CUNY Academic Commons | Aaron Knoll | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/aaronknoll/activity/ Activity feed for Aaron Knoll. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 270820cbad2806bda299b369fa7ac597 Aaron Knoll and tmof are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/222122/ Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:11:40 -0400 322d39d04b5f92df15edda1ca772e238 Aaron Knoll and Boone Gorges (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/205580/ Mon, 13 May 2013 11:09:34 -0400 492333c1e2660c58f3dee58dfab472f2 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship https://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/on-technology/on-coding-in-the-digital-humanities/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:43:49 -0400 ThumbnailA bonus entry. A post I wrote last September and never published. -Aaron

Among all the recurrent questions surrounding the mainstream emergence of the “digital humanities,” most divisive seems to be the […]

]]> 596cc77bee81a43d0925c9b8d931d8e0 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about-myself/farewell-for-now/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:42:21 -0400 It’s with great excitement that I embark upon the next challenge of my career, moving on to work for Teach for America. But it is with great sadness that I leave behind the Graduate Center and my work with the […]

]]> b86efef6790f2fc39f55701ff1127454 Aaron Knoll and Ashley Williard are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/203042/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:17:05 -0400 67fcfa09b38476907956f6a49b0e5938 Aaron Knoll and Polly Thistlethwaite are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/200967/ Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:17:50 -0400 f72baf8a2d1dfd8b3d8ada27483b93d7 Aaron Knoll and Micki Kaufman are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/197934/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:05:13 -0400 d7bd8f6b5c92b0ffb7395d0eb0004bfe Aaron Knoll joined the group Digital Dissertations https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/197882/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:31:49 -0400 d532538c4286bbd5a204f1adb7ae673c Aaron Knoll and A.L. McMichael are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81501/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:05:29 -0400 e3aadea04f3aef5fb244b312860f9df5 Aaron Knoll replied to the forum topic Omeka 2.0 in the group Omeka http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/omeka/forum/topic/omeka-2-0/?topic_page=1#post-10161 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:37:53 -0400 I would hope that support is provided [and I’m pretty sure it is based on what I’ve read]. That would be a MONSTER if it wasn’t.

I always wondered if it was secure simply because no one can be troubled to […]

]]> 701942788cf041b18c1fd2bd8171dfe3 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/on-technology/on-omeka-2-0/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:27:52 -0400 ThumbnailIf you’ve been working on a site using Omeka, you’ve hopefully caught wind of the new version that’s arriving rather quickly [October to be exact]. In my work with the American Social History Project/Center for […]

]]> c2002736cd907026e1bbdd9877adb31c Aaron Knoll started the forum topic Omeka 2.0 in the group Omeka http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/omeka/forum/topic/omeka-2-0/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:50:08 -0400 Just curious if anyone else has been working on an Omeka site that might be impacted by the change to version 2.0 coming soon. All the changes look rather exciting, but we’ve done a lot of custom plugins and […]

]]> 9c7a21f0a38bda8e3dac55215f1c6e0a Aaron Knoll and Suzanne Tamang are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81396/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:22:18 -0400 2d01f516b40a1b85fd96157c16eb314f Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/09/11/on-choices-in-os-a-personal-history/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:50:27 -0400 First, let us have a digression to set the stage:

In my spare time [as a hobby] I write and record music. And I’ve been hemming and hawing about what my new setup should be like. Currently I use a laptop which […]

]]> 534e043b49840f237c4d7605299553a9 Aaron Knoll and Erin Glass are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81331/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:52:38 -0400 b590460e7ebb3af729a9648f6e2c999c Aaron Knoll and Andrew G McKinney are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81318/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:03:19 -0400 edaa3d266b3594bd6eed3fe637c4e44f Aaron Knoll and Amy are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81311/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:52:50 -0400 ca888c227bb6d4a687e5cfac765f76b2 Aaron Knoll joined the group CUNY Technology Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81308/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:47:53 -0400 8f0ce3e180d0db43ac35b41578048ab9 Aaron Knoll joined the group CUNY Developers Forum https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/81307/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:47:45 -0400 a3261a9a9e1a863df1d7831329529c7b Aaron Knoll and Jared Simard are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/80769/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:03:03 -0400 46941a715ca0c661a3fcbbddede9a656 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/07/26/on-creativity/ Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:22:55 -0400 Recently, Eathan Janney, a graduate student researcher in the New Media Lab from the Biology – Neuroscience department interviewed me for his Locateflow project about the nature of creativity. We had a pretty […]

]]> 36ddf5dadc13800216f3a1e6f59e7fe0 Aaron Knoll commented on the post, On Data Visualization, on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/06/21/a-little-bit-of-data-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:16:02 -0400 Also forgot to mention, the demo works in Chrome right now. It is not 100% cross-browser as of posting.

