• How to track Iranian protests online #iranelections

    Here is how to find out about the Iranian elections online. Please send me your links. Also, Twitter’s down time has been rescheduled because of the important role that it is playing in the US elections (see link). Hash Tag: #Iranelections (search and post your blogs and tweets with this). Breaking Tweet http://www.breakingtweets.com Andrew Sullivan’s…

  • The Shahnama Project (Iran)

    One of my favourite projects within the broader Digital Humanities field; a masterpiece of Persian art and a damn fine piece of Digital Humanities scholarship as well. Firdausi’s Shahnama (Book of Kings), completed in eastern Iran in around A.D. 1010, is a work of mythology, history, literature and propaganda: a living epic poem that pervades…

  • How to set Username on Facebook?

    I know that this is a complete yawn, but unless you know the exact URL to go to, setting the new user name on Facebook is a complete pain in the arse. Here is the URL: http://www.facebook.com/username/ I got the username that I have been using around the traps for 10 years! Milkbar http://www.facebook.com/milkbar

  • Repository66.org Repository Maps

    An excellent project that maps the world’s digital repositories into Googlemaps. Thanks to David Curry for the link.

  • Christine Borgman lecture@OII

    Christine Borgman gave an interesting lecture at OII (Oxford Internet Institute)  recently (she is one of the Keynote speakers at this years Digital Humanities Conference.  One of the major points that I retained from this talk is that Data is not objective fact. Data is simply the ‘alleged evidence’ as one researchers observations may differ…

  • Dealing with Data

    A seminal report for those who deal with data; published by JISC in June 2007. This Report explores the roles, rights, responsibilities and relationships of institutions, data centres and other key stakeholders who work with data. It concentrates primarily on the UK scene with some reference to other relevant experience and opinion, and is framed…