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Fun with YouTube Subtitles | And He Blogs
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How This Blog Got Its Name. Who Is Brit Vector? How This Blog Got Its Name. Who Is Brit Vector? Fun with YouTube Subtitles. July 11, 2014. Thing I keep talking about? I’m working on that workflow and hope to have recommendations soon. Meanwhile, I was playing around with the YouTube Closed Caption tool. It looks to be a great way to start the process of getting automatic transcriptions for video, although, as it is the subject of this post – it’s not perfect. On the Domain of One’s Own. The actual spoken...
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Mapping the Taiping Civil War | Ryan Brazell
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Mapping the Taiping Civil War. University of Mary Washington, August - November 2013. This semester I’ve been helping Susan Fernsebner. UMW professor extraordinare, with her section of HIST 297: History Colloquium. This course serves as “ an introduction to the methods historians use to analyze the past. Go read it now! And I’m hopeful that she will have the time and opportunity to write more about this as the semester starts winding down. Seal of the Taiping Revolution, via Wikimedia Commons. There̵...
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» Archiving a Tumblr Detour Ahead
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Notes on the Page. May 21st, 2013 2 comments. So, the Gulou / Drum Tower site. Is officially a success (though there are diverse definitions of that word, to be sure.) It’s officially a. Success. And yet, that’s happening at the exact same time that Tumblr is being sold, for a great sum of money, to Yahoo. It’s been an interesting sale to watch so far. Matt Mullenweg, founder and developer of the blogging site WordPress, offered some immediate thoughts. The next step was to setup FeedWordPress. There is ...
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» The Overflowing Drum Detour Ahead
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Notes on the Page. May 20th, 2013 1 comment. Once upon a time, last fall, while settling back into teaching after a spring sabbatical, I found myself diving into social media. I was already there in many ways, of course. I have a twitter account. Perhaps, when it comes to composition. 8220;Don’t Speak of National Affairs” image by Feng Zikai, circulating on China’s microblogging network, Weibo, last fall. And neighborhood in Beijing itself (a neighborhood, like many historic sites in the city, that’s cur...
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» Relocating Detour Ahead
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Notes on the Page. May 13th, 2014 0 comments. It’s time. I’ve decided to move from my “hub and spokes” model of diverse locales for diverse conversations and projects to start centralizing a few projects — which means I’m moving the blog over to my main site, susanfernsebner.org. This site will remain as its own archive, but I won’t be posting here, so it’ll just be a quiet repository (and you can find the same back-posts moved over, with comments, at the new blog-thread locale. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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» Spring Cinema Course Detour Ahead
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Notes on the Page. August 13th, 2013 0 comments. Yes, I’m prepping for fall. But I’m also already thinking about a second go at my cinema course. Next spring, along with fellow traveller Jim Groom. Who recently blogged about our foray into GIFs. For films, I’m seriously thinking of dropping Jia Zhangke’s “The World” this time around, along with previously screened “Chungking Express,” and going with a Wong Kar-wai double feature of “ In the Mood for Love. 8221; (2000) and “ Happy Together. I'm Susan Fern...
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» Plotting Rebellion Detour Ahead
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Notes on the Page. July 19th, 2013 0 comments. Next fall’s task: reinvent an undergraduate methods course in History. More precisely, the task is to take a one-semester methods course for new majors and create, in its place, a two-semester course for the same audience. This is a slightly daunting project. The one semester course, as I developed my version of it over the years. And the excellent new study by Tobie Meyer-Fong,. What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China. I’ll also b...
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Notes on the Page. Reworking the Methods Course. January 1st, 2014 2 comments. Well, okay, the typewriters are a bit of an old-fashioned juxtaposition here (and yes, no cigs), but this image is one of many that echo this past semester’s workshop methods course, Hist 297: History Colloquium. Chaos, collaboration, some good communication, an occasional mess, and some real productivity. It was also a first run of a revised methods course for our department. As I’ve previously noted. The mainstay, however, w...
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