Project Manager for project at the Berkman Center

H2O Project Manager/Technical Lead PositionHarvard Law SchoolThe Berkman Center for Internet & SocietyDuties & ResponsibilitiesA joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Harvard Law School library, H2O is an online…

Collaboration by Difference + Global Health = SwitchPoint 2012

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List of Hand-Picked and Recommended Data Visualization Tools

The following post seems particularly useful for people that are relatively new in the field of data visualization and might consider developing their own graphs or interactive applications. Should you program or not? What tools should currently exist…

C&A Fashion Like: Real-Time Facebook ‘Likes’ Shown on Clothing Racks

The Brazilian arm of international fashion retailer C&A has launched a custom-made clothes rack [facebook.com] that shows in real-time how many Facebook “Likes” a particular clothing item received on Facebook. Accordingly, customers present in the phy…

INKE: Call for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Modelling and Prototyping


The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a postdoctoral fellow in Modelling and Prototyping, with expertise in Data Modelling and Digital Humanities.
This position is based in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, in partnership [...]

New Online Archive of 120 Historical Films

Thanks to LJ’s infoDOCKET : From a British Council Announcement: Over 120 films providing fascinating snapshots of the UK’s cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage have been launched online to the public thanks to funding from Google and the British…

564 – A Ghostly Billiard Game

Just before Rip Van Winkle falls into his thirty-year slumber, he encounters the ghostly spectacle of a handful of ancient Dutch colonials playing at ninepins, the thunder rolling across the Catskills as they bowl their balls.  
This images ha…

Why use visualizations to study poetry?

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An era of human-affected Earth

Welcome to Anthropocene: Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship have heralded a profound shift in perception …

An era of human-affected Earth

Welcome to Anthropocene: Scientific concepts like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and planetary stewardship have heralded a profound shift in perception …

Minecraft server connections

Minecraft server connections

I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means something to those who do. “A dot …

Science and Truth: We’re All in It Together

                       
By JACK HITT
Published: May 5, 2012

THE greatest bird news of our lifetime occurred at the height of the George W. Bush administration. In April 2005, amid a pagea…

CfP > Peer Reviewing and Research Evaluation

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Beneath the Surface

IN monogram at the beginning of Genesis, with Christ in Majesty, Netherlands (Belgium, near Leuven), 1148, Additional 14788, f. 6v If you happen to be heading to the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies this week in Kalamazoo, Michigan (10-13 May 2012), please consider stopping by the sessions sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (see as well the group’s Facebook page). I’ll be taking part in the Saturday session at 1:30 pm, along with Jacob Thaisen of the University of Stavanger and Sean M Winslow from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies. The session’s theme is…

What Do HASTAC, the Beatles, and Steve Jobs Have in Common?

In this month’s Fast Company, some of the newly discovered “basement tapes” of Steve Jobs are discussed and quoted from (and, if you have the right app, you can even download and here Jobs literally in his own voice).   What he has in common …