Monthly Archives: July 2009

A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2009

In preparation for the 2008 Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI 6), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned a survey of digital humanities centers (DHCs). The immediate goals of the survey were to identify the extent of these centers and to explore their financing, organizational structure, products, services, and sustainability. The longer-term goal was [...]

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The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2009

“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771 Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side” of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in [...]

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Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?

By Craig | Published: July 17, 2009

(Thanks to Stuart D for the link) What a crushing anticlimax! We wait 1,500 years to welcome the millionth word into the English language, with the champagne on ice and the fatted calf slain and oven-ready for the newcomer’s arrival. Then at long last it appears, snuggling into the crisp white space we’ve cleared for [...]

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Facebook URLs ?

By Craig | Published: July 15, 2009

(thanks to Geek and Poker blog for the link)

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Stop Internet Censorship…

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

An add from that wonderful crew Getup.org.au. They are waging a campaign against internet censorship in Australia.

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JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. Representatives from JISC attended as well as representatives from the projects that had won funding in the last JISC VRE III and Information Environments funding round. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/inf11startup.aspx The highlight of the meeting was certainly the project [...]

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Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

An interesting new report from the Centre for Social Media at American University is Washington DC. This field report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnessed the micro-blogging tool Twitter to create innovative public media 2.0 experiments—first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then [...]

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