Archive for March 2011

jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released

jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 increases browser support to include Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile / Mini. Improvements reported on support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and Palm WebOS. Moreover, the Ajax navigation system has been …
deeply re-factored to improve performance and handle more edge cases. This includes event handling for click, submit, and hashchange, all of Read the rest…

Rumors, and a sound from long ago.

One of the very many rumors out of Egypt this week is that one of the the trumpets from Tutankhamun’s tomb is a victim of the looting within the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.  I hope it isn’t true. The silver trumpet was played by a military bandsman,…

DML2011 Panel: Living a Networked Life

Networked publics: space constructed thru networked technologies and the imagined community that emerges as a resul to fht eintersection of people, technology
Key Affordances:
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DML 2011 liveblog: Social Dimensions of Emerging Media Forms

[Warning for typoes, potential misquotes and lack of pause for critical engagement...]
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DML Panel: Participatory Culture Reconsidered: Moving Beyond Rainbows, Unicorns and Butterflies

Rafi Santo:
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Workshop: Data Visualization

Workshop: An Introduction to VIDI Wednesday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m. – Noon in Alderman Library, Room 317 Aaron Presnall and Dante Chinni of The Jefferson Institute Presented by the Scholars’ Lab, SHANTI & The Department of Politics Got data, but not certain how it might be displayed digitally with its particular numeric, spatial and [...]

DML 2011 liveblog: Youth, Digital Media and Citizenship

S. Craig Watkins opens by talking about young people as critical citizens and the need to encourage spaces and ecologies for them to set their own terms.
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One more award under the JISC Rapid Digitisation Call 16/10

An additional project joins the list of the winning proposals under the JISC Rapid Digitisation call 16/10.
Early Music Online, Royal Holloway, Stephen Rose, £75,521
This is a pilot project that will digitise 300 volumes of the world’s earliest printed music from holdings at the British Library, and make them publicly accessible via the internationally-recognised RISM UK [...]

Twenty-First Century Literacies: Midterm Exam

The following text is the result of a collaborative midterm exam in
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Data Engine Roundup #3

Kasabi have just posted on their blog a description of their upcoming hackday. Of note is the implication that Kasabi is built on a triple store We’ll be brewing up a pot of SPARQL-blend coffee and order in some pizzas…

The Five Stars of Open Access (aka Linked Documents)

Yesterday I was having a discussion about Scholarly Communications, Open Access, Web 2 and the Semantic Web with some colleagues in our newly formed “Web and Internet Science Research Group” at Southampton. As we were comparing and contrasting more tha…

Weekly Shared Items – 4. March, 2011

Quick Tip: Create a Flash Flipping Book From any PDF in Seconds1. March, 2011JavaScript Day 22. March, 2011Fun with jQuery Templating and AJAX24. February, 2011

Weekly Shared Items – 4. March, 2011

Quick Tip: Create a Flash Flipping Book From any PDF in Seconds1. March, 2011JavaScript Day 22. March, 2011Fun with jQuery Templating and AJAX24. February, 2011

Weekly Shared Items – 4. March, 2011

Quick Tip: Create a Flash Flipping Book From any PDF in Seconds1. March, 2011JavaScript Day 22. March, 2011Fun with jQuery Templating and AJAX24. February, 2011

Vincent van Gogh paintings as pie charts

Vincent van Gogh as pie

Arthur Buxton breaks down van Gogh paintings for a view of color schemes. My instincts tell me you are either loving this or hating it like the black plague. [Arthur Buxton via Flavorwire | Thanks, Elise]