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Digital Platforms and the Future of Books January 20 & 21, Smathers Library, Room 1A As cultural and intellectual discourse becomes digitized at an ever-accelerating rate, what will become of books? According to several prominent literary theorists...
I haven’t participated in any #ds106 assignments for sometime. Lame, I know. Anyway, the Picturing Prufrock assignment caught my attention. The assignment asked that you choose an image from T.S. Eliotās poemĀ āThe Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufr...
The past few weeks of my digital research seminar has been spent trying to define the digital humanities and the role English academics can play in this hybrid field. Most of the us in the class have little technical experience with digital medi...
{code=poetry}; In Loss Pequeno Glazierās article “Code as Language” he argues that code is a language because it is a technology of representational inscription that is dependent upon expressive ācombinations and patternsā to c...
I’ve been thinking about online communities and social networks since Google+ rolled out. Since I signed up for an account, I’ve been searching and sorting through contacts to enjoy the potential Google+ promises. This process has been time...
I’m still working with DoD’s Operation Enduring Freedom data. Here, I decided to plot the number of soldier causalities by home state using Processing. The tutorial I’m following is from Ben Fry’s book Visualizing Data. The map ...
So, I’ve been playing around with Gephi for a few weeks, following several examples from OUseful.Info, the blog and the Gephi tutorials page.Ā I’ve been wanting to create visualizations of my social networks and until now I haven’t ha...
I’ve been toying around withĀ Gephi an open source visualization platform for a project I’m involved with. I wasn’t getting anywhere with it, until I ran across Tony Hirst’s tutorial:Ā Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Usin...
I found an alternative to the Firefox DownloadHelper extension and YoutubeDownloader. While both of these extensions are useful. I really like the Youtube-dl command-line program to download Youtube videos. I recently started to explore Python programm...
I created a data set for the lyrics of Arcade Fire’s 2004 album Funeral. Try it for yourself: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/ http://www-958.ibm.com/v/92007
After completing yesterday’s Daily Shoot assignment, I decided to try a little light writing photography. I’ve been a fan of light writing photography for some time, but never experimented with it. I used a laser light (cat toy) to outline ...
It was this back and forth internal dialogue that finally decided what the hell, why not give ds106 a try. I'm a grown up. I can take a little public shame and humiliation. As such, here is my 30 second story.
In April of 2004, 60 Minutes II and journalist Seymour Hersh published photographs taken by soldiers from the U.S. Armyās 372nd Military Police Company at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The photographs included images of smiling American soldiers flashin...