Anyone living in the United States who doesn’t know that tomorrow is “Super Tuesday” — the day when voters in more than 20 states will go to the polls to cast their votes for presidential candidates in their parties — has either been in a coma or is truly able to avoid all contact with…
Tag: Digital Media
Asking the Public to Mark Up Images (cross post with hist.net)
[This post appeared originally on the collaborative blog hist.net.] The photo sharing website Flickr.com and the Library of Congress in the United States have created a very interesting collaboration between a Web 2.0 business and a major cultural institution. The Commons, as it is known, invites the general public to mark up (they say “describe”)…
Can Higher Education Be Open Source? (4)
My earlier posts on open source higher education have generated a lot of discussion and I want to say thanks to all who have chimed in thus far. One of the contributors to this discussion, Greg Byshenk, questioned my use of the term “open source” and so I thought I ought to clarify exactly what…
THAT Podcast
The third podcast from the staff at the Center for History and New Media has launched. THAT Podcast (The Humanities and Technology Podcast) joins Digital Campus and History Conversations in the growing group of CHNM podcasts. In their inaugural edition, THAT Podcast creators Jeremy Boggs and Dave Lester interview Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress…