Have you seen people walking around talking to their iPhones like they were alive? Do you think it’s creepy? Or do you wish Siri loved you the way she loves them? Tom, Amanda, Dan, and I speculated about what the Siri phenomenon might mean (or more likely not mean) for digital humanities in the most…
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Consider Yourself Warned
On August 25, 2008, I wrote a post here warning readers that students in my new class, Lying About the Past, would be creating a historical hoax and turning it loose online. Little did I know then that the hoax they would create — Edward Owens, the Last American Pirate — would turn into a…
Hello DHNow
On Wednesday, the first of the four forthcoming PressForward publications launched: Digital Humanities Now. This publication is a re-launch of an older attempt to aggregate what digital humanists were discussing in real time…the prior version was focused primarily on Twitter feeds and for a variety of reasons, I wasn’t a huge fan. My criticism at…
If Only Roy Were Here To See This
Today I saw the notice from the American Historical Association that there will be 23 separate sessions at the Association’s annual meeting devoted to digital history/digital humanities topics. If only Roy Rosenzweig were here to see his vision being realized at last. Seeing the variety of topics covered at these sessions, I realized that I’ve…