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  1. academikdave (48 months ago | reply)

    Note to MLA: 1. You cannot "tape" the internet. 2. How am I supposed to do a panel about microblogging with the ability to blog? Who hosts a conference without internet? The MLA that's who.

  2. jbj (48 months ago | reply)

    I don't understand why you can't tape it--as I understand it, the internets are a series of tubes, right? Duct tape seems *entirely* appropriate.

  3. Amanda French (48 months ago | reply)

    I know, right? Sheesh. We're doing a panel on Google Books and I innocently assumed that I'd be able to do some live searching. Some assumption. The MLA harrumphed and ahemmed me out of that particular brand of contemporaneity.

  4. gminks (48 months ago | reply)

    What sort of problems are they afraid will happen during the session?

  5. Amanda French (48 months ago | reply)

    I mean, what I have trouble wrapping my head around is that they don't provide Internet. At all. I get annoyed at places (hotels, coffee shops, libraries, conferences) that don't provide Wi-Fi. I'm used to that annoyance. "Why should I have to tote an Ethernet cable?" is my spoiled attitude. But even humble Ethernet access is too much for the MLA.

  6. coyenator (48 months ago | reply)

    Jeez. I suppose one could do some screencasting but well, ... seems like a lot to ask for a live session. I'm most curious about what is meant by "problems that can occur with a live internet session"? Problems can occur in any session, right? Then again, with the price of fuel nearly out-of-sight I imagine conferences are going to take a huge hit on attendance anyway and then we will HAVE to use the Internet to have conference at all!

  7. the means (48 months ago | reply)

    I have yet to go to a convention without Wi-Fi...This has me baffled.

    How can you even find a large enough hotel for MLA in San Francisco without Wi-Fi?

  8. riddle (48 months ago | reply)

    Some hotels charge for Wi-Fi -- so the answer is, the Wi-Fi will be there but the MLA has refused to allow you get to it.

    Obvious solution: get some hackers with Pringles cans and routers to set up your own guerrilla Wi-Fi. (It is San Francisco, after all.) Spread the word among attendees that having an open laptop during a session is a political act.

    P.S. I am so tempted to e-mail this URL to convention@mla.org! "Dear MLA: In the 1970s I loved your Bibliography. Then teh Internets happened. Maybe you've heard of them?"

  9. mrklaw (48 months ago | reply)

    A sprint card got me through most of IBM Impact this year.

  10. Alex Enkerli (48 months ago | reply)

    Southpark episode.

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