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Books of the Year 2021
This year I read a wide variety of books. I found a used bookstore near my house that I loved and bought copious (and often unrelated) books from it. The…
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Amazon Palm Scanning is Not OK
In addition to teaching and researching, I maintain a music blog called Independent Clauses that I founded in 2003. Lisa Whealy and I cover instrumental music of all types, jam…
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Let’s Break Up Facebook into 16 Parts
As you can read anywhere on the Internet, Facebook is in trouble. Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has been on the talk show circuit, saying things. I am…
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A Busy October
I had a busy October, winning an award and giving three different talks. So as not to bury the lede: I am deeply honored to announce that the Association for…
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From the Archives: Genre Theory as Ontology
When I was working on my doctorate, I was thinking a lot about genre theory, activity theory, and other ways of understanding the effects of communicative actions. (I even gave…
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Podcast Guest!
I had the great honor of being a guest on APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center)‘s podcast to talk about business communication, sustainability, and beat-up tour vans (yes, tour vans).…
