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Feb

Nobody cares about the library: How digital technology makes the library invisible (and visible) to scholars

There is a scene from the first season of the television spy drama, Chuck, that takes place in a library.
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15
Feb

Game Change: Digital Technology and Performative Humanities

"Game changing" is a term we hear a lot in digital humanities. I have used it myself. But
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28
Oct

Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives

Today, I'll be speaking at the Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives at the Connecticut State Library under the
18
Aug

Post-Doc at CHNM (North)

Many Found History readers will know that I have recently moved full-time to Connecticut, working remotely and traveling to Fairfax
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22
Jun

PressForward

We have been threatening to do it for years. Frustrated with the inadequacies of traditional modes of scholarly publishing for
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20
Jun

Summer Blockbusters: Sci-fi and Alternate History

It seems the past has replaced the future as Hollywood's preferred setting for summer's science fiction
02
Jun

For Your Listening Pleasure: History Conversations

A few years back I had the bright idea to launch a second podcast (Digital Campus being the first). It
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20
Apr

A Pound of History

Does a pound of history amount to a hill of beans? Starbucks seems to think so. It's pushing
14
Mar

Hey you! Come to THATCamp NCPH

Here is a partial list of places an easy workday's drive from Pensacola, FL: * Athens, GA * Atlanta, GA
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02
Dec
Stuff Digital Humanists Like: Defining Digital Humanities by its Values

Stuff Digital Humanists Like: Defining Digital Humanities by its Values

[A very rough transcript of my talk at the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative on December 1, 2010. The DHI'
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