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Bill Black: How Ecuador Won By Defying Neoliberal “Washington Consensus” Playbook « naked capitalism.

Actually, all of Yves’ posts this weekend seem interesting. Too interesting: distractions.

Setting and then abiding by limits is a conscious move, not a technological one.

WG: Why didn’t you want to track your users?

GW: Google has been pretty transparent about handing over data to law enforcement, to their credit. I thought that would be inevitable if we store data. Also, it’s just kind of creepy for the search engine to know so much about you. You have your most personal relationship on the Internet with the search engine—medical queries, where you’re going, all tied back to one person. That’s the case even more now; infrastructure in tracking people online has exploded in the last five years.

via DuckDuckGo privacy: A search engine that doesn’t track its users. – Slate Magazine.

Twitter / b_fung: Two of the most important ….

Alexis Tsipras & Slavoj Žižek /// The Role of the European Left ||| 15th May 2013 – YouTube.

WWDC: Peter Kelly Forsakes Android for Joys of iPad Coding – The Mac Observer.

Peter Kelly is the developer behind UX Write, which is a native iOS app for document editing and is able to edit .docx, as well as other formats. (Right now, UX Write uses WebKit for editing and does not do any layout itself; this is logical, if a little surprising, to use WebKit. But Peter has been writing also about using LaTeX, which would be terrific, especially for those in engineering, sciences, or any field where not only do equations need to be represented but much more. See Peter’s post on LaTeX.

Bad Idea of the Week: a $99 Microsoft Office App for the iPhone.

All the more reason for an app that’s been designed for actual uses of the iPad and who want to work with others, not be worked over by the machine. I speak, of course, of UX Write. See the blog.

» Journalists at E.W. Scripps paper have to pay to read their stories JIMROMENESKO.COM.

Bleak.

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With this fourth issue we wrap up the first year of the Journal of

Digital Humanities, and with it, our first twelve months of attempting

to find and promote digital scholarship from the open web using a

system of layered review. The importance of assessment and the

scholarly vetting process around digital scholarship has been foremost

in our minds, as it has in the minds of many others this year. As digital

humanities continues to grow and as more scholars and disciplines

become invested in its methods and results, institutions and scholars

increasingly have been debating how to maintain academic rigor while

accepting new genres and the openness that the web promotes.

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From Journal of Digital Humanities, VOL. 1 NO. 4 FALL 2012

» Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012 Journal of Digital Humanities.