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How-to: prepare to install software on a server

December 2, 2014May 2, 2016 by femmetech

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Server side software: it's not just for hackers, folks! So many useful website platforms use software that runs on your server to do their work. So if you want to use these too, avoid frustration by making sure you're prepared before you start. Say you want to install WordPress or…

Liberation approaches to Technology: Interview

November 3, 2014October 14, 2015 by femmetech

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The fantastic author, librarian and activist Melissa Morrone [@InfAgit] interviewed me to discuss technology, feminism, decentralized networks of power, and liberation-focused approaches to teaching. quality content Read the whole interview here: http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=4778. A few choice quotes: MM: can you talk more about that in your approach towards technology and intimidation?…

Digital Archiving: How to Pick A Software

October 9, 2014April 4, 2018 by femmetech

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I've been building and teaching others how to build digital collections and archives for about three years now. Seeing that I often field questions from folks, here's a starting list for those interested in creating online archives or collections. PLANNING YOUR DIGITAL COLLECTION Ask yourself the following questions, as a…

Queer & Radical Cataloging Conferences

March 31, 2014April 4, 2018 by femmetech

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I'll be speaking about the Interference Archive, disruptive cataloging, and open-source technologies that work with activist organizing tactics at two events in the coming weeks: April 4, 2014: Queer Internet Studies Workshop [registration is now closed] Hadassah Damien will be speaking about the organization of Interference Archive and our…

Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software

February 1, 2014April 4, 2018 by femmetech

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Tuesday March 11, 2014,Â 6:30--10pm workshop @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC. Register online here. Creating and managing digital archives, catalogs,Â and collections is a growing concern as organizations seek to manage files and records, metadata-gather, and enable complex searches of their cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets.…

Political art and Examining an Archive

November 25, 2013November 25, 2013 by femmetech

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Reprinted from The Interference Archive, http://interferencearchive.org/examining-the-archive-lecture-on-activist-posters/ What makes art activist? What makes it political? Does who is using it matter? The Interference Archive is uniquely situated as both a living collection of activist cultures and ideas, and a site of popular education and engagement with these ideas. One way we…

#3 Digital Humanities Report: Creepy Art Possibilities

January 21, 2013July 16, 2013 by femmetech

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The DHWI Art in Odd Places award goes to: Digital Forensics & BitCurator BitCuratorÂ is a project that I'm rather excited about, although not wholly for the developers' original reasons. It's a set of Linux-based OSS's which "incorporate the functionality of many digital forensics tools" for the purposes of humanities…

#2 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report Back

January 13, 2013January 16, 2016 by femmetech

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Everything I viagra tabs did not take a course on: Data Sets, APIs, Random Links & Intersectionality I've been writing about the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, reporting on the Data Curation track here, and weird data archiving here.Â The DHWI was a faucet of information which I spongily absorbed, learning…

#1 Digital Humanities Winter Institute Report-back

January 11, 2013July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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I attended the Digital Humanities Winter Institute at UMD's MITH, [http://mith.umd.edu] this past week, which meant I learned how to be a better researcher and overall nerd. Firstly, hooray for CUNY GC for co-sponsoring, including making graduate student scholarships available, which meant I could go. I enrolled in the Data…

Femme 2012: in Baltimore and Everywhere on the Web

August 14, 2012May 22, 2015 by femmetech

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I'm busting with pride because, for the last year, I've been volunteering co-leading the Media team of this weekend's Femme Conference. Between starting work on this conference and now, I started graduate school and went to two Allied Media Conferences, and it's just really clear to me how incredibly important…

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