Tom Scheinfeldt

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

Briefly Noted for October 16, 2009

16 Oct 2009 Briefly Noted

The Great Museum WC — Maybe not the most important room in the museum, but among the most essential: Okay, you have GOT to check out that bathroom.

3 Innovation Killers in Digital Humanities

16 Oct 2009 2 min read Digital Humanities

Here's a list of three questions one might overhear in a peer review panel for digital humanities funding, each of which can kill a project in its tracks: * Haven't

Briefly Noted for October 15, 2009

15 Oct 2009 1 min read Briefly Noted

Dan Brown Gets Smithsonian History Right and Wrong in "The Lost Symbol" — Smithsonian Magazine’s Around the Mall blog has a nice “fact or fiction” run down of claims made about

Briefly Noted for October 14, 2009

14 Oct 2009 Briefly Noted

BBC and Neil Gaiman Launch Collaborative Storytelling Experiment on Twitter — This week the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) teamed up with Neil Gaiman (author of Neverwhere and other latter day science fiction and fantasy

Briefly Noted for October 12, 2009

12 Oct 2009 1 min read Briefly Noted

ArchivesNext on Modes of Social Media Interaction — Kate Theimer at ArchivesNext has an excellent post detailing four approaches archives and other cultural heritage institutions can take in inviting users to interact with their