Humanities Computing

Interesting article from Wired magazine on the future of print books.

Reminiscent of Goldsmith's idea of appropriation.  (Also, if I remember right, he mentions Satie during the book's opening chapters.)

Oh snap... This could be interesting.

A list of the heavy open-source hitters for audio playback and editing.

Sound cloud looks really interesting, but they host all of the content and you just send out links to share it. In order to play content on your page, you need a mess of java script commands and I have no idea how to link that to your content... Guess that's why all the bands pay big bucks to have someone build their site for them.

Alright. Thanks, Ben.

This title made me think, "Duh," but apparently 8% of survey participants thought that posting photos or videos of other people without consent should be illegal. One person said the issue "should be regarded the same as it is for printed materials." Another person pointed out that it's actually illegal to record people without their permission, but that photos/video taken in a public setting tend to fall under public domain. I usually create a private folder and then let the people in the photos review them and consent to my publishing them first. What do you think?

This guest post by Richard Price (founder and CEO of Academia.edu) addresses a bill called "The Research Works Act" intended to "restrict public access to publicly-funded research." Price points out that over 5,500 academics have signed a boycott of Elsevier, the largest academic publisher and one of the main sponsors. Several companies in the journal industry, however, argue that they've historically supported themselves by charging for access to research papers and that the government's open access mandate threatens their industry's sustainability by encouraging research institutions to stop subscribing to the journals and just wait to get the research for free.

Mozilla is jumping into the ring with a mobile OS platform. Still in development, but this is the main page for info about the new platform

Blog for latest updates on HTML5 protocol; it may be tricky, but it is slowly replacing Flash.

The story, templates, and examples of that meme that has blown up on Facebook recently.

This is a video of Marshall Mcluhan discussing how the medium is the message in 1977. It's interesting to both see him and hear his voice while he talks about his opinions we've already discussed in his book.

Publication of Simon Morris's retyping of Kerouac's On The Road. I find this interesting because I wonder how Goldsmith's discussion of Morris's retyping of the text onto the blog might change now that the text is found within yet another context (the published, printed book). I'm considering buying a copy. . .

Interesting article about Kenneth Goldsmith. Includes some great quotes about his theories pertaining to originality and readability.

Here is a live recording of Vanessa Place reading at the Kelly Writers House in March 2011. Vanessa Place was of course cited frequently in Kenny Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing. I think listening/watching the live reading really aids in the comprehension of his discussion of her work.

This is another plagiarism-themed article that complicates notions of ownership and creativity. This article recaps how Apple and Samsung have been locked in a bitter struggle over tablet designs.

This article speaks to the plagiarism issues that came up in "Uncreative Writing".

Fascinating article on truth and verifiability on Wikipedia. The author is an expert on the Haymarket labor riots, but finds this still does not qualify him to edit the Wikipedia entry on the topic.

Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

Consider Mcluhan's concept that electronic media creates a construct of the human nervous system. Here you'll see it in its literal form as the mapped out Internet.

A fun video of that madcap guy Kenny Goldsmith, reading three pomes about the Brooklyn Bridge, one by Whitman, one by Crane, and one by Kenny himself.