August 2015
When using an archive could put it in danger http://zpr.io/YyRb
Car Model Names http://zpr.io/Yyn3
Oh dear. They've let Jonathan Jones write something again.
Annotation on the use of proxy measures for value in publishing https://hypothes.is/a/IICxQc1LRCepOsu3FSU3zQ
Perhaps the word I want is "Ronseal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_the_tin
Is there a neat, perhaps humorous, term for when something's name is descriptively literal? "Steep Hill" in Lincoln, for example.
How Linux was born http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/08/how-linux-was-born-as-told-by-linus-torvalds-himself/
Spent a long time thinking that the phrase "no filter" on social media meant the speaker had an over-sharing problem. Logorrhea for photos.
We are not obliged to offer cheapest tickets, says First Great Western email - http://gu.com/p/4cveb
Just reading for interest. I read the frame-independence stuff, but why couldn't A's & B's independent responses be determined?
Does anyone know of worthwhile critique of or comment on Conway & Kochen's "MIN" axiom? http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf
Engineer Syllogism http://zpr.io/YMai
Exciting morning as the first proofs from OLH articles are coming in. This feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5QEynwjKg
Multi-hundred-author papers are only a problem if using publications as accreditation. But also a symptom of that system. @timeshighered
Think this is good work and it's important to be accurate in advocacy (and you know I'm not usually a fan of the SK) https://x.com/jeroenson/status/636919660722696193
Following last tweet, 2015 tech. marvellousness (& astonishment): upgraded Linux distro on two machines and an hour later they're both fine.
2015 technology ridiculousness: it takes me far longer to put a 1.5gb Linux ISO onto a USB stick than it did to download it.
British Library will lend world's oldest bible to British Museum http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/27/british-library-lends-worlds-oldest-bible-british-museum
A 38 Degrees petition to replace all criticism of art with the performer's/writer's/artist's mother's views.
Yes yes, before anyone else says it, I missed the fact that was an old case and that there's great irony in mis-dating it!
History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud http://gu.com/p/x8hz
Job: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania http://zpr.io/Yae7
Problematic. Scottish unis, w/ no fees, could end up as uncharitable, while English, funded privately, retain status https://x.com/higherbaker/status/636204518628265984
Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 http://zpr.io/Ya7A
Good piece by @samoore_ on OA's place in the broader brokenness of job market/prestige economy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/08/24/stop-shielding-early-career-researchers-from-open-access/
Does raise additional complications for SA as protective substitute because of "collection", though.
That "defining derivatives" piece by @klsmith4906 is important. Hasn't swayed me from BY-SA b/c NC might cause problems for universities.
Defining derivatives http://zpr.io/YT9s
A todo-list item that just reads: "proposal for utopia".
Twitter Blocks API Access For Sites Monitoring Politicians' Deleted Tweets http://zpr.io/YsvF
The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time http://zpr.io/YjRK
How to block distributed brute-force attacks against Wordpress using fail2ban
In recent days my server has become prey to ever-more brute-force attacks against Wordpress instances. This is a total pain, although they're unlikely (touch wood) to succeed given the complexity of the passwords I tend to deploy and non-standard account names. That said, I got tired of this and…
Actually, I can use Fail2ban -- there's a Wordpress plugin that will do it. cc @ewout
Want to block any user that tries to login with a specific account.
Does anyone have any suggestions for defending against a /distributed/ brute-force Wordpress attack? Fail2ban no good.
‘Too many graduates spoil the economy’ - https://headofdepartmentblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/too-many-graduates-spoil-the-economy/
Researchers are altering their methods because of uncertainty over Creative Commons licenses
First of all, let me say that I found the piece of work I'm about to discuss really interesting in its own right. I know one of the co-authors and I'm an avid Soundcloud user (for electronic music, no-less!) so I thought this would be right up my street. The work in question is Allington, Daniel,…
OK, reveal.js looks like a very cool markdown-based slideshow tool: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
RCUK Draft Concordat on Open Research Data http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/opendata/
One participant thinks OA is "the spume of the devil". But there's no info here on what is objected to. Being read? https://x.com/AcBookFuture/status/634666503896494080
Feels weird to be planning ahead since we launch next month, but that's how it needs to roll!
An interesting day today. I'm writing documents for the first @openlibhums Library and Academic Board vote for new journals to join in Jan.
