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.

Place Names / Time

13 Mar 2007 1 min read Google

Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed over the course of 19th century publishing history. Gray's four maps—

Finding History at Home 2

13 Mar 2007 1 min read

Today in Digital History Hacks, Bill Turkel imagines a not-so-distant future of "history appliances": Jazz BandeWave PaintingMean StreetsPaper MoonAmerican GraffitiThe StingLast Tango in ParisAre You Being Served?Gravity's RainbowBreakfast

Digital Campus

09 Mar 2007 1 min read Digital Humanities

This is also somewhat off topic, but I'm very pleased to announce the launch of Digital Campus, a new biweekly podcast that explores how digital media and technology are affecting learning,

300

08 Mar 2007 1 min read Film

Because it's neither unintentional nor unconventional nor amateur, this may not belong here on Found History. But the new movie 300 is definitely historical, and it has managed to capture the

Oldest Domain Names

05 Mar 2007 History of Technology

Jottings.com has posted a list of the 100 oldest still-registered .com domains. First on the list: Symbolics.com, which first launched in March 1985. Other early birds include tech giants ATT.com,