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how to enable scholarship to travel more freely on the open web.

He and his colleagues are keenly interested in the ability to annotate scholarship online, he says; Mellon has made serious investments in annotation tools and the development of open annotation standards by the university community and projects like Hypothes.is, which just received a two-year, $752,000 grant from the foundation to look into digital annotation in humanities and social-science scholarship.

Rethinking how graduate students are trained—an issue also on the agendas of scholarly societies like the Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association, both Mellon grantees—could help. The rise of digital scholarship represents "a huge opportunity," Ms. Westermann says. "Not everyone’s going to love the digital humanities, nor probably does everyone have to, but it would be good to begin to build the opportunity to develop that competency right into doctoral education rather than waiting till 10 years out" from graduate school to do it.

Mellon backing of digitally minded scholars and tools has played a considerable role in the rise of the digital humanities, as has its support—quiet, like most Mellon activities, but substantial—for making those tools and their products openly available.

the creation of digital editions, including the papers of the Founding Fathers,

—both in the future as a better world and as one in which the United States bestrides the globe as a colossus. 2

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The ugly little word hung in the air, exuding its aroma of illicit information.

Writing is a powerful search mechanism,

how to leave some kind of record of your life

with a cranium so large, bald, and oblong that you can’t help but think of words like “jumbo” and “Grade A.”

“I look to see if someone has a marine strategy, for taking the beach; an army strategy, for taking the country; and a police strategy, for governing the country afterward.”

movements

“co-opitition.”

A great V.C. keeps his ears pricked for a disturbing story with the elements of a fairy tale.

. The tale ends in heaping treasure chests for all,

monetizable dissatisfaction.

After the pitch, he told me that Mixpanel is “a picks-and-shovels business right in the middle of the gold rush.”

—a “unicorn,” in the local parlance.

a16z. (There are sixteen letters between the “a” in Andreessen and the “z” in Horowitz.)

seethes with beliefs.

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I do wander everywhere,

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the great collection put together by his colleagues in 1623, called the First Folio (F).

Come, my Hippolyta. What cheer, my love?

examine well your blood,

Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes

Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword

a more recent tool,

First stop, for me,

building a web (haha)

One of my favorite activities is annotation, moving towards thinking about critical editions.

Not printed

. Like Don Quixote

YOU will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

h uman computation games (HCGs).

I might be complicit in the death of the humanities.

4) I will have a thesis,

2) I will not read my paper line by line in a monotone without looking at the audience. I needn’t necessarily abide by some entertainment imperative, with jokes, anecdotes or flashy slides, but I will strive to maintain a certain compassion toward my captive audience.

We have sat patiently and politely through talks read line by line in a monotone voice by a speaker who doesn’t look up once, wondering why we couldn’t have read the paper ourselves in advance with a much greater level of absorption.

Some scholars love conferences. They love the ritual as described above.

Hirschorn and the rest of the show’s staff are gathered in the artificial twilight of a VH1 editing room,

“I knew we offered something YouTube couldn’t: television,” he says. “Everyone wants to be on TV.”

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will be shot.

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,

with these simple words,

wild-meat species.

Maintain or restore ecosystem integ- rity.

but we now face a massive human-induced extinction crisis,

teaching, studying, researching, and practicing the humanities.

dispiriting professional climate

from developing MLA Commons into our town square

techno-fundamentalism

The exceptions do not apply to supplemental wages greater than $1,000,000.

and that perhaps we could try to remind our elected officials that one never knows which languages might become strategic tomorrow.

“enemy languages.”

The idea that Americans might also serve as “informal cultural ambassadors and engage in an exchange of knowledge and culture while overseas” is now unthinkable in official Washington even though it is part of the language of Fulbright-Hays.

Adjunct Project, a Web site that would allow contingent faculty members to upload the details of their working conditions.

In fact, the year has been somewhat encouraging on that front. Upon returning from Washington in January, I reported on the New Faculty Majority summit for Inside Higher Ed

Facebook’s terms of service are not international law.

If social media is no longer made up of people, what is it?

One Indonesian click farmer told me that he had funneled two million Facebook likes to a candidate in his nation’s hotly contested July 2014 presidential election.

(Ring JPMorgan Chase or Microsoft customer support, and there’s a good chance you’ll be connected to a Filipino in Cebu City whose excellent English is part of the legacy of the American colonization of the Philippines.)

Facebook claimed 1.39 billion active monthly users

West sought to account for the suffering of black America by steering between the arguments of conservative behaviorists and liberal structuralists. He thought it was important to acknowledge self-inflicted injuries as well as dehumanizing forces.

A photo of the exchange exists: West frozen like a dear brother in the headlights as he smiled broadly and stood speechless.

writing is about contrived naturalness: rigging the system of meaning to turn out the way you want, and making it look normal and inevitable in the process.

Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one’s past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one’s present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink.

hese students now face, for their pains: Naturalism.

