Delighted we are hosting a conference on how to enable and pursue digital scholarship, a joint effort of the Northeastern University Library, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Coalition for Networked Information.
Delighted we are hosting a conference on how to enable and pursue digital scholarship, a joint effort of the Northeastern University Library, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Coalition for Networked Information.
All of these phishing scams are going to make it hard for me when I actually need my staff to send me Amazon gift cards.
“Has the emergence of facial recognition technology proven that surveillance technology has finally gone too far? This conference @Northeastern will explore the encompassing regulatory, legal and human implications in facial recognition technology.”
Alyssa Loyless on how to create a highly detailed model of York Minster cathedral through digitization, Adobe Illustrator, and papercraft. So clever.
For the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, I spoke with @KyleKCourtney, legal scholar @Northeastern and copyright advisor @Harvard, about how the Web forever changed the way we access and share creative works, on the latest What’s New podcast.
My daughter is trying to convince me that I’m a robot
Finished a book chapter and a couple of long-ish blog posts this week and, as always, it feels good to be writing at length.
“Robin Sloan’s Fusion of Technology and Humanity”—in which I look at why @robinsloan abandoned a first draft of his novel Sourdough, and what that tells us about the intersection of the artisanal and the digital, technoskepticism and cyberenthusiasm.
I’m eating ice cream straight from the container and my daughter just asked me if I was going through a bad breakup.
“Presidential Libraries and the Digitization of Our Lives”—My deep dive into the analog and digital record of several presidencies, including the Obama Center/Library, and how they reflect the quieter changes to our personal record over recent decades.
Our last two dogs were dachshunds, so Belle’s legs are hilarious
Read an abandoned draft of the 1st chapter of @robinsloan’s novel Sourdough and have some thoughts about why he decided to rework it, largely due to what he wanted to explore at the intersection of the artisanal and the digital. Might be worth an artisanal, digital blog post.
On the latest What’s New podcast, “How College Students Get the News,” we dig into the fascinating results of a recently released large study of the news consumption habits of college students. Featuring @alisonjhead and @wihbey —tune in!
We’ve got a little room left for those who would like to attend the @cni_org/@ARLnews Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop, but please register over the next week as we plan to close registration soon. Join a great group of attendees and institutions!
“Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking” — my review of @kfitz’s important new book on how the university should and must become more integrated with, and helpful to, the world beyond its gates.
Let’s ditch our smartphones for phones from 1983
Start of the 2019 baseball season! @RedSox vs. @Northeastern
.@davidlazer tracked down a representative sample of 16,000 Twitter users from across the political spectrum and recreated their tweet streams from the fall of 2016. How many sketchy news sources did they see and share? Listen on the latest What’s New.
There’s a good section in Linda Colley’s Britons, for instance, on how early 18th-century Brits often went no farther than about 10 miles from their home town. Opportunity went 28 miles from its landing site.
Opportunity traveled farther on Mars during its lifetime than most people traveled from their birthplace before the 19th century.
I believe my puppy is now teething
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to last week’s @podcastwhatsnew, “Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths,” please give it a stream. Margaret Burnham is remarkable, as is her Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project.
With the addition of a letterpress lab, an exhibit on tactile writing systems, our wide variety of digital humanities projects, and research around hard OCR problems, I’m really excited about the constellation of work around technologies of reading/writing here @Northeastern.
I’ve been introducing my new dog to other dogs in the neighborhood, but her favorite new friend is a long-haired panda. 14/10 didn’t know you could have a panda for a pet
