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Weiye Loh

Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...21margin.html

Marginalia Books ebooks

shared by Weiye Loh on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Marginalia was more common in the 1800s. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a prolific margin writer, as were William Blake and Charles Darwin. In the 20th century it mostly came to be regarded like graffiti: something polite and respectful people did not do. Paul F. Gehl, a curator at the Newberry, blamed generations of librarians and teachers for “inflicting us with the idea” that writing in books makes them “spoiled or damaged.”
  • Studs Terkel, the oral historian, was known to admonish friends who would read his books but leave them free of markings. He told them that reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
  • marginalia enriched a book, as readers infer other meanings, and lends it historical context. “The digital revolution is a good thing for the physical object,” he said. As more people see historical artifacts in electronic form, “the more they’re going to want to encounter the real object.”
James Matthews

Malcolm Gladwell - Something Borrowed - 1 views

gladwell.com/...2004_11_25_a_borrowed.html

shared by James Matthews on 18 May 11 - Cached
  • James Matthews on 18 May 11
     
    This has nothing to do with the chick-flick currently in theaters, but we've been talking a lot about copyrights, intellectual property, and technology recently and I was reminded of this article I read about when Gladwell himself was plagiarized and how he handled it.
Rachael Schiel

Smashwords blog - 2 views

blog.smashwords.com/...here-us-ebook-buyers-live.html

ebook project digitization

shared by Rachael Schiel on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • Rachael Schiel on 31 May 11
     
    Stats about who reads ebooks.
Ashley Nelson

YouTube - John Huston's The Dead - Finale - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

james dubliners literature youtube

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  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    A little video from the very last scene of The Dead.
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    I am not sure if anyone has read The Dead. I have several times and I had no idea that there was a video until Dr Burton mentioned it to me. I found this on youtube and couldn't help but marvel how different this last scene was watching it instead of reading it.
Ashley Nelson

MapLoco! - Hit counter tracker map - Map your visitors - 0 views

www.maploco.com

map tools geography visitors blogging

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  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    After reading Ashley Lewis's blog I noticed this really cool feature off to the side of her blog. It shows you where someone is at that is viewing your page. I thought it was pretty neat and so I followed her link and posted it to my blog page.
Ashley Nelson

Blogger! - 0 views

rereadinglives.blogspot.com/...2011-reviews.html

literature blog

shared by Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11
     
    So I was searching for some blogs about James Joyce and I came across this man's blog, Mel. Talk about being a prolific reader and writer. He reads short stories all the time and posts about each one. I think it is interesting that he started his blog not really think many would read it and now he has almost 500 followers.
Carlie Wallentine

The Wisdom of the Crowds - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...jamessurowiecki

Wisdom of the Crowds

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  • Carlie Wallentine on 09 May 11
     
    For all reading the James Surowiecki book, here is the authors blog.
Amy Whitaker

Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement-blog - 0 views

www.brainpickings.org/...ence-lessig-science-publishing

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  • Amy Whitaker on 09 May 11
     
    This is a great blog post on Lawrence Lessig's take on the free access movment (Lessig is the author of the digital culture book, Remix). This is relevant to anyone reading anything regarding digital collaboration and copyright laws.
  • Ben Wagner on 09 May 11
     
    Thanks for posting this it really adds to what Dr. Burton was just talking about with opening up the Library database, Definitely going to try and watch the whole video at some point.
Rachael Schiel

Online Book Clubs and web-based Book Discussion - 0 views

www.book-clubs-resource.com/online

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  • Rachael Schiel on 13 May 11
     
    General ideas and links for people interested in online book discussion. Isn't the idea of a book club, though, to get people to meet each other, not just discuss literature? If you've only met someone digitally, is it really possible to consider their literature biases and personal interpretation of the books you are reading?
Ashley Nelson

The Public Domain - 1 views

www.thepublicdomain.org

public domain digital

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  • Ashley Nelson on 09 May 11
     
    Found this cool blog spot about the digital culture book that I am reading. They have a comic, link to read the book (free), and more cool things.
Nyssa Silvester

Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture - 0 views

www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf

digital culture lessig

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  • Nyssa Silvester on 11 May 11
     
    If you want to read more digital culture books for free, here's another by Lawrence Lessig.
Bri Zabriskie

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Chapter 1 - 0 views

www.online-literature.com/...1

huckleberry finn book literature online

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 11 May 11
     
    How I'm going to read Huckleberry Finn novel (or attempt to at least)
Gideon Burton

Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Vernor_Vinge

author

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  • Gideon Burton on 04 May 11
     
    Bio of the author of the novel we are reading
  • Gideon Burton on 04 May 11
     
    I noticed he was a professor at SDSU, the setting for much of Rainbows End
Weiye Loh

Our Greatest Political Novelist? : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...eatest-political-novelist.html

Science Fiction Politics Identity Society

shared by Weiye Loh on 24 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Science fiction is an inherently political genre, in that any future or alternate history it imagines is a wish about How Things Should Be (even if it’s reflected darkly in a warning about how they might turn out). And How Things Should Be is the central question and struggle of politics. It is also, I’d argue, an inherently liberal genre (its many conservative practitioners notwithstanding), in that it sees the status quo as contingent, a historical accident, whereas conservatism holds it to be inevitable, natural, and therefore just. The meta-premise of all science fiction is that nothing can be taken for granted. That it’s still anybody’s ballgame.
  • Robinson argues that, now that climate change has become a matter of life and death for the species, it’s time for scientists to abandon their scrupulous neutrality and enter into the messy arena of politics. Essentially, Robinson attempts to apply scientific thinking to politics, approaching it less like pure physics, in which one infallible equation / ideology explains and answers everything, than like engineering—a process of what F.D.R. once called “bold, persistent experimentation,” finding out what works and combining successful elements to synthesize something new.
  • Weiye Loh on 24 Dec 13
     
    "When we call literary writers "political" today, we're usually talking about identity politics. If historians or critics fifty years from now were to read most of our contemporary literary fiction, they might well infer that our main societal problems were issues with our parents, bad relationships, and death. If they were looking for any indication that we were even dimly aware of the burgeoning global conflict between democracy and capitalism, or of the abyssal catastrophe our civilization was just beginning to spill over the brink of, they might need to turn to books that have that embarrassing little Saturn-and-spaceship sticker on the spine. That is, to science fiction.2"
Amanda Giles

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

identity reality social networking parasocial relationships ambient awareness

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • capable
  • A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
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  • ambient awareness
  • very much like being physically near someone
  • paradox of ambient awareness
  • insignificant on its own
  • he little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the growing popularity of online awareness as a reaction to social isolation
  • human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
  • Constant online contact had made those ties immeasurably richer, but it hadn’t actually increased the number of them; deep relationships are still predicated on face time, and there are only so many hours in the day for that.
  • If you’re reading daily updates from hundreds of people about whom they’re dating and whether they’re happy, it might, some critics worry, spread your emotional energy too thin, leaving less for true intimate relationships.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • hey can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • people in their 20s who were in college when Facebook appeared and have never lived as adults without online awareness. For them, participation isn’t optional. If you don’t dive in, other people will define who you are.
  • if only to ensure the virtual version of you is accurate, or at least the one you want to present to the world.
  • he dynamics of small-town life,
  • If anything, it’s identity-constraining now
  • result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves
  • t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness.
Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...04victorian.html

Literature Statistics Content Analysis

shared by Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • A decline in references to “God,” “Christian” and “universal” is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism.
  • Yet large searches can also challenge some pet theories of close reading, he said: for example, that the Victorians were obsessed with the nature and origins of evil. As it turns out, books with the word “evil” in the title bumped along near the bottom of the graph, accounting for less than 0.1 percent — a thousandth — of those published during the Victorian era.
  • As Mr. Cohen is quick to acknowledge, the meaning of those numbers is anything but clear. Perhaps authors didn’t like to use the word “evil” in the title; perhaps there were other, more common synonyms; perhaps the context points to another subject altogether.
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  • Ms. Martin at Princeton knows firsthand how electronic searches can unearth both obscure texts and dead ends. She has spent the last 10 years compiling a list of books, newspaper and journal articles about the technical aspects of poetry. She recalled finding a sudden explosion of the words “syntax” and “prosody” in 1832, suggesting a spirited debate about poetic structure. But it turned out that Dr. Syntax and Prosody were the names of two racehorses.
  • Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10
     
