• New Book: Digital Scholarship

    A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed  this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding…

  • GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity

    Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure…

  • ‘I believe in the genital organs of great men and women…’

    The sad death of a great humanist. RIP JG Ballard. (Thanks to Gabriel B for the link)

  • Twitter activism

    (picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this  blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me.  All technology is…

  • What the #hashtags

    Hash tags (#) are a way of aggregating posts on twitter or facebook or other social software applications.  They are driven by the community and have been used to great effect recently by the G2o protesters in London (#g20) and for the Amazon censorship of gay literature fiasco (#Amazonfail). I would imagine that they should…

  • Look at this *ing hipster!

    Ok, who says blogging has to be serious? (thanks to Mary-Anne Breeze (Mez), facebook).