Digital Humanities

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Oct
Meet AcadiMeet; or, Adventures in Vibe Coding

Meet AcadiMeet; or, Adventures in Vibe Coding

Anyone who has worked with me knows that while I can talk the talk of web development, and while I
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09
Sep
Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

This week in my DMD 2010: History of Digital Culture class, I've been teaching the history and theory
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06
Sep
Dan explains Bartz v. Anthropic

Dan explains Bartz v. Anthropic

Dan Cohen has an excellent explainer on the recent settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, a landmark lawsuit for questions about
2 min read
06
Aug
Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

Reaching an audience for a digital humanities project used to be straightforward. It isn’t anymore. The fragmentation and toxicity
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22
Jul
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On

Yesterday I gave a talk on AI and archives at the Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Special Collections and Archives Staff Retreat.
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10
Jun
Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist

Jim Bennett, Digital Humanist

I've just returned from London, where I joined a celebration at the Science Museum of the life of
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21
May

Writing the History of the Future with Google Gemini

With the end of the semester, I have been experimenting with Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (preview) to see how
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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
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05
Apr

What’s in a name? AI, LLMs, Chatbots and what we hope our words will accomplish

There’s a lot of debate in academic circles about what to call ChatGPT, the new Bing, Bard, and the
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23
Mar

Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources in the age of Generative AI

The following is a (more or less verbatim) transcript of a keynote address I gave earlier today to the Dartmouth
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