But is it scholarship?
When asked if his undeniably useful and creative work is really science, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Luis von Ahn answers, "Who cares?" Something for digital humanists to remember next time
Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast.
Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February piece in The New York Review of Books is the most readable discussion
Briefly Noted: Creative Commons Choices; Radical Transparency; Presidential Sex
Creative Commons has released a statistical analysis of the licensing choices of Flickr users. My summary: most people are happy to provide open access, but they don't want you messing with
Briefly Noted: Surviving the Downturn; Help with Creative Commons; Yahoo Pipes
The American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) provides cultural heritage professionals with some relevant information on surviving the economic downturn.
JISC provides advice on choosing (or not choosing) a Creative Commons
Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish
Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I'm a research fellow, incidentally) points to Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki "for sharing, discussing, arguing