Author: Craig
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The value of slow thinking?
(thanks to that wonderful blog net.effect for the image)
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Oxford Internet Survey 2009 Report: The Internet in Britain
(A interesting new report from the Oxford Internet Institute) The Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has today released the OxIS Report 2009, the latest report in a series of Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) that cover the changing landscape of Internet access, use and attitudes in Britain. Dutton, W.H., Helsper, E.J. and Gerber, M.M. (2009)
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New Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) available: Spring 2009: v3 n2
Digital Humanities Quarterly is a refreshing and innovative online journal in the Digital Humanities field. The latest issue is about the concept of ‘completion’ in a Digital Humanities work. As Mathew Kirschenbaum atates: “How do we know when we’re done? This cluster of articles explores completion and incompletion in the digital humanities from a variety
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Photos from Iran elections #iranelections
A smashed computer monitor in a room in a Tehran University dormitory after it was attacked by militia forces during riots in Tehran (thanks to Payman for the link).
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How to track Iranian protests online #iranelections
Here is how to find out about the Iranian elections online. Please send me your links. Also, Twitter’s down time has been rescheduled because of the important role that it is playing in the US elections (see link). Hash Tag: #Iranelections (search and post your blogs and tweets with this). Breaking Tweet http://www.breakingtweets.com Andrew Sullivan’s
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The Shahnama Project (Iran)
One of my favourite projects within the broader Digital Humanities field; a masterpiece of Persian art and a damn fine piece of Digital Humanities scholarship as well. Firdausi’s Shahnama (Book of Kings), completed in eastern Iran in around A.D. 1010, is a work of mythology, history, literature and propaganda: a living epic poem that pervades