The American Historical Association has entered the blogosphere. The AHA’s Blog AHA Today premiered on September 28, but not much happened there until this week when staff members began posting more regularly. It will be interesting to see how an organization like the AHA uses the relative freedom of blogging to engage both its members…
History bloggers and their links to one another
Nicolás Quiroga of Tapera and Bill Turkel of Digital History Hacks have just published early results from a survey they did of history bloggers. The survey returned results from 42 bloggers and the first results have just begun to appear on their Quiroga’s and Turkel’s blogs. Thus far, all they show is how history bloggers…
Moving to WordPress
Sometime in the next day or three I’ll be moving Edwired from MovableType to WordPress. That means you may find this blog down when you try to access it. Have no fear, it will be back soon.
The Timeline of 1989
One of the things we want to build into our 1989 project is a timeline of events that will help students to visualize what happened in some sort of chronological sequence. Thanks to a tip from our PhD student Ken Albers, I’ve been playing with the open source timeline creator at Simile–an MIT project. The…