Digital Culture Studies

The last traditional speaker of the Eyak language died yesterday, making the language extinct. Eyak Chief Marie Smith Jones passed away yesterday at the age of 89, and as the last speaker of Eyak, her language dies with her. First Nations languages are especially at risk for this, for a number of reasons, but there are groups out there trying to save what they can.

Chief Jones’ obituary. She was the last living Eyak.

• Bloggers win the “Test the Nation” trivia challenge. First of all, I would be on any team headed by Samantha Bee. Second, how fun is Canadian television? Third, apparently every blogger in Canada was involved :)
• “What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?” An interesting experiment over on Grand Text Auto.
• Watching the economy dump yesterday got you confused. This Modern World explains the global economy.