OK, this is probably one of the most specific posts I've ever written, but... I wrote a bash script to automatically fetch and parse the currently used data on the 4G EE mobile network in the UK that can then be used with Conky.

This is a post that I have found very difficult to write, because it puts me in a conflicted position. A while back, in light of the Troy Davis execution, which profoundly upset me, I promised to boycott travel to any region that implemented the death penalty.

I received an interesting email this week from Nate Wright, who posed the following questions: I asked Nate if he'd mind if I replied publicly to this in a blog post because, quite frankly, this issue is important: Although we always go by the aphorism that the social problems are the ones that need fixing, we cannot neglect the technological If we do not build and maintain an open toolset, we cannot rely on the arguments derived from the free

Digital Literatures; Digital Democracies; Digital Threats? Dr. Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln Paper delivered at conference: 5th July 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. This work is at a very early stage and I'm not entirely happy with much of the logic.

I'm pleased to announce the publication of the open access booklet, Collins, Ellen and Milloy, Caren and Stone, Graham, Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors, Baker, James and Eve, Martin Paul and Priego, Ernesto (eds.), OAPEN-UK and Jisc Collections: 2013. As you can see from that list, I was privileged enough to be invited to edit this important guide.

In this piece on the future of peer review for the British Academy, I assert that, in the humanities: OA is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and our methods. 67% of existing OA journals do not charge APCs and yet academics have tended to steer clear of them.

This book chapter was written in 2010, but is finally out! Eve, Martin Paul, ‘The Botnet: Webs of Hegemony/Zombies Who Publish’, in Zombies in the Academy, ed. by Andrew Wheelan, Chris Moore, and Ruth Walker (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2013), pp. 103–117 The scholarly communication structure at present bears a strong resemblance to a malware system called a botnet.

If you are experiencing crashes when you update your mpd library on Ubuntu 12.10, the fault is with libmad0. This can be fixed by installing libmad0 from Debian Wheeze. As root: {% highlight bash %} wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libm/libmad/libmad0_0.15.1b-7_armhf.deb dpkg -i ./libmad0_0.15.1b-7_armhf.deb {% endhighlight %} I can confirm that this has fixed my update crashes.

I decided that the best way to spend this Sunday morning was to try to get free_cite, a citation parsing system, running on my server. Turns out this is easier said than done; the README provides no information on which versions of different software you need and also gives no advice on setting up the ruby environment.

A quick plug for a blog post by a member of OLH's internationalisation committee, Erika Corradini. In her piece, The Languages of Academic Publishing, Erika writes: Read more over at Erika's blog. Internationalisation of New Open Access Initiatives was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 27, 2013.

Now in its third year, we invite you to submit, on Twitter via the #Pynchon2013 hashtag, the Facebook Event page or even just by emailing me, your photographs for Pynchon in Public Day 2013! The event was founded to mark the birth date of one of the most important living American writers, Thomas Pynchon.