He also said nice things about my XSLT competence, so bonus points. @ajrbyers
Today's #FF shout-out goes to @ajrbyers who is @ubiquitypress's tech warrior. He's put up with many many emails on the road to @openlibhums!
Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society (2015) http://zpr.io/Yzyn
I'll say this. The Charity Commission is nothing if not rigorous!
Seriously: "there is no risk of our research becoming too academic". Unbelievable.
Urgh. "Innovation"-type hideousness in partnership with Elsevier. https://x.com/ClareHooperLUP/statuses/634307911968260096
Reflection DDoS Attacks Abusing RPC Portmapper http://zpr.io/YqiQ
How to Make an Index in the Early Modern Period, pt. 1 http://zpr.io/YqE3
Cambridge: £1.5m (~930 APCs). Uni of East London: £8k (around 5 APCs). https://x.com/lawsonstu/status/634007164076597248
Why Do People Pretend to Be Serial Killers? - great piece in Vice including interview with @DrBlacklock http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/why-do-people-pretend-to-be-serial-killers-811?utm_source=vicetwitteruk
My schedule of OA-week talks looks to be filling up nicely: North Carolina, Kansas, Goldsmiths, Brunel, UCL and Groningen.
Additional contexts for reading the emergence of new UK university presses
In a recent piece for The Bookseller, Anthony Cond (for whom I have a huge deal of respect), writes approvingly, if cautiously, of the births of new university presses. Indeed, there is much to celebrate in the idea of the university taking back the means of its research production on a…
Wordpress php eval attacks
Sigh. More hacking attempts and seems someone did manage to inject a php eval attack into one of my Wordpress installs.
Job: Digital Humanities Programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities http://zpr.io/Yfbk
Costs unchanged from trad sales model, just localised. Paid by academic libraries worldwide already. https://x.com/ProfDaveAndress/statuses/633715172012593152
Was also pondering where HE budget will be cut under grim modelling scenarios. Suspect QR/REF will survive b/c it's v efficient vs RCs.
Urgh. Day was going fine but this afternoon felt very poorly and have now retreated to bed. Maybe I'll finish The Luminaries at last.
Conspiracy theories, copyright term, and the TPP http://zpr.io/YHTt
In light of Cotopaxi eruption, here's me and @julian_jc at the summit in 2004.
Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Over Volcano http://zpr.io/Ygwg
The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun http://zpr.io/Yg9u
Is There an Ed-Tech Critic In the House? http://zpr.io/Yg9K
Paywalled Science Journals Under Fire Again http://zpr.io/YgpK
Incredible. https://x.com/crosscountryuk/statuses/632541175094845440
How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/03M8OUF9Hmo/how-to-quash-firefoxs-silent-requests
Very pleased that PKP has established a Private LOCKSS Network. Good news for digital preservation. #pkp5
Urgh. @EmeraldGlobal your proofing system is awful. I had to boot a separate OS, install over 100mb of software & change my browser settings
I'll just say what a pleasure it is working on OLH with @samoore_ at @ubiquitypress. A true professional and great guy. #FF
Busy time gearing up for OLH launch. Two more journal migrations in heavy progress today!
Tony Blair's £25m property empire around the UK, in pictures http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/11670790/Tony-Blairs-25m-property-empire-around-the-UK-in-pictures.html?frame=3339438
"Add your birthday to your profile*
Let people know when the big day arrives."
* give us more data
Theodor Adorno's Seminal Critical Theory Text Minima Moralia Sung as Hardcore Punk Songs http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/theodor-adornos-seminal-critical-theory-text-minima-moralia-sung-as-hardcore-punk-songs.html
PlotSummary now does more: you can search texts to find the most closely correlated words to an input term https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/PlotSummary
Loads of OA books at the forward-thinking University of Calgary Press: http://press.ucalgary.ca/openaccess
OpenSSH 7.0 Released http://zpr.io/sWVh
ICYMI: OAPEN-UK guide to open-access monographs for arts, humanities and social science researchers published today http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/oaguide/
Job: Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies, Brown University http://zpr.io/sWzk
Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs http://zpr.io/sBWw
How Many Scientists Does It Take To Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands http://zpr.io/sB5w
Proud to unveil the OAPEN-UK guide to OA monograph publishing, which I co-edited with @ernestopriego & @j_w_baker! http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/oaguide/
What happens when there is no publication agreement? http://zpr.io/sVzA
An example of it operating on John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy provided on that page https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/PlotSummary
In case you missed it yesterday, my tool PlotSummary will let you visualise/graph how terms unfold over texts https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/PlotSummary
I in Team http://zpr.io/svz2
Archive: Interview with Paul Rabinow (2008) http://zpr.io/s48J
There's an exemption list for stemming, histograms and line graphs of raw frequency per 5k words & @clured's original kernel density stuff.
