Outsourced!

Submitted by Lisa Klarr on Nov 06, 2009, 11:07 AM

Outsourcing, particularly in the last five years, has become the preferred method of slashing expenditure for those schools struggling to remain fiscally operable.

The End of Text As We Know It

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 18, 2009, 07:47 AM

HASTAC has adopted a motto (thanks again, Steve Burnett!) of "Learning the Future Together." As a historian of technology, I believe that you learn the future together by being deeply informed about the past before you shoot off your mouth about the glories that went before, the disaster we're in now, and the catastrophe looming ahead. Maybe, maybe not. What this interview reminds us is that we're by no means the first people to encounter technological change nor the first to be convinced the younger generation is going to the dogs. Those insights alone should remind us to see what is and what we can do with it rather than wring our hands about that which is no longer relevant, available, or inspiring to the world we live in now.

Google's Custom Search Engines

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Oct 23, 2008, 06:58 AM
Google now offers the option of creating custom search engines, which are google searches of multiple sites which you specify. John Unsworth, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, has created one for digital humanities, seeding it with the sites listed in centernet, plus a few others. The custom search is embedded in the nav bar at www.digitalhumanities.org now. Here's the code you can embed anywhere you like:

Google's Way-Back Machine

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Oct 02, 2008, 07:19 PM
Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary in a Very Google Way: by making available its earliest archived index, from January 2001 . Here's the url: http://www.google.com/search2001.html

Way Cuil

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 28, 2008, 09:27 AM
Exciting news about the unveiling of a new search engine, Cuil ("cool") developed by former Google employee Anna Patterson that promises to yield more relevant results than Google.  That would be nice!

Google Book Search Adds Copyright Data

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 28, 2008, 04:56 PM
Google Book Search now indicates what books are still under copyright and what ones are not.  As Cameron Parkins says on the Creative Commons website, we can now "use free information to free information."

Googlization of Everything Else

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 17, 2007, 10:53 AM

This is a reblog from Chris Kelty's posting on Savage Minds on Wikipedia's recent announcement of its own version of Wikipedia.

knolcats: i?m in ur pedia, innovatin ur ass

The brands that define Web 2.0

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on Jun 04, 2007, 10:31 AM

Don't see yourself in this list? That could be a problem.

Sunday, March 11 at SXSW

Submitted by bwalters on Mar 11, 2007, 08:00 AM

Living in Spatial Reality
The GIS and mapping panel provided a small overview of spatial technologies. The panelists hoped for a visually-defined landscape of the web, something that we?ve been mostly living without until recently, attempting to adapt our minds to the concept of virtual spaces and containers where our ?stuff? (and some ways the world as a whole) is: friends, files, photos, and more. This angle of investigation is similar to work revolving around interface.