Zotero Needs Your Help, Part I
To any one interested in technology in Higher Education the following job opportunities look interesting. Zotero which is a plug-in for Firefox being developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason is hiring. More on Zotero later as I have been giving it a test run, but basically it will work with firefox to track all of your citations, think of it as a free alternative to Endnotes that can do so much more. Anyway, check out the link below if you are looking for a job, or just interested in this project. (You could be a techno-evangilist . . .what a cool job title.)
Zotero Needs Your Help, Part I: ”
We’re ramping up here at Zotero headquarters for the big release of the public beta (it should be out next week). But we’re already thinking ahead to great new features—including nifty ways to share and collaborate, as I mentioned in my last post on Zotero—and to building not only a large and active user community, but also a community to help disseminate, support, and further develop this free and open software. In short, we need your help! In this post I’ll let you know about the official George Mason University announcements for full-time positions at CHNM (sorry for the officialese and also for the repetitiveness; it’s necessary to post these as they are recorded with GMU Human Resources). In the next post, I’ll let you know about other opportunities to help out….
(Via Dan Cohen.)
September 26th, 2006 at 3:00 am
Dammit, I might have to go back to Firefox now, not really a big fan of the Mac version.
September 26th, 2006 at 3:42 am
That was my thought exactly, for I like to use a webkit browser (Omni, Safari, or Shiira) to maximize cross application utility. I have heard though that firefox 3.0 is going to be a coca based application. I can say that I have been using the beta version of Zotero, and for me (on the Mac) it has been extraordinarily stable.
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
[...] Patahistorical Tools and PublishingClearly, Patahistory will require new and special tools. At Noise and Impertinence, Matt Neale presents some tools for undergraduate success in history, but I think postgraduate patahistorians could make use of them too. The Foxit PDF Reader he mentions will pay for itself (well, it’s free) solely in the time you don’t spend waiting for Adobe Acrobat to open. I’m Too Sexy For My Master’s Thesis plugs an Endnote plugin for Firefox users, but if you’re really leet you’ll make the jump to Zotero, open-source bibliographic software from the Center for History and New Media. AcademHack, a blog of techie tools for academics, also plugs Zotero, and points to Notemesh and Notesengo, two wiki-based sites for collaborative student note-sharing. Finally, William Tozier’s Notional Slurry promotes the Distributed Proofreaders concept with a great excerpt from The Knickerbocker calling for better labeling of marriageable young ladies–call it metadata, circa 1844. As all historians of technology know, our tools themselves have histories; at ClioWeb, Jeremy points out a blog on the History of the Button.“The anxieties of previous historians are not those of the Patahistorian,” the Manifesto continues. “Patahistorians are less concerened about truth, tenure, and publishing, than they are about collaboration, synchronic cultures, and making bank.” Bryan Andrachuck must be a Patahistorian; his fourth post finds him wondering if his interest in public history will lead to riches. I hope Prof. Turkel will break the truth to him gently. Speaking of publishing, a number of academic publishers have started blogging. But at Crooked Timber, Scott McLemee says reading blogs from mainstream media outlets is like watching Grandma dance the frug. What’s cooler, and much more patahistorical, is when blogs (like, say, Crooked Timber) start publishing.Says the Manifesto: “Historians disdain popular histories and yearn for popular success. Patahistory is the reverse. It disdains success and yearns for popular histories.” Historianess Rebecca Goetz discussed that gap between popular and academic history, but Sepoy at Chapati Mystery said the cool kids (specifically graduate students studying South Asia) are bridging that divide. Sepoy’s hot-blooded friend Farangi weighed in on ABC’s Path to 9-11 (as did Jon Swift’s Jonathan Swift) and found nobody looking very good. At The Rhine River, Nathanael reports that some German historians condemned TV history programs as worthless historical pornography (Egads, what would the History Channel do without German history to kick around?) Surely some TV history is worthwhile: Chris Turner, who wrote the definitive book on The Simpsons, has, for an encore, decided to save the world. At Geography of Hope, Turner links to video of the British eco-activist comedian-historian (but he hates labels) Rob Newman’s delirious History of Oil. [...]