By way of boingboing, as usual, I discovered an unbelievable example of how image repositories and the study of literature are made for one another. John Anzalone, professor of French at Skidmore College, in collaboration with the Tom Hickerson and Katherine Regan (from Special Collections in the Cornell University Library) have created an [...]
Archive for June, 2006
Freaks, Monsters, & Prodigies: an Image Database for Literary Studies
Published by June 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized. 6 CommentsFred Stutzman, manager of the Lyceum project and co-founder of claimID.com, has an excellent post about five huge social networking sites. Despite frequent assumptions that Web 2.0’s social networking is always already a global phenomenon, the five sites listed in this article suggest how such sites align themselves along national lines. For [...]
This article looks back at the Washington Post’s ten year relationship to the online publishing world, arguing that not until quite recently has the MSM started imagining the full potential of online publishing -with a little help from the blogosphere no doubt.
Big guns such as the Associated Press’s chief executive, Tom Curley, have admitted that [...]
Interesting article in WSJ about Craigslist turning its nose up at half a billion dollars in advertising revenue.
Craigslist’s obstinate insistence on giving away what newspapers have made their bread and butter has gotten the company a lot of media attention. Many newspaper executives see something sinister in Craigslist’s near-total lack of avariciousness — Are those [...]
I had mentioned that I would further detail the steps of setting up a MySQL database for Lyceum for those of you that may be unfamiliar with the process. Keep in mind, however, that the following steps assume that you have a web hosting service with CPanel.
The part of the config file where you [...]
DAMS: thinking the future of scholarship digitally
Published by June 16th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsUpdate: For a nice overview of Digital Asset Management Systems on college campuses check out the recent article in Campus Technology. Thanks Andy!
Well, I have been away from bavatuesdays for a while now, and I have been beating myself up for not blogging regularly. At least until I remembered that I have, [...]
Recent comments