Aluka, Timbuktu and the New York Times
Michael Gallagher Aluka has been featured in a New York Times article about its digitization efforts with the Islamic Manuscripts of Timbuktu, a project that is only starting to appear on the…
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Aluka in the NY Times: Timbuktu
Sorry for the shameless work related plug, but Aluka is in today’s New York Times with a good article about its digitization efforts with the Islamic manuscripts of Timbuktu. Be…
Untenable
This life is untenable,an elm in a plastic pot.A thrush of grass bendingbefore the oncoming cyclone. A brilliant spectacle.
July 2006, on the East Coast of Korea
The dark lapping watersoff Samch’ok,endlessly tidingsoothed me to sleep,in turn fueling fitful dreams. Water intersected thought and purpose,and I focused,in a rare moment of Zen,on the barbed wire in the…
A map that cost his life
I am referencing this from another blogger, which can be read here, who got the information from Wikipedia, which can be read here. This Korean cartographer, Kim Jeong-ho (김정호) wanted…
Timbuktu Webinar available for download from Aluka
On April 22, 2008, Harlan Wallach of Northwestern University Advanced Media Production Studio (NUAMPS) conducted a live webinar on his experiences in Timbuktu, Mali, as part of a joint effort…