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My Twitter Digest for 03/03/2015

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My Twitter Digest for 03/02/2015

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Maqetta is a drag and drop UI design tool that runs in your browser

Drag-and-drop HTML5 authoring in your browser

Need to prototype an HTML5 app? Forget coding. Hand-eye coordination is just about all you need to prototype with Maqetta, a browser-based WYSIWYG tool for desktop and mobile applications. This first article in a three-part series introduces this free, open source project that runs in a browser and lets designers drag and drop a rich set of widgets to build live UI mockups. In Part 1, get to know Maqetta’s major functions and features while prototyping a realistic mobile application.

Maqetta means mockup, Part 1: Design an HTML5 mobile UI http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/mo-maqetta-1/index.html?ca=drs-

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Economist Thomas Piketty to speak at Harvard Law School March 6; discussion will be webcast live from 2-4 pm

Renowned economist Thomas Piketty, professor of Economics, EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, will speak at Harvard Law School Friday, March 6, from 2-4 pm.

Piketty will debate his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Centurywith several Harvard faculty, including: Sven Beckert Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University;Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; and Stephen Marglin, Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

http://today.law.harvard.edu/ces-discussion-thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century/

The discussion will be live at http://media.fas.harvard.edu/core/live/hls-live.html on 3/6 at 2 PM ET.

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R.I.P., American conservatism: What’s really behind the Tea Party’s barren individualism – Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2015/02/28/r_i_p_american_conservatism_whats_really_behind_the_tea_party%e2%80%99s_barren_individualism/

Issues are not addressed, problems are not resolved, because Southern Republicans are more horrified by cooperation with Democrats than by political dysfunction. They don’t want to govern the modern American state: they want to blow it up.

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My Twitter Digest for 02/25/2015

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Mellon foundation looking to fund next gen academic publishing projects

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e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is aggressively funding efforts to support new forms of academic publishing, which researchers say could further legitimize digital scholarship.

The foundation in May sent university press directors a request for proposals to a new grant-making initiative for long-form digital publishing for the humanities. In the e-mail, the foundation noted the growing popularity of digital scholarship, which presented an “urgent and compelling” need for university presses to publish and make digital work available to readers.

But the foundation quickly contrasted those opportunities with the economic realities facing many university presses. “These declines have made it challenging to find the resources that are needed to experiment with new digital work flows and publication models, and to create the business models and the marketing and discoverability strategies that are essential if electronic publication is to become sustainable and support scholarship in the 21st century,” the e-mail reads

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Piecing together publishing – Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/25/researchers-university-press-directors-emboldened-mellon-foundation-interest

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