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Blog entry	Digital Humanities 2011 CFP	The DH 2011 programme committee have issued the call for papers for the Stanford conference. Deadline is November 1, 2010. See the full CFP here: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/node/712
Job	Collections Online Project Officer (Imperial War Museum)	6 month fixed term contract. Salary: circa £30,000 pro rata.
Job	Fellowships at Cornell Society for the Humanities	CORNELL SOCIETY FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIPS 2011-2012 SOUND: CULTURE, THEORY, PRACTICE, POLITICS Timothy Murray, Director of the Society for the Humanities, is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 research focal theme: "Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, Politics." Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. CALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS
Blog entry	Publishing and the Digital Revolution	From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years.
Job	Humanities Research Associate	The Research Computing unit at UNC-Chapel Hill is seeking a Humanities Research Associate to provide technical leadership to spearhead our engagement with faculty researchers in the humanities. This position will be a technical contributor and a partner in defining, implementing and supporting technologies to advance humanities research at UNC-Chapel Hill. The research associate will provide programming and technical expertise in areas such as text encoding and metadata standards, database design and queries, software development, web programming, and digital project design.
Blog entry	And, Chapters 17-24	"It was too hot. She was struck by an unusual heaving. A sense of irritation gathered round the doors and windows. Margaret reached the small side-entrance. The porter's answer to the bell. The keen sharp pressure of the knife. She went across and up. Click of machinery." Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South - abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. In this section Margaret, supposedly on the lookout for a water-bed, conceives a sudden and all-consuming passion for clogs. http://edwardpicot.com/and/ - Edward Picot
Blog entry	CHArt 2010 Registration Now Open	Booking has opened for this year's CHArt conference. The booking form, draft programme and abstracts are now available online. * Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) www.chart.ac.uk * TECHNOLOGY AND ‘THE DEATH OF ART HISTORY’ CHArt 26th Annual Conference Wednesday 10 - Thursday 11 November 2010 London, The British Computer Society, First Floor, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA