As of today more than 4.45 million people have taken a 2:52 minute tour through Western art by watching this video on YouTube. The creator of the video eggman913 has done an artful job of morphing the faces of 90 women from the late 12th century to the mid-1940s letting one flow into the next….
Tag: Academic Commons
Too Much Information
Episode 9 of our group podcast Digital Campus is now available. In this episode Dan, Tom, and I discuss information overload for humanists. How will we manage to sort through the incredible abundance of historical information being placed online? It was hard enough when the researcher had to look at as many sources as possible…
Get Yourself In Training
Episode 8 of our Digital Campus podcast is up and available for your listening enjoyment. In this episode we discuss the issue of how digital humanists (and computer scientists with an interest in the humanities) ought to be trained. We also spend some time wondering how college and university Chief Information Officers (at least those…
From Estonia to Phidgets
Episode 7 of our Digital Campus podcast is now up online for your listening enjoyment. In this episode, Tom, Dan, and I welcome Bill Turkel of Digital History Hacks to the studio (actually an office with a stand up mic that we all clustered around). Our discussion ranged from the assault on Estonia’s digital network…