Category Archives: Natural Law

Julia Flanders found my use of the Los Angeles Raiders great, Vincent “Bo” Jackson, to be a poor representation of California.  Given her dominant position within the large “Imperial” component of the DH11 network, as well as her excellent paper, … Continue reading →

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks | Comments Off

Authentic California Culture

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Tecmo’s US headquarters was in Terrence, CA.  The greatest Tecmo Bowl player played for the Los Angeles Raiders.  If we must orientalize California, let us move beyond hippies. Bo knows the Digital Humanities.

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Digital Humanities 2011 Day 0

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

It’s the first pre-conference workshop day for this year’s Digital Humanities conference.  I’ll be taking part in the Visualizing Literary History workshop and vigorously protesting the orientalization of California and Californians as depicted by the conference attire, logo, internet password, … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 6, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

One of DH2011′s MCNs* Beth Nowviskie has addressed a thorny issue of Digital Humanities scholarship, how and where to give credit for collaborative work.  It’s excellent and it highlights many of the issues of description and evaluation of collaboratively-engaged scholarship. … Continue reading →

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What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers.

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Elijah Meeks | Comments Off

The Open Source Fetish

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Richard Stallman stopped by and gave a talk at the Stanford Law School yesterday where I tried, with the financial support of some of my compatriots–unsuccessfully–to buy his stuffed gnu.  He gave what has become the typical RMS talk on … Continue reading →

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Testing out Flash on an iPad

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Stanford is closed for the end of the year, and so during that time I’m going to repost some (slightly amended) material that I posted elsewhere (such as at HASTAC during my time as a HASTAC scholar).  Here is a … Continue reading →

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Protesters Using Digital Mapping Tools

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The protests against tuition hikes in London today are leveraging Google Maps to track official response (and Godzilla, apparently).  I’m not a fan of Google Maps or the entire Google Geo Ecosystem, but the ability to quickly create and update … Continue reading →

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Cathy Davidson Nominated to sit on the National Council of the Humanities

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

In a press release yesterday, the White House announced the nomination of Cathy Davidson as member of the National Council of the Humanities, which advises the NEH Chair.  At Duke, Cathy has long been a proponent of integrating digital methods, … Continue reading →

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The Hydra

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

Wikileaks.org was shut down late last night or early this morning, and already a host of services and sites have rushed into the gap to provide access to the existing dataset of leaked material.  It is all a very interesting … Continue reading →

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