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.

Yahoo! Time Capsule

11 Oct 2006 Collecting

This is huge, or potentially so. Yahoo! has launched what they are calling an "electronic anthropology project"—a digital time capsule of images, stories, video, audio, and artwork, all submitted by

One Day in History

11 Oct 2006 1 min read Blogs

The English History Matters (not to be confused with the U.S. History Matters—CHNM's own "U.S. Survey Course on the Web") is encouraging all England and Wales

Haul This

10 Oct 2006 Marketing

Last night Jeremy mentioned an article from Slate about GM's use of images of Rosa Parks and other historic persons and events to sell Chevy trucks. Here's another article

One more amateur history of technology site and then we move on to other things. DigiCamHistory.com provides an enormous—if poorly organized and badly designed—wealth of annotated photos and links relating

Collecting Computer History

06 Oct 2006 2 min read Collecting

Together with colleagues at CHNM, I have been working for several years now on ways to elaborate and extend the practice of online collecting, especially in the areas of history of science, technology,