Follow an email on its journey to see what happens when you send a message. Along the way, discover our data centers with videos and photos. 
TED Talks What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.
Klout, Peerindex and other social reputation measuring sites are constantly bombarding web users with statistics about their 'true reach', 'amplification' and 'influence'. It all sounds very grand. And yet what is the actual value of these metrics?
[...] Sue Thomas, professor of new media, De Montfort University
Digital literacy as an important part of transliteracy: Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. It is the literacy of convergence, unifying literacies past and present across different platforms, media and cultures. This means it encompasses all kinds of communications from scratching pictures in the sand to editing photos in Instagram, or from inscribing tablets to text-messaging. When promoting digital literacy on its own, we can alienate people who are already very literate in other areas, and that's why I prefer to take an holistic approach and be as inclusive as possible. [...] Four months ago (a long while back in Internet time), I wrote a piece noting how, in our research, we’ve identified libraries as representing the biggest short-term threat to Amazon’s (and others) ebook sales. 
The book “The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network, is out in all formats (hardback, paperback, and digital editions) and... 
Silk is a new way to create and consume content. Structuring and visualizing your content is now as easy as writing it!
[...] You Control The Meaning Silk is a free-form tool that allows you to define the tags and categories. You are free to use them however you see fit, making Silk work for you instead of you working for Silk. [...] 
Suibee is a Facebook application that offers you a window into the thoughts of the rest of the world by filtering content and feeds based on the things that you enjoy and are interested in.
A Government-backed Anti-Cybercrime Campaign targeting young people about the dangers of internet fraud has attracted over 80,000 users.
[...] I want to propose a theory and practice of a Deformed Humanities. A humanities born of broken, twisted things. And what is broken and twisted is also beautiful, and a bearer of knowledge. The Deformed Humanities is an origami crane—a piece of paper contorted into an object of startling insight and beauty. [...] by Mark Sample This video features interactive presentations on the digital humanities by scholars Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Tara McPherson, and Katherine Rowe. 
Adapting the “‘high risk/’high reward’” model often employed in funding the sciences, NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grants reward originality. To be considered, the proposal must entail an “innovative approach, method, tool, or idea that has not been used before in the humanities” (Digital Humanities Startup Grants Guidelines, p. 2). These Startup Grants fund two levels of projects. As expected, the Level I award supports projects at the embryonic stage of development, while the Level II award funds projects that are more advanced and nearing the implantation stage. The Grant Guidelines provide full details. |
Yesterday, Twitter launched a new weekly email digest that it will be sending out to all members. Contained within are a few hotly shared news stories...
Google Docs got a little smarter, with the introduction of a research pane Tuesday.
While working on our Science Fair issue, we’ve thought about how writers might approach and make use of the narratives of science. In this web extra, we ask what a scientist’s work might have to do with telling stories. In consideration of this question, we talked to Anna Lindemann, an evolutionary biologist, composer, artist, and general polymath whose latest performance piece, Theory of Flight, plays with intersection of science and fiction. Here’s Anna on the objective versus the subjective, butterfly wings, and the inspiration of Borges. Yes, this is a huge list, but it is just a brief representation of all the digital collections and digital humanities projects available on the web. 
When online games shut down, they could be lost forever. Game Developer magazine editor-in-chief Brandon Sheffield argues that the industry seems determined to lose its history. [...] At a certain point, beyond the human drama and cries of money wasted on the consumer side, this becomes a preservation issue. The teams that made these games worked hard on these creations -- if people can't play them, how much do we really care about our art? We live in a complex digital landscape, and greater efforts should be made to preserve the experience of these games. If we had anywhere near the preservation efforts seen in other industries, I would be able to play EA's MMA title 20 years into the future if I wanted to. [...] It again goes to show that freedom of speech does not mean freedom to slander. JOURNALIST R. Nadeswaran has learnt a bitter lesson that tweeting can be painful and costly. 
[...] Trusting the curators was a strategy I employed to begin to figure out what to read, what I needed to read, and what others whom I trusted thought was important to read. We cannot read it all. We cannot begin to imagine trying to read it all. We must trust to the curators. [...] [Twitter, Scoop.it, Google+, Delicious, Pinterest] 
Augmented Reality: A Look At San Francisco's Past & Present
A few months back, we pitted a handful of the most popular Android browsers against each other to find out which was the best.
The wonderfully innovative Polish artist Paweł Althamer, who has previously taken this installation to Oxford, Brussels, and Brazil, is pictured exploring Mali with a small crew of faux-extraterrestrials from the Warsaw suburb of Bródno, all wearing Elvis-style gold lamé space suits.
[...] In digital literary studies, which has dominated popular coverage of the rise of digital humanities as a field (see the now-infamous Stanley Fish essays in the New York Times), the most adventurous position has been staked out by scholars who wish to harness computational power as a tool for more fecund, imaginative modes of textual criticism. [...] by Michael Kramer 
Martha Rust (NYU) recently organized an inspiring conference on digital tools called “The Past Has Arrived: The Digital Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” [...] More theoretical speculations included concerns expressed by Alan Galey (University of Toronto) regarding textual variation: how can interface design help organize text, textual notes, and commentary? The Visualizing Variation project demonstrates how digital media provides innovative features, such as animated variants, for textual editing. [...] |
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