Author Archives: scaife

“the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Michael Robertson intends to offer six new Ajax applications, one each week, via his  ajaxLaunch.com site.  He’s begun with a new word processor, ajaxWrite.

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“some confuse praise for better DRM with praise for DRM”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig comments on Sun’s new openDRM scheme.

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Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

The March 2006 issue of Scientific American includes: The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation Statistical methods hold the promise of moving computerized translation out of the doldrums By Gary Stix (subscription only, or buy the print version)

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Nature special on the future of scientific computing

Posted on 2006-03-22 by scaife

At every humanities computing-related meeting I’ve been to over the past year, someone exhorts us to “have a good look at what the scientists are doing.” Nature magazine has just published a special edition with useful articles towards that end: … Continue reading →

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Virtual Humanities Lab

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Geoff Rockwell notes the arrival of Vika Zafrin’s NEH-funded Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown, an interface for the display, annotation, and discussion of semantically encoded texts.

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DMCA: Circumventing Competition

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Timothy B. Lee Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed … Continue reading →

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iRex unveils its iLiad eBook reader

Posted on 2006-03-19 by scaife

Lots to like, including the name.

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Ajax tutorials

Posted on 2006-03-17 by scaife

From Michael Calore’s Monkey Bites blog at Wired: A Heap of Ajax Tutorials Topic: Web 2.0 Superstar Max Kiesler has collected a list of thirty Ajax tutorials. He’s rounded up these free online tutorials for all levels of Ajax development. … Continue reading →

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“What do you do with a million books?”

Posted on 2006-03-16 by scaife

The March 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.  This is a special issue on the theme of “Digital Library Evolution” with guest editor, Gregory Crane, Tufts University. The articles include: What Do You Do with a Million … Continue reading →

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Additions to neo-Latin colloquia texts

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

We have added two additional authors to the Neo-Latin Colloquia Project: Franciscus Cervantes de Salazar (1514?-1575), Ad Exercitia Linguae Latinae Dialogi Petrus Popo, Colloquia de Scholis Herbipolensibus Moreover, the hopper now provides access to portions of these texts that were … Continue reading →

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LibriVox: free public domain audiobooks

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

If you’re too cheap to subscribe to audible.com, and you’re about to take a long drive or plane ride, and you want something to listen to, there’s LibriVox.   The catalog shows completed books, short works (including some poetry), and works … Continue reading →

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False multiples in the TLG Canon

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

The TLG Canon assigns two work numbers to the Lexicon of Hesychius, since it took the first half (4085.002) from Latte’s edition, the second half (4085.003) from that of Schmidt.  Same thing happens with the Geographia of Ptolemy (0363.009, 0363.014).  … Continue reading →

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Exporting Censorship

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

From an NYT op-ed by Xeni Jardin: If American companies are already obligated to disclose the sale of bombs and guns to repressive regimes, why not censorware?

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Byzantine lexicography in Wikipedia

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

Just noticed the rather meaty and link-rich entry on the Suda in Wikipedia, which also links externally to the SOL.

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Another tool for collaboration

Posted on 2006-03-09 by scaife

Google buys Writely, a browser-based word processor. Update: Ars Technica and The Register have more on this.

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