This is the paper Kate and I submitted along with our LOTW presentation, rendered into this gorgeous tagcloud by Wordle, a new tagcloud generator I saw today on Information Aesthetics. I love tagclouds anyway - but this one lets you play with layout, fonts and colors in a way I’ve never seen before. You can [...]
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Kate and I are still buzzing from the great conversation we had with the people who came to our session at LOEX of the West. It’s always an amazing and kind of surreal experience when you find out that other people are excited by the same ideas you are.
And it seems that other people [...]
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I actually have no idea what the answer to that question is. I already mentioned the essay about the Clash which was about corporate rock, politics, and the reality of growing up in Canby, Oregon.
But there’s also this short movie that the Willamette Valley Film Collective made last year to compete in the International Documentary [...]
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On Monday, a new thread appeared on the unfiction forums pointing out a trailhead for a new game that seems to be linked to the Fox series Dollhouse. Given the percentage of librarians who are big damn fans of Joss Whedon + my obvious fascination with Alternate Reality Games the odds were very good [...]
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all the time. That’s because Kate and I are deep in preparation for our Loex of the West talk and it’s hard to think about anything else. A few things that have come out of my work in the last few days.
This video at Kairos - This is Scholarship –
This video cuts across a lot [...]
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This presentation from last week’s JSTOR Annual Publishers Meeting, examining how digital access to information has affected scholars’ research patterns, is very interesting. Meredith Quinn presented some research from Ithaka that looks at some of those disciplinary differences in research practice that I think most of us intuitively feel are there.
What a difference a [...]
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From this — The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail –
Alternatively, the disappearance of an open platform could spell the end of DRM technology altogether, at least for digital music. Since I believe strongly that the market in the end must and will be based on interoperable digital formats, if DRM is [...]
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So I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at different models for scholarly publishing preparing for this presentation, and what always happens happened - the themes start showing up everywhere. I went to visit the Top Shelf comic site the other day and found this — anticipation-building countdown. Intriguing!
Investigation led [...]
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well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]
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was said pretty well yesterday at Daily Kos.
Keen tends to claim that the participatory web is destroying traditional media at great cost to our culture. I’ve always thought that the mainstream media has done a great deal to destroy itself. And I don’t think I can say it better than this:
The media — newspapers, radio, [...]
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