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Dec
Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Must read: Timothy Burke’s recent blogging on the implications of new AI technologies (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc.) for teaching and
23
Nov
Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

It looks like the theme of this week's Briefly Noted post is Substack. I didn’t intend it,
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12
Nov

How Humanists Should Use Mastodon

I'm brand new to Mastodon. Many of us are. This might suggest that we shouldn't have
3 min read
22
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.
6 min read
23
Oct

An Unexpected Honor

Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum
03
Apr

Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians

Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast. Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February
19
Mar

Briefly Noted: Universal Museum APIs; Raw Data Now!; Publish or Perish

Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, London (where I'm a research fellow, incidentally) points to
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25
Feb

Briefly Noted for February 25, 2009

Along with "the perfect is the enemy of the good," "release early and often" is something
1 min read
13
Jan

New Year's Top Ten Roundup

Last month on the Digital Campus podcast, Mills, Dan, and I offered our take on the top ten stories of
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13
Oct

WordCamp Ed

Let me join the choruses celebrating WordCamp Ed, which makes its debut in Fairfax on November 22, 2008. Organized by
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