WTF
Mark Fortner, an open source web developer who blogs at IdeaFactory, has stumbled upon a potentially useful new analytical construct for historians. In a post entitled "WTF Moments in Java History"
Blogs
Happy Birthday "Blog"
Yesterday was supposedly the tenth anniversary of the coining of the word "blog." These kinds of anniversaries (of terms, practices, social phenomena) make for very easy newspaper copy and very bad
Born Too Late: A History Meme
For people who don't already know about internet memes this may not be very interesting. Unfortunately I don't have time to explain before I take off on my summer
Notes on Blog Design Part II, or A Word About Cutline
Reading over my last post, it occurs to me that I should acknowledge a controversy swirling around the edges of the Cutline community. Earlier this year, some important figures in the WordPress leadership
Notes on Blog Design, or Why I Changed
Those few of you who visit the Found History site directly (as opposed to reading posts with a feed reader), will know that over the weekend I overhauled the blog's basic