“#Ask4Stuff is a new, Twitter-based service that returns a WorldCat search when you send a tweet with the tag #Ask4Stuff. So if you send the following tweet: #Ask4Stuff lake erie shipwreck
You’ll get a tweet back that says something like:@YOURNAME A few things about lake erie shipwreck in #Ask4Stuff, check out http://is.gd/cY7gi”
“Mr. Kushler [, the inventor of T9,] thinks he has a solution once again. His new technology, which he developed with a fellow research scientist, Randy Marsden, is called Swype, and it allows users to glide a finger across the virtual keyboard to spell words, rather than tapping out each letter. [Watch a demonstration of Swype on YouTube.com]”
“Traffic to the Cheezburger blog has ballooned over the last three years, encouraging Mr. Huh to expand his unlikely Web empire to include 53 sites, all fueled by submissions from readers.”
“From his office here, a doctor asks a woman on the computer screen before him one final question: Are you ready to take your pill? Then, with a click of his mouse, a modified cash register drawer pops open in front of the woman seated next to a nurse in a clinic — perhaps 100 miles from this city — with mifepristone, the medicine formerly known as RU-486, that is meant to end her pregnancy.”
“The resulting videos don’t look or feel like typical college lectures or any of the lecture videos that traditional colleges put on their Web sites or YouTube channels. For one thing, these lectures are short—about 10 minutes each. And they’re low-tech: Viewers see only the scrawls of equations or bad drawings that Mr. Khan writes on his digital sketchpad software as he narrates.”
“Les professionnels ont remarqués que le Huffington Post, qui vient de fêter son cinquième anniversaire, est sur le point de dépasser le site du New York Times en trafic et devrait bientôt le rattraper en revenus. C’est une excellente illustration de comment fonctionnent les technologies perturbatrices…”
“Grâce à l’argent qu’il gagne le HuffPo peut maintenant améliorer sa qualité. Il engage plus de journalistes et vient de créer une fondation pour financer le journalisme d’investigation.”
“Jobs compared traditional computers and tablets to cars and trucks by saying most people will eventually only need tablets while some would still need the added utility of a PC”
“Can a new research library be all digital? How much does it cost a library to preserve a codex? What do large-scale text-digitizing projects mean for scholarship in the humanities? Those are driving questions behind a new report, “The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship,” released today by the Council on Library and Information Resources.”
“As grunts in Stanford University’s new Literature Lab, these students investigate the evolution of literary style by teaming up like biologists and using computer programs to “read” an entire library.”
“It’s a controversial vision for changing a field still steeped in individual readers’ careful analyses of texts. And it could become a more common way of doing business in the humanities as millions of books are made machine-readable through new tools like Google’s digital library. History, literature, language studies: For any discipline where research focuses on books, some experts say, academe is at a computational crossroads.”
“[Google] has digitized over 12 million books in over 300 languages, more than 10 percent of all the books printed since Gutenberg.”
“ A proposed settlement he negotiated with authors and publishers would permit the use of millions of in-copyright works owned by universities for “nonconsumptive” computational research, meaning large-scale data analysis that is not focused on reading texts. Mr. Clancy would turn over the keys to his bookshop, plus $5-million, to one or two centers created for this work—the centers that Stanford and others hope to host.”
“Hacking the Academy, an edited volume about academe in the digital age, was compiled from blog posts and Twitter messages posted during a single week. The project was organized by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, of George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media, as an experiment meant to challenge the conventional university-press system.”
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