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World's Oldest Substantial Book Digitized

nobody@nfomedia.com (nikolaus w.) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:48:28 -0400

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book.

the switch to digital TV

nobody@nfomedia.com (Rachel L.) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:49:27 -0400

if anyone is still lurking about...

some youtube videos documenting the switch to digital:

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2713

the first clip is actually from rochester, and the last features a really cool television.

Just thought I'd share one last thing...

nobody@nfomedia.com (nikolaus w.) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:47:06 -0400

Turns out that the earliest voice recording may just be some dude with a mic-type device of some sort. Not the trembling young girlish falsetto we'd heard before. Perhaps we've been misled. Happy summer!

Frank Rich yesterday: American Press on Suicide Watch

nobody@nfomedia.com (Morris E.) — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:51:45 -0400

Frank Rich's NY Times column takes up the issues we've been discussing in the seminar--and cites Clay Shirky. Rich, if you're not a regular reader of his stuff, is generally terrific.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10rich.html

Kindle DX

nobody@nfomedia.com (Peter Z.) — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:29:31 -0400

Amazon (and class favorite Jeff Bezos) unveiled the new, large-form version of the Kindle this morning. It's more than twice the size of the Kindle 2, and Amazon hopes the larger reading surface will make the Kindle DX more appealing to those who read digital versions of magazines, newspapers, and textbooks.

Some links-

New product page: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0015TCML0/itquotes101-20

NYTimes' coverage: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/live-blogging-the-kindle-fest/?hp

But the question is, how will the Kindle DX and other large-form e-readers affect the ailing newspaper industry?
For some of that debate, see: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10233764-36.html & http://www.pcworld.com/article/164425/why_kindle_dx_wont_save_newspapers.html

Google's Settlement with the Author's Guild

nobody@nfomedia.com (nikolaus w.) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:55:23 -0400

If anyone is interested in where the Google Books settlement is at check out this update from Wired: DoJ Puts Google on Notice over Book Deal.

Peer-reviewed online journal

nobody@nfomedia.com (Morris E.) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:40:42 -0400

Here's the latest issue of RaVon, the e-journal that we mentioned in seminar last week:

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From: Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Date: April 29, 2009 8:37:30 AM EDT
To: NASSR-L@listserv.wvu.edu
Subject: [NASSR-L] New issue *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net*
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Dear all,
The latest issue of *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net* is now available at: http://www.ravon.umontreal.ca.
Regards,
Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Dino Felluga, Editors

*Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net* 52 (November 2008)
Special issue on "Science, Technology and the Senses" - Guest-edited by Sibylle Erle and Laurie Garrison

ARTICLES:
- Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln): 'Blake, Colour and the Truchsessian Gallery: Modelling the Mind and Liberating the Observer'
- Kelly Grovier (The University of Wales, Aberystwyth): '"Paradoxes of the Panoscope": "Walking" Stewart and the Making of Keats's Ambivalent Imagination'
- Laurie Garrison (University of Lincoln): 'Imperial Vision in the Arctic: Fleeting Looks and Pleasurable Distractions in Barker’s Panorama and Shelley’s Frankenstein'
- Gavin Budge (University of Hertfordshire): 'The Hero as Seer: Character, Perception and Cultural Health in Carlyle'?
- Verity Hunt (University of Reading): 'Raising a Modern Ghost: The Magic Lantern and the Persistence of Wonder in the Victorian Education of the Senses'

REVIEWS:
- Gillen D’Arcy Wood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): 'James Heffernan. Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions'?
- Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England, Bristol): 'Wil Verhoeven. Gilbert Imlay: Citizen of the World'?
- Nicholas Halmi (University of Washington): 'Thomas Pfau. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790–1840'?
- Daniel Cook (University of Cambridge): 'Tilar J. Mazzeo. Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period'?
- Ihsen Hachaichi (Université de Montréal): 'Florence Gaillet-de Chezelles. Wordsworth et la Marche: Parcours poétique et esthétique'?
- Jason R. Rudy (University of Maryland): 'Stephanie Kuduk Weiner. Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874'
- Tamara Ketabgian (Beloit College): 'Richard Menke. Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems'?
- Judith Stoddart (Michigan State University): 'Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education'?
- Julia Kent (American University of Beirut): 'David Payne. The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot'
- Katherine Newey (University of Birmingham): 'John Stokes. The French Actress and her English Audience'
- Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores University): 'Carolyn Steedman. Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age'
- Julia F. Saville (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): 'Ana Parejo Vadillo. Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity'
- Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel): 'Aamir R. Mufti. Enlightenment in the Colony. The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture'
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Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Associate Professor
http://web.mac.com/meberlesinatra
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- President *Synergies* http://www.synergiescanada.org
- Vice-President (Outreach) *Society of Digital Humanities* http://www.sdh-semi.org
- Founding Editor *Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net* (RaVoN) http://www.ravon.umontreal.ca
- Secretary-Treasurer *Canadian Association of Learned Journals* http://www.calj-acrs.ca/
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Universite de Montreal
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Single authorship vs collaborative scholarship

nobody@nfomedia.com (Morris E.) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:51:15 -0400

Thinking of the effects of digital media on authoring (and that one-to-one "private" relationship that Birkerts features in his laments):
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/collaborative-authorship-in-the-humanities/

Kurzweil's Magic Lenses

nobody@nfomedia.com (Morris E.) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:05:50 -0400

Remember Kurzweil's speculation about lenses that would provide you with map overlays and the names of people at parties? Check out this brief article by Anne Eisenberg from Sunday's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/business/26novel.html?_r=1

The Postmodernism Generator

nobody@nfomedia.com (Ryan D.) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:19:00 -0400

This essays posted on this site are the product of a computer algorithm, entirely fabricated and meaningless. This guy wrote a program to compile ideas, vocab, and grammar to replicate that quintessential postmodern essay feel. Get to the bottom of the page and there's the disclaimer: "The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link."

The Postmodernism Generator

Every time you load the page it's a different "essay." Thought you'd get a kick out of it, 'cause every now and then we all wonder if the material our professors have us read could actually be random compilations of the most obscure "words" passed off as deep thought.