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The Text of Dot Porter’s “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch” Now Available Online
(an excellent paper that challenges the British Library’s crappy page-turning software) 3 February 2009 – The text of Dot Porter’s talk, “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch,” including accompanying slideshow and example videos, are now available on the DHO website. Ms Porter, Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented this paper at the Royal…
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event: Imagining a History for the Future of the Book (London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship)
(Punters should come to this if in London. Ray is Good!) No form of human knowledge passes into a new medium unchanged. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core cultural and social practices that…
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The Internet as playground and factory
Patrica Clough interviewed at a recent conference at the New School, NY. The interview is a bit of a hot-air rant that lacks any form of evidence, but there are some good ideas buried in there. Thanks to Trebor S for the link The Internet as Playground and Factory – Patricia Clough from Trebor Scholz…
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Google Earth climate change 3D map
Explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15). Choose a tour from the list below and click the play button to see it unfold, or you can also view these tours…
