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Object Lessons is a fantastic series, I think initiated by Ian Bogost, on very specific things - hair, bread, password, bookshelf.

oEmbed is protocol to allow embedded representations of a URL on another site. basically an API that generates appropriate HTML when somewhere else requests it, eg site B requests a jpg from Site A and site A uses oEmbed to generate the correct embed tag, metadata etc, for site B. Very useful for video.

Usual summary and information from wordpress about what video services use oEmbed and so auto generate embed codes.

Fieldnotes is an SCMS project to conduct, circulate and archive interviews with pioneers of film and media studies. In addition to recognizing the contributions of key scholars, the project also aims to foster knowledge of and interest in the diverse and dynamic developments that have shaped -- and continue to shape -- our expanding field.

Leigh Blackall on the risk of learning analytics not being for students but another cog in the audit-industrial-teaching-machine: The best I've seen from the over all movement is a general agreement that it is ethical and progressive to develop analytics as a "student dashboard", that is to say that the effort is first and foremost about collecting data so that the individuals that the data is about can see and reflect on their own patterns, and in relation to the demographic groups that seem relevant to them, presently and historically. The antithesis of this is the collection of data for teachers and administrators to roughly calibrate their behaviouralist experiments - what most learning analytics projects are about

Free book from O'Reilly. From their blurb: The schism between the functional and object-oriented programmers is really a false binary. Yes, the first group argues that FP is superior for a multicore world, while the second insists that OOP is better at matching technical solutions to business problems. However, as this O’Reilly report explains, this is not an either-or proposition.

Awesome title and exciting collection here. From their blurb: Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly important part of our everyday multimedia environment. - See more at: http://ift.tt/2a48aRl

As part of their Snapshots bi-monthly forum, Docuverse presents a talk by local Melbourne documentary academic, Deane Williams. Deane will be joined by Grace Russell and Stella Barber to discuss their collaborative research project around Australian utilitarian films.

From Adrian Ivakhiv's blog a brief note about two book series: "Lexington’s Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series just got its own catalogue, which tells us the series is doing well."

Pat Thomson on Les Back's academic diary book: "The diary is a textual form that matches an interest in every-day life. It is a genre which readers expect to unfold before them – there is no meta commentary at the start, no signposting to signal to the reader what they can expect. And it is The Genre which readers expect to be connected to a calendar, to offer a record of quotidian experience. The diary is episodic, and thus amenable to multiple small narratives which add up to something more than their parts. It is stretched out in time, so is able to convey a year, terms and weeks punctuated by regular and irregular events. It is individual, a story told by a particular person, so it is able to bring together the idiosyncratic and emotional detail that dominant genres of intellectual sociological commentary render invisible."

This tumblr blog shows material that comes out of a predictive text emulator. As best I understand it takes source material then is used to write its own version of the material. This is a machine for doing something that makes strange content. It is sort of Bogostian carpentry, and sort of a unit operation come word assemblage machine.

This is an honours thesis of a student of mine from 2014. Tully Hansen is a twitterbot aficionado. From the abstract: The term Twitter bots covers a large (and growing) number of creatively motivated, largely lexically based cultural artefacts published online to the Twitter platform, works which encompass a diversity of styles, practices and implementations. As a result of this continuous expansion and extension of the genre, it becomes increasingly difficult to discuss Twitter bots as literary and artistic form with any specificity.

From the blurb: This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and moving image.  Bringing together chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book provides an overview of the theoretical and academic aspects of digital cultural documentation and considers both technical and strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management and sustainability.

Notemaker is an .au online retailer of stationery and this is a very useful blog post by them about the tools and practice of using a bullet journal. (Method of choice for honours and PhD students managing tasks.)

The delightful Karen Karelle has shared what I take to be her Master's thesis on the Mephistophelean academia.edu. It's in French (Karen is .ca) so YMMV, but Google translate tells me the title is: "The transition from film production to the production of new digital formats: analysis of NFB productions / Interactive"

This is a new book series. Recognise when they say 'humanists' they mean digital humanities.These people are, generally, a long way from media peeps. From their blurb: The Coding for Humanists series aims to provide practical, hands-on instruction around the tools and analytical techniques that underpin digital humanities praxis. No prior technical knowledge is assumed

Big fat open source book that tries to be a guidebook on what/how media historians are doing media history.