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By Anastasia Salter. I’ve lost a lot of hours to copying text from scans and photos of documents I’ve found on the web or taken for my own records. Some websites (particularly older websites that relied too much on flash or image files for their design) are particularly annoying to cite because nothing can be copied and pasted. While optical character recognition (OCR) software has come a long way, most of what I need isn’t worth the investment or the time of using specialized software. However, this might finally be getting a bit easier now that I’m using the new Project Naptha Chrome browser extension, which integrates a relatively smooth solution to the problem of text recognition into the browser. More...

By Natalie Houston. One of the productivity tools that Stephen R. Covey has made well known in books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First is a four-quadrant matrix that visualizes the four possible combinations of Urgency and Importance. More...

By Prof. Hacker. Each Wednesday, ProfHacker hosts an open thread discussion. Sometimes a specific topic is announced, and sometimes the discussion is completely open. Please remember to abide by our commenting and community guidelines. Thanks!
Hey, it’s Wednesday! I think you know what that means. It’s time for an open thread! More...

By Amy Cavender. Last November, I wrote about running Ubuntu on a Chromebook using ChrUbuntu. In that post, I noted some of the advantages of running ChrUbuntu: I really liked having a full-blown desktop environment to work in, and ChrUbuntu worked much better for me than Crouton. More...

By Ryan Cordell. It’s been a busy week, and I have lots of reading for you. So here ’tis:

• There’s been a very active conversation about Net Neutrality and higher education this week. I would recommend a few posts for those looking to learn more or join the conversation:
  
  1. This joint post from Adeline Koh and Siobhan Senier here at ProfHacker, “Why Net Neutrality Matters to Higher Ed,” includes several relevant links, a nice breakdown of the issues at stake in this debate, and a few concrete ways to get involved. More...

By Adeline Koh. If you work in the digital humanities–or for that matter, in higher education–net neutrality is an issue that calls for a concerted response from all of us now. if you’re still getting caught up, check out Adeline’s post on this from last week, Alexis Madrigal’s guide to the history of Net Neutrality, and Colorlines on why people of color need to care about this. Net Neutrality is the principle that all Internet content should be treated equally. Current proposed changes by the FCC would allow Internet Service Providers like Comcast to charge content providers(say, Netflix or the DPLA) a premium for access to the fastest service. More...