What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work? What are you willing to risk to pursue your professional dreams?Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chai…
A recent article in the Guardian notes plans of the British Library, working with the commercial firm BrightSolid, to digitise around 40m pages from their 750m pages of their historic newspaper archive.
The article points out that these newspapers form something of a ‘national memory’ but also implies that this is the first time that the [...]
Sometimes visualizing everything can turn out beautiful results. It seems to work especially well when the data is geographic, as we saw with All Streets, OpenStreetMap edits, and tourist maps. It turns out the everything method works for fictional worlds, too. The above and the video below are nothing but 11.3 million deaths by impact [...]
This is the future of photography, right here: The cinemagraph, by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg. Who knew we were so close to the wizarding world of Harry Potter? Howard Hotson wields statistics to argue that the UK government is wrong to point to US universities as exemplary models of market-driven academia. For the entire [...]
Railway crossings in France come with a warning now proverbial in French: Un train peut en cacher un autre. The literal translation sounds poetically vague: One train may hide another (in a railway yard version of some parlour game, perhaps). A l…
We are pleased to announce the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). http://aa-dh.org/ The formation of the Association is the outcome of a workshop, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, held on 22 March 2011 at the …
Watch the video, then visit the website.
Hashtagify [hashtagify.me] allows people to explore popular Twitter hashtags and, in the near future, also the content related to them.
Each hashtag on Twitter is assigned a popularity rating, ranging from 0 to 100, where the most used hashtag is ass…
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in an array of four telescopes operated by European Southern Observatory, and together the array “can achieve an angular resolution of around 1 milliarcsecond, meaning it could distinguish the gap between the headlights of a car located on the Moon.” I don’t know much about telescopes or lenses, but I [...]
The view of the conjoined twins in this New York Times piece is all about their lot in life. Freaks or unique? Born that Way? as Lady Gaga insists. What way? That is the question, the question of a gener…
I always thought that there is so much interactivity with google’s street
view, earth, maps, places… why cant you just hold your phone lens up to
a scene and it show you a google map [...]
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Before we begin with our weekly pile of links, here’s a message from Christine Perey on behalf of “the program committee of the Third International AR Standards meeting”:The committee has decided to extend the deadline for position papers to June 6th (…
Falconry is the art of using a trained raptor (bird of prey) to hunt wild quarry like birds or small mammals. The practice dates to at least 2000 BC and birds used for falconry (or hawking, a near-synonymous term in the modern parlance) include buzzard…
Steve Losh’s excellent post on going paper-free (HT) came at a timely moment for me. I emerged from PhD completion in a somewhat annoying quandary. Despite a certain amount of initial awareness and investigation, which led me to embark on my thesis project with a virtual research structure and workflow in place, my four-year archive [...]
Paul Kedrosky (whose opinion and blog I greatly enjoy) posted yesterday about the correlation between Microsoft stock prices and searches on Google for "google interview questions". These time series are correlated at r=0.6361. To replicate his experiment you can do…
