Articles in Creating Fembot
#AAAfail & Open Access (at it again)
The other day, I took a survey for the American Anthropological Association (I’m a recovering anthropologist) that had to do with the associations’ adminstration “pushing back” (h8rs) against the idea of open access publishing (see here for back story if you’re interested). If you read their overview of open access, …
Ada Beta
Two graduate students from the University of Oregon’s English Department (Ashley Champagne and Crystine Miller) are in the process of using the comment press system we are adapting for use in Ada in their graduate course work this quarter.
We’re very excited and grateful to Ashley and Crystine, since their beta …
FemTechNet Meeting
Greetings, Fembot friends and collective members. I just wanted quickly post about the incredible meeting that Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz organized in LA last Saturday. I’ve got lots to report because the meeting raised some very new and exciting possibilities for Fembot. The Fembot Advisory Board is going to …
Fembot Facelift (slight tummy tuck too)
Hi all, Bryce here- your new webmistress. As you’ll see, the design of the site has been drastically altered, featuring more dynamic content and easier mobility. The site will really come to life as we add more content to Laundry Day, Professional Potpourri, Femblog, and our visual experiments (name TBA).
I’m …
Online Journal #FAIL
http://www.audiovisualthinking.org/
This was recently on the site Delete From Internet, and for good reason. What a bloody annoying flash video that never. quite. makes. it. through. without… well, you get the point. Not only that, but the content is epic boring. Nothing like academics reading essays with a video backdrop…
Thinking about …
Web Design?
In an attempt to think about the web design of the soon-to-be-in-progress Fembot site, I've been a little more critically aware of my web wanderings. I find that, in general, I'm really visually attracted to sites with minimalist, black-and-white, image-heavy designs. Like this or this. However, some of my daily favorites have …
Boom journal – example of scholarly journal merged with popular magazine
The University of California Press has released a new journal Boom: a Journal of California. The journal is not open access and is a combination of a print and online publication. What is interesting is that it is being sold as a journal that is merging the ideas of a …
Some readings on Mentorship
I am starting to think about our Fembot workshop at Console-ing Passions in a few weeks, and my part in it: graduate mentorship. So in anticipation (and to get a lay of the land), I started reading some articles on mentorship and thought I would share a few here.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-profhacker-series-on-mentoring…
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2010/10/08/wunker
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/mentoring-graduate-students-throug…
And then …
Beta Reading
During the long drive to a wedding last weekend (in Canada — where they'll get health care! and enjoy marital bliss along with their queer sisters and brothers!), I did a lot of reading about beta reading, compliments of my fabulous research assistant, Mary Erickson. I'm completely psyched to talk …
List of Questions for Editorial Board Meetings in Australia
The Fembot crowd here in Eugene is preparing to travel to Australia and looking forward to Console-ing Passions and our meetings with Intersections and Fibreculture. In discussions about how to make sure that those scheduled meetings are as productive as possible, we decided to go ahead and create a list …
New Grant Opportunity and New Tools on the Horizon
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced a new digital humanities grant today: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants. These grants are designed to see projects go beyond the exploratory and into a true implementation phase. This opportunity may be just what is needed to push Fembot forward.
http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ODHUpdate/tabid/108/EntryId/162/Announcing-a-New-…
In other news of the …
Some websites I like the look of
Some websites I like the look of:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/tv/
http://www.msmagazine.com/blog/
http://thehairpin.com/
