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July 31, 2005
HerBlog
The feminine blogstique
Santa Clara forum focuses on closing journal gender gap
- Carrie Kirby, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, July 30, 2005
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/30/ MNGD2E0IPP1.DTL
Blogging is supposed to be democratizing the world of information, empowering the individual.
And it is -- especially for male individuals.
In this fast-growing community of people using the Internet to self- publish journals on a broad range of topics, half of all bloggers are women, according to surveys. Yet the most popular blogs are created overwhelmingly by men.
The top 10 blogs, ranked according to the number of other Web sites linking to them by the Web site Technorati, are created by 23 men and only four women. At conferences for bloggers, female writers find themselves in a very small minority, attendees say. And so, like in many social movements before this, women are gathering to do something about it.
Three Bay Area bloggers -- Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort and Jory DesJardins -- are holding a conference today in Santa Clara in an effort to raise women's prominence in the blogosphere. The BlogHer conference started with -- what else? -- a blog, where the organizers posted ideas for the event. Feedback from other bloggers quickly materialized.
The resulting event is as much about community building and sharing skills as it is about getting attention.
"This is a conference that the community built," said Camahort. For example, two rooms at the event are given over to sessions conceived, organized and run by the participants themselves. Sessions in these rooms include "Feminist Hip-Hop Bloggers," "Blogs in Academia" and "MommyBlogging."
The conference maxed out its capacity with 300 registrants, 85 percent of whom are women, the organizers said. Half of them hail from outside the Bay Area. A few will come from as far as Europe.
These women have blogged about feminism, politics, business and technology. They've blogged about their innermost thoughts, their children's antics and -- although this has caused problems for many -- their jobs.
Some women involved in the conference write informative blogs, such as Forrester analyst Charlene Li's blog about new gadgets and the latest technology research. A number of the participants write blogs as a paid marketing service for clients. Some write blogs that are largely unquotable in a daily paper because of obscene language and content. Believe it or not, a lot of the more profane blogs fall into the "MommyBlog" category.
Conference blog
Participants have even blogged extensively about today's conference, discussing what should be talked about, mulling the event's significance, sharing information about local baby-sitting services, and yes -- wondering what to wear.
"Women dress to impress other women," mused Meghan Townsend, a panelist for the MommyBlogging discussion, in a recent blog entry.
"What the hell does one wear when hobnobbing with hundreds of witty savvy women from all over the freaking globe?"
After all this writing, reading and linking, is there anything left to talk about?
Plenty, from a look at today's schedule of discussions. One session, "How to Be Naked," addresses how blogs are "recalibrating our definition of personal." Participants will talk about how they cope when online confessions upset family members, or when strangers post "flames," or angry comments, about the bloggers' very personal decisions. One panelist in that discussion, Heather Armstrong (www.dooce.com), was the recipient of a surfeit of flames when she wrote about weaning her then 6-month-old baby because she was taking antidepressants.
Meeting an online friend
For many participants, the conference is a chance to bring electronic relationships into the nondigital world. Miriam Verburg, a college student from Montreal who writes a blog called the Flink (www.flinknet.com/theflink/), is staying with a local conference volunteer whom she has never met offline. During her trip, she's also staying with a blogger in San Francisco that she became friends with through mutual blog commenting.
Verburg raised eyebrows when she told a border guard she would be staying with friends she met online.
"To him, meeting someone on the Internet seems really risky," Verburg said. "But to me, it's like meeting someone who lives down the street."
Verburg is not the only attendee who's getting help from online friends, said organizer Camahort.
"I know one person who got Paypal donations and frequent-flier-mile donations," to make the trip, Camahort said.
Verburg was able to attend the conference for free because she volunteered to organize an important part of the event: the bloggers. Each session will be recorded and posted to the Internet as it happens, with both audio and text, by "live bloggers." Since registration for the event is closed, this is the only way that many will get to experience it.
E-mail Carrie Kirby at ckirby@sfchronicle.com.
