Originally posted on quiteirregular:
This is a guest post by Dr. Caitlin McDonald, author and data analyst. Caitlin blogs at https://inamerryhour.com/ and can be found on twitter @caitiewrites Can I tell you a secret? I sometimes feel like a fraud. I work in data analytics, with an increasing role not only in crunching the numbers…
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Mozilla Festival 2014
Mozilla Festival is many things to many people. For me, it’s mainly encapsulated by a feeling. That feeling is passion for sharing joy in technology, tempered by a sense of responsibility to curate the web as a community space. I find trying to explain the festival in any more detail than that makes the description … Continue reading
Scaling Twitter
On Thursday evening I went to an event at Twitter hosted by their Women in Engineering group featuring a series of lightning talks on the challenges of designing technologies that scale. As ever, I’ve put together a Storify of the event here. Tom Woolway, one of Twitter’s engineering managers, also collated a tweet collection summarising … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
#MusketeerTweets Info-ish Graphic
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed recently that I took to tweeting excerpts from Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Three Musketeers interspersed with sarky commentary. (Flourish of the plumed hat to my friend Dr Jem Bloomfield for goading me on in this dubious literary venture.) It is a document that rather lends … Continue reading
Reviewed in Dance Research Journal
The collection of essays that I co-edited, Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance, Identity was recently reviewed in Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research. (Please note that you may need to log in in order to see the material; when I click the link it takes me straight to … Continue reading
Reviewed in Dance Research Journal
The collection of essays that I co-edited, Belly Dance Around the World: New Communities, Performance, Identity was recently reviewed in Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research. (Please note that you may need to log in in order to see the material; when I click the link it takes me straight to … Continue reading
Inside
One of the songs from the musical A Catered Affair I reviewed recently for Everything Theatre was titled “Coney Island.” It reminded me of a very short story called “Inside” that I wrote in my junior year at Sarah Lawrence after a field trip to the amusement park. Inside Jared handed his and Tina’s tickets … Continue reading
Who Needs an Ethnographer? Update
The folks over at Ethnography Matters picked up my post Who Needs an Ethnographer? considering the ways that a volunteer ethnographic project could be designed and how it could be community-led. I’m chuffed to bits to be featured on Ethnography Matters which I think is a fantastic publication with a great archive of useful insights. … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 