    A decline in references to "God," "Christian" and "universal" is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism.
Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...04victorian.html

Literature Statistics Content Analysis

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  • The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.
  • This research, which has only recently become possible, thanks to a new generation of powerful digital tools and databases, represents one of the many ways that technology is transforming the study of literature, philosophy and other humanistic fields that haven’t necessarily embraced large-scale quantitative analysis.
  • There is also anxiety, however, about the potential of electronic tools to reduce literature and history to a series of numbers, squeezing out important subjects that cannot be easily quantified.
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  • Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s plan to create a voluminous online library and store has raised alarms about a potential monopoly over digital books and the hefty pricing that might follow. But Jon Orwant, the engineering manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents, said the plan was to make collections and searching tools available to libraries and scholars free. “That’s something we absolutely will do, and no, it’s not going to cost anything,” he said.
  • Mr. Houghton sought to capture what he called a “general sense” of how middle- and upper-class Victorians thought, partly by closely reading scores of texts written during the era and methodically counting how many times certain words appeared. The increasing use of “hope,” “light” and “sunlight,” for instance, was interpreted as a sign of the Victorians’ increasing optimism.
Ben M

BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write web - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...4132752.stm

web2.0 Berners-Lee communication

shared by Ben M on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Well in some ways. The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. It was very easy to make a new web page and comment on what somebody else had written, which is very much what blogging is about.
  • For years I had been trying to address the fact that the web for most people wasn't a creative space; there were other editors, but editing web pages became difficult and complicated for people. What happened with blogs and with wikis, these editable web spaces, was that they became much more simple. When you write a blog, you don't write complicated hypertext, you just write text, so I'm very, very happy to see that now it's gone in the direction of becoming more of a creative medium.
  • I feel that we need to individually work on putting good things on it, finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff, and that at the end of the day, a lot of the problems of bad information out there, things that you don't like, are problems with humanity.
    • Heather D
      Heather D on 19 May 10
       
      This reminds me of how I think the Church uses these tools. Yes, the internet can be used for not-so-good things...but ultimately, it can be used and is meant to be used to expand the Church's work.
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  • My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      Reminds me of Robert and his ham radio friends all over the world
  • building of something very new and special,
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      a cathedral!
  • Gideon Burton on 19 May 10
     
    The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)
becca_hay

Single-Sex Public Education - Children and Youth - Schools - Gender - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02sex3-t.html

gender boy girl teaching

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  • becca_hay on 24 May 10
     
    This goes along with the monkey article I just shared! read both, they're so interesting when shown in eachother's light!
Gideon Burton

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications will Transform via Cybermetrics - 3 views

www.academicevolution.com/...ications-must-transform-6.html

shared by Gideon Burton on 26 May 10 - Cached
    • Gideon Burton
      Gideon Burton on 26 May 10
       
      Note the features of this online writing: -situates itself relative to ongoing discussion (via explicit reference and links) -contains an explicit thesis statement early in the post -includes headings to make subsections easier to navigate and the longer post easier to read -includes appropriate images to draw interest, break up the text, and illustrate the argument -includes mild use of formatting options for emphasis (highlighting in this case) -includes hyperlinks to references -quotes and cites both traditional and online sources (uses the blockquote formatting for a longer quote) -links not only to sources for quotations, but to relevant entities or organizations, or to discussions of the issue (maybe less scholarly, but timely and relevant) -rhetorically, it lays out a story about the past, situates a phenomenon in the present, and discusses the impact for the future of these ideas within our more mediated digital environment -includes relevant tags -has received comments from others (due in part to the author "pinging" or announcing that he'd published a post on his blog via Twitter or other social media
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