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July 25, 2005
Wikis
Confluence
- http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/default.jsp
Courseforum / Projectforum
- http://www.projectforum.com/
HyperOffice
- http://www.hyperoffice.com/
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July 24, 2005
Wikis
CoolPac : College of Agriculture, Common First Year Course
http://herring.cc.gatech.edu/coolpac
- check out reflection section
CoWeb :
http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315
Both of these are Swiki, nee Squeak,
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July 23, 2005
CFP: History in the (Net)work
Call for Papers / Call for Sessions
.hist 2006: Geschichte im Netz - Praxis, Chancen, Visionen
.hist 2006: History in the Net(work) -- Practices, Possibilities,
Visions
Deadline for CfP: 4 September 2005
Conference will take place from 22 to 24 February 2006
The German history internet project Clio-online
the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, is pleased to announce
the conference .hist 2006: History in the Net(work) -- Practices,
Possibilities, Visions. The aim of the conference is to examine the
growing importance of new media for historical scholarship in both
senses of the word "network": as a technical infrastructure enabling
new forms of interaction, of research, of communication, and of
publication; and as the harbinger of a new form of social and
scholarly space, which, through adaption, experience, and practice,
is beginning to displace the old.
The conference will continue the dialog between historians,
archivists, librarians, and other persons working and thinking at the
juncture between history and new media begun three years ago during
the conference .hist 2003. It seeks to act as a forum to examine the
best practice models, present the newest technical developments, and,
most importantly, to reflect on the state of the art.
Working languages of the conference are English and German. Papers
can be presented in either language but, due to cost considerations,
simultaneous translation cannot be provided.
The full Call for papers (in German) can be found on our homesite,
For more information, please contact:
Max Voegler
voeglerm@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Projektkoordinator, Clio-online
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tel. ++49 (30) 2093 2541
Fax ++49 (30) 2093 2544
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July 22, 2005
Marc Carlson's Clothing of Middle Ages
Some Clothing of the Middle Ages
Marc Carlson's incomparable site with drawings of extant garments and fragments.
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Extant Clothing, Virtue
Some extant clothing of the middle ages (photos)
Cynthia Virtue's Extant Clothing of the Middle Ages site.
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July 21, 2005
Learning with Weblogs: An Empirical Investigation
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2005.387
Abstract
The study investigates the impact of weblog use on individual learning in a university environment.
Weblogs are a relatively new knowledge sharing technology, which enables people to record their thoughts in diary form and publish those diaries as web pages, without programming or HTML coding. The research sought to empirically determine whether the keeping of on-going (web based) learning logs throughout a semester would result in better overall student performance. This was hypothesized, because web based learning logs appear to promote constructivist learning, provide reinforcement, and increase accountability (non-anonymous idea sharing). Results from an information systems undergraduate course with 31 students indicate that weblog performance is a significant predictor for learning outcome, while traditional coursework is not. Weblogs appear to have highest predictive power for high and low performing students, but much less predictive value for medium performers. Results also suggest that there is a learning effect for weblog authoring.
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July 20, 2005
photomuse (eastman photography museum)
PHOTOMUSE.org - ICP GEH
George Eastman House and International Center of Photography Alliance, NYC, are creating an online photo musuem to provide thousands of images.
Posted by hag at 9:22 AM
July 19, 2005
unheard beethoven
MIDI versions of unpublished/unrecorded works of Beethoven. Clunky, but interesting.
Posted by hag at 2:23 PM
July 14, 2005
podcast with quicktime
Apple - QuickTime - Tutorials - Podcasting
Posted by hag at 4:09 PM
podcast with garageband
Apple - Support - GarageBand - Recording Your Podcast
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Article: GIS use examples
APPA
Several examples of GIS use at universities for planning, amnagement and communication
Posted by hag at 9:41 AM
July 13, 2005
conference: social software
Missed the Social Software in the Academy conference.
