Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. Prior to assuming this role in 2017, she served as Associate Executive Director and Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, where she was Managing Editor of PMLA and other MLA publications. During that time, she also held appointments as Visiting Research Professor of English at NYU and Visiting Professor of Media at Coventry University. Before joining the MLA staff in 2011, she was Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, where she had been a member of the faculty since 1998.
Fitzpatrick is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was published by NYU Press in November 2011; Planned Obsolescence was released in draft form for open peer review in fall 2009. She is also the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press (and of course available in print). She is project director of Humanities Commons, an open-access, open-source network serving more than 13,000 scholars and practitioners in the humanities. She is also co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing. She serves on the editorial or advisory boards of publications and projects including the Open Library of the Humanities, Luminos, the Open Annotation Collaboration, PressForward, and thresholds. She currently serves as the chair of the board of directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
For further information, please see my CV.
I notice that Kathleen is practicing a lot of web principles similar to those in the IndieWeb community including syndication and adding syndication links, but she's missing out on some of the additional goodies like Webmention support. Some pieces I suspect she's come by very naturally, while others have a very micro.blog centric feel to…
Feh. Apparently there are no good blogroll plugins for WordPress. I did look extensively through the WP plugins directory but didn’t find anything interesting. Most plugins were way out of date for my version of WP.
Might be an opportunity there for the Indieweb movement to aid discovery.
Apologies Brad. I just saw your follow up post and had meant to reply to your earlier one when I saw it last week, I just didn't have the time to write a quick response. I had hoped you might have found something even better than what I've put together previously or perhaps started building…
By way of testing out my Webmention module for Drupal, I took the 256 posts I’ve written here this year, ferreted out all the external links, discovered their Webmention endpoints, and sent a Webmention.
Those 256 posts contained 840 links in total; of those links, 149 were to a target that suppor...
There are some interesting/useful statistics here. There's also an interesting kernel of an idea about how one links to one's own website internally as well. I find this very intriguing with respect to owning a digital commonplace book. Perhaps there are some ways to modify IndieMap for extracting some useful metadata out of one's own…
Ian, thanks for putting together all of these examples. I think my preference is for option three which provides the most context and seems easiest to read and understand. I like the way you've incorporated the blue arrow, which makes semantic sense as well. I'm sure I've seen other versions, but Jon Udell has at…
Yes, discovery can be an issue, but if one is providing various feeds (RSS, Atom, JSON, or h-feed) of various post types, then it becomes easier to slice and dice the content coming out of particular websites. I've got my website set up so that nearly every post format, post kind, category, and tag has…
@Jaredewy With your domain name, I think that you automatically win the #IndieWeb.
Microchips and mods gratify me greatly
I first discovered the Techs-Mechs who are a clan of South of the border Gundam breaking own immagration fences with their impressive manos mecanicas
A short time later, I made the indieweb.xyz.
The creator of indieweb.xyz.
I've written about threading comments from one WordPress website to another before. I've long suspected this type of thing could be done with Twitter, but never really bothered with it or necessarily needed to do it, though I've often seen cases where others might have wanted to do this. For a post today, I wrote…
I've had refbacks on the brain for the past couple of months after having read Why Refback Still Matters, so I figured since I've already got the pingbacks, trackbacks, and webmentions enabled, what's one more way to communicate with my website from the outside? So as of this evening, just for fun, I'm now accepting refbacks…
Vouch is an extension to the webmention protocol. Webmentions usually have two parameters…source and target. Target is the URL on your website that the Source URL is linking to.
The vouch parameter is a third URL to help the target determine whether or not they should accept the webmention. This...
I like the sound of where this is going already! All these small little pieces loosely joined to build a much larger edifice is certainly interesting. I've got a somewhat reasonable bookmarklet for quickly following people, though it's not marked up with XFN data (yet) -- perhaps another data field for Post Kinds? I do…
I've come across many journals (and particularly many talking about Altmetrics1,2) that are supporting the old refback infrastructure and wonder why they haven't upgraded to implement the more feature rich webmention specification? I've been thinking more lately about how to create a full stack IndieWeb infrastructure to replace the major portions of the academic journal…
Looks like you've also managed to add webmentions and a few other goodies too! Your theme also reminds me that I want to finish up on my microformats v2 fork of the Twenty Twelve theme. The other two are where the open web is severely lacking: The seamless integration into one user interface of both…