It is the beginning of December in Cambridge.

feature that we hope

WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,

In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song.

Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now, We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

send to friends, colleagues, facebook friends, twitter followers, people on reddit, etc.

Once you’ve left an annotation on a page,

Here’s a browser with a local PDF in one tab

it also gives you control over your own annotations so that you’re able to collect them elsewhere.

Indeed, it would be possible to have classes construct their own self-edited anthologies of source materials—

What Bush and Engelbart dramatize is a world in which that experience is made vivid and accessible.

Lurking behind their imaginative essays is an ideal of full comprehension–that we might be able to truly understand one another if we could just track down all the relevant influences and contexts and motives. We can also see how such a vision becomes oddly depersonalizing.

Vannevar Bush’s hypothetical “memex,”

those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world’s record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

as well the ability to see how others read.

Ending two years of speculation

bananas.

abstract

John Perry Barlow

Governments of the Industrial World,

American Online (AOL) recruits volunteers to be “guides”. Guides spend nine hours online a week policing the AOL service and an additional two hours reading email and filling out reports. Guides greet new members and make them feel welcome, answer user questions about AOL, promote online attractions and events, complete market research, and enforce the AOL’s terms of service. Guides monitor chat rooms, newsgroups, and email messages. AOL expects guides to report to AOL officials and to enforce the AOL’s rules by warning rule violators.

architectural algorithm

So many stories

the capacity to capture a moment and contribute to the ongoing constitution of a nonuni- fied collective intelligence outside and in between the blind alleys of the silicon age.

The pervasiveness of such production questions the legitimacy of a fixed distinction between production and consumption, labor and culture.

It is fundamental to move beyond the notion that cyberspace is about escaping reality in order to understand how the reality of the Internet is deeply connected to the development of late postindustrial societies as a whole.

connections between the “digital economy” and what the Italian autonomists have called the “social factory.” The “social factory” describes a process whereby “work processes have shifted from the factory to society, thereby setting in motion a truly complex machine.” 2 Simultaneously voluntarily given and unwaged, enjoyed and exploited, free labor on the Net

“moronic management of new media companies.”

our toil

By making the classic texts of the New Folger Editions available in electronic form as Folger Digital Texts, we place a trusted resource in the hands of anyone who wants them

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Temporal and spatial regulation

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But the net itself was born of a fairly good regulatory framework that made sure de facto net neutrality existed for decades, paid for basic research into protocols and software, cleared the way for business use of the internet, and encouraged the growth of the commercial web.

AdSense.

paid ads that pretend to be related links.

We're addicted to 'big data' not because it's effective now, but because we need it to tell better stories.

What happens if Facebook goes out of business, like so many of the social networks that came before it? Or if Facebook gets acquired by a credit agency? How about if it gets acquired by Rupert Murdoch, or taken private by a hedge fund? What happens to all that data?

You could argue (and I do!) that this data is actually safer in government hands. In the US, at least, there's no restriction on what companies can do with our private information, while there are stringent limits (in theory) on our government. And the NSA's servers are certainly less likely to get hacked by some kid in Minsk.

The relationship between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley has historically been very cozy. The former head of Facebook security now works at NSA. Dropbox just added Condoleeza Rice, an architect of the Iraq war, to its board of directors. Obama has private fundraisers with the same people who are supposed to champion our privacy.

The degree of centralization is remarkable. Consider that Google now makes hardware, operating systems, and a browser. It's not just possible, but fairly common for someone to visit a Google website from a Google device, using Google DNS servers and a Google browser on the way.

Over the past year, we've learned a lot about the extent to which the American government monitors the Internet.

What the cloud is is a big collection of buildings and computers that we actually know very little about, run by a large American company notorious for being pretty terrible to its workers. Who knows what angry sysadmin lurks inside the cloud?

One of them pretends to be more open than the other, but it's mostly a matter of marketing. In practice they both have complete control of their ecosystem.

There's another reason, besides fear, that's driving us to save everything. That reason is hubris. You've all seen those TV shows where the cops are viewing a scene from space, and someone keeps hitting "ENHANCE", until pretty soon you can count the bacteria on the criminal's license plate. We all dream of building that 'enhance' button. In the past, we were going to build it with artificial intelligence. Now we believe in "Big Data". Collect enough information, think of a clever enough algorithm, and you can find anything. This is the classic programmer's delusion, the belief that if you look deep enough, there's a hidden deterministic pattern. Tap the chisel on the right spot and the rock will crack open.

I'd much rather look at this bird than at Scoble.

Online, everything is recorded by default, and you may not know where or by whom. If you've ever wondered why Facebook is such a joyless place, even though we've theoretically surrounded ourselves with friends and loved ones, it's because of this need to constantly be wearing our public face. Facebook is about as much fun as a zoning board hearing.

And then when I grew up, I helped build it for real.

Look at this guy! Isn't he great?

When the view control is set to “All” users can create public and private annotations

All.”