SSAW Program
Some good topics:
Panel: A Conversation on Social Software and Traditional Scholarly Communication
Panel: Pandora’s Blog? What Happens When College Students Take to Social Software in the Classroom
Mary Ellen Bertolini, Middlebury College
Barbara Ganley, Middlebury College
Piya Kashyap, Middlebury College
Eugene Lee, Middlebury College
Paper: Using Weblogs for Collaborative Research
Session III: Renovating the Ivory Tower: Blogs and Wikis in Academic Practice
Paper: Experiments in Backchannel
Discussion: Blogging the Degree: The Value of Blogs for Research, Information Sharing, and Community Building in the Academy
Session III: Renovating the Ivory Tower: Blogs and Wikis in Academic Practice
Discussion: Wikis for Academic Research: Collaboration and Coordination
Discussion: Social Software Meets Campus Life
Paper: Blogging Together: Digital Expression in a Real-Life Academic Community
The Learning Portal Project at Emerson College
Mediabase
The Practice of Wiki: Challenges of Academic Collaboration
Scape: The Socially Connected Academic Peer Exchange
Connexions: Social Software for Scholarly Publishing
A Juxtaposition of Technologies: VUE, PurpleSlurple, Wikalong, & Del.icio.us
Subversive Social Interfaces: The Wiki and Beyond
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AIIM, ECMS content management
ECMS may be directed to business solutions, but this site has many of the same issues/technologies that digital libraries and collections have:
Posted by hag at 8:50 AM
July 12, 2005
Article: Musical Hallucinations
Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod - New York Times
The results support recent work by neuroscientists indicating that our brains use special networks of neurons to perceive music. When sounds first enter the brain, they activate a region near the ears called the primary auditory cortex that starts processing sounds at their most basic level. The auditory cortex then passes on signals of its own to other regions, which can recognize more complex features of music, like rhythm, key changes and melody.
For most people, these spontaneous signals may produce nothing more than a song that is hard to get out of the head. But the constant stream of information coming in from the ears suppresses the false music.
Dr. Griffith proposes that deafness cuts off this information stream. And in a few deaf people the music-seeking circuits go into overdrive. They hear music all the time, and not just the vague murmurs of a stuck tune. It becomes as real as any normal perception.
Posted by hag at 9:26 AM
July 11, 2005
NORA: data mining humanities texts
the nora project - project description
" The goal of the nora project is to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries."
The goal of the nora project is to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries.
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ETS ICT assessment test
ETS's ICT literacy assessment which
ICT - About the ETS Literacy Assessment for Information Technology and Digital Communication
"The ICT Literacy Assessment is a comprehensive test of ICT proficiency specifically designed for the higher education environment. It uses scenario-based assignments to assess all the ICT skills required of today's higher education students - not just knowledge of technology, but the ability to use critical-thinking skills to solve problems within a technological environment:
Define
Access
Integrate
Manage
Evaluate
Create
Communicate
Purports to measure problem-solving skills but privileges web(library)+MSOffice skill set, which is OK, but rather limited
mentioned: web searches, database searches, word processing, spreadsheets, graphs, presentations slides
not mentioned: blogs, wikis (how to manage shared communication environments), creating images or video
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ETD Bibliography
DigitalKoans � Blog Archive � Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Bibliography
Posted by hag at 11:17 AM
CFP: WWW2006
WWW2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
Fifteenth International World Wide Web
Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006.
http://www2006.org/
The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, special interest tracks, plenary
sessions, panels, and poster sessions. Tutorials and workshops will run before and throughout the conference. A Developers track, devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for web developers, will run in parallel throughout the conference.
The conference will also be running a programme of high-level, non-technical presentations for professionals in media, government, education and commerce to inform and debate the issues relating to the latest Web technology developments.
REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the web. Topics include but are not limited to:
# E* Applications: E-Communities, E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Science, E-Government and E-Humanities
# Browsers and User Interfaces
# Data Mining
# Hypermedia and Multimedia
# Performance, Reliability and Scalability
# Pervasive Web and Mobility
# Search
# Security, Privacy, and Ethics
# Semantic Web
# Web Engineering
# XML and Web Services
# Industrial Practice and Experience (Alternate track)
# Developing Regions (Alternate track)
Detailed descriptions of each of these tracks appear at
http://www2006.org/tracks/
Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.
New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging
future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. Accepted position papers will be presented at the conference and appear in the
proceedings. Both "regular papers" and "position papers" are subject to the same rigorous reviewing process, but the emphasis may differ
--- regular papers should present significant reproducible results while position papers may present preliminary work rich in implications for future research.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via
http://www2006.org/. Authors of all accepted papers will be required to transfer copyright to the IW3C2.
POSTERS
Posters provide a forum for late-breaking research, and facilitate feedback in an informal setting. Posters are peer-reviewed. The poster
area provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent web-related research, and to
obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a way to learn about innovative works in progress
in a timely and informal manner. Formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2006.org/posters/.
TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These
half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content.
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers, designers, leaders, and practitioners to explore current web R&D issues through a more
focused and in-depth manner than is possible in a traditional conference session. Participants typically present position statements and hold in-depth discussions with their peers within the workshop setting. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/workshops/.
PANELS
Panels provide an interactive forum that will engage both panelists and the audience in lively discussion of important and often controversial issues. For more information and submission details see http://www2006.org/panels/.
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference: May 22nd-26th 2006
Submission Deadlines:
Paper (regular): November 4, 2005
Paper (alternate track): November 4, 2005
Poster: February 14, 2006
Panel proposal: November 4, 2005
Tutorial/Workshop proposal: October 1, 2005
Acceptance Notification:
Paper (regular): January 27, 2006
Paper (alternate track): February 10, 2006
Poster: March 21, 2006
Panel proposal: January 27, 2006
Tutorial/Workshop proposal: November 1 2005
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DRH 2005
**Digital Resources for the Humanities** conference (DRH 2005)
4th-7th September 2005
Lancaster University, UK ( http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/ )
REGISTRATION for DRH 2005 is now open: see
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/registration.php.
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CFP: SSAWW (conf. and book)
A publisher has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed SSAWW panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about ten papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below.
The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work? The book is open to poets, short story writers, novelists, playwrights, and women editors. Other topics related to the marketplace are also welcome, and I will "zero in" on specific topics when looking through the proposals. I include my original call for papers below. If you are interested, please send a 200 word proposal and a short cv to me by November 30, 2005. You may send an email to writeearly@yahoo.com or mail your proposal to me at the address below.
Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace
>>
>>We invite papers on any aspect of popular nineteenth-century women
>>writers and the literary marketplace for a round-table discussion. Of
>>particular interest though, is how the marketplace influenced women
>>writers' creations (writer/editor relationship, author/audience,
>>author/other writers). Please send 200 word abstracts to Earl Yarington
>>(writeearly@yahoo.com) within an email message by November 30, 2005.
Earl Yarington, Assistant Professor
Neumann College
Room 302 W, Division of Arts and Sciences
One Neumann Drive
Aston, PA 19014-1298
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Book: From Gutenberg to Internet
Announcement from the author, Jeremy Norman
From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology
(Amazon link)
ISBN 0-930405-87-0.
- 63 original readings from the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications
- basic discoveries from the 1830s through the 1960s
- trace historic steps from the early nineteenth century development of telegraph systems-the first data networks- through the development of the earliest general-purpose progammable computers and the earliest software, to the foundation in 1969 of ARPANET.
- review early developments and ideas in the history of information technology that eventually led to the convergence of computing, data networking, and telecommunications in the Internet.
- illustrated historical introduction concerning the impact of the Internet on book culture.
- compares and contrasts the transition from manuscript to print initiated by Gutenberg's invention of printing by moveable type in the 15th century with the transition that began in the mid-19th century from a print-centric world to the present world in which printing co-exists with various electronic media that converged to form the Internet.
- a comprehensive and wide-ranging annotated timeline covering selected developments in the
history of information technology from the year 100 up to 2004
- introductory notes to each reading.
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Preservation Metadata
Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata and related materials
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/
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TEI/XMP Publishing: Hydra
Classics@ volume 2
Hydra is an experimental drag-and-drop electronic publishing environment for TEI-conformant XML texts.
Posted by hag at 10:07 AM
TEI/XML Schema Documentation/List
Linked list of elements and their place in the schema:
XML Schema Documentation
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Book/Site: Electronic Textual Editing
Electronic Textual Editing
The complete text of the forthcoming MLA volume, Electronic Textual Editing, co-sponsored by the Text Encoding Initiative and the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions, is now available for free, on the redesigned TEI web site.
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/
The volume's contents include:
1. Prefatory material
1. Foreword
2. Editors' introduction
2. Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions
1. Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions
2. Guiding Questions for Vettors of Print and Electronic Editions
3. Annotated Bibliography
3. Principles
1. Principles: Burnard, O'Keeffe, Unsworth
4. Sources and Orientations
1. Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon: Buzzetti and Jerome McGann
2. The Canterbury Tales and other Medieval Texts: Peter Robinson
3. Documentary Editing: Bob Rosenberg
4. The Poem and the Network: Editing Poetry Electronically: Neil
Fraistat and Steven Jones
5. Drama Case Study: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson: David Gants
6. The Women Writers Project: A Digital Anthology: Julia Flanders
7. Authorial Translation: The Case of Samuel Beckett's Stirrings Still / Soubresauts: Dirk Van Hulle
8. Prose Fiction and Modern Manuscripts: Limitations and Possibilities of Text-Encoding for Electronic Editions: Edward Vanhoutte
9. Philosophy Case Study: Claus Huitfeldt
10. Electronic religious texts: the Gospel of John: D.C. Parker
11. Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment: Morris Eaves
12. Epigraphy: Anne Mahoney, Perseus Project & Stoa Consortium
5. Practices and Procedures
1. Effective Methods of Producing Machine-Readable Text from Manuscript and Print Sources: Eileen Gifford Fenton (JSTOR) and Hoyt N. Duggan (University of Virginia)
2. Levels of transcription: M. J. Driscoll (University of Copenhagen)
3. Digital Facsimiles in Editing: Kevin Kiernan (Electronic Beowulf, University of Kentucky)
4. Authenticating electronic editions: Phill Berrie, Paul Eggert, Chris Tiffin, and Graham Barwell (Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales; University
of Queensland; University of Woollongong)
5. Document Management and File Naming: Greg Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts University)
6. Writing Systems and Character Representation: Christian Wittern (Kyoto University)
7. How and Why to Formalize your Markup: Patrick Durusau (Society of Biblical Literature and Emory University)
8. Storage, Retrieval, and Rendering: Sebastian Rahtz (Research Technologies Service, Oxford University)
9. When not to use TEI: John Lavagnino (King's College, London)
10. Moving a Print-Based Editorial Project into Electronic Form: Hans-Walter Gabler (Institut fuer Englische Philologie,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen)
11. Rights and Permissions in an Electronic Edition: Mary Case (Office of Scholarly Communication, Association of Research Libraries) and David Green (National Initiative of Networked Cultural Heritage)
12. Collection and Preservation of an Electronic Edition: Marilyn Deegan (King's College London)
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TEI Publisher
Eric lease Morgan has created a TEI Publisher. The app is at SourceForge:
http://teipublisher.sourceforge.net/docs/ and some writing about it is at: My personal TEI publishing system / Eric Lease Morgan
http://teipublisher.sourceforge.net/docs/.)
Posted by hag at 9:34 AM
July 8, 2005
hex color guide
Webmonkey's ever useful hex color guide
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
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CSS tutorial
Good CSS Tutorial/Reference from W3Schools:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp#positioning
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