertation committee congratulated me for successfully defending my dissertation “Recombinant Media: The Mutation of Subjectivity in a Post-Print Culture.” A bit of administrative paper work must be completed...

Posted by mistersquid on October 8, 2004 12:00 AM