Archive for January, 2011

Notes on Freebase workshop at THATCamp SoCal

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

The below is cross-posted from the THATCamp SoCal (The Humanities and Technology Camp Southern California) blog at http://socal2011.thatcamp.org/01/12/notes-on-freebase-bootcamp-session/ *** I've been hearing about Freebase for awhile now, especially from Jon Voss, who organized and ran THATCamp Bay Area, so I figured I'd go to that BootCamp session here at THATCamp SoCal. I'm ...

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Your Twitter followers and Facebook friends won’t read your peer-reviewed article if they have to pay for it, and neither will strangers

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Here's the paper I'm giving today at the Modern Language Association convention in Los Angeles at the panel "The Open Professoriat: Public Intellectuals on the Social Web." You can see the slides on Google Docs and embedded below; the text of the talk (also given below) is in the speaker ...

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