Monthly Archives: May 2010

No room at the internet

Could everyone please stop launching blogs and upgrading smartphones and buying airconditioners that are operated across the web? The internet is nearly full. In approximately 500 days, planet Earth is expected to run out of the unique numbers that identify the world’s networked devices. The numbers are known as internet protocol addresses but if that [...]

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UpSkills Program 2010 Semester: Unimelb.

UpSkills Graduate Research (UpSkills GR) at the Melbourne School of Graduate Research is a series of free workshops and seminars open to all currently enrolled University of Melbourne graduate research students. eResearch Seminar Series Program: Semester One 2010 The research environment is experiencing significant change driven by advances in technology. The term ‘e-Research’ encapsulates research [...]

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Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts

Thanks to Andrew T for the (link). Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library, sent out an “extraordinary” Newsletter 5/2010 on 24 March (see full text as posted by the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog) announcing plans to digitise 80,000 manuscripts held by the Vatican Library. Planning and consulting, as well as testing of workflow [...]

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What is Digital Humanities (and why we are saying such terrible things about it)

(This is a Facebook comment I made in response to Federico Meschini’s response to Matthew Kirschenbaum talk at Loyola University (of the same title).  I will try and find a copy of the lecture and get back to you). Ideas exist in political economies. And interdisciplinary relationships exist in political economies. Even though I am [...]

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