March 2016
Concluding remarks: Michel Foucault, neoliberalism and beyond conference (2016) http://zpr.io/hK6Q
CFP: Digital Humanities Congress 2016 http://zpr.io/hyWL
Report: The Library as Distraction Barricade http://zpr.io/hy55
Editors’ Choice: Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/Sl9p_fDMvkY/
Reading Leo Konstantinou's @Harvard_Press book, Cool Characters on irony in Am Fict. Bit disappointed that John M Krafft spelled "Crafft".
Very sorry not to be speaking at the C21 conference in Brighton today. Trying to be discharged from hospital.
On the Political Aesthetics of Metadata https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2016/03/30/on-the-political-aesthetics-of-metadata-2/
Foucault 8/13 epilogue: Foucault and neoliberalism conference report (2016) http://zpr.io/hAZF
I was warned that I might be very tired and potentially sick today after yesterday's cyclophosphamide. So far, holding up well.
Cyclophosphamide is fairly exhausting. But it has been administered.
Right, wish me luck all. Off for the cyclophosphamide infusion.
New Media Gatekeepers: Ecosystems of Access and Denial http://zpr.io/hEcs
Following Up On The Emulation Report http://zpr.io/hE8E
A slight delay to my cyclophosphomide treatment. Apparently it will be tomorrow morning now.
All Eleven Sites of the University of California Library System join OLH LPS model - https://about.openlibhums.org/2016/03/29/all-eleven-sites-of-the-university-of-california-library-system-join-olh-lps-model/
I think it is so arrogant to say that everyone who needs access has it. Sat in a hospital ward feeling anxious and it's good to have OA.
V grateful I can read "Short term effects of intravenous pulses of cyclophosphamide in the treatment of connective tissue disease crisis".
Git 2.8 Officially Released http://zpr.io/hxdH
Foucault’s Last Decade (2016) http://zpr.io/hxdt
Photographing software http://zpr.io/hX6c
I have suffered from an episode of cerebral vasculitis and a stroke
A few weeks ago, at the beginning of March, I was feeling quite unwell with a chest and sinus infection, for which I'd had three courses of antibiotics from my GP. It was pretty unpleasant but compared to what I was about to experience, it now looks trivial. Around the 7th March, 2016 I started to…
Title production numbers: an initial gesture http://zpr.io/hTCy
Current hospital experience: bad Kraftwerk gig. Electro-cardio-gram.
Foucault and the Political Party (2015) http://zpr.io/hTZ8
Thank you all for your kind words. Much appreciated.
Looks like I shouldn't have (m)any long-lasting problems from the stroke here, although they're still not letting me out quite yet.
I've been in hospital for a week now and am afraid I have had a stroke. Not sure what the prognosis is yet. Fingers crossed.
Still no RAB charge allocations for BIS http://zpr.io/mBMM
Budget: details on doctoral loans announced http://zpr.io/mBME
Talk on Evolving the LOCKSS Technology at PASIG http://zpr.io/mSuh
My sincere apologies to #RLUK16 delegates & organisers. I've had a bad week that has involved A&E. Was so looking forward to this too.
A university degree for housewives http://zpr.io/mb3L
Microsoft Brings SQL Server To Linux http://zpr.io/mb3k
Reading #AcBookSouth & may be missing context, but surely only some types of OA make it "harder to publish". APC-free +green immune...
Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant http://zpr.io/mExb
Crossword Database Analysis Spots What Looks Like Plagiarism http://zpr.io/mExu
MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete - http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-VbzvwsWrIQ/mits-new-5-atom-quantum-computer-could-make-todays-encryption-obsolete
Scholarly access is about education - https://kaprifolia.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/scholarly-access-is-about-education/
The trouble with getting the BBC to be less popular - http://gu.com/p/4ha7a
Sarah Kane, Sarah Waters, Beckett, and bibliophilia/de-acquisiton.
Despite feeling fiendishly unwell, I really enjoyed today's @Birkbeck_WIP event! Particularly enjoyed papers on Tom McCarthy,
Technology and Modernist Fiction http://zpr.io/mNkP
Dismantling the Curriculum in Higher Education http://zpr.io/mN35
Whoever made this: you nailed it.
A Course in Computational Methods and Nineteenth-Century Religious Data http://zpr.io/maC6
Tomorrow I'm speaking at the @Birkbeck_WIP conference. A really great lineup of papers!
Who said the art of letter writing was dead? The 2016 Grant Letter http://zpr.io/matJ
Dearing passing into history http://zpr.io/mTiK
When you're making a movie / And it don't look good / Who ya gonna call? / "Casual racism?"
Mapping Woolf’s London with the Z-Axis Tool http://zpr.io/mTpQ
I agree with Mike. I disagree with this to the core of my being. The university must be part of society. https://x.com/MikeTaylor/statuses/705381082611499008
cfp - Knowledge Infrastructures in the Humanities - MLA 2017 http://zpr.io/mYTh
Noticed a new trend on London public transport this last week for quite energetic dancing to music on one's own headphones.
Dressing up as a literature professor for world book day.
Which doesn't speak well for what altmetrics measure? i.e. sensationalism? https://x.com/Protohedgehog/statuses/705136669318639617
LibreSSL Unaffected By DROWN http://zpr.io/mZvT
Pathways to transforming universities for public goods and community benefit http://zpr.io/mZCz
If I leave the room during television ads (hypothetical since I don't have a TV) am I running a protection racket?
Advertising is a terrible and ultimately unstable economic house of cards on which to base our media. Blocking it just exposes this.
Adblocking is a 'modern-day protection racket', says culture secretary http://gu.com/p/4h89q < Oh get a grip.
House of Commons Library Open Day http://zpr.io/mZRg
Other thing at UEA... Apparently there's a reading group doing my book & I'll attend. Can't decide for whom that's most scary. Me or them.
Kevin Smith points to the historically contingent and geographically local enforcement of copyright - http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=ind1603&L=LIBLICENSE-L&F=&S=&P=3639
Sorry to be missing #digifest but off to give a talk at UEA today.
Slack: we've reinvented IRC so that you can ditch email. Really?
A Third of All HTTPS Websites Vulnerable To DROWN Attack http://zpr.io/mz3b
CFP: That’s Not How Scholarship Works - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalHumanitiesNow/~3/o_1RYFQ9H6I/
State pension age could rise faster than expected, say experts. Yet more penalties on the young. - http://gu.com/p/4h7t6
The Cloudy Future of Disk Drives http://zpr.io/mzae
Knowledge Unlatched round two successful - http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/press-release/
Community responses to Crossref's proposal for early content registration http://blog.crossref.org/2016/03/community-responses-to-our-proposal-for-early-content-registration.html
Timothy Gowers's overlay journal project, Discrete Analysis, launched - https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/discrete-analysis-launched/
HEFCE's open-access policy kicks in one month today. Deposit articles within 3 months of acceptance or they will be inadmissible to REF.
So universities can't be exempted, then... Cc @generalising https://x.com/mattburgess1/statuses/704551005585874944
It looks unlikely that UK universities are going to get out of the Freedom of Information Act
The recent Green Paper proposed that universities should be excluded from the Freedom of Information Act. As of today, it now looks very unlikely that this will happen.