I’m working on a keynote address for next week’s Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference in Baltimore. The speech is in memory of Stephen Weil, one of the giants of contemporary American museum thinking–a radical in a bowtie who strove to “make…
This weekend The Chronicle of Higher Education published an opinion piece by Michael Morris arguing that in the name of campus security campuses should start data mining all student internet traffic. Or as the not so subtle, fear mongering, almost fit for Fox News title says, “Mining Student Data Could Save Lives.” Morris’s article to …..
At the bottom of the page is my new collaborative Card Game Design for Torah Study (which I use broadly for the study of Jewish Civilization as well as Sacred Text) from the non-profit public scholar work I do through ConverJent.org.
Please take a look…
In connection with our exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination, the British Library is hosting a two-day international conference (12-13 December 2011). Registration is now open. Eighteen speakers based in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and the USA will be sharing their research on various aspects of the Royal collection, including readers, scribes, genealogy, style, law, legend and history. The conference promises to be a groundbreaking occasion, bringing to light some of the most outstanding examples of painting collected by the kings and queens of England. Registration fees: £50; £45 AMARC members; £25 students An optional delegate dinner on…
We are pleased to announce that UCLDH will be working with The Imperial War Museum (IWM) together with Knowledge Integration and UCL CASA on a R&D project to explore digital innovation in the cultural sector. It was announced las…
A visualization of complimentary flavours by David McCandless and Willow Tyrer. All food tastes amazing, just sometimes not together. So we roved around 1000 recipes for common flavour patterns and visualized the results. A good way to build a meal, maybe, if you lack a chef’s intuitive buds. Less data visualization, more dinner visualization. An [...]
HTML5 Template Generators, Frameworks And Tools 29. September, 2011 Detect Mobile Devices Easily With MobileESP 2. October, 2011 Passive RFID tag cloning 30. September, 2011 Make Your Own GPS Receiver! 1. October, 2011 May the proper FLUX be with you! — ALWAYS 29. September, 2011 Sean’s Arduino Experiments (Roundup) 29. September, 2011 HTML5 & CSS3 [...]
TeleGeography maps underwater cables that connect countries and continents: TeleGeography’s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative Global Bandwidth research, and depicts 188 active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations. Selecting a cable route on the map provides access to data about the cable, including the cable’s name, ready-for-service [...]
I’m waiting to hear if my advisor and I are going to co-teach next semester a class we developed last year, “Computer Gaming, Learning and Literacy.” Reading over the teaching-philosophy posts some of you have made recently got me to look back on the o…
Nathan Yau recently wrote a posting about the different words used for visualization and infographics. His definitions are interesting because they reveal quite a bit about his background and main focus, and his blind spots give some insights into th…
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(There is something really odd about auto-bio pieces.)
I am a mix of places: Charlottesville, Miami, Paris, Santo Domingo, Beirut, Amsterdam, Valencia.
I am a mix of places: The Library, The Department, Th…
This is my post to introduce myself. My name is Mary Karcher and I am a PhD Canidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mi. This my second year as a HASTAC scholar and I’m really excitefd to be back! I had a great time la…
Who’s in control of your book design? You – or Amazon and Apple?This post is not meant as a criticism of either Amazon or Apple. Each has done more to push forward the adoption and availability of eBooks than any other company since the first text appe…
Nathan Yau recently wrote a posting about the different words used for visualization and infographics. His definitions are interesting because they reveal quite a bit about his background and main focus, and his blind spots give some insights into the community he’s working in.
I always struggle to write about myself so here’s my best shot….
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