Great article in today’s (March 8, 2011) Inside Higher Ed. “Twitter Fortifies Nest” discusses how recent changes in the Twitter API may make it more difficult for interested scholars to (I stole this next bit from the article) access the “valuable trove containing shreds of the collective diary of 21st-century humanity.” Anyway, if you are [...]
Whatever we’re doing with smartphones, we aren’t doing enough. We finally have a ubiquitous computing device that everyone seems to have, and seems to use as functional extensions of the brain and fingers.
Its been a while. In fact its been six months. I only have so much writing in me and I’ve spent the summer preparing, and the fall teaching, a course through Johns Hopkins online Museum Studies Program. The course is entitled The Management of Technology in Museums. Its really a boot camp in museum technology [...]
Had an e-mail from my brother this morning. He asked a pointed question: “What the bloody hell is a metadatum?” Good question. I never thought about it in the singular before. Anyway, inspiration struck as I struggled to answer him, so I thought I would share it for anyone trying to explain to their own [...]
The dust from this week’s “amazonfail” brouhaha has settled, but the issue at stake hasn’t been. There’s a very good analysis at Bookoven and another at Techcrunch. But the best I’ve seen is on Vroman’s (the legendary Pasadena bookstore) blog: By now, you’ve probably heard all you care to hear about Amazon’s incredibly stupid decision [...]
Researchers in the School of Computing at Dundee are leading the £1.4 million project to develop new systems of image-based retrieval. These are systems which work like a sophisticated visual version of text-based search engines, using pictures instead of words to seek out new images.
I was doodling around the iPhone site this morning. This was for research purposes only, since the iPhone still (ahem!) isn’t available in Israel. You can get a sim-less version for about $650, or hack an American one, but no carrier in Israel has yet signed on with Apple. Anyway, I was poking around the [...]
Periodically, one or other of the listservs that I subscribe to receives a post requesting technology strategic planning help – ostensibly they want to see what everyone else is writing. The request is followed by a spate of similar requests, everyone hoping that someone else is going to send that magical document that they just [...]
If you’ve read my post The Big One, you’ll know that I suffer from Post Traumatic Data Loss Disorder and am obsessive compulsive about backing up. So, news over the Christmas break of the disaster at Journal Space hit home hard and is a cautionary note to all relying on purely mirroring as their backup [...]
Forget browsing the web from your computer and clicking those links. Forget HTTP. OK, that’s a bit melodramatic, but to combat the web’s high entry barrier for the developing world, which would be literacy and a computer, IBM in India is developing what they are calling the Spoken Web for the nearly 300 million Indians [...]
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