kiddingthecity [dot] org http://kiddingthecity.org/blog Paolo Cardullo's open research diary and photo-blogging trip in the invisible city Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lecture on FLOSS http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1396 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1396#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:15:33 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1396
Slides from my lecture on Free and Open Source Software at Sociology Year 3 – Goldsmiths University of London are available for download here. (in pdf format 383 kb)

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1396 0 My latest Photobook: from Scribus to Blurb via the Gimp http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1287 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1287#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:54:16 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1287 Finally out, my latest photobook (second edition, already!): 'Walking on the Rim: Photos, Encounters, Objects' produced with the usual mix of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), namely Scribus for the pdf and The Gimp for the photographs. Text is made on the excellent LibreOffice. Thanks to Blurb guys for the superb work, the hardcopy is in fact amazing! Preview it here or download the pdf (49 Mb) (disclaimer: the digital copy presents inaccuracies in some of the full bleed photos because the digital output does not take into account the book spine) . It is also possible to listen to the soundscape of the rising tide among barges, while browsing the photobook: see full post for details Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1287 1 New Setup and Workflow: more Libre than ever! http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1246 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1246#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:39:43 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1246
I want to share my new setup and workflow while writing my PhD thesis in Visual Sociology, which is going to be conceptualised around, edited with, and printed by Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). Zotero Standalone. The first innovation … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1246 0 How to Promote Zotero at Your Institution and Why http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1211 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1211#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:02:07 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1211
Browsing the net around the use of reports in ZOTERO, the super-easy and powerful Open Source reference management software, I came across this slide show which I am happy to share here: Zotero workshop slides Many thanks to our friend … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1211 2 The Bronze Lions Outside the HSBS Headquarters http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1197 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1197#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:02:18 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1197
Following comments and an exchange of emails from my previous post about the bronze lions outside the HSBS headquarter in Canary Wharf, London, I am extremely pleased to publish this amazing series of photographs about Hong Kong and the bronze … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1197 0 How to Embed your Zotero Bibliography in Scribus Books http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1175 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1175#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:51:33 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1175
I had a bit of problems with the possibility of inserting my ZOTERO references in the pdf book I have been working on lately. Being it a photobook, I thought not to have a traditional Bibliography at the end of … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1175 0 My New Photobook, from Scribus to Blurb via the Gimp http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1143 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1143#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:01:54 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1143 "Doing Work: Chronicles of the Working River" by Paolo Cardullo London: Blurb, 2010. Second Edition. Download Pdf from here (30 Mb) Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1143 5 Zotero, Ubuntu 10.04, and Java: not a perfect marriage as yet http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1131 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1131#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 14:13:46 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1131
I want to share this because it gave me quite a big headache first thing this morning: I had just updated to the latest stable Ubuntu version 10.04, and Zotero did not work, or better the transmission between Open Office … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1131 18 Stepan Rudik, the kids, and the Institute… http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1046 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1046#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:08 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1046
or ‘For a fistful of pixels’. This post is also an attempt to apologise to the unknown photographer for the previous comments I made on the Facebook forum promoted by The British Journal of Photography on the matter. In that … Continue reading →

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]]> http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?feed=rss2&p=1046 1 Presentation at Crossing Lines http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1034 http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1034#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:22:55 +0000 paolo cardullo http://kiddingthecity.org/blog/?p=1034
Crossing Lines is an on-going collaboration between the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) and London Independent photography (LIP). My presentation slides on the dialectic between the spaces of representation and the representation of spaces in the context of … Continue reading →

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