The BBC site Dimensions (with the url howbigreally.com) takes well known objects and extents (e.g. the moon, floods in Pakistan) and projects their geometry onto a map. This provides an interesting way to help understand our world – both natural…
Archive for March 2011
I recently wrote a short post outlining my thoughts on the distinction between open data (the term generally associated with the behaviour of governments and other public bodies providing declarative and programmatic access to various data sets) and transparency (the…
BuzzData has a blog – and while they haven’t yet posted much about their product, they have a couple of posts on open government data and in particular the reality of the new Canadian portal. DataMarket and others talk about…
I simply don’t believe that DML attendees would be opposed to identity politics and queer studies issues addressed explicitly. If theres any arena where this scholarship would, should, and could be embraced, its there. And if we have to worry …
How genetic engineering technologies are applying pressure to traditional paths to parenthood.
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I’m very happy to say that I’ll join the English faculty at Notre Dame in the fall. The position (in American fiction after 1900) is great, the people are terrific, the university is lovely. I couldn’t be happier and I’m tremendously excited to get started in my new home. In the meantime, I’m particularly grateful [...]
Are campuses looking beyond traditional learning management systems? A small set of projects using one open source platform point to a growing alternative.
Several projects based on Drupal software have progressed this year. Ten years after Drupal&…
Where is Twin Peaks? The fictional town at the centre of the eponymous, early-Nineties TV series isn’t too hard to pinpoint. The climate is rainy, the timber is abundant, and the coffee is religiously obsessed over. Surely, this can only be the P…
The spring is here (unless you live below the equator, and somehow don’t fall off the face of the earth), and it brings some great links (and allergens) :Librarian’s dream app – researchers from Miami University created an augmented reality meets m…
“The problem isn’t that specialised companies lack the data they need, it’s that they don’t go and look for it, they don’t understand how to handle it.” —Hans Rosling, A Data State of Mind, March 2011 Google UK produced a short book called Think Quarterly to distribute to partners and advertisers, but it’s actually pretty [...]
Using Minecraft for teaching.
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[The following article was originally published by the Society for Critical Exchange in January 2010; alas, that version has been overrun with spam comments, making further discussion of or linking to it unlikely. I'm thus republishing it here, in the interest of having a copy that's viable into the future.] Raising the idea of “open [...]
Burns shares a special annual event called the Teaching and Learning with Technology for faculty at the Penn State University.
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A bug in the embedding script prevented the embedding of d8taplex data from functioning correctly for a while, so if you were bemused by my earlier post on data discourse, please give it another try: Building Data Discourses.
I am the local Mozilla Champion for the first international Design Jam (the original two took place in London), Design Jam Chapel Hill, which
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