May 2011
8 posts
Gaming the Archives - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... →
There’s no shortage of fabulous archival material lurking in college and university collections. The trick is finding it.
Without good metadata—labels that tell researchers and search engines what’s in a photograph, say—those archives are as good as closed to many students and scholars. But many institutions don’t have the resources or manpower to tag their archives thoroughly.
Enter Metadata...
Academic publishing: Of goats and headaches | The... →
HOW much would you pay for an annual subscription to Small Ruminant Research, Queueing Systems or Headache? University librarians pay rather a lot. In Britain, 65% of the money spent on content in academic libraries goes on journals, up from a little more than half ten years ago. With budgets tight, librarians are trying to resist price increases. But Derk Haank, the chief executive of Springer,...
“The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new questions...”
– » The digital humanities is not about building, it’s about sharing SAMPLE REALITY
“Do you remember the days when you used to be able to head out to the cinema safe...”
– Charlie Brooker: Hollywood shuns intelligent entertainment. The games industry doesn’t. Guess who’s winning? | Comment is free | The Guardian
the size of tiny changes in the heart: "Velocity... →
brighteryellow:
Listen to this:
The closer we get to the thing we really want, the more resistance we will feel. We will feel some force pushing us away, the closer we get to some thing we think we really want. And for a lot of us that could be writing. Let’s be honest: it is not that hard to write. It’s not really that hard to type. It’s really hard to make something good when you’re...
“From a personal perspective, I appreciate great writing, but I’ve become...”
– Marco Arment
Amen.
