• Gah. Who knew that teach­ing a writ­ing could would require me to do so much writ­ing! Not that its a bad thing…. #
• http://​pic.​gd/​9​a1098 Back @ Cor­nell for good. Taking in Keaton's "College" @ cor­nell cinema… #
• @heather­shae – Hey Heather, I'm in ithaca as of now, so def­i­nitely shoot me an e-mail or give me a call. #
• listen to @nprnews on the New York Time's use of crowd sourc­ing to ana­ly­ize the redacted tor­ture papers – http://​bit.​ly/​w0KTT #
• @Nico­le­taD­Caprio – not yet. one of these days. #
• A won­der­ful quote from H.L. Menkin that (cyn­i­cally) pre­dicts the move­ment of rad­i­cal polit­i­cal speech to radio – http://​bit.​ly/​1ynF8 #
• Why can't frig­gin wired mag­a­zine (WIRED!) not set up their site to be smoothly imported into Zotero!!! There is no excuse for this! #
• RT @kodakCB: another local Rochester busi­ness is now on Twit­ter! @Weg­mans #
• @adam_durand – That would have been really inter­est­ing to watch Adam. in reply to adam_durand #
• @scott_ish – pre­vi­ously @Weg­mans was some­one a "fan" account. in reply to scott_ish #
• RT @print­inthemix: Coupons: Text/Email Emerg­ing Source Yet Sunday News­pa­pers Remain Top Source http://​bit.​ly/​dMb5c #
• Woot! "Studying Dig­i­tal Culture" went great. I look to have some great kids. The 50 minute class block will take a lot of get­ting used to. #
• RT @Jour­nal­ism­Buzz: REPORT: Will E-readers Help Save News­pa­pers? ' Biggest unknown, how much are adver­tiser.. http://​tinyurl.​com/​m​r4paj #
• @ljc – It does. But it freaks me out even more to this that in a about a year and few days, most will be half my age! GAH! in reply to ljc #

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I’m back in Rochester, enjoy­ing some time with Dre, Rita Mae, Lilah, and Lewis after com­plet­ing my first week down in Ithaca. Class yes­ter­day went really smoothly. I’m already work­ing on my lessons plans for next week and tweak­ing my assign­ments. Once I’m done with that it’s back to read­ing for course­work. I also have some OPL thing to do. And it looks like I’ll be pre­sent­ing at a O’Reilly inter­net ses­sion later this fall. So a lot is on my plate.

All that said, it’s great to be home.

The FWS prep class last night went really well. My dis­cus­sion group was pretty impressed with the syl­labus I put together. They had some excel­lent feed­back about assign­ments as well. I still have to find a way to reduce the read­ings for the class — if for not other reason to ensure my own sanity.

I also know at least one stu­dent has the required books. I know this because I stood behind him in line today at the book­store and I’m pretty sure I’m the only teacher at Cor­nell using this par­tic­u­lar work. I resisted the temp­ta­tion to talk with him. I really don’t want to be “that professor”… at least not yet.

Class begins at 10.10 tomor­row with a short writ­ing exer­cise. I’m a little ner­vous about it only being 50 min­utes long. That’s a really short amount of time — the short­est class time block I’ve ever taught in. So it will be inter­est­ing to see how it goes.

For those who are inter­ested, you can check out ver­sion 1.0 of the syl­labus here:

• Study­ing Dig­i­tal Cul­ture v1.0

And I’m call­ing it v1.0 for a reason. One of the notes in it says it all:

Be Pre­pared for Changes
I reserve the right to alter the syl­labus at any time. In fact I guar­an­tee that I will before the end of the semes­ter. When in doubt about a read­ing, an assign­ment, or a due date, ASK! And always refer back to Black­board for the latest infor­ma­tion about the class.

Today was my first full day back in Ithaca. Since I’m teach­ing a fresh­man writ­ing work­shop (or FWS, for those in the know) for the first time, I have to attend a six week teach­ing course. While it’s a lot of addi­tional work, I’m excited about it. At RIT I was dropped into the deep end of the pool and was expected to start swim­ming. Here there’s a for­mal­ized sup­port net­work for grad stu­dents who are teach­ing classes.

Being back in Ithaca is a bit of a mixed bag. I’m excited to start stud­ies again. This is going to have to be a big year if I hope to start my research next year. That means I have a lot of course work to do and a number of grants to apply for. And while that is excit­ing, if not more than a little over­whelm­ing, I’m also sad to be away from Dre — espe­cially since today is our wed­ding anniver­sary. I know it’s cliche, but while there have been trials and tribu­la­tions, 3 years really has seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. I can’t wait to see her this weekend!

