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New book out soon: Life in Code and Software: Mediated Life in a Complex Computational Ecology - David M Berry http://t.co/Valiv0dI

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The last few days were a series of graduations on campus, and today were the 148th Commencement Exercises at my alma mater, Vassar College. This time of year always brings to mind a poem by Nancy Willard, from A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for innocent and Experienced Travelers. It’s a book I particularly associate with Vassar. Willard is a lecturer in the English department at Vassar, and I had the great good fortune to take a class with her during my senior year. More importantly, my ...  show all text

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Description of one way to use digital media to pursue collaborative academic research in philosophy.

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We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide access to patients and caregi

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Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men attended the rally, which was held to discuss the potential dangers of Internet use and the temptations that can come from social media and pornography.

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Time to celebrate!  The paperback of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution is now out in paperback.  And with a fancy new cover to boot! My wonderful publisher, W.W. Norton, is offering up giveaway copies through Wonders & Marvels, Twitter, and Good Reads.  Details below.  Note: copies can be sent only within the US. Signed copy anyone?   Parnassus Books, Ann Patchett’s beloved local bookstore in my hometown, can ship signed or personalized copies. Just shoot th...  show all text

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The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.

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Libraries are changing, despite their facades. And they're changing to high-tech service companies with embedded librarians, according to some library professionals. Of course, that assumes they aren't defunded out of existence. Future U Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks Future U: Classroom tech doesn't mean handing out tablets For ladies and gentlemen of a certain age, the library is changing too fast. For kids, it's changing too slow. University students are caught in the middle.  show all text

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Two months after obtaining a majority stake in the magazine, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, is bringing back Franklin Foer as part of an ambitious plan to remake the magazine.

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Below is the text of my keynote talk from the Computers and Writing conference. There was a video made, so I will include that when it becomes available. Thanks to everyone on NC State for making the conference so successful, as well as everyone who attended. Last year, at a town hall meeting on digital humanities, I said that one of the things I like about this conference is that it operates on the basis of affinity rather than membership. And I meant that quite literally; there’s nothing to be  show all text

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Could redesigned Web sites be the starchitecture for museums? We pick our favorite museum Web site designs, including the Whitney's kids-only digital playground.

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Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. Congratulations to Facebook for going public. Congratulations to the employees that are now millionaires. Congratulations to the founders who are now billionaires. Congratulations to the bankers, lawyers and investors who have added to their already considerable wealth. You’ve grasped the brass ring we’...  show all text

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Mat Hampson Game creator Jordan Mechner wanted to teach the next generation. So the man behind the groundbreaking 1989 Apple II game Prince of Persia recently posted his original 6052 assembly source code to Github. But getting the code from decades-old floppy disks "covered with dust" was no simple task. Mechner employed the services of vintage computer expert Tony Diaz and digital archivist Jason Scott to extract the bits from the floppies and assemble it into a readable code file. Without Di...  show all text

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A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan — some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter’s refusal to block these images; and some believe while it was testing an image filtering service. Whatever it was, the site is now back up –after an order from Prime Minister. Pakistan’s Express Tribune is reporting that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made the decision after the site was down for the day on a mandate from t...  show all text

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<p>Maggie Koerth-Baker examines the current and future state of energy issues in the United States.The authorreports that there is no one answer to the future of energy infrastructure and that a more energy efficient world will not be a utopia but will be better than if no action is taken. She posits that the same economically driven thinking that created the country's current energy issues will be the force behind the changes in production and consumption over the next twenty to forty years. M...

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Une contribution à l'épanouissement de la place des sciences humaines et sociales dans les sociétés contemporaines Je propose l'idée selon laquelle la presse en ligne se comporte comme un prédateur du Web en général, et des sciences humaines et sociales (SHS) en particulier [102]. Si les SHS veulent pleinement jouer leur rôle dans l'interprétation et la compréhension de notre société, elles ne peuvent pas se permettre de le faire seulement dans le confort et l'isolement des murs de l'université.  show all text

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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Yesterday, my HeritageCrowd project website was annihilated. Gone. Kaput. Destroyed. Joined the choir. It is a dead parrot. This is what I think happened, what I now know and need to learn, and what I think the wider digital humanities community needs to think about/teach each other. HeritageCrowd was (may be again, if I can salvage from the wreckage) a project that tried to encourage the crowdsourcing of local cultural heritage knowledge for a community that does not have particularly good int...  show all text

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Tweet Le samedi 19 mai j’ai été parmi les heureux conférenciers de l’édition 2012 de TEDxParisUniversités. A cette occasion, j’ai pu présenter au public français les résultats du projet ICCU (Internet Censorship and Civil Unrest) que je mène avec Paola Tubaro, enseignante-chercheuse à l’Université de Greenwich, Londres. L’accueil a été plus que chaleureux : la tweeterie m’a porté en triomphe, j’ai reçu les accolades des organisateurs et je me suis imbibé de l’enthousiasme d’étudiants et de mili...  show all text

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Image Credit: “Habitat – Exoskeleton – Top View” by Horst Kiechle Here’s a video of my presentation from this year’s Computer’s and Writing Conference. It was part of a panel that Jentery Sayers and Virginia Kuhn organized entitled “Hacking the Classroom.” I wasn’t able to attend in person, but Jentery was kind enough to let me send along this video in my place.

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Libraries, archives and museums have a long history of participation and engagement with members of the public. In a series of blog posts I am going to work to connects these traditions with current discussions of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a bit of a vague term, one that comes with potentially exploitative ideas related to uncompensated or undercompensated labor. In this series of I’ll try to put together a set set of related concepts; human computation, the wisdom of crowds, thinking of ...  show all text

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What is “Ed-Tech”? What is “ed-tech”? What do we mean when we talk – or at least, what do I mean when I talk – about education technology? I’ve been stewing about this a lot this week, in part thanks to a tweet by Bud Hunt: Hey, y'all - "edtech" isn't a thing. It's not. It's poor shorthand for a lot of other things. Say those other things instead. — Bud Hunt (@budtheteacher) May 17, 2012 “Ed-tech isn’t a thing,” he says. It’s merely shorthand for something else. That could include (and I should  show all text

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