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Kristi’s sly smile

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A girl and her Mojo

There has been a movement afoot at home to add a dog to the family. I resisted and have ultimately lost the election. For a while the momentum seemed to be in my favor for about 6 weeks, but the Internets overwhelmed my rational arguments for moderation. Finally, Kristi, Amelia, and Eli found a cute Cairn Terrier/Papillion mutt, at a shelter, just a couple hours south.  We now have a new pet, who had been named Jo, which is kinda dumb. So, why not get ourselves a little Mojo? Here she is.

Eyal Weizman offers and incisive portrait of David Harvey and his view of the city in this essay that broadly thinks about the implications of Harvey’s work for understanding cities and offers a novel conception of having a right to the city. Roundtable: Research Architecture | David Harvey–The Right to the City.

Question for us in Cleveland. How do we get the crowd to source our projects for us? Great article.

Mozilla’s Crowdsourcing Mystique - BusinessWeek.

Powerful essay explores the ways in which Digital Humanities research is ongoing, and not fixed. This dynamism is a critical difference between digital and non-digital projects.

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research.