• Making Grilled Chicken Alla Diavola … I had for­got­ten how ther­a­putic pound­ing chicken can be…. #
• @dig­i­tal­hu­man­ist is sit­ting in @RITOPL chat­ting with us about http://​www.​omeka.org and http://​chnm.​gmu.edu... this is really help­ful! #
• Wow… 15 weeks seems like a long time until you try to write a syl­labus — I'm assign­ing too many books for my dig­i­tal ethnog­ra­phy course. #
• @dig­i­tal­hu­man­ist It was great to meet you as w ell! We really appre­ci­ated the chance to talk to you. in reply to dig­i­tal­hu­man­ist #
• RT @naypinya: Pls vote 4 our SXSW panel "When Every Book is Connected." http://​is.​gd/​2n3Ox w/ @andrewsavikas @naypinya @book­square @bookoven #
• RT @shrutig­o­ra­dia: The Kodak Social Media team is busy col­lect­ing names for the new Kodak Video Camera. Got a name for 'em? #nameAKo­dak #
• Wait­ing for oil change to wrap up and then off to ithaca…. #
• Man, its weird to be back in the Anthro Lounge in McGraw. I'm meet­ing with my teach­ing adviser in a few min­utes & I'm sorta ner­vous. #
• Stuff's coming together for the the move to Ithaca for this year at Cor­nell. I catu­cally plan to start blog­ging again by next week. #
• Print­crime anyone? – RT @case­or­ganic: Local­iz­ing pro­duc­tion with 3D print­ers – down­load and print­ing the objects you need. #gnomedex #
• knew Kodak was look­ing for a name for the Zi8 ( http://​bit.​ly/​3​MVhhJ), but I didn't know it was now avail­able in US. Books for class or Zi8? #
• http://​pic.​gd/​3​2f048 Shoes with indi­vid­ual toes… they're blow­ing my mind… #
• RT @Nico­le­taD­Caprio: I'm seri­ously cons­der­ing buying a pair! The look cool for rock climb­ing and mar­tial arts… #
• Check out http://​per​sonas.​media.​mit.edu/ and get a visu­al­iza­tion of your pres­ence on the web… it ends up look­ing a bit like your dna. #
• @Nico­le­taD­Caprio Just curi­ous, which mar­tial art do you prac­tice? And I didn't see any choice options in personas…. in reply to Nico­le­taD­Caprio #

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• RT @shrutig­o­ra­dia: Sooo excited for Jenny aka @ljc aka @KodakCB being rec­og­nized in Ad Ages 30 Women to Watch for 2009. GO JENNY! YOU ROCK! #
• The Page2Pub beta is avail­able – col­lect wiki con­tent while you browse and con­vert it to an EPUB or print ready pdf (http://​bit.​ly/​1​365R1) #
• @Jes­sicaLovesMe – It's actu­ally a auto­mat­i­cally for­mat­ted, print ready PDF book with things like TOC, page num­ber­ing, etc in reply to Jes­sicaLovesMe #
• Hal­loween Candy… Already? Really Weg­mans??!! #
• @muzenews : Pretty much so, yeah. Break the stu­dents (or the stu­dents equip­ment) that def­i­nitely makes you an offi­cial teacher. in reply to muzenews #
• Goals for today: inish "Studyin Dig­i­tal Cul­ture " Syl­labus for my fall FWS class @ cor­nell, and work on grant appli­ca­tions #
• Umm… ah… Cheer­leader is my social mojo. What's yours? Find out at http://​bit.​ly/​k​n​o​wmojo — Cheer­leader??!! #
• Woot! Have to travel to Hen­ri­etta today 'round lunch. Chipolte #
• Woot! Have to travel to Hen­ri­etta today 'round lunch. Chipoltes here I come! #
• If you google bacon wrapped cher­ries @ljc is the #2 link… Should I really be sur­prised? – http://​bit.​ly/​1​XP5N4 #
• RT @nic221: Google Books offer­ing authors Cre­ative Com­mons options. Good news for find­ing books to remix: http://​bit.​ly/​1​9aSKl #
• #tweet­deck experts: Is there any way to get tweet­deck not leave the "from" field on by default? I keep send­ing tweets from the wrong account #
• Dre, Rita Mae & I are dri­ving to cen­tral NY to see my fam and cel­e­brate my bro's birth­days! Grilling is in our future! http://​is.​gd/​2irza #

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• Its a beau­ti­ful day for a drive! I'm on my way to Ithaca to meet with folks at Cor­nell. #
• Hyper­nova: Ille­gal Indie-​Rock from Iran (http://​bit.​ly/​asBOg) Check out the video for their song "Fairy Tales" – http://​bit.​ly/​SDhF0 #
• test­ing voice recog­ni­tion software… w00t! It works with Tweet Deck! #
• @bastion5 Yup. It's work­ing pretty well. in reply to bastion5 #
• wow… ok so super ergonomic key­board is really screw­ing with my abil­ity to type! #
• @andrewsavikas – It's the HP wire­less deluxe desk­top. It & the tablet stand are early birth­day gifts from my wife. in reply to andrewsavikas #
• Here's a photo of my awe­some new home com­put­ing set up – http://​twit​pic.​com/​cwff7 — really dig­ging the multi-​touch screen… #
• oops… make that here's the pic­ture for my new home com­put­ing set up…. http://​twit​pic.​com/​cwft3 #

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