Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Featured on CNN
I was interviewed yesterday by CNN about a new project at the Center for History and New Media, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, which uses digital technology to record memories, photographs, and...
View ArticleCreating a Blog from Scratch, Part 7: Tags, What Are They Good For?
Evidently quite a few things. In the past few years, tags have been attached to virtually everything, from web links to photos to bars. The University of Pennsylvania has recently introduced a way for...
View ArticleBlackboard’s Entry into Web 2.0 Unveiled: Scholar.com
Maybe they should have kept it veiled. I’m surprised at how poorly designed this site is (surely a freshman who knows Ruby on Rails and a little Photoshop could have put together a better social...
View ArticleSocial and Semantic Computing for Historical Scholarship
Under the assumption that many readers of this blog don’t receive the American Historical Association’s magazine Perspectives, you might be interested in this article I wrote for the May 2007 issue....
View ArticleAmerican Studies Tagline
Dave Lester provides an interesting visualization of the history of American Studies over the last fifty years by running Lucy Maddox’s Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline through...
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