Everyone’s a Historian Now
Many thanks to Stephen Mihm of the University of Georgia (author of the outstanding A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States) for his cover story in the...
View ArticleItems of Interest for June 12, 2008
Jeremy Boggs continues his series on the “Digital Humanities Design and Development Process” with a detailed post explaining his design principles, and showing how he developed compelling design...
View ArticleThe Spider and the Web: A Crowdsourcing Experiment
If you read your blog posts on the same day they’re written, please join in later today for an experiment in scholarly crowdsourcing. I’ll be posting a historical mystery on this blog at exactly 3pm...
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The Spider and the Web: What Is This?
In 1882, a young anthropologist from Washington, D.C., went west to collect objects for the Smithsonian. He found this object buried in a small hill in St. Clair county, Illinois. It’s about three...
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The Spider and the Web: Results
A couple of weeks ago at the Digital Dilemmas Symposium in New York I tried something new: using Twitter to replicate digitally the traditional “author’s query,” where a scholar asks readers of a...
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Introducing Digital Humanities Now
Do the digital humanities need journals? Although I’m very supportive of the new journals that have launched in the last year, and although I plan to write for them from time to time, there’s something...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the Title of My Next Book
Already put this out on Twitter but will reblog here: I’m crowdsourcing the title of my next book, which is about the way in which common web tech/methods should influence academia, rather than...
View ArticleThe Maddening Crowd
[In July 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked twenty-three scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? As an intellectual...
View ArticleWhat Should Scholarly Society Meetings Look Like in the 2010s?
Unlike some of my blog post titles, this one really is a question. What do you think they should look like? I ask because I am now on the program committee for the American Historical Association and...
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Some Thoughts on the Hacking the Academy Process and Model
I’m delighted that the edited version of Hacking the Academy is now available on the University of Michigan’s DigitalCultureBooks site. Here are some of my quick thoughts on the process of putting the...
View ArticleRoy’s World
In one of his characteristically humorous and self-effacing autobiographical stories, Roy Rosenzweig recounted the uneasy feeling he had when he was working on an interactive CD-ROM about American...
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