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 is. This can be in stark contrast to other (unnamed) disciplines where suspicion,
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Thinking the Unthinkable
Clay Shirky's widely circulated post, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, has got me thinking about the "unthinkable" in humanities scholarship. According to Shirky, in the world of print journalism,
Thoughts on THATCamp
Last week CHNM hosted the inaugural THATCamp to what seemed to me like great success. Short for "The Humanities and Technology Camp," THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated "unconference" on
Twitter, Downtime, and Radical Transparency
Listeners to the most recent episode of Digital Campus will know that I'm a fairly heavy user of Twitter, the weirdly addictive and hard-to-describe microblogging and messaging service. But anyone who
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, public history, and library bloggers. One thing I didn't mention—and