theorywatch

How can you fail to be inspired by someone who helped create this?

Dr. Turkel of Digital History Hacks has a fascinating post about the OCR arms race, which is a part of the ongoing war on malware. Everything that is collected must converge….

Today a thread in the Competitive Intelligence class discussion forum on CI and intellectual property that Ethan’s running mentioned Harvard History of Science doctoral student Alex Wellerstein’s research on patenting the atomic bomb. (Thanks, Mike and Ethan!) While that in itself is interesting enough, Wellerstein’s website mentions a paper he’s written that I find even more intriguing: Diagrams of destruction: Secrecy, style, and the drawing of nuclear weapons: Read more…

Interesting thoughts from Trevor Owens on what he terms the growing trend toward “radical transparency of sources in historical writing”. Yes, and if this “network activation” in historical writing becomes the norm, what might that also portend for practices of colligation? (Let alone for those of us looking to advance citation analytic practice!)

For some reason, this, this, and this immediately made me think of this.

I feel better already.

I have two tracks in mind for the fall course I’ll be teaching, given the variety of folks I’m hoping to attract to the class: one Library 2.0-oriented and the other information entrepreneurship-oriented. So I was trawling the web for some ideas to spark discussions in the second track (“Intellectual Venture Capital”) and came across the concept of “dark tourism,” which is currently being studied (and marketed) by certain academic-related institutions such as the Dark Tourism Forum in Lancashire. “Dark Satanic Mills”, indeed!