]]> 66981cca306eb4faba7df126b0f53ecd Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/06/21/a-little-bit-of-data-visualization/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:24:07 -0400 ThumbnailThis won’t be a particularly long post, but it’s something that I’ve been working on a little bit that has excited me. There’s a lot of great javascript tools for designing sleek visualizations on the web right […]

]]> 190c9e467b97afbc47cbb9b6c364479f Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/23/on-text-analysis-for-the-web/ Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:12 -0400 ThumbnailFirst, a little bit of an introduction. The easy part of any technical project is figuring out “how to do it.”  Sometimes students in the New Media Lab come to me to figure out the “how,” and I am always glad to […]

]]> c0f7ca189c6280f7ba233f5f5d2d195e Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/07/whats-in-a-name/ Mon, 07 May 2012 19:08:40 -0400 Searching through a popular music blog such as Stereogum or Pitchfork, one could be easily mistaken in their attempts to understand a new generation of band names. Neologisms abound, name changes are frequent and […]

]]> 0c51b3df222b104df1718dcb6788a27e Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/16/on-great-power-and-great-responsibility/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:24:38 -0400 ThumbnailI’ve never been much of a fan of comic books, but I’ve nevertheless found the quote “with great power comes great responsibility” to be an apt quote for many circumstances that arise while in the web […]

]]> 4ced37e24f2213ceb2ecfddc4ba9141f Aaron Knoll commented on the post, On Omeka, on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/01/03/on-omeka/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:35:30 -0500 Thanks, but also thank you. It was the experience working with you, Jared, Shawndel and others that went a long way towards helping me develop this more nuanced view of Omeka.

]]> 6b751f8d324c9f0e9eaea28999f8c08c Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/01/19/on-doing-something-cool/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:43:32 -0500 ThumbnailWeb Technology moves at a very fast speed. (obviously)

But the hardest part of being a web developer is the question of “when can I use this awesome new technology?” If you haven’t seen the site CanIUse.com, […]

]]> 8336aba42a4e4acfd9de76531a41e16b Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/01/11/on-open-source-alternatives-and-education/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:38:26 -0500 I don’t believe I’ve made it a secret: I believe strongly in the mission of free and open-source software. I see them as great tools for democratizing technical spaces. Once the burden of cost is removed, the only […]

]]> 6a416affa736395c2b5fadb48732402e Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/01/03/on-omeka/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:24:47 -0500 ThumbnailI’ve been a big supporter of Omeka.I love the archive and information science oriented hierarchy. I love the considerations taken for small archival institutions. Really, I mean all of this sincerely. There’s a […]

]]> 31c0013ea0977308bfb440585e0b221d Aaron Knoll and Jesse Merandy (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/60687/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:28:20 -0500 b549aa2d9ea56c06aaf187a120deaf46 Aaron Knoll and Sarah Morgano are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/60685/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:23:18 -0500 7469e023c8abe2613042d41ba314ad94 Aaron Knoll and Donna Thompson Ray are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/60682/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:40:14 -0500 39243fce300478f2fc1693d1a13b59c9 Aaron Knoll and Kimon Keramidas are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/56125/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:26:57 -0400 5a153d67af6968d3f1cf16f0464cbe65 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/09/28/envisioning-the-future-technology-of-the-new-media-lab/ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:39:09 -0400 ThumbnailLately I’ve been having a rather interesting dilemma. I’ve been thinking about if we were to update a few of our oldest Windows machines, what would I get? We’ve had these top-of-the-line all-the-bells-and-whistles Dells for many years now. I can only hope that many others look on them as I do- as valiant machines who have […]

