As I have previously noted, Wikipedia’s editors have gotten into the business of assigning certain Wikipedia entries to the dustbin of history for not being “notable” enough. The implication of this guideline for entries is that there is only so much space on the servers housing Wikipedia and so those precious megabytes (terrabytes?) shouldn’t be…
Mapping the Past in Google Earth
A Google Earth Community — History Illustrated — has begun putting up some interesting map overlays that merge history and the present in ways that present some interesting possibilities for teachers and students of the past. The largest number of postings in this forum are for very simple maps that just offer a placemark for…
Digital Campus #5 — The Virginia Tech Tragedy
The fifth installment of the Digital Campus podcast is now up online. This week we departed from our usual format to focus instead on the tragedy at Virginia Tech–an event that unfolded as we were recording episode #4 on April 16. In the podcast we discuss the role that technology played, or didn’t play, in…
Remembering April 16
When someone says “September 11” we all know what he means. Here in Virginia, “April 16” is rapidly taking on a similar iconic meaning as we remember the 32 victims at Virginia Tech University. This past weekend we gave colleagues there a version of the software platform that our Hurricane Digital Memory Bank is built…