I very rarely do this sort of thing, but I wanted to take a moment and endorse mechanical keyboards. The difference between mechanical and standard membrane keyboards is articulated and demonstrated visually in the video above. I personally have a Rosewill RK 9000i with Cherry MX Blue switches, maybe the most tactile kind, which was […]
Continue reading →Sorry I’ve been so out of the loop. Here’s a description of some current research of mine, taken from something I wrote in a different forum. I’m currently engaged in a research project investigating the composition processes of second language learners, in this case Chinese and Hindi L1s. I am utilizing corpus linguistics software to […]
Continue reading →Some people are getting overly worked up about this study, showing a high correlation between machine scoring and human scoring of certain writing tasks. Some of it is glee from people in the university-hating media set; there’s also some rending of garments by those in the humanities who love nothing more than the excuse to […]
Continue reading →Serial pedant and curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen has come out against Twitter, and engendered the typical reaction. I don’t agree with Franzen on almost anything, despite our shared anti-Twitter stance, and would not define Twitter’s problems in the same way as Franzen. As is so often the case, it strikes me that the counter-arguments are more telling than […]
Continue reading →Which isn’t, I’ll hasten to say, a big problem. Last week, I was invited to a bull session about a new, tablet-based ebook version of a writing textbook. The publisher had asked the authors to get creative with brainstorming; they feel, as do the authors, that e-textbooks have not really begun to explore the possibilities […]
Continue reading →At this point, I find it hard to imagine a more incongruous marriage of strength and weakness than the cross-Google combination of power and versatility with perpetual annoyance and technological fussiness. This isn’t an argument about Google’s recent missteps re: privacy and user rights. That’s a separate issue. It’s just a whinge about the fact […]
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