]]> 91db4dc888416091fb70eb9b3b93ba3e Aaron Knoll and davidstolarz are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/55094/ Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:37:03 -0400 1b33b2dd369f9c00c9f281b126ca2e5f Aaron Knoll commented on the post, on Google+ vs. Facebook, on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/07/19/on-google-vs-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:30:10 -0400 I think you’re right, and it is early and difficult to forecast what happens. I see a lot of posts and articles overstating its claim and forecasting facebook’s demise which for the reasons you also state, I think are greatly premature. I think many people believe it may kill/harm Facebook in the long run, and […]

]]> 15e0df26abd8e9300bb790f50965c955 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/07/19/on-google-vs-facebook/ Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:55:14 -0400 It seems that Google+ will turn out to be the fastest growing social network ever . Using an invite only policy, it managed to drum up significant buzz among the geek and internet elites. It borrowed several features from the once heir apparent Diaspora ( Diaspa-what? remember the six figures worth of funding they generated on Kickstarter just last […]

]]> c2ce448dfc351f2cd6b5b380dcc1b428 Aaron Knoll and Leah Potter are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/52382/ Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:41:46 -0400 c520f1f07b5c120cbdd36c861bca0051 Aaron Knoll and Eathan Janney are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/52370/ Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:46:16 -0400 239b6eefb8e839e616404c8ea9acd192 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/28/on-connections/ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:02:26 -0400 In a lot of ways the New Media Lab has become a throwback form of social networking. Many of us in the lab are on Twitter, we have  blogs,  and are very much present on the web; however, the primary type of networking that occurs with the lab is personal. We talk about projects in person, we have […]

]]> 9f60f0c7070ebd5048d7f7644b57ddeb Aaron Knoll and ozan aksoy are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51890/ Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:07:52 -0400 34cd3e6effe6c5b290c4ab9cd0696bfc Aaron Knoll and Carolina Muñoz Proto are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51797/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:37:53 -0400 aeaebe40c7a63d947c422545d791d536 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/15/on-curation-and-expertise/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:30:49 -0400 Crowdsourcing is old hat. The moment for letting the public and the masses make sense of content is coming to an end. Sort of. It’s not that sites like last.fm have thrown in the towel on folksonomy; but there is an emerging wave of consensus brewing that what has been missing on the web is “expertise” which I […]

]]> a791839a6e404856add3caf86776f36e Aaron Knoll and Igor Rodriguez are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51760/ Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:13:15 -0400 e855639d80ba354f05b4589279cd6bd5 Aaron Knoll and Hillary Miller are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/51751/ Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:04:00 -0400 52305764f6f927724a822ad0a6a8184b Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/06/10/on-the-self-repair-manifesto/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:30:18 -0400 ThumbnailFirstly, a preface. And this breaks all of my own rules about prefaces in books because I believe that an author’s work should support itself. But grant me this one exception. In the New Media Lab, there exists a standing rule. You cannot talk disparagingly of one operating system over another. Neither Windows nor Mac OS […]

]]> 235ecff9f08c99f65e419556ae6e0a4f Aaron Knoll commented on the post, On Content Management Systems, on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/18/on-content-management-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Fri, 20 May 2011 15:49:39 -0400 Thanks for the response Kimon. You definitely offered a lot to think about in here. I think where Wordpress has come of age is in its development as a CMS. Yes, one part of the primary function is single-authored, dated comment; however, I think that the page function within it is hierarchial and more like […]

]]> 229b6b385bd9b1df34b4ac617c7477aa Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/18/on-content-management-systems/ Wed, 18 May 2011 19:15:47 -0400 At the New Media Lab , we’re currently working on developing a better way of supporting students in the way that they present their work online. Naturally, for many students working on projects where the site itself isn’t the innovation, I strongly endorse content management systems (CMSs). The freedom to focus on the content or the digital innovation […]

]]> cf6b731faab968c274f170ffdd5acfa2 Aaron Knoll wrote a new post on the site Aaron Knoll on Technology, Education and Digital Scholarship http://aaronknoll.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/05/12/on-open-source-alternatives-to-expensive-proprietary-programs/ Thu, 12 May 2011 16:37:26 -0400 Let’s at the outset be frank: I’m aware of the benefits of remote computing . But when talking about career-long sustainability (for those of us without tenure) there’s a challenge in using the big names in the field. The two that I have worked most with are ArcGIS and SPSS statistics. I have extensive amounts of work done in […]

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