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.

Netscape RIP

25 Feb 2008 History of Technology

So long Netscape. You were a good friend (for a while). Though official support for the first widely used web browser ends next week, Netscape's hapless stewards at AOL have kindly

THATPodcast Episode 2: Introducing Omeka

25 Feb 2008 Digital Humanities

Jeremy and Dave are at it again. This time on THATPodcast they give us a video introduction to Omeka. Sticking with their two-segment format, the first half of the show features a discussion

Omeka Forums are Buzzing

24 Feb 2008 1 min read Digital Humanities

It has been only three or four days since we released Omeka to the wild, and already we're seeing some amazing interest. As of this posting, Omeka 0.9.0 has

Briefly Noted for February 22, 2008

22 Feb 2008 Briefly Noted

(my) History of Technology by Verie Sandborg. A retiree's recollections of a lifetime with personal technology. Roots Television. User-generated genealogy videos. Interesting, but too many ads. Technica. An archive of lego

Omeka for All

20 Feb 2008 2 min read Digital Humanities

As Steve Brier, Josh Brown, and Mike O'Malley pointed out in Episode 2 of History Conversations, CHNM's late founder, Roy Rosenzweig firmly believed that it wasn't enough