February 2011
Get Your Google Earth Going « Thumann Resources →
Some Great Google Earth Resources From @lthumann: http://bit.ly/fzxgdO – Steven W. Anderson (web20classroom) http://twitter.com/web20classroom/status/42160837019828224
Feb 28th
“Skype in the Classroom” Launches to Connect Teachers & Students Worldwide http://6sen.se/hI2s6y
Feb 28th
F & Q w/ Jane →
Q & A with Jane Bainter, namesake of band Jane’s Addiction and song “Jane Says” http://ow.ly/44olm (via @glynnwashington). – Kevin Smokler (Weegee)…
Feb 28th
INFOGRAPHIC - “The Hectic Schedule of a Social Media Manager” (H/T @brainpicker) - http://j.mp/eM1l9P
Feb 28th
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“Whenever we ask what new technology can do for textual scholars, we must not...”
– Galey, A. (2010). The human presence in digital artifacts. In W. McCarty’s Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products, and Institutions. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2010. (via johnxlibris)
Feb 27th
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Sketchnotes 2009 & 2010 – A book by Eva-Lotta Lamm →
I love this little book: “Sketchnotes” http://bit.ly/i74mog (evalotta.net) #sketchnotes – Jan Jursa (IATV) http://twitter.com/IATV/status/41862047901810688
Feb 27th
“Ruby for Kids Teaches Your Kid (And Yourself) the Ruby Programming Language” http://feedly.com/k/gPJ057 via @Lifehacker
Feb 27th
What is social information? « Snarkmarket →
“What is social information?” http://bit.ly/hRC3yv - via @snarkmarket | @robinsloan
Feb 27th
RT @amandafrench: Folks at #dhapi take note: I blogged @skud’s Freebase preso at #THATCamp SoCal: http://bit.ly/eKn4td
Feb 27th
Open Library Covers API (Open Library) →
George Oates - Covers - Open Library Covers API - http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers #DHapi
Feb 26th
RT @DesignObserver: New design director named at The New York Times: Ian Adelson. Congratulations. http://bit.ly/eleOo6
Feb 26th
Feb 26th
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Go Globe | Web Design | Minimal Exhibit →
Recently featured design: Go Globe | Web Design http://minimalexhibit.com/go-globe-web-design/ – Minimal Exhibit (MinimalExhibit) http://twitter.com/MinimalExhibit/status/41333739510431744
Feb 26th
Nice meeting you tonight @jenelfarrell. Glad you know @jo_in_la and nice to know you appreciate @craigmod as well.
Feb 26th
University awards - Google Research →
Google Faculty Research Awards program being mentioned by @ManoMarks - #DHapi - http://j.mp/eUp06g
Feb 25th
RT @tjowens: Reference to id.loc.gov as an example of REST in practice #DHapi
Feb 25th
Getting your CC project funded | p2pu →
Course on to get your Creative Commons project funded: http://is.gd/ujTfB2 – Ory Okolloh (kenyanpundit) http://twitter.com/kenyanpundit/status/40961442421153792
Feb 25th
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Retiring early this evening so I can be at @UMD_MITH bright & early to meet, greet and register the @apiworkshop participants. Good night.
