Tom Scheinfeldt

Connecticut

Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.

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Briefly Noted for March 31, 2010

Yikes! Another Facebook Privacy SNAFU — Another reason to be happy I left Facebook: it seems a bug in Facebook’s

31 Mar 2010

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Picking on someone our own size

Friends of the blog will know that I have long been skeptical of historical video game projects. One of several

31 Mar 2010

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Rethinking Access

[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS

31 Mar 2010

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Briefly Noted for March 30, 2010

Old Sturbridge Village Shaping Up — I have spent more time at Old Sturbridge Village, which is two towns over from

30 Mar 2010

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iPads and irResponsibility

Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania has announced it will give every full-time student a new Apple iPad upon arrival in

30 Mar 2010

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Briefly Noted for March 26, 2010

Personalized URL Shorteners (Suggestions for CHNM?) — @sebchan explains how the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney started rolling its own tiny URLs

26 Mar 2010

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"Soft" [money] is not a four-letter word

I will be the first to say that I have been, and continue to be, extremely lucky. As I explained

26 Mar 2010

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Briefly Noted for March 23, 2010

Omeka-Powered Digital Amherst Recognized by ALA — The American Library Association’s (ALA’s) Program on America’s Libraries for the

23 Mar 2010

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Support for Regional THATCamps

In 2008, CHNM created THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp—a yearly user-generated "unconference." Organized on a shoestring

23 Mar 2010

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Things of History, History of Things

I have just started listening to an new podcast from the BBC, A History of the World in 100 Objects,

22 Mar 2010

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