The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures Hello, old friends. I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things: Facial Attitude. In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. One of the first things we noticed when diving into our pool of photos is that men and women have very different approaches to the camera. Women smile about 50% more than men do and make that flirty-face four times as often. Now, you’re always told to look happy and make eye contact in social situations, but at least for your online dating photo, that’s just not optimal advice. Notice that, however, that flirting away from the camera is the single worst attitude a woman can take. Men’s photos are most effective when they look away from the camera and don’t smile: Weird. The Cleavage Shot
Retro Scan of the Week The time Apple went AOL. In the lost era between Jobs (1985-1996), Apple produced many strange and ill-fated products. Here we see an ad for eWorld, Apple's subscription dial-up online service that launched in June 1994. eWorld offered proprietary features like message forums, email, weather, news, and other information in a fashion similar to CompuServe, Prodigy, or AOL. It also provided an early consumer portal to the Internet. Due to its high price ($8.95 per month plus $7.90 per hour from 6 AM to 6 PM on weekdays), poor marketing, and the fact that the World Wide Web was breathing down its neck, eWorld never really took off. By the way, Happy New Year! [ From Discover, May 1995, p.27 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: Did you ever use a subscription online service?
Sex.com et Sexe.org mis en vente : un faux bon coup ? (mis à jou Dessine moi Internet Joli sujet ouvert pour une séance de travail de groupe. C’est le prétexte retenu pour un apprentissage sur l’organisation d’une séance de débat en groupe et la découverte des cartes conceptuelles. De plus , se poser la question de ce qu’est Internet au démarrage d’une formation d’ingénieurs en "Télécom" ou plutôt STIC paraît assez légitime. C’est donc le sujet de la seconde séance de notre projet élèves d’apprentissage par projets. Mais au fait, qu’est ce qu’Internet ? Wikipedia nous précise bien qu’Internet est bien le réseau des réseaux, système standardisé d’interconnexion des réseaux, à ne pas confondre avec le Web, qui n’en est qu’une des applications, en tant que toile d’hyperliens accessibles depuis un navigateur, tout comme le courrier électronique ;Mon collègue Gwendal Simon (@gwendal) a fait une présentation « Internet, pourquoi ça marche ? La préparation de la séance s’effectue par une attribution préalable des trois rôles standards d’une telle séance : Like this:
In Woman’s Day Magazine: How To Get A Raise At Work? Clean Your Vagina Yes, you read that title correctly, and no it’s not The Onion spoofing anyone: via the Meeting Boy Tumblr, I found Want a raise? Wash your vagina (dailykos.com). In a post today, Daily Kos’s dhonig points out that one of the nation’s top-read conservative women’s magazines Woman’s Day is running a large ad from Summer’s Eve that combines advertising and editorial, telling women “how to ask for a raise” with the first and top suggestion being that women should thoroughly clean their vaginas the morning they plan to assert their worth in the workplace and ask for higher wages. Yes: we now know the *real* reason women are paid less. Summer’s Eve is a company that primarily sells vaginal douches. This is so many all kinds of wrong, it’s difficult to know where to start. But let’s look at Summer’s Eve’s core product. I don’t understand how a magazine “for women” such as Woman’s Day could allow this, all the way through approval and edits, and by printing it, are endorsing the message.
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Summer 2011 Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab James Smithies, King's College London; Carina Westling, King's College London; Anna-Maria Sichani, King's College London; Pam Mellen, King's College London; Arianna Ciula, King's College London Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule Brandon W. Towards 3D Scholarly Editions: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge Costas Papadopoulos, Maastricht University; Susan Schreibman, Maastricht University Music Scholarship Online (MuSO): A Research Environment for a More Democratic Digital Musicology Timothy C. DH2018: A Space to Build Bridges Molly Nebiolo, Northeastern University; Gregory J. Velvet Evolution: A Review of Lev Manovich's Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) Alan Bilansky, University of Illinois Curating Crowds: A Review of Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage (Ashgate, 2014) Victoria Van Hyning, Library of Congress
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Humanistica | The future European Association for Digital Humanities The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library Association I’m home again after a very interesting session about building a National Digital Public Library at the Los Angeles Public Library and I’d like to recap it while offering a few of my own opinions for the readers. Public librarians reading this post: a national digital library movement is most certainly underway, and quite frankly I think it may be the only thing that will prevent our libraries as we know them from simply fading from relevance. I’m aware that my opinions on these matters may be a bit controversial for those libraries and librarians kicking back out there, those that believe providing access to books for public consumption will remain a useful, supported service that your community will tax themselves to keep around. It was excellent to have so many strong voices from public libraries pondering the difficult predicament libraries find themselves in as content lenders in the digital environment. The meeting in Los Angeles was not about this path.
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy Alessandra Tosi on a must-read for the massed ranks who fret about the future of the humanities At a time of great uncertainty about the future of the humanities, this informed and stimulating book buzzes with excitement for the opportunities that digital technology can offer to humanities researchers. Considering all aspects of the academic process, from authoring to the nature of text and from referring to dissemination and engagement with readers, Planned Obsolescence enthuses about digital technology's potential to reconnect humanities research with broader social debates, policymakers and general readers. But it also carries a stark warning: do nothing and our disciplines will cease to be relevant. The prolonged economic crisis has given new urgency to debates about the role of the humanities. Fitzpatrick goes to the heart of the matter while avoiding the temptation to voice yet another pessimistic meditation on the humanities "crisis". The Author By Kathleen Fitzpatrick