Feb 25th
Feb 24th
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What is Boolean Search? →
Feb 24th
Listening to @joelovano’s “Bird Songs” work which features @EspeSpalding on bass - http://t.co/WmyDqgp
Feb 24th
RT @fastcompany: Here are The Most Influential Women in Technology in 2011: http://bit.ly/hXAnwB
Feb 23rd
The Declining Payoff From Black Colleges -... →
“The Declining Payoff From Black Colleges” - NYTimes.com (@nytimeseconomix) - http://goo.gl/0zx7Q (H/T @owasow)
Feb 23rd
“The Declining Payoff From Black Colleges” - NYTimes.com (@nytimeseconomix) - http://goo.gl/0zx7Q (H/T @owasow)
Feb 23rd
HTML5 Website Designs Examples | Design Newz →
Feb 22nd
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RT @alexscat: Hornbake Library is now on Facebook! http://is.gd/JyEoyu #umdlibraries #archives
Feb 22nd
Another Freebie from MIT Press: A “Video Book”... →
Another Freebie from MIT Press: A “Video Book” About Using YouTube as an Educational Tool http://wp.me/p1mjr5-5J – INFOdocket (infodocket) http://twitter.com/infodocket/status/39730127491305472
Feb 21st
RT @miriamkp: Oh, yay! RT @THATCamp_SE: Thanks to the hard working @amandafrench we’ve now got a beautiful Campers page: http://bit.ly/f …
Feb 21st
The university's curatorial role - Lorcan... →
The University’s Curatorial Role, by @lorcanD [Articles] http://bit.ly/fB5vGa – DigitalHumanitiesNow (dhnow) http://twitter.com/dhnow/status/39507541989920768
Feb 21st
Journal of Information Policy →
RT @remixtures: Journal of Information Policy: a new peer-reviewed online journal by The Institute for Information Policy (IIP) at… ht …
Feb 20th
RT @remixtures: Journal of Information Policy: a new peer-reviewed online journal by The Institute for Information Policy (IIP) at… ht …
Feb 20th
Columbia Heights: What Of It? - DCist →
“Columbia Heights: What Of It?” - DCist: http://bit.ly/evKulh
Feb 20th
“Columbia Heights: What Of It?” - DCist: http://bit.ly/evKulh
Feb 20th
Truffaut’s Big Interview with Hitchcock (MP3s) |... →
In case you missed it: Francois Truffaut’s big 12 hour interview w/ Alfred Hitchcock. Available in Free MP3s: http://cultr.me/hQNlrI – Open Culture (openculture)…
Feb 20th
BBC iPlayer - Android Market: http://bit.ly/gFRy6O
Feb 20th
Open Courseware: How You Can Take Classes at MIT,... →
Open Courseware: How You Can Take Classes at MIT, Stanford, or Harvard for Free http://bit.ly/fvphpj #oer #highered – briankotts (briankotts) http://twitter.com/briankotts/status/38893063430610944
Feb 19th
Gmail = wonderful thing … typed in “Dave Kari grant writing” into search and found advice @digitalhumanist & @karikraus gave me Sep. 2010
Feb 19th
…My heart’s in Accra » A three week old reaction... →
…My heart’s in Accra » “A three week old reaction to Secretary Clinton’s internet freedom 2011 speech” http://bit.ly/gmD218 by @EthanZ
Feb 19th
RT @UMD_MITH: now hiring a MITH Community Lead. Join us at @umd_mith! Details about the position can be found here: http://bit.ly/dG8x1j
Feb 19th
Feb 18th
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How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt... →
How Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education http://bit.ly/fqyKed – Fast Company (fastcompany) http://twitter.com/fastcompany/status/38389987728818176
Feb 18th
BIBCO Core Record Standards [Superseded by the...
7. Collections The Core Record Standard for Collections provides guidelines for collection-level cataloging, a mode of cataloging designed to accommodate materials treated collectively, i.e., materials treated as a group rather than cataloged individually. Such groupings consist of materials exemplifying characteristics from various perspectives: that of...
Feb 18th
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance - Archives of American Art Blog: http://bit.ly/eDnwdq via @smithsonian
Feb 18th
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) – VIDEO... →
Coalition for Networked Info (CNI) – VIDEO w/ MITH’s @mkirschenbaum | @sheepeeh – Digital Forensics & Cultural Heritage http://bit.ly/hksA53
Feb 18th
RT @derrickcogburn: Join US State Department Discussion on International Disability Rights http://j.mp/e5io7t
Feb 17th
RT @nowviskie: Congrats to @leoba @jawalsh @dougreside & @digitalhumanist on releasing the Text-Image Linking Environment! TILE 0.9: htt …
Feb 16th
Orientation(s) of the digital humanities community
All nine of the orientations as suggested by Wenger, White, and Smith fit the digital humanities community very well. However the primary and most salient orientations suggested by the authors in relation to the digital humanities community are perhaps: a. meetings b. projects and c. open-ended conversations. These three primary orientations often overlap and merge with the other orientations...
Feb 16th
Technologies used by the digital humanities...
“I’d like to switch gears and instead talk about digital humanities as community, or more precisely, as a set of overlapping personal communities, each one centered around individual, self-identified digital humanists . Thought of this way, digital humanities starts to look a lot like a social network. Indeed, in some ways digital humanities increasingly is a social network built, for...
Feb 16th
Describing Digital Humanities as a Community of...
LBSC708P -  ”Communities of Practice” - University of Maryland, College Park iSchool The community of practice I have chosen to study is the community centered around digital humanities. I have a choice perspective on this community through my participation in the IMLS Digital Humanities Model Internship Program last semester at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the...
Feb 16th
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