Author Archives: scaife

Two new blogs

Posted on 2007-09-27 by scaife

Tom Elliott, Horothesia: thoughts and comments across the boundaries of computing, ancient history, epigraphy and geography. Shawn Graham, Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research.  Agent based modeling, games, virtual worlds, and online education for archaeology and history.

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UI for Google book search improves

Posted on 2007-09-26 by scaife

Inside Google Book Search offers an update of “New ways to dig into Book Search.”

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Exclusivity

Posted on 2007-09-20 by scaife

Hearing Mojo is not happy: I can’t believe Apple failed to make its iPhone compatible with either hearing aids or cochlear implants. I’m in the market for a mobile phone again and just discovered the lack of compatibility. Given all … Continue reading →

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outsourcing, again

Posted on 2007-09-17 by scaife

Cory Doctorow, “Scroogled: Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?” Excerpt: “Evening,” Greg said, handing the man his sweaty passport. The officer grunted and swiped it, then stared at his screen, … Continue reading →

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In mediis tutissimus ibis

Posted on 2007-09-14 by scaife

Even if it’s true that “People just want to see what’s real,” surely there are times when one needs to step back from technology’s bleeding edge.

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JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants

Posted on 2007-09-14 by scaife

NEH Program Officer Jason Rhody sends the following announcement: As part of its Digital Humanities Initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States is joining with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom … Continue reading →

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outsourcing

Posted on 2007-08-24 by scaife

Why I gave up on my university’s email years ago: Along with the neat-o peripheral gizmos like messaging, calendars, and collaboration tools, the outsourced systems are more stable, have better spam filters, and provide much more storage space than the … Continue reading →

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Sounds familiar!

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Scott Jaschik, Publishing and Values, Inside Higher Ed, August 22, 2007: A number of outside observers believe that the tensions visible in anthropology this week are challenging other disciplines, too. “At the most fundamental level, we’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

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The Metrics of Social Scholarship

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Laura Cohen’s Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective: I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Jensen’s piece, The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority, published in The Chronicle on June 15. This is one of the best articles I’ve read about metrics that can … Continue reading →

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Keyboard shortcuts

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

From liquidicity, keyboard shortcuts for about every character key available on a Mac.

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Moving toward greater usefulness…

Posted on 2007-08-20 by scaife

from Inside Google Book Search: Today we launched a new feature for Book Search to help more people access the world’s great public domain works. Whenever you find an out-of-copyright book in our index, you’ll see a “View plain text” … Continue reading →

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More on openness and Google Books

Posted on 2007-08-17 by scaife

As a follow-up to Dan Cohen/s post yesterday in which he lamented the lack of an API to Google’s book digitization efforts, there’s further discussion today, in the form of an interview of Brewster Kahle by Andrew Richard Albanese, Scan … Continue reading →

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Learn a foreign language on the cheap

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

from Lifehacker: The No Thick Manuals wiki details how to learn a language efficiently using two free, open source applications. The first is jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool), a completely cross platform flash card application. The second is StarDict, a … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 2

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

In “Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?,” Dan Cohen provides some of his usual thoughtful and well-stated correctives to the latest anti-Google jeremiad making the rounds, Paul Duguid’s “Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books.” Complaining about the … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 1

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

I hadn’t realized until just now that Melissa Terras is writing in her own blog, but its very good to know. I’ve added her to the blogroll on the right under Digital Studies.

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