I’m very excited about a new project that I’ll be working on at the Center for History and New Media over the next few years: PressForward. My piece of this larger project is a new digital history “journal” tentatively titled Global Perspectives on Digital History. With my colleagues Peter Haber and Jan Hodel, the long-time…
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More Historical Mapping Projects
It seems that almost every month now a new application appears that makes it easier and easier to mash up historical and geographic information. Two that I’ve taken notice of this week are Weaving History and HistoryPin, both still in their beta versions, and so still a little quirky. WeavingHistory lets the user build “factlets”…
Edward Owens and Wikipedia
If you’ve spent any time on the Internet in the past 10 years or so — and who hasn’t — you’ll know that one of the most popular memes is the Top 10 list. I don’t think I’ve ever perpetuated on before, but when Edward Owens, the fictional pirate created by the students in my…
THATCamp 2011
Today we kick off THATCamp 2011 at CHNM. The first post I wrote about THATCamp was way back in 2008 (a whole generation in Internet years). That first iteration brought 70 participants to the Center. This year we have 100…a limit imposed only by the fire department capacity of the large meeting room in our…