Author: Craig
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Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant
(The new Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin has some innovative projects. This new ‘VRE’ (Virtual Research Environment) collaborative-style of project may be of interest to viewers). A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the
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The Internet as Playground and Factory
(This conference about Labour online may be of interest. From my rudimentary understanding ‘free’ labour online is a fairly contentious issue as online labour may be pooled by large commercial interests and used to accumulate profit without distributing the fruits of this labour to users). Dear all, You can now join the discussion about topics
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Obama’s speech in Cairo
Online political communication has travelled well since the days when a web site had a manifesto on it and pictures of cops bashing your mates at the last anti-globalisation demo! Watch Obama’s speeck on Whitehouse.gov (link) Discuss it on Facebook (link) Check Obama’s twitter feed (link) Discuss on Myspace (link) I asked him about what
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New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
(This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age. Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’ and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship. There is