All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

In fact, I’m somewhat in astonished awe at the recent push for supercomputing in the humanties. Don’t get me wrong; I think that supercomputing power applied to humanties-oriented applications will yield innumerable treasures, helping scholars discover as-yet-unimaginable correspondences between word frequencies, textual representation, and aesthetic structure.

[From mistersquid: a digital fiction: Resurface]

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this is a good start toward a reflexive critique of the cyberinfrastructure in the humanities movement.

No Sex Please, We’re Organizing
A nation of pack rats tries to get it together.

[From MotherJones.com | News]

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i’m thinking about getting rid of stuff as i move back to the burg….

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am sorry to pass on the news of the death several days ago of Robert de Beaugrande, a good friend and an outstanding linguist who contributed much to the inception of text and discourse analysis and to critical discourse linguistics.

Robert helped to develop what was known at one time as the Vienna School of Textlinguistik, and also to some early work on cognitive linguistics. In his later work, he contributed to what we now call Critical Discourse Analysis, and wrote many insightful and incisive analyses of politically charged texts and issues, combining methods of functional linguistics with the emerging techniques of computer-based corpus analysis.

Robert had a flamboyant personal style and a strong commitment to progressive politics. He worked in and supported students in several developing African nations, in Asia, the mid-East, and Brazil, as well as having a prestigious appointment for several years at the University of Vienna.

In semi-retirement, he devoted himself to producing a website with full text of many of his classic and newer publications, making it a treasure house of information especially for those around the world who cannot afford the exorbitant prices of academic books today.

The site is at:

http://www.beaugrande.com/

Sadly,

Jay Lemke

Educational Studies

University of Michigan

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Professor de Beaugrande was a member of the LNC list at languageandcapitalism.info . He contributed in innumerable ways. He will be missed.

Tom Gray, the court’s Chief Justice, has written an opinion that affirms the sovereign immunity of the institution while removing any immunity from campus administrators.

[From The Greentree Gazette:
Personal liability for university administrators comes into its own
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this is a huge impingement of freedoms.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Science, Action and Intergrated Environmental Research

Lorrae van Kerkhoff
The Australian National University
[Paperback]

[From SensePublishers Online Bookstore]

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first book in the book series is out.

Internet Memes

[From Internet Memes]

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interesting timeline of internet memes.

Billy Bragg put on a great show. The show openned with CR Avery, who does a mix of beat boxing, spoken word poetry, and singing. Avery’s song, ‘Folk Singer’ is a must hear as is his sing along ‘love song’ was an interesting mix of his talents.

Billy Bragg played an extended set mixing his classics, more folk oriented materials, and some covers. He played one of his unrecorded songs about, ‘aging clash fans’, it was a great tribute to the spirit of the clash and the people they enabled and inspired.

Throughout the night he was interacting with children in the audience. One young gentleman of around 10 years of age shouted a title and it took quite a while to figure out the song, SugarDaddy, but eventually toward the end of the evening, the request was changed to A New England, with the Kirsty Maccoll version, which was a great sing along song. He also took a request from a very young girl who was accompanied to the front by her sister, she drew a picture for Billy, it was a picture of a rainbow with a rock and and arrow, the rock and arrow meant rock on. Her name was Maya and Billy lead us in a rousing version of The Internationale in support of Canadian Autoworkers Union at her behest. He also sang, there is power in a union, the myth of trust, the space race is over, and several other great political songs. Audience participation was interesting and the venue was small enough that everyone felt involved.

He played Farmboy, I Almost Killed You, Sing them Back Home, O Freedom, Mr. Love and Justice from his new album. He ended with I Have Faith, which is his statement in the faith in humanity to make the world a better place.

All in all, Rochelle and I had a great time, the night was full of humor, politics and music. I hope to see him in concert again.

Welcome to the Learning4Content hub

Building capacity for open education togethe

[From Learning4Content - WikiEducator]

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interesting resource

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool’s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

[From digitalresearchtools / FrontPage]

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very handy