An Unexpected Honor
Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work,
History of Technology
E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open
During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod which I think more or less
Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20
GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful reading for digital humanities centers and cultural heritage institutions looking to participate in
Motto
I came across this old quote last night in finishing up David Post's In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace. It seems a fair approximation
Briefly Noted for February 10, 2009
Jessica Pritchard of the American Historical Association blog reports on a panel at last month's annual meeting that asked what it takes to be a public historian. Entitled "Perspectives on