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Processing turns 1.0

Submitted by travis on November 27, 2008 - 10:59pm.
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I'm sure many HASTAC readers have already heard this news, but it's worth repeating: Processing (the fantastic programming language and development environment born in the MIT Media Lab in 2001) finally left beta earlier this week.

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Counting words

Submitted by travis on October 14, 2008 - 11:05am.
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Yesterday's New York Times profile of the work of James Pennebaker is just the latest evidence of a revival of interest in computational stylistics, and I'd be curious to hear other HASTAC Scholars' thoughts on the topic.

I'd be the first to admit that I have something of a counting fetish, and I'd love to see this kind of thing done well, but I can't help thinking that arguments like the following have a touch of the phrenological about them:

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Tagging conventions

Submitted by travis on October 13, 2008 - 2:29pm.
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I've noticed that a number of people have mentioned that they use delicious for social bookmarking, and I was wondering if other HASTAC Scholars would find it useful to establish some simple way to flag things that you think might be of interest to other scholars in the group, even if you don't have time for a full blog post at the moment. If we had a shared tag, for example, we could use Yahoo! Pipes (or some similar tool) to aggregate all the content with that tag from delicious, Flickr, YouTube, etc.

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