With a great deal of media fanfare, Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched a collaboration that allows Google Earth users to see and interact with the unfolding genocide in Darfur. The Google Earth layer produced through this collaboration taps into the resources of the Holocaust Museum, giving the user access…
Digital Campus #3
The third installment of our podcast, Digital Campus, is now available online. In this installment, Dan, Tom, and I discuss April Fool’s pranks online, including one that made the rounds of academia for a while (the false report that Google had bought OCLC). The main theme of the ‘cast is a discussion of cyberinfrastructure in…
A One Way Ticket To Minsk
Last fall I wrote about the Florida history standards, pointing out that they could just as easily (and perhaps more appropriately) have been written in Minsk than in Tallahassee. This is your chance to sound off on this issue, as a petition drive is now afoot to try to convince the Florida Legislature to reconsider…
Transforming Quantitative History?
History bloggers have had a lot to say recently about social networking and what the various applications of this particular aspect of the Web 2.0 world will mean for the history business. I’ve been fairly optimistic about it all, but without a clear vision of how, exactly, social networking might really revolutionize some aspect of…