Brief Post-MLA Update & a New ProfHacker Post

This is just a brief note to say that I went to MLA, meet a ton of people, talked to them about plans for world domination, set said plans in motion, and generally had a great time. I tweeted a lot, as did others. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed thought that was cool to write about.

At MLA, I saw a man about a job. I would like that job very much.

Came back, signed a contract to do Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS & JavaScript All-in-One for Sams/Pearson this summer. Then I worked a little on syllabi (classes start Jan 12th!) and hope to finish those up today.

Today I wrote a blog post for ProfHacker called “On Writing for the Web” and in it I linked to a very old (2001) article I wrote for Hotwired/Webmonkey called “Tipping Jakob’s Ladder” in which I took usability expert Jakob Nielsen to task for a crappy argument he made about Flash. I’m not great fan of Flash (nor was I then), but it was a bad argument. I don’t know what made me pull it out of the archives. Maybe the headlong rush into the new decade made me nostalgic for a moment about the beginning of the old one.

But just for a moment. That moment is gone now. I much prefer 2010, and we’re only 4 days into it.

January 4, 2010  Tags: books, MLA, writing  Posted in: Academics, Techie

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