Collecting

29
Apr
Innovation as Habit: Practicing looking forward in a backward-looking business

Innovation as Habit: Practicing looking forward in a backward-looking business

The following are lightly edited speaker notes for a talk I first delivered in October 2024 at the Greater Hudson
25 min read
07
Apr
The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities' Diverse Family Tree/s

The Dividends of Difference: Recognizing Digital Humanities' Diverse Family Tree/s

In her excellent statement of digital humanities values, Lisa Spiro identifies "collegiality and connectedness" and "diversity"
5 min read
19
Nov

Archiving Social Media

In an article posted yesterday under the title 5 Ways Social Media Will Change Recorded History, Mashable co-editor Ben Parr
1 min read
15
Dec

Honest Abe

Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library explores our ongoing fascination with Abraham Lincoln with 21st Century Abe. Launching officially
21
Dec

Briefly Noted for December 21, 2007

NEH announces funding for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. A Visit to Yesterland - The Discontinued Disneyland.
18
Oct

A Matter of Trust

I originally posted this at thanksroy.org, the digital memory bank we set up in Roy's honor. I&
1 min read
05
Jun

More Crunch

Here's another one from the "Crunch" network of blogs.  Today TechCrunch has a post on Apple&
20
Jan

"Boomers" and History

I can't tell you how tired I am of reading about baby boomers and their impending retirements.  The
1 min read
19
Nov

Silly Geeky

Another quick one for the weekend: Game Set Watch—an "alt.video game weblog"—gives us the Top
27
Oct

Watchismo

Watchismo is a collector and online dealer of vintage watches, especially digital watches, from the mid-20th century.  He describes himself