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A scholar of Japanese history at Bowdoin College has developed an innovative website that gives new meaning to the term "web scrolling." Thomas Conlan, associate professor of history and Asian studies recently launched Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan, an interactive website that brings to life a famous set of Japanese picture scrolls.

Sophie is a multimedia authoring tool released under a creative commons license that holds a great deal of promise for digital storytelling in education.  A free download is required to create and read Sophie projects.  The idea of the book is the central concept.  The creator can simply drag and drop components (text fields, comment fields, etc.) or resources (images, audio, video, etc.) onto a page.  Objects and pages can all be resized.  There is also a timeline feature that lets you start and stop audio or video as well as make any resource appear or disappear from the page.  The comments component also merits special mention.  While the book is downloaded to the readers machine, their comments can be read by anyone else who "opens" the book.  It's a powerful concept combining an easy to use multimedia interface with the communicative properties of a blog.

A number of tech news sites last week had articles about a new software created by Toronto's Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning that translates network and server activity into music. Changes in the music can be interpreted to detect problems in the system.

A visit to the www.soundtomind.com website gives some interesting background on the academic origins of this project:

"iSIC (information muSIC) is an alternative approach to remotely monitoring complex systems like communications networks. It presents information in a synergized acoustical format that provides a holistic and uninterrupted audio model of the system under observation. iSIC is meant to complement, not replace traditional visually based systems. iSIC falls under the broader category of the field of sonification. The purpose of any sonification is to allow users to identify patterns in data through sound.

The iSIC project is the culmination of several years of R&D by a group of students, graduates and faculty at the Sheridan Institute of Technology in Oakville, Ontario. iSIC is a completely unique work of intellectual property producing sound which is rich in information and is ergonomically designed for sustained operation. 

Charles Bailey , who runs Digital-Scholarship.Com , has posted a pre-print of his contribution  "Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?"  to the forthcoming Information Technology and Libraries . Bailey via his blog provides a nice synopsis of his piece: