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Freebase : Sign In: Free + Database = Freebase It’s about film, sports, politics, music, science and everything else all connected together. Our contributors are collecting data from all over the internet to build a massive, collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data. Its a big job and we’re just getting started. ——- Freebase… its a free […]

If MSFT had designed vi: A funny posting from Sun&#8217;s Marigan&#8217;s blog (thanks Don). —– hehehehe

Digital Humanities: Expert Seminars: Here is a list of podcast-seminars undertaken by the Methods Network at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King&#8217;s. And don&#8217;t you just love the Internet; it means that you don&#8217;t have to attend all these seminars. http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/podcast/methnet-podcast.xml ——- some great content on digital humanities.

unfiction.com » online tools: online tools this is a solid collection of tools that some of you might find useful, for instance an anagram finder and some steganography tools… along with some basic reference items and converters

Why Google’s universal library is an assault on human identity: Why Google’s universal library is an assault on human identity. How’s that for a headline? Andrew Keen pull sno punches in this short ZDNet blog post. “John Updike put it best in his response to Kevin Kelly’s notorious 2006 New York Times magazine piece about […]

E-Learning Resource Collection: Second Life: E-LEARNING RESOURCE COLLECTION Second Life — This is a start of a growing list of e-learning resources in second life. the other great place to look is the simteach wiki.

Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation With Human Rights: I’m very interested in the whole notion of open content and Creative Commons licensing in the nonprofit space. Recently, I discovered Sarah Davies of FreedomforIP and after listening to her elevator pitch online from the Ignite Seattle event, I asked her for an interview. She told me, […]

Link Dump: A few pointers to work on little-known, -recognized, and/or -understood aspects of whatever we’re doing when we’re not necessarily reading but — for lack of a better way to say it — just generally doing things with stories that whose endings might come sooner or later than we want them to (but never, […]

Décès de Jean Baudrillard, pourfendeur de la société de consommation et des médias: Décès de Jean Baudrillard, pourfendeur de la société de consommation et des médias Jean Baudrillard • DR Le sociologue et philosophe est décédé mardi à Paris, à l’âge de 77 ans • – two online encyclopedia entries about baudrillard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard – http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/ […]