One of the issues we wrestle with in the digital media world is how we analyze traffic on our sites. There are many software packages out there to do this sort of basic data mining and I’m fortunate that I don’t have to worry about which one to pick…I’m very happy with the one we…
Visualizing Geography
A friend just alerted me to the website Worldmapper, which I highly recommend. Their own description says: “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.” But this simple sentence does not convey the interesting possibilities for visualizing historical information on a global scale….
The Material Culture of Communism
My colleague Josh Greenberg and I have just spent two very interesting days at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. Our main goal during the visit was to photograph objects from the everyday life of the communist era in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for our 1989 project. The Museum has quite the collection…
How low can you go?
Here’s a question that is both not very serious and not very serious at the same time. Can I bring myself to include a picture of “the Hoff” in the database of sources we are developing for the 1989 project? It is, after all, an artifact of the Cold War, just as much as the…