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Kindred Britain and Scholarship
Redundant as it may seem to say, Kindred Britain is a project that spans generations. Not only the generations of the database’s inhabitants, spread over the last thousand or so years as they are, but...
Emma Honour Mae... · August 26, 2013Kindred Britain: A sign of our times
Today marks the public release of Kindred Britain, a new interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture. Integrating geospatial, temporal, and network information visua...
Elijah Meeks · August 26, 2013Text Analysis IN the Library, FOR the Library
For those of you who don't know, I'm still fairly new to Stanford (as well as being new to what I lovingly refer to as "library land"). When I initially started my PhD in English, specializi...
Jacqueline Hettel · August 23, 2013Women in Programming (or the Lack Thereof)
When I first read Dave Winer’s blog post about the lack of women in programming, I braced myself. He suggests that women are not “very patient,” and that this explains why they are not very present in...
Emma Honour Mae... · August 22, 2013Women in CS (and the Digital Humanities)
According to Dave Winer’s blog post on his website a few days ago, women are a minority in programming because they lack certain qualities – namely patience – that allow them to succeed in the profess...
Hannah Rose Abalos · August 21, 2013On Digital Humanities and Surveillance
Over at my blog, I just posted a piece about the role digital humanists should play in discussions of government surveillance. Some key questions: Is there a chilling effect already in place? Are we a...
Mike Widner · August 20, 2013