09
Sep
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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22
Jul
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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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
The following are lightly edited speaker notes for a talk I first delivered in October 2024 at the Greater Hudson
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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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23
Oct
An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum
07
Oct
A Google Books Cautionary Tale
This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary
03
Apr
Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians
Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast.
Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February
22
Dec
Tragedy at the Commons
Nat Torkington at the O'Reilly Radar blog has news this morning that George Oates, Senior Program Manager in
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07
Mar
History and the Long Tail
In an interview on the most recent Digital Campus, PublicDomainReprints.org founder Yakov Shafranovich notes that one of the most
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