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Is a Wikipedia assignment appropriate for the liberal arts classroom? Incorporating Wikipedia assignments into college classes isn’t new. For instance, in 2008 Jon Beasley-Murray assigned students in his University of British Columbia course on L…
If you’re good with data and looking for a job, you’re in luck. There seem to be quite a few jobs out there. Here are a handful of positions that have showed up on my radar recently. SENSEable City Lab at MIT — “The SENSEable City Laboratory is seeking exceptional candidates to fill positions involving [...]
Flexible Font Sizes With jQuery – FitText
6. September, 2011
My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. I had to upgrade my server for the second time this year, so without these fine groups FlowingData would be a blank screen with a progress wheel most of the time. Check them out below. They help you make sense of and tell stories with data. InstantAtlas — [...]
Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s & Gender History Presents:
INDECENCY
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMarch 1-3, 2012
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2011
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Briefly, Zapaday is a new (in alpha) online tool which mines the web (with a bit of editorial thrown in) for future events to create a global public calendar. This puts Zapaday in some overlap with Recorded Future, but with…
I’m writing a lecture on social network analysis for one of my classes. I thought it would be good to illustrate some of the features of networks with reference to the parlour game, ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon‘ – and then remembered that I had once been an extra in a film. Perhaps I too [...]
I’m completing a set of reviews for a reasonably high quality conference that touches on data mining and text mining problems. Perhaps the industrial setting has jaded me with respect to academic papers, but there seems to be some key…
Birds Eye View Map Of New York And Vicinity [1909]Full colour perspective view from Yonkers to South Norwalk in the north and from Freeport to Ellis Island in the south.Brown paper covers printed in black entitled “Bird’s Eye View Map Of East And North…
Luiz is a long-time WebKit contributor. He has been working on maintaining and fixing bugs in the Qt port, on the implementation of the details and summary elements, on media query listeners for which he also helped writing the spec, as well as many other things. He has been an extraordinary help for the Qt [...]
A web only publication by Alison Babeu with good coverage of the Stoa and the Digital Classicist. Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The author provides a summative and recent overview of the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East, [...]
Hey Folks,
Tonight I came across a couple of blogs that discussed the labor movement’s use of social media and digital technology. Both blogs made some interesting (and very positive) points, and both encouraged labor to take further steps to emb…
