Interviewer: How did you get on Twitter?
Daisy: I got on it-- I think I kind of kept hearing about it,
and I got on it last January after MLA,
which I'm wondering had I been
tweeting while I was going to my
interviews, what would have happened, but I
got on it, and I think I just started
following a lot of the people that I
know who are techie, like Howard
Rheingold, and then all these people who
I really like their work, and I do find
there's a much more immediate reply when
you ask people a question. So now I have
Howard commenting on my blog, and he did a whole thing
about laptop campuses and the view he has,
that he looks out at his students, and how, are
they really paying attention? And that's
something that I've started to look at
what my own teaching, because you do have
to say, "Laptops down," Cindy: Oh my gosh! Daisy: And even when you do,
they'll keep it halfway open and you can
see the little bouncing icon that they got an email,
so they want to write back immediately.
So yeah, it's been interesting.