One last thought as I dash to CSC: I’m interested in a panel about the incipient formation of the Google Research Centers, both how wonderful it is that scholars will be given the opportunity to do “nonconsumptive” reading of copyrighted texts (aka datamining) and how hard it will be for those scholars who are not [...]

Richard:
I think the idea of creating “a collaborative open source training environment” sounds wonderful. We were trying to do something like that involving Miami students by launching the CHATLab:
http://www.muohio.edu/chat
I noticed that some small liberal arts colleges are banding together to share resources, and we should think about doing so as well, even at bigger [...]

(I just discovered a wonderful “data mining as literary criticism” presentation, and so recycled an earlier posting on datamining to offer this instead).
Digital Artist Ira Greenberg developed for me a poetry visualization tool using processing.  All kinds of interesting issues come up in the field of data visualization.  Too much of what we seen as [...]