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Berkman@10: LiveBlogging, Cont.

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 16 May 2008

At ROFLCon, I discovered that the panels would be webcast live, for people who couldn’t register or make it out to Boston to still gain access to the content. At the end of the convention, though, the ROFLCon staff announced that all of the panels had been taped and would be uploaded for free public [...]

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Notescribing, or The Problem of Accuracy

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 30 April 2008

When I take notes in class, they tend to become rather extensive. If the professor turns out to be particularly engaging, I may end up with three or four pages of arrows connecting a multitude of disjointed phrases. I will admit though that I compose most of my notes verbatim, or at least recording the [...]

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The Adventures of Harvard, MIT, and LiveBlogging

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 17 April 2008

For the first weekend in April, Boston University bestowed on me the honor of attending the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations at Harvard University. By honor, I clearly mean backed my antics with full funding (for which I am entirely grateful, of course, because the costs totaled over $250). Basically, the conference boasted [...]

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    Connecting the dots between popular media and social culture.

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    The Department of Alchemy approaches American, Japanese, and international digital culture from a critical, analytical (and sometimes quite academic) perspective.
    The blog provides commentary, news, essays, reviews, reports, presentations, audio/video, and general thoughts for a mainstream audience, with intended respect to the context of the works and the broader society that encompasses them.

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    See me speak at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston, MA, from March 26th - 28th, 2010.


    See me speak at the Popular Culture Association National Conference in St. Louis, MI, from March 31st - April 3rd, 2010.


    See me speak at Anime Boston in Boston, MA, from April 2nd - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at ROFLcon II in Boston, MA, from April 30th - May 1st, 2010.


    Meet me at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, CA, from July 1st - 4th, 2010.


    Meet me at Otakon in Baltimore, MD, from July 30th - August 1st, 2010.

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