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.

U2's Kite

25 Jul 2007 4 min read Favorites

I'll stick with music for one more post. "Kite" is one of my favorite of U2's more recent songs. In keeping with the title, Edge's

Synchronicity

23 Jul 2007 1 min read Music

So the picture is horrible, but the show was great. Friday night I was fortunate enough to catch The Police in Hershey, PA, and I have to say it was one of the

Xtimeline

06 Jul 2007 Timelines

Xtimeline is a new addition to the growing field of personal timeline builders. Simile Timeline, MIT's open source offering is still the best of the bunch, but Xtimeline definitely wins in

Searching History

05 Jul 2007 1 min read

This week Yahoo! Buzz provides a telling glimpse into the popular historical mind with a list of last Sunday's top twenty "history" searches. Perhaps predictably the list leans towards

From the Belly of the Beast

18 Jun 2007

This one comes from Jeremy. Found history, indeed. "19th Century bomb found in whale" via BBC News