• 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.  Dr Claire Grover of the Language Technology Group, School of Informatics,…

  • How to improve your Twitter voice!

    I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better.  I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?).  Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my…

  • jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends

    One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway .  Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies  such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog…

  • The beauty of Science

    This movie (thanks to James C for the link), made my long-weekend. It is all about context;  placing reductive observations about the world in a greater context so as to add to their beauty. You could also apply this to social and cultural phenomena; being able to place fellow humans in a empathetic cultural contexts,…

  • What is technological determinism?

    Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic…

  • Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

    On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that…