Google scholar

I’m off to Somerset this week and the Convergence Conferece, both to attend and present. I hope to see some of you there!
 In the meantime, I’ve been looking at Google Scholar, which I’ve managed to overlook until now. If you haven’t given it a test drive, it’s at http://scholar.google.com/, and it provides a search of [...]

UK on the Research Channel

The University of Kentucky’s Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments has done some great work featuring UK research in video. You can find the results on The Research Channel, which is shown on UKTV Cable Channel 16 (Insight Cable on campus and throughout Fayette County), and on The Research Channel Web site at http://www.researchchannel.org/ (type University of [...]

Let’s go crazy?

I usually don’t post on the weekends, but considering yesterday’s post, I thought this article on ABCNews.com was really interesting: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3777651&page=1. It’s about YouTube and copyright infringement.

a memory at my fingertips

A few days ago I heard a song on the radio that I hadn’t heard or thought of in years: Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill.”  By the time I got home, I wanted to hear it and really listen to it – to remember what it was about – and maybe see it performed. You know [...]

Getting a life (a second one, that is)

Have you tried it? Second Life, I mean. If you are not someone terribly interested in virtual environments, then the whole idea may seem a little creepy to you. I’ll ‘fess up: it creeped me out. I’ve always been interested in new technologies and discovering for myself how they work as well as if and [...]

Gutenberg’s top 100

If you’ve never visited Project Gutenberg, “the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks),” now is a great time to do so. The top 100 list contains such works as “The Raven,” Pride & Prejudice, Manual of Surgery Volume First, Illustrated History of Furniture, and Encyclopaedia Brittanica 11th Edition Volume 4 (I kid you not). [...]

Humanities Research Network

Check out the Humanities Research Network: The HRN, a world-wide online community for research in all areas of Humanities, following the model of the Social Science Research Network. See the announcement at http://www.ssrn.com/update/crn/crnann/annA001.html.

Arg – listservs!

No good intention goes unpunished. For some time we’ve been working on an idea to use a listserv that would provide information once or twice a month about things going on at TASC to support classroom technology use, and a list of TASC users was developed to assist in this effort. After the first message, [...]

Barrington Irving on UKTV

See Barrington Irving’s IdeaFestival presentation, co-sponsored by the University of Kentucky, on UKTV. Mr. Irving is the youngest individual and first person of African descent to fly solo around the world. Read his bio here: http://www.ideafestival.com/dynamic/speakers/Show_Bio.cfm?ID=18653. Visit his website here: http://www.experienceaviation.org/. Schedule: Cable Channel 49 (campus only): 10am, Tuesday Oct 23; 7pm, Wednesday Oct 24; 3pm, Thursday [...]

Ta-daa

I am officially launching this blog today, with little fanfare, but at least you can link to it now from a few places. Enjoy, and send me ideas for topics. Please comment on blog entries as they interest you. I have gotten a few emails from people on entries, but I encourage you to share [...]