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The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program, which is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities.

Attendees of THATCamp Chicago and the Chicago Colloquium for Digital Humanities and Computer Science will talk about their experiences at these recent digital humanities conferences, what they learned about digital humanities projects, and potential ideas for future DH work locally and farther afield.

Like: Twitter / Don’t like: Facebook.Like: Agile development / Dislike: long planning cycles.Like: DIY / Dislike: Outsourcing.Like: PHP / Dislike: C++.Like: Extramural funding / Dislike: Intramural funding.

The richest 1% of income earners in the USA made 23.5% of all income in 2007.

DRAPIer is an interactive database of Irish digital humanities projects.

Une procédure visant à empêcher le serveur français OVH d'héberger le site Internet WikiLeaks a été lancée en France vendredi. Le ministre de l'Industrie et de l'Économie numérique Éric Besson a demandé à une autorité administrative de lui indiquer les modalités techniques pour parvenir à cette fin.

La dernière publication de l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM) bat tous les records de malhonnêteté. Basée sur trois cas théoriques de contribuables avec des hypothèses capotées, leur «recherche» a été réalisée en collaboration avec un fiscaliste de Deloitte et Touche qui n’est jamais nommé. S’agit-il du fiscaliste masqué? Je comprends son anonymat…

Lately I have been really into helping people speed up and optimize their websites for speed. So today I figured that I would share one of the speed up techniques, which is to serve static content like images, css, and javascript from what is known as a “Cookieless Domain.”

1. Think of your computer less as the place where all your data lives and more as the thing that gives you access to your data.2. Let your computer (do some of the) work for you; metadata is your friend. […] Tag everything.3. Learn to search, not just organize.4. Let these techniques and habits help you find patterns that you would not otherwise see.

All Facebook takes note of a new prediction that 1 in 10 Facebook friends won't actually be human in 2015. Instead, they'll be bots—automated software programs that companies will use to push their brands and products. Most companies use actual humans for that at the moment, but "by mid decade, this will get fully automated," writes Jackie Cohen.

I had to create a resizing background image that would fit the full size of the browser window and this little plugin does just that.

If you’re a theme developer and you want to allow users to set a custom background image or color, activating the feature in WordPress 3.0 is as simple as including one line of code in your functions.php file. If you want to have a default background image or color, it takes a bit more fiddling around to figure out exactly how to make it work.

Ça fait des années que les médias traditionnels me font une place de choix et je le dois à mon blogue, mais aussi à une compréhension des mécanismes de création de la nouvelle et de relations publiques. Pour avoir des résultats, voici donc quelques trucs

Palin continued: “His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?"
She claimed WikiLeaks’ financial assets should be frozen "just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organisations".
She said “cyber tools" should be used to "permanently dismantle WikiLeaks".

Selon une récente étude, le timing du sommeil reflète l’intelligence: les personnes avec des QI (quotients d’intelligence) plus élevés tendent à être plus actifs la nuit et à se coucher plus tard, tandis que ceux avec des QI plus bas tendent à se coucher plus tôt.

"According to the Twitter feed for Wikileaks, the attack on the controversial site is increasing and is now at 10 Gigabits per second. In light of the recent release of highly sensitive documents and calls by many lawmakers around the world to swiftly find, extradite, and try suspected rapist Julius Assange for breaches of national security, one nation, Ecuador, has offered asylum."

Actuellement, seulement 15 % des publications scientifiques sont mises en accès libre par leurs auteurs, par choix personnel. Les universités doivent débourser des frais d'abonnement relativement importants pour que leurs chercheurs aient accès aux publications d'autres chercheurs. Avec une politique obligatoire, la mise en accès libre monte rapidement vers 100 %. Il existe 10 000 universités dans le monde, mais il n'y en a qu'une centaine (y compris Harvard, MIT et l'Université de Southampton) qui ont déjà cette politique obligatoire.

"It's definitely where archaeology is headed," says Ran Boytner of the University of California, Los Angeles, an archaeologist who works in South America. "This is partly to do with the miniaturization of analytical tools and the lowering of costs, as well as a revival of interest in archaeology, especially among senior scientists who are eager to get out of the lab."

Due to complaints, the German Christmas Village will now bear the words, "Holiday Village." The city's managing director, Richard Negrin, requested the change. In defense of the name change, Philadelphia's city spokesman Mark McDonald said, "As a city of great diversity, one shouldn't be surprised that there's a difference of views when it comes to symbols and words." 

Network neutrality is best defined as a network design principle. The idea is that a maximally useful public information network aspires to treat all content, sites, and platforms equally. This allows the network to carry every form of information and support every kind of application. The principle suggests that information networks are often more valuable when they are less specialized – when they are a platform for multiple uses, present and future.

It's been a while since the four Pirate Bay founders lost their case in a Stockholm district court — April 2009, to be more precise. The verdict was of course appealed, but alas, it was not to be. A Swedish appeals court has upheld the original ruling but changed the sentencing.

L'étude, menée par la firme Xobni, démontre que 55% des travailleurs s'assurent de prendre leurs courriels professionnels durant les vacances, et ce, à raison d'une fois par jour minimalement.

