Our first session, a talk by Prof. Willard McCarty of King’s College, London) turned out to be a “new media” talk, because Prof. McCarty was not feeling well and couldn’t travel to Switzerland–so he spoke on Skype up on a screen at the front of the room. The video feed was very jerky, but the…
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Why Wolfram Alpha Won’t Work for Historians
In our most recent episode of Digital Campus one of the news items I had a particularly caustic view of was the new search engine Wolfram Alpha. My broader pronouncement in the podcast that WA will “sink like a stone” is predicated on the incredibly clunkiness of the interface and the fact that when the…
Reality Check
The latest installment of Digital Campus is now up online for your listening pleasure. In this episode (#42 if you’re counting), Tom, Dan, and I consider what happens when reputable publishers of scholarly journals publish journals that are, well, not so reputable. We also take a look at the latest attempt to take some of…