It’s Saturday morning and around 150 people are foregoing incredible June weather in the DC area to sit in an engineering auditorium to attend THATCamp Prime here at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Yesterday’s workshops (and a live recording of Digital Campus) went quite well–per usual, lots of excellent conversation and…
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THATCamp Switzerland (3)
In the first bootcamp session after lunch I attended a session led by Stefan Keller (University of Zurich) called “Knowledge Organization and Representation,” which was focused on various information management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, and LitLink (new version launched officially today). Note to self: More than one person has told me I ought to…
Tablets and History Education
With the appearance on the market (sort of) this week of the Kindle Fire ($199), Amazon’s competitor to Barnes & Noble’s Nook ($249), Sony’s eReader ($149), and Apple’s iPad 2 ($499), it seems like a good moment to step back and take stock of what we can expect from the tablet makers in the coming year or two and what the…
Writing a Book in Public
Yesterday I began a new blog site called Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective. This site is the online research and writing space I’m going to use for my next book project — a project still in its early days mode. For a long time now I’ve been thinking about what happens when the entire scholarly…