Picking on someone our own size
Friends of the blog will know that I have long been skeptical of historical video game projects. One of several critiques is that our budgets are just too small to compete in the
HigherEd
iPads and irResponsibility
Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania has announced it will give every full-time student a new Apple iPad upon arrival in the fall. This seems remarkably irresponsible to me. In a time of scant
Things of History, History of Things
I have just started listening to an new podcast from the BBC, A History of the World in 100 Objects, written and narrated by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. Aside from
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 Museums and the machine-processable web, a new wiki "for sharing, discussing, arguing
Tragedy at the Commons
Nat Torkington at the O'Reilly Radar blog has news this morning that George Oates, Senior Program Manager in charge of Flickr Commons and an original member of the Flickr design team,