April 2011
9 posts
LOIC - Oh Internet →
“The world needs a generalized LOIC for archiving.”
Apr 28th
Cultural Data Project →
Researchin’. Shame this great name has been taken for software that helps you manage your operation, not particularly your data.
Apr 24th
Home | TPM PollTracker →
Apr 22nd
It’s All Semantic With the New Text-Processing API →
Golly!
Apr 21st
Mapping bibliographic record subfields to JSON «... →
MARC is slowly dying.
Apr 19th
Collaborative Manuscript Transcription: 2010: The... →
The world transcribes!
Apr 14th
Solarized - Ethan Schoonover →
Nice colour scheme. Will steal.
Apr 12th
Blog | chart.io →
Wow. Looks pretty good. JS/Python/SQL/charts!/graphs! In a browser!
Apr 6th
Tech Talk Podcast: Google's Library - NYTimes.com →
Bettina Edelstein, Miguel Helft talk about last week’s “collapse”.
Apr 1st
March 2011
10 posts
List of fictional toxins - Wikipedia, the free... →
Research for my rogue.
Mar 29th
Mainframes to Minis to Micros : Free Download &... →
“…very first episode of the Computer Chronicles, originally broadcast in September 1983.”
Mar 26th
Easy To Build Cabin Plans →
This page has a useful <title>.
Mar 20th
Reclaimed Wood Reclaimed Lumber Recycled Lumber... →
And this.
Mar 18th
Smithsonian Libraries: Save the Date! March 15 -... →
I’ve spent the last few days researching Nancy. Hoping for an interesting chat on Tuesday. And, there’ll be a webcast!
Mar 12th
Apache OpenNLP - Welcome to Apache OpenNLP →
Looking for something to throw at our books.
Mar 10th
EAMESLOFT.COM [][][] MID CENTURY MODERN →
Furniture.
Mar 7th
YouTube - Hate Comes to Orange County →
“One nation under god, not Allah.” “Never forget 9/11.” “You’re not welcome here. Go home.” “Terrorist.” “They’re telling me to go home, but I’m from Fullerton [CA].”
Mar 6th
OpenBiblio Principles | Open Bibliography and Open... →
Great stuff from OKFN. (Open Library advisor, Karen Coyle, is working on this too.)
Mar 4th
Ham, leek & potato pie recipe - Recipes - BBC Good... →
Ham lovers unite!
Mar 3rd
February 2011
7 posts
Matchmaker - Freebase →
Feb 28th
Communication Nation: The connected company →
Good thinking from Dave Gray. Companies are more organic than they were.
Feb 19th
IPad Makes Space in Japan's Tiny Homes by Removing... →
“People are taking matters in their own hands because the publishers are not meeting the market’s needs,” said Takagi.
Feb 11th
Spare Place :: Places to be used across the UK,... →
Drooling. Wish this was US too!
Feb 9th
Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch... →
About The Locker Project.
Feb 8th
Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive... →
Interesting. [via waxy]
Feb 3rd
Sapping Attention: Technical notes →
I love reading war stories by people messing about in big data!
Feb 2nd
January 2011
11 posts
All of Icelandic literature to go online? |... →
So exciting that IA is involved.
Jan 30th
Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest... →
Find out what’s going on.
Jan 29th
Inside the Wayback Machine with George Oates: Tech... →
Interview for GigaOm about our new redesign!
Jan 27th
A Report from Education Venture Fair on the State... →
Useful summary of the state of digital humanities investment/tech.
Jan 26th
Inside Story | Current affairs and culture →
Superb Australian source.
Jan 22nd
'Scanlators' freely translating 'manga,' 'anime' |... →
Found a new thing to get lost in.
Jan 12th
2010 Year In Review | www.hathitrust.org →
Ingesting content from IA, and apparently planning to make use of the IA open source Bookreader in 2011! (Be great if we could set up an exchange of content, rather than just one way.)
Jan 9th
The dispersal of Sylvia Beach's books - Rare Book... →
“When Sylvia Beach died in 1962, relict in her apartment were books, business papers, correspondence, photographs, paintings, and literary memorabilia.”
Jan 8th
Pop-up arts tearooms bring people together in... →
Superb.
Jan 5th
YouTube - Alberto Manguel - A Reader on Reading -... →
Enjoying these interviews with Manguel courtesy of Blackwell.
Jan 2nd
Books in Browsers (#BiB10) – Presentations &... →
Good summary of our October meeting.
Jan 1st
December 2010
19 posts
8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear... →
For when you’re having a bad day.
Dec 31st
The cultural genome: Google Books reveals traces... →
Review of the article in Science.
Dec 17th
Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB - MongoDB →
Reference.
Dec 16th
Mark Twain Project :: Literary Works ::... →
“With web-only textual apparatus.”
Dec 10th
Free California Topo Maps →
Researching a grant. Historic topo maps connected to journals and diaries of early pioneers? That’d be cool.
Dec 10th
Mark Twain Project :: Letters :: SLC to Olivia L.... →
Sort of gobsmacked at the level of detail of the Mark Twain project. All his papers are held at the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.
Dec 10th
Flamenco Demos →
(Semi)Automatic Creation of Facet Hierarchies
Dec 10th
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources →
Poking at this for a project/grant.
Dec 10th
24 ways: Extreme Design →
Useful summary of the /dev/fort/ I wish I could attend from Hannah D.
Dec 10th
Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky →
Shirky. Wikileaks.
Dec 7th
Go To Hellman: Biblio-Social Objects: Copia,... →
Good stuff from Eric. Right questions.
Dec 5th
Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With... →
Hoping to find ways to make Internet Archive’s huge text repository more accessible.
Dec 5th
Selfish vs Social: Open Bookmarks and Casual... →
James! Don’t stop being AWESOME.
Dec 4th