Thanks for addressing the difficult problem of making hand-written and hand-emended manuscripts available as accurate digital texts. Fwiw, the Portuguese Republic is slowly transcribing several centuries of its […]
If you haven’t had the chance, the retired statistician Edward Tufte’s one-day course on “Presenting Data and Information” is tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, 16 October (yet again) in New York […]
My students have had much good luck with Dropbox. Among other things, when logged into a Guest Account on a classroom Mac, they can temporarily install DropBox in their “Guest Space” and use its file […]
Hooray for the well-thumbed paperback! That “the iPads were shared devices” and only available during class time is a dreadful handicap and — for now — probably common.
Pardon my digression: one useful history and definition of crowdsourcing is (of course) crowdsourced at the redoubtable wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing I mention this because some number of self-selecting contributors have built and revised this single wikipedia entry more than five-hundred times in the last four years.…[Read more]
Are you British? As owner of half a dozen gripping vises (in my Connecticut barn and woodshop), and possessor of two gripping vices (centered around my New York liquor cabinet and larder), I’m reluctant to chastise Jobs’s spelling or use err…
I like this Commons because it gave me a lead on a small lab full of ridiculously-robust Macs at Mina Rees Library: no more waiting around while editing photographs!
