Category Archives: Natural Law

BADCamp 2011 and THATCamp 2011 Scheduling Conflict

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I just noticed a rather disturbing similarity in the marketing material for two upcoming “camps” directed at open-source types who might be involved in technology in the academy. That’s right, if you happen to be involved in using technology in … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Genealogical Networks

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Genealogy would seem most amenable to network visualization and analytics, until one realizes just how tangled up certain families can be… Women in light red and men in light blue are connected to family units (grey) based on their type … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Legacy

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Roberto Busa died on Monday.  He was 97.  My first exposure to the old Jesuit was the foreword to A Companion to Digital Humanities, where he wrote of the grace of God in the invention of magnetic media.  Busa’s “Perspectives … Continue reading →

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When Captcha Goes Bad

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

This is the second bad captcha I’ve had to deal with on the form I’m filling out.  Captcha and other methods of assessing the humanity of Internet communication likely have enough material for several PhDs.  I think we’d all be … Continue reading →

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Hackering

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

It’s Thursday, which means I’m sitting in the Lit Lab for Hackerspace 2 here at Stanford–an attempt to provide a collaborative environment to share expertise in using digital tools to explore humanities topics.  I think of this little experiment as … Continue reading →

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THATCamp Bay Area, Pt. 2, Electric Googleoo

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

October 22-23 will see a new THATCamp hosted by Google.  Regardless of one’s feeling about unconferences, the Google Campus is always a nice place to visit.

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The Digital Humanities as Hackerspace

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Today is the first attempt at creating a Humanities Hackerspace here at Stanford.  I’ll be joining Ryan Heuser, hacker and lab manager for the Literary Lab, and the possibility of more Stanford alt-ac types (like Academic Technology Specialists Matt Jockers … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Lightning Rod

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

The recent New York Times story on Franco Moretti’s & Matt Jockers’ Stanford Lit Lab presents two classic criticisms of the Digital Humanities: that it is scientism at worst and, at best, using computers to do what humans can already … Continue reading →

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The MMORPG Spring?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Massively multiplayer games have seen all manner of recapitulation of real-world emergent phenomena within their simulated realms (sometimes fostered and sometimes entirely unintended).  But now, Rock, Paper Shotgun is reporting an on-line riot in the science fiction shooter MMORPG Eve … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Culturomics

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Erez Aiden and JB Michel just finished their keynote and signaled the end of DH11 (except for a dinner and a few tours of Northern California) and capped off what was, for me, an extremely enjoyable and terribly useful conference.  … Continue reading →

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