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May

Why Digital Humanities is “Nice”

One of the things that people often notice when they enter the field of digital humanities is how nice everybody

26 May 2010

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17

Mar

Thinking the Unthinkable

Clay Shirky's widely circulated post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, has got me thinking about the "unthinkable&

17 Mar 2009

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06

Jun

Thoughts on THATCamp

Last week CHNM hosted the inaugural THATCamp to what seemed to me like great success. Short for "The Humanities

06 Jun 2008

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05

Jun

Twitter, Downtime, and Radical Transparency

Listeners to the most recent episode of Digital Campus will know that I'm a fairly heavy user of

05 Jun 2008

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02

Mar

Twitter as a tool for outreach

In an earlier post I wrote about the early buzz around Omeka, both in the forums and among education, museum,

02 Mar 2008

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25

Jul

U2's Kite

I'll stick with music for one more post. "Kite" is one of my favorite of U2&

25 Jul 2007

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18

Sep

What is a Museum?

This one comes from Found History reader Tim, who wanted to hear my thoughts on NPR's recent story

18 Sep 2006

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05

May

Calendars as Timelines

Jeremy had a post yesterday about the buzz over timelines at CHNM.  For the last year or so, we have

05 May 2006

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21

Apr

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away ...

The topic of this spring's Washington DC Area Technology and Humanities Forum was just announced on CHNM News,

21 Apr 2006

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16

Apr

Finding History in the September 11 Digital Archive

Because it follows from some talks I've given in the past, this may be cheating on my resolution

16 Apr 2006

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