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DH 2010, day three

Posted on July 10, 2010 by johnl

Not such an early start, so I missed Joshua Sternfeld’s talk on Digital Historiography. Annoying, but a sign of a good conference is that there’s too much of interest rather than too little. For me, the important presentation in the … Continue reading →

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DH 2010, day two

Posted on July 9, 2010 by johnl

I really don’t do mornings. But somehow I got to Kings on time (8.30!) and started work watching over the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) session in the bowels of the Strand building. Errands meant I only heard the first of … Continue reading →

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DH 2010, day one

Posted on July 7, 2010 by johnl

For the next few days I’m a student assistant at Digital Humanities 2010, doing a bit of everything, from giving directions to waving microphones under people’s noses The first day of the conference proper (there’s been many associated events in … Continue reading →

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Two Gnus: The Gnu Project and the Gnu GPL

Posted on July 5, 2010 by johnl

For the next Decoding Digital Humanities meeting, I’d like to propose reading two fundamental documents of the free software movement, Richard Stallman’s Gnu Project and the Gnu GPL (General Public License). These texts build on the last meeting’s reading of … Continue reading →

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Murdoch redux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by johnl

Following on from my previous post, some news: The British Library has backed down from digitising and putting online out of copyright editions of the Times. This raises serious questions about its whole mission: are they resigned to the irreplaceable … Continue reading →

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The Enclosure of the Historical Commons (2): Murdoch Junior

Posted on May 26, 2010 by johnl

Last week James Murdoch spoke at the launch of UCL’s new Centre for Digital Humanities. Quite why they invited him I don’t know, for he appears to have no idea of what the Digital Humanities are. That said, his speech … Continue reading →

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Money the measure of all things

Posted on April 29, 2010 by johnl

Despite currently studying at Kings College London, I haven’t been involved in the campaigns against the cuts in higher education in the U.K. Partly this is due to a lack of time, but also because I’ve been burnt out by … Continue reading →

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Alchemy and Economy

Posted on March 30, 2010 by johnl

Due to overwhelming popular demand *cough* I mean, as I had a couple of requests for it at Christopher Moses’ talk on Money Matters at the IHR a few weeks back, I’m posting the PDF of an essay I wrote … Continue reading →

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London Lives, Plebian Lives

Posted on February 17, 2010 by johnl

A few weeks ago I went to a presentation of the London Lives project, held by the Long 18th Century seminar at the IHR. This ambitious undertaking aims to integrate the records of some of London’s major organizations – among … Continue reading →

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94th anniversary of the Cabaret Voltaire

Posted on February 5, 2010 by johnl

“The place was jammed; many people could not find a seat. At about six in the evening, while we were still busy hammering and putting up futuristic posters, an Oriental-looking deputation of four little men arrived, with portfolios and pictures … Continue reading →

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