04
Dec
A New Home for "Briefly Noted"
My answer to the Substack question
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Open Source
06
Aug
Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation
Reaching an audience for a digital humanities project used to be straightforward. It isn’t anymore. The fragmentation and toxicity
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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.
21 min read
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
25 min read
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
15 min read
12
Nov
How Humanists Should Use Mastodon
I'm brand new to Mastodon. Many of us are. This might suggest that we shouldn't have
3 min read
30
Apr
Sourcery: “Disruption,” Austerity, Equity, and Remote Access to Archives
I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking about and responding to Mark Matienzo’s recent post about Sourcery and
4 min read
01
Jun
When UConn broke up with Adobe: A parable of artists and copyright
One of the things I try very hard to do in my DMD 2010 “History of Digital Culture” class is
5 min read
13
Feb
The Hacker Way
On December 21, 2012, Blake Ross—the boy genius behind Firefox and currently Facebook's Director of Product—posted
8 min read
17
Aug
One Week | One Tool: Interim Report
As promised on Twitter, I'm sharing the report (with a few minor copyedits and corrections) I submitted this
10 min read