Month: October 2008
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 – 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?†A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as an example of the power of those spectacles, the poem…
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US election coverage
From James Norman (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Here in Johnstown Pennsylvania on the weekend the queues stretched four blocks down the street, past the abandoned factories and old coal mill, a sea of flag waving Republicans had gathered to hear Sarah Palin at the War Memorial. Since her entry onto the national stage as Vice Presidential candidate…
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From Guy Rundle in transit between Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia:
(This was sent via James Norman; a journalist friend of mine on the campaign trail in the US) I got a job working construction for the Johnstown company But lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy — The River, Bruce Springsteen “Man this is the most corrupt town in America… no-one…
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Nothingknown
Andrew Garton, a good friend of mine from Melbourne, is in Graz Austria hosting a art exhibition. Here is some of his recent work. NOTHINGKNOWN -Version 3 from andrew garton on Vimeo.
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Debate fails to rise to the occasion
A Journalist friend of mine, James Norman, is on the road following the US Presidential campaign in the US. Here is one of his recent writings. Yesterday’s presidential debate in Nashville Tennessee was remarkably dour in tone, even as the two opponents sought to tear ideological strips off each other. Nashville is a setting that…
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Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate…