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Here’s what Wikipedia says about the strike and protest it worked so hard to organize.
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I haven’t really touched a programming language since the tenth grade. Unless you count my brief exposure to rudimentary languages in game design programs since then, I’ve been away from coding for a long time. Recently, however, I decided I wanted…
In working with tenants to help their city attorney convict a group of slumlords, an economic justice organization collected public …
I am spending the entire year 2012 in Seattle, working with Tableau Software. The topics I will be working on include storytelling and Tableau Public, plus some super-secret projects even I don’t know yet (mostly because we haven’t decided on them).
This week the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport published the latest review of film policy in the UK. The report is titled A Future for British Film: It Begins with the Audience, and you can access it here. This week’s post covers just a few first impressions I have formed having read the report once. A [...]
Today a huge protest swept the Web, and we held an impromptu video discussion about it. Site after site urged readers to oppose the proposed SOPA law, or even turned their main Web presence dark.
So I hosted a Google+ Hangout, joined by Melanie Hoag …
Today, Wikipedia, among other focal points on the web (Wordpress.com, etc.), decided to create an internet-based demonstration in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) by blacking out their sites, channeling everybody to focus on the issue at work i…
We at NINES stand with the Association for Computers in the Humanities and many, many others to speak out again the Stop Online Piracy Act. Click here to learn more.
Infosthetics readers might know Stamen Design as one of the front-runners and innovators that drove the popularity of data visualization. With works like Oakland Crimespotting, Cabspotting and Trulia Hindsight, they combined the concept of mapping wit…
From INFOdocket : Dr. Alison Head from Project Information Literacy recently spoke at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. An audio file of her presentation is now available online. Here’s the Blurb: What is it like to…
When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? Many exhibit developers create thoughtful interactives intended for all ages and then discove…
MITH is pleased to announce Lisa Rhody, doctoral candidate in the department of English at the University of Maryland, as the Winnemore Dissertation Fellow for Spring 2012. Rhody is completing her dissertation, “Ekphrastic Revisions: Models of Verbal-Visual Networks in Women’s Contemporary Poetry,” which theorizes a broader, more complex understanding of . . .
In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon, using data from The Woods Hole Research …
It will be yet another social good if a secondary impact of the SOPA/PIPA protest and strike is that we are all reminded that the World Wide Web was designed with an open structure inviting participation, not just consumption. Wikiped…
