• Anti-intellectualism: Causes

    I found this in an unlikely source. A spiritual site. It is the paragraph on ‘pragmatism’ (or at least practicality) that caught my eye. It is not that there is anything wrong with ‘pragmatism’; pragmatism is needed to address all sorts of work related tasks. But pragmatism is rarely ideological neutral. It is what pragmatists…

  • RIP Chrysler

    When I was a Kid in Tasmania my mother owned a mission brown Chrysler Valiant VIP. It was as big as a whale. In the back seat it had pull down trays and spot lights like an aeroplane. It had a huge roaring motor that drank fuel like there was no tomorrow. My mother would…

  • JISC Digitisation projects

    JISC (the Joint Information Services Committee) fund a number of digitisation projects with content that spans nearly five centuries of British history.  Some notable examples include British Newspapers 1620-1900 and the 19th Century Pamphlets Online. The manifold importance of digitisation is that the records are made easily accessible to scholars and the general public, and…

  • Mapping the worlds photos

    This article from David Crandall et.al at Cornell University may be of interest. An historian asked me the other day what were the majore concerns of the Digital Humanities. I tried to explain that once there is a lot of data; like all the books in the 19th Century being in digital form, or all…

  • CeRch awarded 1.3 Million Pounds in JISC funding

    (A VRE is a Virtual Research Environment…like a blackboard, well not really) The following press release is from the Centre that I work within at King’s College; London. A lot of these projects won’t be of that much interest to researchers (as they are infrastructure grants, not research), however the TEXTvre project may be of…

  • New Book: World Wide Web of Research

    A new book will be released soon titled: World Wide Web of Reseach: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (Cambridge; the MIT Press). It is edited by Bill Dutton and Paul Jeffreys, both of Oxford. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) whilst Paul Jeffreys is Director of IT at Oxford. I believe the…