As dr rdrz probably know, yr hedjog maintains a website which is pretty much to modern website practice what wattle and daub huts are to skyscrapers, which is paid for as a hobby project and has been maintained in spare time for over twenty years. It may not get a huge number of hits but it gets a steady flow of interest from people who are ( Read more... )

So I guess not a total Fail if not an absolute Win.
I.e. I am continuing to work on the Work in Progress, and doing editorial stuff on the next volume for publication.
I have managed (still) not to get down to reviewing the book I am supposed to be reviewing, but I have done various academic-related things, including a telephone conversation with ( Read more... )

Pamela Hansford Johnson herself (at least in later life, I will give her a pass as a 1930s teenager), her mother, and her biographer.
According to Deirdre David in 1933 PHJ won a Sunday Referee prize for a poem. The 'Poets' Corner' editor of the Referee, Victor Benjamin Neuberg, held a 'creative arts circle' on Sunday afternoons at his home in St ( Read more... )

Or, I have just been followed on Twitter by 3 people who are the same person, and I do not think there is anything holy about having 3 Twitter identities which are all touting your book/s.
I am also mildly beset by people who, having by some means or other found my website, and discovering something there moderately pertinent to their interests ( ( Read more... )

Because, honestly? with email? you do not have to hand-calligraph a fulsome letter of thanks - you can just bop off an email saying 'thank you so much for your help'. (And this, I consider, pace Mr Jeremiah in that article I linked the other day about woez technology and stress of modern life, a good thing.
Given to think about this by this article ( Read more... )

Have some ye trad early Jan grouchies!
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I put it to you, my dearios, that if you are contacting a scholar about your postdoc work within their field, it might be rather a good idea to take a look at some of their copious scholarship in the area of your topic. This would save you from annoying them with a postdoc project proposal based on outworn ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw a bloke walking a ferret on a leash in our street! Quite a large ferret, with cute black mask. Ferret-love! (but am now wondering if ferrets are a new hipster pet phenomenon?)
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Yes, Twitter, I noticed the logging-out on mobile device yesterday. But if that email about it was from you, what is this thing that this thing is that ( Read more... )

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I'm getting entirely used to the people who follow me and then unfollow me pretty much overnight, presumably because I haven't immediately followed them (especially as some of them don't look as though they could be particularly interested in anything I might tweet).
But I was recently followed by an account representing a project with some ( Read more... )

Email from somebody who is research assistant to A Clueless Senior Academic, on a wholly-work-related topic, to my home address.
Am prepared to bet that ACSA said to research assistant, contact the knowledgeable and helpful Dr Oursin with this question about a specific collection of archives -
Without, however, giving the RA my work email contact ( Read more... )