this should probably be looked at at around 1k, but here is the full image.

copenhagen

Originally uploaded by buridan.

including this little gem.

As Ukraine Watched the Party Line, She Took the Truth Into Her Hands:

During the tense days of Ukraine’s presidential elections last year, Dmytruk staged a silent but bold protest, informing deaf Ukrainians that official results from the Nov. 21 runoff were fraudulent. Her act of courage further emboldened protests that grew until a new election was held and the opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko , was declared the winner.

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I wish there were more people in the world like her.

The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture(CDDC) is announcing an expanded call for proposal for our Research E-ditions, Hosting Services, and our new Digital Originals publishing series.

CDDC in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is accepting new manuscripts for digital modes of publication in its Research E-ditions series. The CDDC ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu ) has been in operation for nearly two years, and it publishes hypertext journals, hosts digital research archives, and cooperates with many international cyberculture organizations.

As an entirely digital point-of-publication, the CDDC will review and then produce professional academic research works–either single-authored or edited collections–in a digital format. Proposals could take the form of an “e-book” that simply makes available a scholarly monograph in online format, or a collection of academic papers organized around a central theme, or a fully hypertextual experiment with new forms of digital discourse. Arrangements can be made for “print on demand” (POD) paper versions of these works, but the main focus of the CDDC is to explore the new communicative potentials of hypertext, hypermedia, and web-centered publication. The review processes will be as extensive and rigorous as those experienced in print academic communication, but it too will be conducted in a fully on-line format.

Research E-ditions

All topics are potentially of interest in the Research E-ditions series, however, we are particularly interested in manuscripts, digital archives, and hypertexts from the humanities and social sciences relating to the areas of cyberculture, social theory, literary studies, digital art, and cultural studies. In addition, the CDDC is committed to proposals from applied and natural sciences that relate directly to the fields of bioinformatics, energy and environmental studies, and information technology and communications.

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All topics and projects of academic interest that require hosting are solicited for the Hosting@CDDC project. We host and mirror several major projects and have space for many more. We host projects serving a broad set of communities. We provide basic facilities of web hosting and listserv hosting. Any requirements beyond basic hosting should be outlined in the proposal. Hosting is frequently used in conjuction with various forms of community software, e-journal software, or related software to support artistic, academic, and related content.

Digital Originals

Digital Originals is open access publishing for book-like digital projects. We are soliciting submissions from people who have materials that originate in the digital arena, and want them to be released either under a Creative Commons license or under an Open Content License. The original documents will be peer-reviewed, edited, and published with an ISBN assigned and made freely downloadable on the CDDC Website.

Proposals:

Initial proposals should take the form of a 1 page description of the project, including a description of the services requested, a description of the project’s audience, and provide current examples of the work (URLS) that is to be hosted or published. All proposals will be peer reviewed with at least two reviewers and further information may be requested. The review process is as rigorous as any academic publisher.

Proposals should be sent to CDDC@vt.edu

as one of the many in this world that has more access to information then i know what to do with, I think an application that you would prevent access to certain other applications for a set period of time. I picture it as basically a toolbar button and a preference file. The preference would define a task, say writing, then let you assign a period of time, say four hours, and would prevent you from using any applications that you have not specified for that task. Advanced forms could let you only access one set of urls in a browser and block others. The toolbar button would let you pulldown a list of tasks, choose one, then close everything other than the defined apps and put a clock in the corner of the screen with a countdown timer.

This could also be handy in teaching computer labs and similar situations.

I personally would find this useful, it is more or less a ‘do not disturb’ sign for our own mind.

Editing our future – Technology – smh.com.au:

It sounds like something the late Douglas Adams, with his sense
of the absurd, might have dreamt up for The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy. In June a group of dedicated librarians shut
away in a monolithic Canberra building will set loose a robot
which, they hope, will devour Australia.

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this is actually an article on the Australian section of the International Information Preservation Consortium. I’m in their researchers working group. The goal is to preserve the internet content that national libraries and archives are charged with preserving by their governments… which is quite a bit more than people think.