My colleague and friend Rebekah Modrak has been working on an ongoing art project called Unproductive Solutions (https://unproductivesolutions.com/home/) and is launching their latest project - a no storage, human-powered search engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRd_FHLB9x8

I went to college with Limmie. Can't claim to have known him very well, but I am very excited and proud to see him breaking down this barrier. Amazing! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/arts/music/limmie-pulliam-opera-body-shaming.html

I'm tired of "unapologetic" and "relentless." In 2023, I'm apologizing and relenting.

Be honest: have you ever had a job that you liked? Here I am separating "job" from "profession" -- for instance, you might love being a journalist but not love the venue where you work. How about it?

I don't know if he's here (yet?), but I am reading Jeff Pooley's work this morning and I am so grateful for it.

I'm still not used to the fact that some of our students are legit celebrities in their own right, running lucrative influencer businesses while also going to class and just being 20somethings.

Basically, we need to learn how to de-hypify/de-speculate literally every utterance from any corporation or tech reporter. Every one! So many of us media studies folks forget this.

I learned a ton about TikTok from my students today, including that the "gold rush" mentality that the music biz is having around TikTok may be misplaced.

I was just thinking about the sense of panic/dread/excitement/elation I used to feel when I got a new email notification. Email! Yes, email used to be exciting. Funny to think about considering how slow, bureaucratic and painful most people consider email to be now. What did you used to love about email?