Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 08, 2009, 10:02 AM
A remix of a digital video originally done for a HASTAC Forum (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) on digital scholarship. http://uwf.edu/ruzwyshyn/Raysvideos/digitalscholarship.html Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQS6jpMvcwI

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

Submitted by jchall1960 on Mar 22, 2009, 04:54 PM
Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines. . . . Conference at the University of Alabama

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 19, 2009, 05:15 PM

Sometimes we are gifted with amazing technologies that can change our lives for the better. Sometimes these new technologies are so advanced and different to what we are accustomed to, we can not fully benefit from them. We try to use these new tools in the same way we used their predecessors. We cling to methods that are rooted in inferior, antiquated channels.

 

Here is a true story that illustrates this. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 11, 2009, 09:09 AM
Big Ideas in little packages

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 09, 2009, 04:43 PM

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 06, 2009, 08:36 AM

There are definition problems when talking about the entities of ?Information Technology?: what should we call the main ingredients? Intuitively it would seem that there is a technological domain, consisting of machines and programs that work with something called inf

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 02, 2009, 08:44 AM

As we have noted, technological innovation comes seldom without resistance, be it from legacy technologies and business models, or in the defence of the entrenched