06
Apr
But is it scholarship?
When asked if his undeniably useful and creative work is really science, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Luis von Ahn
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03
Apr
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
27
Mar
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
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23
Mar
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
19
Mar
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
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17
Mar
Thinking the Unthinkable
Clay Shirky's widely circulated post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, has got me thinking about the "unthinkable&
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13
Mar
Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20
GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful
09
Mar
Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009
This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in
04
Mar
Motto
I came across this old quote last night in finishing up David Post's In Search of Jefferson'
26
Feb
Brand Name Scholar
Scholars may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that in the 21st century's
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