Also came across this new book entitled Blown to Bits that some of you may already be familiar with, if so I would be interested in your comments. Likewise Prof. Cohen I would be very interested in your thoughts. Is it a little bit of hyperbole on the part of the authors or are they [...]
Archive for October, 2008
And while we are on the subject…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Twitter or Not
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just when you thought it could not get any crazier, check out this article from the most recent Wired entitled Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists. Is it me or is this merry-go-around called life in the 21st century getting faster and more weird by the week.
Alan
Story in Today’s NYT
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Buried inthe back section of today’s NYT, more about the chap that Professor Cohen told us about running Five Thirty Eight.com and others of his ilk .
Political Polling Sites Are in a Race of Their Own
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/politics/28pollsite.html?ref=politics
Alan
Open Book comparisons
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was a very interesting project for me having never ever really spent time on either of these two databases. I supposed being somewhat of an old book person I went in with a certain amount of prejudice and reservation about what I expected to find. To my complete surprise I was genuinely impressed with [...]
Interesting Talk Last Night
Posted in Uncategorized on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I thought that last night’s discussion about copyright was extremely interesting and I think we have only begun to scrap the surface of this issue and what the future holds for all of us. On that note I have included a link to a newly released RAND study entitled Embracing the Future – Embedding digital [...]
Proposed Digital Historical Resource
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
From Alan C.
1. In the early pages of Richard Wright’s seminal work Native Son, published in 1940, he has two of the main characters, Bigger and Gus, talking about what it must be like to fly, more specifically what it would be like if African-Americans were allowed to learn to fly. Within two years the first [...]
What is Web 2.0 Article
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following the discussion in class Monday night about Web 2.0 I was interested to see if I could find a real basic comparison chart between 1.0 and 2.0 – for that segment of society that feels ’sorta kinda’ comfortable with technology but needs some basic pointers to help keep us on the straight and narrow [...]
Very Interesting Article in latest Scientific American
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I read this article entitiled Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect our Future over the weekend in the latest issue of Scientific American. I can see that we are heading into some interesting waters over the next few years. Along with the article I would also recommend the latest Masterpiece Contemporary series that started running on [...]
