The MacArthur Foundation has just launched a five-year, $50 million grant program to provide support to those investigating the ways that digital media are changing the ways young people live, learn, and interact. The first round of grantees has already been announced. A new grant competition will be announced in early 2007, so warm up…
Tag: Academic Commons
The AHA Blog
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…
Zotero Launches!
The Center for History and New Media launched the Beta version of Zotero last night. For those of you who have not yet had the chance to play with Zotero, now is the time. Zotero is a powerful plug-in for Firefox (2.0) that allows you to save, sort, share, and annotate information from the web….