It’s spring, the birds are singing, and Tom, Dan, and I — and our special guest Lisa Spiro — have recorded another Digital Campus podcast. In addition to discussing the NEH start up grants in more detail, we managed to work in a comment or two about the iPad, which I’ve heard launched recently. And Dan gave us all an update on the Shape of Things to Come conference [Be sure to read this commentary on the meeting.]. For reasons I am less clear on, Twitter seemed to be an important part of the meeting (maybe someday I’ll understand the fascination with Twitter). Be sure to check out the podcast and let us know what you think. Also, if you are not already a subscriber to Lisa’s excellent blog Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, you need to start subscribing. It is one of the more thoughtful and important blogs in the field just now.
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Digital Campus, the iPad, and the NEH
Friday, April 9th, 2010What We Did Last Summer
Friday, September 25th, 2009Digital Campus is back on the air after a summer break. Although we don’t reveal much about what we did during the summer, we do talk a lot about what the world of digital humanities has been up to over the past several months. Take a listen, see what you think, and give us some feedback. If you are one of those Twitter people out there, I suppose you can tweet us too, but I can’t tell you how to do that…
Stan Katz Knows
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009In the most recent episode of Digital Campus, Dan and I interviewed Stan Katz (Princeton) about his role in promoting digital history over the past 20 (yes, 20) years. Tom couldn’t join us for the episode because he was at home with the Scheinfeldt family’s new baby. I suppose that qualifies as an excuse. If it seems to you that digital history is too new to have a history, then you need to listen to this episode of Digital Campus. Stan will disabuse you of the notion that what we’re up to is a very recent thing…he was pushing historians to realize that a computer is not a typewriter more than a decade ago and, as that paper reveals, his efforts on behalf of digital history go back even further. For instance, if you like accessing the American Historical Review online, thank Stan. He was the AHA vice president for research who pushed the AHR to move to a digital format. So give the podcast a listen and you’ll even learn how accessing Facebook can lower your GPA.
eBooks Again
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009It’s hard to believe, but Tom, Dan, and I have revisited the world of eBooks on Digital Campus. The biggest part of our discussion was on the merits or lack thereof of the new Kindle reader about to debut from Amazon. Of course, we have to speak speculatively, because none of the three of us actually has a new Kindle, but we were pretty convinced that it’s a loser when it comes to the kinds of teaching, learning, research, presentation, and collection of history that interests us here at CHNM.
More interesting for historians, it seems to me, is the debut of Google Books Mobile, which gives people with iPhones or Android Phones access to hundreds of thousands (some day millions) of books right there on your phone. I find Google Books incredibly useful for both teaching and research and before too much longer I expect that a very large number of my students will have access to this vast library of old books from their own mobile devices.
Whether you like eBook readers or not, give the podcast a listen and let us know what you think. Just don’t use Twitter…I’m still holding firm and so won’t see your comments there.