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Digital Dispatches: Crosspost from Substack
Note: This is a crosspost from my Substack Rhetorical Questions that I decided to share here as the topic relates to a digital artifact project. Overview: I write this sentence in the midst of this week’s third “all-nighter” — waiting, dreading, hoping. And, apparently, not reading. Instead of another mea… Listen ⇢
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Micro-Post: Plans for Using Claude for Organization and Corpus Analysis
Figure 1: Screenshot of the current Claude AI Verb draft interface. 8 Oct 2026. This short blog post provides a brief follow-up on one or two ongoing “experimental” projects involving AI, file organization, and corpus analysis. Though AI has negatively impacted my life and the institutions I have devoted it… Listen ⇢
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Preview: Grief-Work, Writing, and Rebuilding – A Slightly Different Week of 09/06/2026 – 09/11/2026
This is a preview of the type of weekly short-form writing published on my Substack. Currently, all “5 Things I Found This Week” content can be accessed by everyone. About the Series: Every Friday on Substack, I publish a short list of recommended open-source readings and resources with informal descriptions… Listen ⇢
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Weaponizing Metadata Pt 1 : Digital Self Defense 101
In a contemporary social milieu riddled with technical “jargon” that can seem as impenetrable as it is omnipresent, what do terms like “metadata” mean in a practical sense to the “average” concerned citizen? What are some “accessible,” practical ways that someone without prior expertise in technology can take precautions to… Listen ⇢
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Guide to Accessibility Design and Resources
As I slowly migrate my work from years ago — lest the inevitable hyperlink death occur before I can document it — I may eventually go back over and clean some of this up and expand upon them. For now, here are some resources focused primarily on accessible design principles… Listen ⇢
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Throwback: Lesson Plan: Tweetdeck as Research Tool
[Lior] Ansley Colclough November 1, 2017 Because Twitter has become a significant platform for discussions around controversial issues, it behooves students and instructors in digital literacy and rhetoric courses to use Twitter as a research tool and discussion platform. However, the speed and scope of Twitter dialogue can make it… Listen ⇢
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Throwback Tuesday: Lesson Plan: Visualizing and Analyzing Texts with Voyant
In writing and literature classes, we teach our students to gather evidence from close reading in order to support their arguments. In what ways could data visualization charts actually aid processes of reading? The visualization tool Voyant allows the user to track the relative appearance and context of specific words… Listen ⇢
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Throwback Tuesday: Data Visualization: Visualizing Sound Texts
In an upcoming lesson plan, I introduce some ways in which visualization be used to analyze elements of a literary text such as genre, theme, motifs, or plot structure. However, that lesson plan focuses predominantly on visual works. What are some of the ways in which visualization could… Listen ⇢
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New Series Announcement: Throwback Tuesday
In a slow return to blogging, I am going to start archiving old projects of mine on this blog. Some of these have been published elsewhere, but some of them remain unpublished. These projects include lesson plans (some for the DWRL, some not), blog posts from previous blogs, or other… Listen ⇢
