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May 2015

I'd also like TripAdvisor to add another review category: UDP latency on hotel wifi to @martin_eve's server and VPN. #thanks

I don't know enough about the Silk Road trial, but isn't a comparison with Aaron Schwartz too much? AS acted for no personal financial gain.

After a much delayed landing due to thunderstorms, I have landed in Ottawa for #CongreSSH! I'm exhausted!

A distinction without a difference http://zpr.io/Zk8B

. @CharlotteRock @klsmith4906 a difference that I suspect they fear might pertain to discoverability and aggregation...

. @CharlotteRock @klsmith4906 advanced metadata profiles on repositories will also make this easier.

Laughing at submission system with: "Please enter a message explaining your funding situation". Will, "I'm in the humanities", do?

Also saw The Merchant of Venice at the Globe today. No stand-out performances but it was an extremely good production.

Sat next to a student on the tube whom I taught at Sussex. One of those great moments where he said nice things & I heard of his progress.

Reviewer: "it is somewhat ironic that the book is not open access!"
Me: The book is open access, you just have not looked.

"Bank staff accidentally email details to the Guardian including PR notes on how to deny its existence". Slow hand clap.

Mark Knopfler in fine form last night at the O2, albeit with some strange set-list choices. Felt very heavy on Privateering...

Had a great evening discussing historical fictions this evening with @DrMagennis and Joe Brooker at Waterstones.

Just read Broekman et al.'s /Open Education/. Didn't think defence of "disruption" best strategic move but some powerful critique within.

My word. Just seen that Lynx is attempting to re-brand the sponge as the Manwasher™. Sorry, women, no washing for you.

So, today I spoke about library collaboration and the barriers to working together. Tomorrow, it's historical fictions with @DrMagennis!

The terrifying words: "Hi, I'm one of the student doctors on the ward. Do you mind if I cannulate you?"

Today, I did loads of tedious charity admin stuff on OLH. But it's so worth it when libraries sign up and I see the journal prototypes!

In fact, Selenium WebDriver is about the best thing I've discovered in a while. Couple it with pyvirtualdisplay & get total automation.

Today's lesson: if you want to perform complex web tasks in an automated fashion in Python, just go straight to Selenium and bypass Scrapy.

“@qikipedia When excited, Guinea pigs perform little hops and leaps called 'popcorning'. ” < can confirm

"Teaching REF" stuff is nonsense for humanities anyway... There's no state funding. Meaningless certification.

The best book I've read in recent days on the abused word, "neoliberalism", is @davies_will's /The Limits of Neoliberalism/. @CameronNeylon

Two-pronged notion of DH: computational approaches to humanities and humanistic approaches to technology. #nedimah2015

Ten-year old document, "Our Cultural Commonwealth", has lots of talk of open access for humanities, notes @brettbobley #nedimah2015

Problem for @brettbobley: can we fund tool development? Example: studying papyrus is hums. But is building software to do it? #nedimah2015

"Our Cultural Commonwealth", a milestone and crucial project led by @unsworth ,now almost a decade old. #nedimah2015

First NEH computational humanities conference in 1967. Some of it still the same hang-ups on tenure, says @brettbobley! #nedimah2015

Interesting comments at #nedimah2015 on letting researchers photograph own material to create personal archive. @britishlibrary now allows.

Alessio Assonitis talks about the way in which their digital archive re-focused attention on material archive, not replacing it #nedimah2015

Looking forward to the Beyond Digital Humanities event today, although I'm sure there are humanities extinction jokes ahead. #nedimah