De façon à rendre facilement accessible à un large public un ensemble normalisé de renseignements et de données fiables, comparables et aussi à jour que le permettent les exigences de collecte et de validation, les universités québécoises ont convenu de mettre en ligne, par l'entremise de la Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ), un site Internet informatif et convivial.

Cet « Ensemble de données universitaires communes du Québec » (EDUCQ) permettra de répondre à un grand nombre de questions que peuvent se poser les étudiants potentiels et actuels, leurs familles, les médias, le public intéressé à la chose universitaire de même que les membres de la communauté universitaire.

À cette occasion, Stéphane Couture, Christina Haralanova et Sylvie Jochems, tous trois membres du LabCMO, discuteront des résultats d'une enquête menée auprès de 90 acteurs et actrices québécois du logiciel libre.

Dans mon article L’identité numérique après la mort, je me demandais ce qu’il advenait de tous nos comptes et accès une fois le tunel de lumière atteint. Et bien, par hasard, je suis tombé sur cette vidéo et article qui répond à plusieurs questions que je me posais.

L’Observatoire, placé sous la direction de madame Francine Charest docteure en communication et professeure ajointe au DIC, sera dès son démarrage en janvier 2011, à la fois un laboratoire d’observation des meilleures pratiques professionnelles sur les médias sociaux, un service conseils pour les organisations (privées ou publiques) et un lieu de formation avancée pour les étudiants inscrits en communication publique.

L'Université Laval crée un laboratoire d'observation pour étudier le phénomène des médias sociaux. Cette nouvelle entité offrira des services de recherche et d'analyse aux organisations québécoises intéressées à partager leurs stratégies Web et sociales.

Ce nouvel outil devrait être destiné principalement aux professionnels du web et des réseaux sociaux (agences web, marketing, seo, blogueurs, consultants, intelligence brand watchers) car il permettra d’effectuer une veille constante du compte et des mots clés de l’industrie visée, en plus d’analyser le retour sur investissement (ROI).

Face Detection is a jQuery plugin that returns the coordinates of faces in any given image.

Speech from Steve Wozniak at the Meet the Future Summit 2010.
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: World Forum, The Hague, The Netherlands

Microsoft is providing access to our Bing Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMap project, and we have hired industry veteran Steve Coast to lead this effort.

Anyone familiar with Cocoa Touch and iOS will feel right at home developing for Sony. There may even be some source code compatibility between the platforms. The world continues to chase apple — probably for the better.

A 25-year-old Winnipeg businessman is the first Pirate Party of Canada candidate to run for federal election.

Jeff Coleman, a former ESL teacher who owns a design and 3-D company, is running in the upcoming federal by-election on November 29 in Winnipeg North.

His plan: to take to the streets of his home riding to engage voters in issues that surround the digital age.

Coleman plans to campaign on his party’s key principles: confidentiality on the internet, intellectual copyright and patent law reform, keeping the internet democratic and free and using the web to make government practices and information available to the public.

After 11 rounds of international negotiations, the final text of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has overcome its biggest hurdle yet when it was welcomed as a step in the right direction by the European Parliament, which voted 331-294, with 11 members abstaining, to approve the measure.

The music industry has gone off the deep end. Now they want to lay the blame for music piracy on PCMag.com's doorstep. Seriously, over a dozen music industry execs signed a letter stating, "PC Magazine is encouraging" people to steal music.

A huge unmanned rocket carrying a secret new spy satellite for the United States roared into space Sunday (Nov. 21) to deliver what one reconnaissance official has touted as "the largest satellite in the world" into orbit. […] The exact purpose of the new spy satellite NROL-32 is secret, but one NRO official has hinted at the huge size of the reconnaissance spacecraft.

A report submitted to Congress on Wednesday by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission expressed concerns over what the commission claims is China's growing ability to control and manipulate Internet traffic.

The Dead Sea Scrolls cyberbully is being sent to jail. A judge in New York State’s main trial court sentenced Raphael Golb, a lawyer, to six months in prison for using false online identities to harass and discredit academics in a debate over the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Associated Press reported.

If you’re already logged in to any Google account (Gmail, etc.), and visit that site, he’s harvested your Google email. And proves it by emailing you immediately. […] What is the exploit? We don’t know, and Google has yet to respond to us about it. We note that the site doing the exploiting is on Google’s own blogging platform.

[…] Tim Berners-Lee, laid out a “call for continued open standards and neutrality,” and was not shy in his ridicule of Internet service providers, specific social networking sites, and governments who seek to tear the web from its open origins. The key to the continued success of the web will be universality, decentralization, open standards, and electronic human rights, he says.

People serving in the U.S. military now have their own Web site where they can upload, share, and watch videos.
Announced yesterday, the new MilTube site has been set up as a safer, more secure alternative to YouTube, with content protected behind firewalls. As such, it's designed to serve the interests of military personnel who want to share videos but also satisfy the concerns of the Department of Defense (DOD), which has never been comfortable with access to commercial social network and sharing sites.