Tom Scheinfeldt

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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Jan

Gearing up for NCPH

The annual meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is only six weeks away, and CHNM will be
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23
Dec

Briefly Noted for December 23, 2009

There's an app for that: It's called "The Web" — In a run-down of coverage
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19
Dec

Why I Quit Facebook

As a pretty heavy Twitter user, it may seem strange that I quit Facebook on account of privacy concerns. But
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23
Nov

Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by "Low End" Adoption

In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as
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22
Nov

Briefly Noted for November 22, 2009

What's Happening? New Twitter Question Makes More Sense for Digital Humanities — Yesterday Twitter changed its update prompt from
20
Nov

Briefly Noted for November 20, 2009

CONTENTdm 5.2 Released — OCLC has released version 5.2 of its popular digital collection management software, CONTENTdm. Among the
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19
Nov

Archiving Social Media

In an article posted yesterday under the title 5 Ways Social Media Will Change Recorded History, Mashable co-editor Ben Parr
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18
Nov

Briefly Noted for November 18, 2009

"How to Write a Zotero Translator" Now in Print — Another great resource from Adam: his comprehensive guide to
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Nov

Briefly Noted for November 16, 2009

Aggregate Your Friends' Links with Twitter Tim.es — Via @james3neal another great link: The Twitter Tim.es scours your
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15
Nov

Briefly Noted for November 15, 2009

Enterprise 2.0 — I hadn’t heard it before, but apparently the term “Enterprise 2.0” is familiar enough in
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