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Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

06 Aug 2025 2 min read Archives

Reaching an audience for a digital humanities project used to be straightforward. It isn’t anymore. The fragmentation and toxicity of social media have made it profoundly more difficult for DH projects to

Briefly noted for November 29, 2022

29 Nov 2022 1 min read Art

Check out these amazing WPA-style posters created by the Department of Energy to mark the infrastructure achievements made possible under the 2009 stimulus bill. I hope this time around, the government doesn’t

Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

23 Nov 2022 1 min read Blogs

It looks like the theme of this week's Briefly Noted post is Substack. I didn’t intend it, but each of the following is taken from the platform: Substack is launching

Why I Quit Facebook

19 Dec 2009 1 min read Twitter

As a pretty heavy Twitter user, it may seem strange that I quit Facebook on account of privacy concerns. But two posts—one from ReadWriteWeb and another from the Electronic Frontier Foundation—together

A Google Books Cautionary Tale

07 Oct 2009 Digital Humanities

This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary tale for those following the progress of Google Books. Entitled "Google’s