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Posts about the development of darkmatter and other news

WordPress as Academic Journal Software?

by Sanjay Sharma • 6 Dec 2009

I’ve previously written about using Wordpress (WP) as a CMS; the post was really about exploring WP as a software platform for operating an online academic Journal.

In this post, I’m going to examine WP in a little more depth.…


darkmatter Journal versus Wikipedia: race and the hierarchy of knowledge

by Editors • 5 Jun 2009

Our recent publication of the The Wire Files special issue was followed up by the addition of a couple of references to Wikipedia’s The Wire page…However, these references were removed by a Wikipedia editor, because darkmatter was not considered to be a “reliable source”.


Newsletter – June 09

by Editors • 3 Jun 2009

The Wire Files - Special Issue [4]
We are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue on the critically acclaimed TV series The Wire. The Wire Files brings together an innovative range of writings addressing, through the…


darkmatter upgrade

by Sanjay Sharma • 14 Mar 2009

We undertook a major update for darkmatter journal. This involved upgrading wordpress software (which is used to run the journal), and installing a new look/theme Mimbo 2.

I used a live test site, to enable the other darkmatter editors to…


Site Upgrade

by Editors • 1 Mar 2009

Hello Readers

If you have visited darkmatter before, you will have noticed a new look to the site. We hope the journal website is easier to navigate and aesthetically more pleasing. The old version of the site was a little…


Wordpress as a CMS?

by Sanjay Sharma • 7 Mar 2008

As the co-editor and web-admin of darkmatter, the opensource blog software platform of WordPress (WP) is used to run the journal. I’m not a proper coder, but a bit of (php, html, css) knowledge really does go a long way…


Copyfight – Forget YouTube?

by Sanjay Sharma • 15 Oct 2007

There are many ‘web2.0′ video sharing/hosting sites these days, though YouTube (YT) reigns supreme. Now owned by Google, YT is becoming the search site for video.

However, if you’re intending to upload your own video, there are some serious restrictions…


What’s darkmatter about?

by Editors • 16 Mar 2007

You may be wondering why we’ve called our site darkmatter?

Well, not to be directly confused with the astrophysics term of dark matter energy. Nonetheless, given that this definition involves ‘not directly observed and of unknown composition’, it’s not…