{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Dan Cohen", "icon": "https://micro.blog/dancohen/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://social.dancohen.org/", "feed_url": "https://social.dancohen.org/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/03/06/my-friends-at.html", "content_html": "
My friends at the the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning at CUNY Grad Center are looking for a new Assistant Director for Digital Projects, great position with great people, might be you!
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-06T12:54:24-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/03/06/my-friends-at.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/02/28/how-much-does.html", "content_html": "How much does it cost to save a book for 100 years, or forever? What about a web page? I look at hidden long-term preservation issues for cultural artifacts, print and digital, in the new issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity. Plus: Apple’s vision (not the Vision Pro)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-28T10:24:54-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/02/28/how-much-does.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/02/27/new-issue-of.html", "content_html": "New issue of my newsletter: “Apple’s Vision + The Cost of Forever” — revisiting the original design documents for the Macintosh computer to understand why we’re in a love/hate relationship with Apple, and a comparison of how much it costs to save a book and a web page forever.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-27T17:10:49-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/02/27/new-issue-of.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/02/23/just-a-test.html", "content_html": "Just a test to check federation from good ol’ social.dancohen.org to @dan@social.dancohen.org on ActivityPub/Fediverse/Mastodon and @social.dancohen.org on AT protocol/Bluesky.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T13:04:19-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/02/23/just-a-test.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/01/17/rwandas-franc-note.html", "content_html": "Rwanda’s 500 franc note still has the One Laptop Per Child XO on it.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-17T21:35:09-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/01/17/rwandas-franc-note.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2024/01/15/new-issue-of.html", "content_html": "New issue of my newsletter is out: “The Power Broker at 50” — why Robert Caro’s book The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York remains vital for understanding how power is acquired, used, and preserved. I hope you’ll give it a read.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-15T17:37:32-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2024/01/15/new-issue-of.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/12/21/new-issue-of.html", "content_html": "New issue of my newsletter is out: “Humane Ingenuity 49: Style and Personality” — on the small but important difference between these two expressive notions. Also: refreshing the design of a library.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-12-21T15:35:54-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/12/21/new-issue-of.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/11/23/once-again-thankgiving.html", "content_html": "Once again Thankgiving is the start of our winemaking. This year we are making Syrah, Pinot Noir, a Malbec/Syrah blend, a Pinot Noir rosé, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. Grapes look nice!
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-23T10:38:04-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/11/23/once-again-thankgiving.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/10/05/guilty-as-charged.html", "content_html": "Guilty as charged
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-10-05T19:56:52-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/10/05/guilty-as-charged.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/10/03/a-sweet-story.html", "content_html": "A sweet story about a son finding something special in a book his late mother gave him 20 years ago: “It Happened Through a Book”
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-03T19:32:34-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/10/03/a-sweet-story.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/09/16/173416.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-09-16T16:34:16-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/09/16/173416.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/09/09/085307.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2023-09-09T07:53:07-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/09/09/085307.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/09/06/northeastern-university-is.html", "content_html": "Northeastern University is celebrating its 125th year, and it was an honor to speak about our library at Convocation this evening
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-09-06T21:37:41-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/09/06/northeastern-university-is.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/09/06/the-northeastern-university.html", "content_html": "The Northeastern University Library is hiring a Text Mining Specialist — I think this is a really interesting position in our growing, innovative library. Please apply if this sounds like you!
\n", "date_published": "2023-09-06T10:22:14-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/09/06/the-northeastern-university.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/08/17/this-essay-by.html", "content_html": "This essay by Dan Bouk, which asks “Is it possible to train students to use something like ChatGPT in a manner that is appropriate? Or right? Or ethical? Or, most fundamentally, good?” is appropriate, right, ethical, and good.
\n", "date_published": "2023-08-17T08:52:29-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/08/17/this-essay-by.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/08/16/new-issue-of.html", "content_html": "New issue of my newsletter is out: “Humane Ingenuity 48: Reading and Writing” — With the new school year coming, my letter to students about using AI bots to write; an update on a lawsuit I wrote about earlier this year in The Atlantic; professorial blogs.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-08-16T10:28:06-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/08/16/new-issue-of.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/07/10/ai-models-are.html", "content_html": "AI models are now ingesting scholarly content in an attempt to dispel their hallucinations. But another possibility looms: that AI will instead drag down scholarship into its muddy realm. A new essay on my newsletter: “AI Is Coming for Scholarship Next”
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-07-10T10:36:14-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/07/10/ai-models-are.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/05/15/bottled-this-years.html", "content_html": "Bottled this year’s rosés over the weekend. Made from pinot noir grapes using a Rhône yeast. We also did malolactic fermentation. Love the color. Will open the first bottle on the 4th of July!
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-15T12:17:59-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/05/15/bottled-this-years.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/05/07/northeastern-undergraduate-commencement.html", "content_html": "Northeastern undergraduate commencement, Fenway Park
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-07T15:19:52-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/05/07/northeastern-undergraduate-commencement.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/05/07/glorious-weather-at.html", "content_html": "Glorious weather at Fenway Park for @Northeastern commencement, grad students this morning
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-05-07T09:15:41-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/05/07/glorious-weather-at.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/05/03/we-have-an.html", "content_html": "We have an exciting opening for a new Associate Director of our Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library—join us!
\n", "date_published": "2023-05-03T15:05:48-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/05/03/we-have-an.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/04/21/i-will-be.html", "content_html": "I will be making brief remarks at the beginning of the conference on the state of generative AI, and the panels that follow are going to be great.
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-21T08:17:13-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/04/21/i-will-be.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/04/21/a-little-last.html", "content_html": "A little last minute, but you can tune into @Northeastern’s @NUlabTMN spring conference on a critical topic, “Generative AI: Creative Potentials and Ethical Responsibilities,” in 30 minutes, at 9:45am EDT, all are welcome just register at this link
\n", "date_published": "2023-04-21T08:15:06-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/04/21/a-little-last.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/04/20/love-the-monogram.html", "content_html": "Love the monogram of Jane Lumley (1537-1578), Renaissance scholar and translator blogs.bl.uk/digitised…
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-20T08:11:01-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/04/20/love-the-monogram.html" }, { "id": "http://dancohen.micro.blog/2023/04/19/according-to-the.html", "content_html": "According to the Washington Post, my website, dancohen.org, ranks #181,339 out of 15 million websites that were crawled to create the training set for many AI text tools. 120K words from my blog/newsletter are evidently swimming around in those chatbots.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2023-04-19T15:45:38-05:00", "url": "https://social.dancohen.org/2023/04/19/according-to-the.html" } ] }