Design firm Periscopic takes a look at the Flash versus HTML5 debate and some considerations you should make if you’re deciding which one to use in your projects. The main conclusions: Flash lets you reach the widest audience with the drawback of not working on some mobile devices; HTML5 is still developing. Which one are [...]
The UCL Centre for Publishing and the UCL Department of Information Studies are organsing the 5th Bloomsbury Conference: E-Publishing and E-Publications, which will focus on ‘Social media and the academy: enhancing and enabling …
What It Shows This chart shows the various components of classic breakfasts across the regions of the British Isles. Irish for me, please. Why It’s Good The infographic is cute and to the point, and I can see myself referring to it. The breakdown…
To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API for JavaScript, the Google Data Arts Team maps global search volume by language: The Search Globe visualizes searches from one day, and shows the language of the majority of queries in an area in different colors. You’ll see a bright landscape of [...]
The Globe and Mail (Canada) has a bunch of articles looking at universities and the place of the humanities. One is by Clifford Orwin of the University of Toronto titled, You’re getting the universities you want – and deserve. He … Co…
Ever wanted to admire an extensive data visualization while showering? The Shower Calendar [matthiaslaschke.com] is a “persuasive” visualization of sorts that aims to encourage people to reduce their water consumption by informing them of their habits…
Every map holds a promise, and hides a lie. Cartography purports to represent reality, so the map reader can navigate the world. But maps only exist because their makers manipulate reality, if only by selecting what to show. Maps always represent…
The annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, a national group that represents scholarly associations in the Humanities, ended on Saturday in Washington, D.C. Many talks focused on the value of the humanities to American innovation a…
Waving a Wii, stroking an iPhone, lunging at your Kinect: gesture-based computing has landed in our lives. So how will it be used for teaching and learning? What happens when we start using the old mouse-and-keyboard combination less often?
To get …
Can anyone foretell the future of journalism? A group of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students have created FastForwardNews.org to track changes in the profession and cover challenges and opportunities in the digital age.
From time to time we invite guests to post about topics of interest and we’re pleased to have Don Muller join us from Old Harbor Books. Don is a co-founder of Old Harbor Books, an independent bookstore where he has worked for 35 years in Sitka, Alas…
Renowned ballerina Suzanne Farrell performed an exceptional 28 years before retiring from an established and widely-accomplished career. Having danced for world-famous companies in Berlin, New York City, Paris and Vienna, Farrell gained an unparalleled wealth of knowledge and expertise that she then chose to pass down to the next generation . . .
A few updates to share from past DML Competition Winners:
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As you might know, WebKit Web Inspector is implemented as an HTML + CSS + JavaScript web application. What you might not know is that Web Inspector can run outside of the browser environment and still provide complete set of its features to the end user.
Debugging over the wire
Running debugger outside the browser is interesting [...]
If the US now ranks with Russia and Iran as nations with greatest gap of rich and poor, what does that mean for American culture and values, including the value placed on higher education. Those are the key questions. It all goes to…
This site syndicates in real-time 100 Digital Humanities blogs and related sites from around the world (only English so far). The site authors represent the geographical, disciplinary, and institutional diversity of computing within the humanities. The site is maintained by Dr Craig Bellamy of VeRSI in Melbourne, Australia.
The best way to use the site is through searching for topics such as 'digitisation'. Or better still, simply syndicate the whole site into your RSS Feeder. The syndicated posts link back to the original authors site.
