Author: Craig
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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…
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Geo-referencing Digitised Collections
There are a couple of projects underway here at the Centre for eReseach (CeRch) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) about ‘Geo-referencing’. Geo-referencing is a way of ‘tagging’ digital collections so they can be searched by geographical place names or mapped. Â Dr Claire Grover of the Language Technology Group, School of Informatics,…