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Hmmm, wouldn’t that be a “Spirit Guard”? (Or perhaps “Zombie Guard”?) Compound words and hyphenation… two great tastes that go great together.

ANVC Scalar looks very promising: Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. [...]

I just read Evgeny Morozov’s critique of Tim O’Reilly in the Baffler. It misses its mark pretty widely. I know Tim, and have worked with him on some of the things mentioned in the piece, and I don’t recognize the man Morozov thinks he’s found. The article is profoundly intellectually ungenerous. If there are N [...]

The RSS feed for this site is now fixed. Thanks, Gunnar.

At the bottom of this otherwise good article is a little circle with the label “604 Kudos” next to it (the number will be different by the time you see it): sashmackinnon.com/what-its-like-to-die If you move your mouse pointer into that circle, without clicking, the circle reacts and the text changes for a second or so [...]

For some reason, I’ve always liked pictures that manage to capture the mood of music. Perhaps it’s because of the inherent impossibility of a still image showing something we experience dynamically as sounds over time. Such pictures are literally evocative, because second-order evocation is all they can do — they can remind you of a completely non-visual [...]

OpenITP’s first round of 2013 project funding is still open for proposals! The deadline for application is 31 March 2013 Contact: sandraordonez {_AT_} openitp.org Reposted from OpenITP.org (see also the OpenITP FAQ for answers to common questions about applying for an OpenITP project grant): Should your project apply? Here’s some help deciding: OpenITP project grants are meant [...]

My Kickstarter campaign to update my book Producing Open Source Software has passed the funding threshold — thank you, backers! — and now is going into overfunding. This is great news, and is what I’d hoped (though not anticipated). I’d like to spend as much time as I can on the revisions, so am trying to push the overfunding [...]

I meant to announce this last week, but some very sad circumstances intervened (see the previous blog entry). Now there are 19 days left in my Kickstarter campaign to fund doing a second edition of Producing Open Source Software. I still hope to reach the goal, of course, because I want to give the revisions [...]

By now anyone reading this blog has already heard the news about Aaron. I already posted an obituary and remembrance over at QuestionCopyright.org, so will just refer to that. At the end of it there are links to two collectively-built memorial sites on the Internet. Sad, sad time.