August 2006 Archives
The Online News Association (ONA) has announced the finalists for the 2006 Online Journalism Awards. The awards will be given on October 7th at the 2006 ONA Conference held at the Capital Hilton in Washington D.C..The Online Journalism Awards are "a comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in English-language Web journalism."
Ibsen.net is the official Internet site for Ibsen year 2006 and is by far the largest website about Henrik Ibsen on the World Wide Web - both in sheer volume of information and number of users. Background information on the Norwegian playwright is included as well as a quotation database, plus information on the many Ibsen programs taking place all over the world.
Terry McMillan, author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale, will read from her works and speak to the audience about her life as an author on Tuesday, August 29th at 7:30pm in the Student Center, room 200.
The event is free and open to all. For more information, contact April Eagan at ae07@temple.edu.
The University of California recently launched Calisphere, a free website offering educators, students, and the public access to more than 150,000 images, documents, and other primary source materials from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California. Calisphere's primary sources include photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, and other cultural artifacts that reveal the diverse history and culture of the state.
MySpace is considering unleashing a print magazine to complement its online social networking website. It seems that what was once old media is now new media again.
Read the full article at "MySpace: The Magazine."
JSTOR, the electronic journal database, now features an option for exporting citations. Users may now directly export citations to the EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, and RefWorks products, enabling more seamless formatting and organizing of citations.
For more information about JSTOR citation management, please see the Saving Citations help file: http://www.jstor.org/help/saved_citations_list_help.html.
The British Library has acquired a large collection of personal papers belonging to famed British Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The collection is comprised of 350 bound volumes, including diaries and notebooks, plus 29 large archive boxes. Personal and public correspondences, such as "hundreds of letters to and from luminaries including Matthew Arnold, the poet, William Gladstone, the Prime Minister, Cardinal Newman, the Catholic convert, and the architect AW Pugin" also round out the collection.
Literary scholars may be most interested in the recollections of Coleridge by family members, as well as the schoolbook of young Sir John Taylor Coleridge, the poet's nephew, who used the schoolbook to copy poems from his uncle's original papers. The young nephew's schoolbook may yield significant comparisons with the poet's published volumes.
To read the full article, see "Coleridge's Descendants Sell Papers that Reveal Family's Views on a Maverick Poet."
In recognition of the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web as we know it, The Observer has compiled a list of the 15 most influential websites. A brief sampling of those websites that made the list include: Google, eBay, Amazon, and the social networking site, Myspace.
To view the rest of the list, see Websites that Changed the World.
Joe Rosenthal, famed photo journalist and Pulitzer Prize award winner, died over the weekend. Rosenthal is best known for his moving WWII photo of U.S. Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima - the same photo for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
For further details about Rosenthal's life and works, see the San Francisco Chronicle article.
For further details about Rosenthal's life and works, see the San Francisco Chronicle article.
The Washington Post has launched a new online database for locating political ads. The Political Ads Database includes "political advertisements funded by campaigns, parties, committees, and indepdendent advocacy groups."
Users can browse for ads across 12 subject areas, including by candidate/organization, state, party, type of race, issue, and by medium dissemination. Over 80 political ads from the year 2006 are currently included in the database, and contextual information is provided for individual ads.
Google has sent legal letters to media organizations warning them of copyright infringement action if the Internet search giant's name is not used correctly. The letters follow the entering into the language of the word "to google" as a verb.
For full article, see "Google to Clamp Down on Misuse of its Brand Name" at Digital Bulletin.
The social networking website, MySpace, is one of the latest online media to be used by political candidates.
As reported in the San Diego Union Tribune, California gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides, created an official MySpace profile to reach and gauge younger voters, in addition to post position papers and announcements. With over 5,000 MySpace users designated as “friends,” Angelides seems to have quite the online endorsement list.
To accommodate its growing voting audience (over 80% of registered users are of voting age), MySpace is even considering creating a section just for politicians and social activists. And, beginning in the Fall, Facebook Inc., another social networking website for high school and college students, will offer reduced advertising rates for candidates and advocacy groups, allowing them to create their own profiles.
As reported in the San Diego Union Tribune, California gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides, created an official MySpace profile to reach and gauge younger voters, in addition to post position papers and announcements. With over 5,000 MySpace users designated as “friends,” Angelides seems to have quite the online endorsement list.
To accommodate its growing voting audience (over 80% of registered users are of voting age), MySpace is even considering creating a section just for politicians and social activists. And, beginning in the Fall, Facebook Inc., another social networking website for high school and college students, will offer reduced advertising rates for candidates and advocacy groups, allowing them to create their own profiles.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy recently released Issue 11.1, celebrating the journal's tenth anniversary. The issue offers reflections on Kairos' past in addition to predictions for its future through commentaries from the journal's editors.
Kairos is a "refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy," publishing webtexts that focus on "large-scale issues related to special topics, individual and collaborative reviews of books and media", in addition to news and announcements.
An online Milton Bibliography is now available via the research database ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
An invaluable resource for Milton scholars, as well as literary and history scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the bibliography brings together the manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, plus studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, allusions and quotations, in addition to all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799.
TU Libraries is currently trialing a new research database, Film & Television Literature Index, available via EbscoHost.
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database devoted to television and film writing subjects, including film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Coverage includes key film and television publications - national and international - from the mid-1980s to the present.
Film & Television Literature Index is available via the All Research Databases index on the TU Libraries website.
The trial will last until May 2007. Questions or comments about the database can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database devoted to television and film writing subjects, including film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Coverage includes key film and television publications - national and international - from the mid-1980s to the present.
Film & Television Literature Index is available via the All Research Databases index on the TU Libraries website.
The trial will last until May 2007. Questions or comments about the database can be directed to devoek@temple.edu.
TU Libraries now has online access to Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments And Related Texts, 1870-1886.Radical Scatters is a searchable database of the manuscript fragments left by Emily Dickinson and currently preserved in the Special Collections of Amherst College Library. Eighty-two documents carrying over one hundred fragmentary texts composed by Dickinson between 1870-1886 are included as well as bibliographical information.
Radical Scatters is available via Diamond, the Temple University Libraries online catalog.
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