Making It Count: Toward a Third Way
Over the summer there was much discussion among my colleagues about making digital humanities work "count" in academic careers. This included two fantastic threads on Mills Kelly's Edwired blog,
Management
Six Tips for Hiring Good Programmers
There has been a useful discussion on Twitter (of all places!) among some of the THATCamp participants about how to write a good help wanted ad for programmers for digital humanities projects. Here
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
Briefly Noted for April 11, 2008
A few quick notes from the National Council on Public History annual meeting in Louisville, KY.
Bill Turkel has a terrific post on the nonlinear character of many academic careers, comparing planning our