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.
23
Mar

Support for Regional THATCamps

In 2008, CHNM created THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp—a yearly user-generated "unconference." Organized on a shoestring
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22
Mar

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,
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10
Mar

Digital Humanities at NCPH

The digital humanities are well represented this week at the National Council for Public History annual meeting in Portland, Oregon.
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04
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 4, 2010

Facebook, Google, Apple: Patents Gone Wild — The last ten days or so have seen a flurry of suspect behavior by
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02
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 2, 2010

YouTube dropping IE6 support — At more than a week old, I suppose this doesn't qualify as breaking news,
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08
Feb

Briefly Noted for February 8, 2010

How on earth did I miss this? IMLS Discussion Guide to the Future of Museums and Libraries — It’s hard
08
Feb

Rosenzweig Forum Returns

The Rosenzweig Forum for Digital Humanities returns this month with a program entitled "Negotiating the Cultural Turn(s): Subjectivity,
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27
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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