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.

The Object of History

07 Feb 2007 Digital Humanities

CHNM has just launched a new project called The Object of History. A partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the project aims at lower cost model for

Silly from SNL

31 Jan 2007 Humor

It's not nearly as subtle as the Colonial Williamsburg sketch from a couple months ago, but here's some more history from Saturday Night Live. Enjoy! Update (7/6/07)

"Boomers" and History

20 Jan 2007 1 min read Collecting

I can't tell you how tired I am of reading about baby boomers and their impending retirements. The self-indulgence of aging newspaper, magazine, and television news editors in running story after

The tech blogs are buzzing about Geni, a new genealogy application launched by former Paypal executive David Sacks (see Valleywag and TechCrunch for example). Billing itself as "a unique approach to solving

Tekkie's Great Moments in Tech History

16 Jan 2007 History of Technology

Tekkie, a.k.a. Mark Miller, "loves computers and software." Apparently the software developer also loves the history of technology. In Great Moments in Modern Computer History, Tekkie gives us his