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31
Mar

Rethinking Access

[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS
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30
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 30, 2010

Old Sturbridge Village Shaping Up — I have spent more time at Old Sturbridge Village, which is two towns over from
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30
Mar

iPads and irResponsibility

Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania has announced it will give every full-time student a new Apple iPad upon arrival in
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26
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 26, 2010

Personalized URL Shorteners (Suggestions for CHNM?) — @sebchan explains how the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney started rolling its own tiny URLs
26
Mar
"Soft" [money] is not a four-letter word

"Soft" [money] is not a four-letter word

I will be the first to say that I have been, and continue to be, extremely lucky. As I explained
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23
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 23, 2010

Omeka-Powered Digital Amherst Recognized by ALA — The American Library Association’s (ALA’s)  Program  on America’s Libraries for the
23
Mar

Support for Regional THATCamps

In 2008, CHNM created THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp—a yearly user-generated "unconference." Organized on a shoestring
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22
Mar

Things of History, History of Things

I have just started listening to an new podcast from the BBC, A History of the World in 100 Objects,
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10
Mar

Digital Humanities at NCPH

The digital humanities are well represented this week at the National Council for Public History annual meeting in Portland, Oregon.
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04
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 4, 2010

Facebook, Google, Apple: Patents Gone Wild — The last ten days or so have seen a flurry of suspect behavior by
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