[User clicks on view control]

Joining a page group as simple as clicking the link. Anyone who visits the page group url is taken to the webpage the group was made on, with the page group set as view.

Possible name: Margins

the potential to recover for readers some of the utopian potential of networked writing spaces

You can get a feel for the platform by seeing some of the commentary on this Atlantic piece about ad-driven media content.

to .pdfs,

The next wave of networked annotation aims at enabling communities of users to scribble in the margins of web pages.

Note: I used digress.it for these latter projects, a “fork” in the development of CommentPress that has floundered in recent years.

and allows a comment to be pegged to a particular paragraph.

Unlike traditional, print-based annotating, these newer practices emerging in networked digital platforms are intensely social.

One of the most striking aspects of the Web-saturated lives we lead is that we constantly write on things: comments on blog posts (like this one: you know you want to!), captions or reflections on Instagram images or Facebook updates, and even product reviews on Amazon constitute a major form of public sphere participation for us and especially our students.

even jotting down students’ comments on the chalkboard during class discussions

The Wealth of Networks

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its interests in relationship to those who have no property and thus no calculable interests, and who are therefore imagined to harbor a potentially criminal disregard for propertied order.

ohn C. Urschel Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, Pennsyl vania, USA Email: urschel@math.psu.edu

It also undermines Gilroy's distinction between work as "servitude, misery and subordination" and artistic expression as the means to self-fashioning and communal liberation. The increasingly blurred territory between production and consumption, work and cultural expression,

ncludes the activity of building Web sites, modifying software packages, reading and participating in mailing lists, and building virtual spaces on MUDs and MOOs

the glamorization of digital labor,

WORKING PAPER DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

they are structurally inhibited from making our own lives meaningful.

we are compensated not with wages but with a stronger sense of self, measurable in hard, quantifiable terms. How many friends do you have? How often do they update? How many photos have you shared? How many times have they been looked at? And so on.

The more effort we put into crafting identity online, the more material we supply to Facebook and search engines to associate with contextual ads and other marketing initiatives.

social media essentially allows us to interact with one another as brands.

Services like Facebook succeed by making the process of ordering our social lives much more convenient

to take on the characteristics of what autonomist Marxists like Paolo Virno and Toni Negri call the social factory, in which the effort we put into our social lives becomes a kind of covert work that can be co-opted by the tech companies that help us “share” and “connect.”

395'000'000 / 1320'000'000 = .30 So, the average user would earn about 30 cents, per quarter.

In the culture of surveillance, evidence collection is never-ending, a shadow to every activity. These daily interactions with (and production of) data, however unwitting they may be, are mediated by some interface somewhere. Their codes of transmission permeate our offline lives: the hashtags, likes, swipes, physical and metaphorical embodiments of intimate data exchanges.

this perspective reflects a certain hegemonic order of knowledge.

As our relationships with interfaces progress, we may find that no amount of design improvement can allow the platforms to address our needs automatically and anticipate our changes of heart.

I quit Facebook in 2012.

There is a huge difference between searching and finding.

Cerf, who holds the title of “chief Internet evangelist” at Google, warned about the incipient reality of lost and incomplete digital archives.

Google now does this with its enterprise and educational email tools, promising paying users that their email is now exempt from the creepy content-based ad targeting that characterizes its free product. Would Google allow users to may a modest subscription fee and opt out of this obvious, heavy-handed surveillance?

it creates incentives to produce and share content that generates pageviews and mouse clicks, but little thoughtful engagement.

no apparent escape from escalating surveillance to create more attractive business propositions.

Users have been so well trained to expect surveillance that even when widespread, clandestine government surveillance was revealed by a whistleblower, there has been little organized, public demand for reform and change.

Outrage over experimental manipulation of these profiles by social networks and dating companies has led to heated debates amongst the technologically savvy, but hasn’t shrunk the user bases of these services, as users now accept that this sort of manipulation is an integral part of the online experience.

Demonstrating that you’re going to target more and better than Facebook requires moving deeper into the world of surveillance—tracking users' mobile devices as they move through the physical world, assembling more complex user profiles by trading information between data brokers.

Targeting to intent (as Google’s search ads do) works well, while targeting to demographics, psychographics or stated interests (as Facebook does) works marginally better than not targeting at all.

But the profit per user is just under $0.60.

the important idea of “free cultural labor”

investor storytime

Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad.

photos of cute cats.

Sell T-shirts and other branded merch!

not because Zuckerberg, Brin, and Page are scheming, sinister masterminds, but due to good intentions gone awry.

“free as in beer”

If you are a person who spends a good deal of time around things like art, or books, or songs, you are likely to recognize in yourself some resonant echo of the feeling: I just mean the desire to bring an unflattened attentiveness, a suppler articulacy, to the scene of works you find provoking, captivating, involving in ways that fracture the terms of address that surround them.

Do you remember the day, baby, you drove me from your door?