This is basically a wrapper for the intermediate steps in @clured's TextPlot that were removed from that tool. I also added some stuff...
Today I wrote a tool derived from @clured's TextPlot that will plot histograms/line graphs of terms over a document https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/PlotSummary
Unpacking Foucault (2015) http://zpr.io/s4gk
Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records http://zpr.io/scwS
Fourth Bangladeshi Blogger Murdered http://zpr.io/scDp
Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' http://zpr.io/scns
Certifi-gate: Another Huge Android Vulnerability http://zpr.io/scnj
Lubuntu Blog: Firefox exploit found in the wild http://zpr.io/seAB
American Psychological Association Bans Members From Military Interrogations http://zpr.io/seAV
Mozilla Issues Fix For Firefox Zero-Day Bug http://zpr.io/seAv
Reading lecturers reject “termination without notice” clause - https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/reading-lecturers-reject-termination-without-notice-clause/
The sinister future is here. Someone is flying a drone over our neighbourhood.
CaSSius can now handle author emails, volume and issue numbers https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/CaSSius
Hating Adorno (A Brief Compendium of Nasty Comments) http://zpr.io/seta
Tesla Model S Has Been Hacked http://zpr.io/setT
Researcher Exploits 18-Year-Old Design Flaw To Compromise X86 Chips http://zpr.io/sdQE
Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On http://zpr.io/sdmW
Fix some of your writing tics with a bit of technology
Everyone, when they are writing, can find themselves falling into bad habits. This is because, as my friend Liz Sage pointed out to me, when you are writing, you're trying to express thought. It's a writerly activity for you, the author, not thinking wholly of the reader. Examples of things that I…
negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers - http://markcarrigan.net/2015/08/06/negative-solidarity-is-here-to-stay-the-greedy-tube-workers/
iTunes is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law https://torrentfreak.com/itunes-is-illegal-under-uk-copyright-law-150805/
who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds? http://zpr.io/sJur
CaSSius now handles in-text parenthetical bibliographic links and DOI linkage and proper display https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/CaSSius
social media and academic freedom http://zpr.io/sJjm
New resolution: ignore any think piece that reductively frames "humanities" against "science".
How to create EZproxy stanzas for passworded resources http://zpr.io/sJPe
The Universal and the Particular: Chomsky, Foucault, and Post-New Left Political Discourse (2014) http://zpr.io/sidS
LibreOffice 5.0 Released http://zpr.io/sigN
Laugh of the morning: Guardian art critic claims strike will "turn him Tory". Sounds like little turning required. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/04/national-gallery-strikes-turn-me-tory-mark-serwotka-pcs-union
Vacancy: Managing Editor, LSE Review of Books http://zpr.io/sLf2
Complimenting rivals: Foucault, Rawls and the problem of public reasoning (2015) http://zpr.io/skaH
Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form http://zpr.io/skTX
Mellon Foundation Releases the First Comprehensive Survey of Diversity in American Art Museums https://mellon.org/news-publications/articles/Diversity-American-Art-Museums/
Second-round of @KUnlatched: http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/2015/06/new-collection/
Echard and Oldmixon: Whigs vs Tories in the Index (Part 1) http://zpr.io/srXs
Echard and Oldmixon: Whigs vs Tories in the Index (Part 2) http://zpr.io/srXj
The 100 best novels: No 98 – Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/03/100-best-novels-underworld-don-delillo
Back to work today! https://x.com/openlibhums/status/628132836420288512
Saw an unusual tube train at Sloane Square last night...
Power and Ideology in Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramsci: A Comparative Analysis (2014) http://zpr.io/sSTf
ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow http://zpr.io/sSTR
Will the UK research budget be cut by 40%? http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2015/jul/30/science-funding-cuts-november-spending-review
Critical BIND Denial-of-Service Flaw Could Take Down DNS Servers http://zpr.io/sChC