• What is ICT Guides: Community?

    Part of my job here at King’s is to develop ICT Guides into a sustainable community resource. The present version of ICT Guides is built on a MySql database with a JSTL (Java) interface. The new community component of ICT Guides will (initially) be built on a Joomla (or Drupal) CMS (partly because it has…

  • Ted Nelson (1965): Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate

    This paper written in 1965 by Ted Nelson is one of the most famous in the history of the computer revolution. It introduces his concept of ‘hypertext’ (or links); the central concept of the web. Also, you may wish to read this 1995 article in Wired magazine called ‘the Curse of Xanadu‘; looking at the…

  • BBC 15 Web Principles

    Tom Loosemore, the head of the BBC’s Web 2.0 project, talked at a conference that I gave a gave a demo of ICT Guides at yesterday (called the JISC Conference) on the BBCs web initiative. He has developed a set of good practice principles for the BBC’s Web 2.0 initiatives, which respects the web as…

  • Digital Humanities: Expert Seminars

    Here is a list of ‘podcast’ seminars undertaken by the Methods Network at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s College. And don’t you just love the Internet; it means that you don’t have to attend all these seminars! And it is now becoming possible to learn about almost any subject online,…

  • The death of reality

    Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, has died at the age of 77. Baudrillard died on Tuesday at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house (from the…

  • Humanities Research Institute: The University of Sheffield

    The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, like the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London, is one of the leading centres in the UK in the digital humanities. Check out their range of projects.. As its history of successfully completed projects demonstrates, the HRI has to date concentrated on…