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Laurie A.

Giving Literature Virtual Life - 1 views

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    Great article on some digital humanities projects and how they relate to undergraduate teaching. Many of the projects involve digital archives, libraries or databases. I think this is the kind of work future academic libraries can help facilitate
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    Not sure why it isn't registering that I viewed this... Fascinating article- wish I could share via FB since only classmates see this and I think my teacher friends would find this interesting as well. Just another way diigo limits its usefulness. Great find though!
John Shoemaker

Twitter, Facebook As Political Tools in the Arab World - 0 views

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    nothing like ICT related article hot off the press!
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    I found a similar article from the UN sharing how cell phones and texting was used during a recent election in Kenya to limit riots and other unsafe activities. Though not used for either candidate the initiative did save lives and destruction of public areas by quickening the response times of police.
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    The internet being cut off in Egypt is just unprecedented. What are people reading and what sources are they following? Here's an interesting article about how it was turned off: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/01/egypts-internet-blackout-unprecedented.html also, it's interesting how one small company is still providing service and how people with international calling plans can use foreign dial-up providers. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/despite-severed-connections-egyptians-get-back-online/70479/
Christina Geuther

The Association of Religion Data Archives | About the ARDA - 0 views

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    This is the About Page for the ARDA, a resource whose mission is to "democratize access" to data. It contains links to national surveys, denominational histories, etc. and emphasizes accountability. Scholars and amateur researchers may submit source to ARDA, and the staff validates the findings.
Jessica McDonough

Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins - 0 views

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    This reminds me of David Weinberger's discussion of the Corbis and Bettman photo archives at the beginning of his book.
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    I saw this article too... Although we keep statistics on how many times a file was downloaded from a web site, a digital document does not record the same info or imply use the way a physical object can. We can extract more quantitative info from it now.
Naomi House

Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media- by James Fallow (The At... - 0 views

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    Fascinating defensive of new social media in journalism and a critique of those who miss the good old days. Reminded me of the book "The Good Old Days, They Were Terrible". from the article "At an individual level, I think the "distracted Americans" scare will pass. Either people who manage to unplug, focus, and fully direct their attention will have an advantage over those constantly checking Facebook and their smart phone, in which case they'll earn more money, get into better colleges, start more successful companies, and win more Nobel Prizes. Or they won't, in which case distraction will be a trait of modern life but not necessarily a defect. At the level of national politics, America is badly distracted, but that problem long predates Facebook and requires more than a media solution. "
Laurie A.

SXSW 2011: The Year of the Librarian - 1 views

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    SXSW-i 2011 "didn't feel blindly focused on discovering the killer app. Tech didn't feel like an end unto itself -- rather, it was about processing data with a purpose; data for a greater good." Librarians were a big part of the conversation at this year's festival
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    I saw this too and was really excited. I caught a story on WNYC yesterday about the importance of curating content, which I'll find and post to the group.
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    I think there's a special topics course on curation of information/data in the fall!
Judy Panagakos

Kevin Kelly's Book - What Technology Wants - 1 views

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    Has anyone read this? I think I will have to get this book. His lecture in the early weeks stuck with me and I keep poking around on his "kk.org" site.
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    No I havent read it but am thinking of dowloading it if it is available.
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    I am really skeptical of Kevin Kelly even since we viewed that TED lecture, but I have been going to his blog weekly anyway. He had a post earlier this week about the price of e-books - he thinks they will inevitably fall to $0.99 per book and nick carr responded and tore apart his logic.
Laurie A.

Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today (Updated) - 0 views

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    Note: this is a rumor, but it's interesting if this service will be lauched: "With Circles, I believe that Google will attempt to accomplish something critics from the blogosphere, academia, SXSW 2010 keynoter danah boyd, privacy watchdogs and others have all called on the social networking world to do: to allow our online communication to respect the same boundaries that our offline social lives do."
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    nothing has been announced yet. it is interesting that google is so visited and has so many users, but has yet to effectively incorporate social networking... i.e. buzz and wave had huge hyped, but it quickly burned away.
Laurie A.

What Technology Wants: Kevin Kelly's Theory of Evolution for Technology - 0 views

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    Review of Kevin Kelly's new book. At the end of the review, there is a comparison of Kelly's optimist view of technology with the dark vision as laid out in Jaron Lanier's "You are not a gadget."
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