When Sebastian Giessmann asked me this morning whether I write my blog posts offline, I answered no without hesitating. It is true in 95% of the cases, but I forgot to mention the one exception, the situation in which I am now: on the train back from a conference or a workshop, unconnected to the [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Christof Schöch'
Gniggolb – is blogging from the end to the beginning
April 11, 2013
The wikipedia paper, the good questions and the aching legs
September 21, 2012
The aching legs are easy to explain. After spending 7 hours at the conference sitting on chairs that inevitably eventually do turn uncomfortable, Anna and I spent 2 hours walking through the streets of Wuppertal. Neither Berlin nor Hamburg are cities with declivities worth mentioning and we had to admit that we were not trained [...]
Meta-blogging
September 20, 2012
I left Leipzig (no internet connection in the hotel, glorious and indefectible wifi at the conference) and headed to Wuppertal (no network at the conference, good but expensive wifi in the hotel, well, what the heck, it’s worth its 5 euros), where I will not be able to tweet frantically like I did today (check [...]
Setting experiments
March 15, 2012
I love saying I am doing experiments. It sounds so serious, so mature, so not like writing complicated (and maybe absurd) theories on letters as paradigms for literary texts as pieces of paper that always miss their destination like I did this afternoon… Here is what the experiment consists in, for a sober evening (with [...]
Beyond Virtual and Real
March 8, 2012
So it is raining in Munich, day before the big bloggers’ meeting. My feelings are mixed. What I thought would be a relatively confidential conference turns out to be an event with over hundred participants – all likely to be listening to the talks and blogging and twitting at the same time; this will be [...]
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