Visualizations

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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
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Mar

Briefly Noted: Surviving the Downturn; Help with Creative Commons; Yahoo Pipes

The American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) provides cultural heritage professionals with some relevant information on surviving the
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Dec

Briefly Noted for December 19, 2008

Ahoy, Mateys! Mills Kelly's fall semester course "Lying about the Past" was revealed today in The
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14
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 14, 2008

Jeremy Boggs at Clioweb continues his must-read series on design process for digital humanities with some notes (and code) for
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08
Jun

Change Over Time

This is kind of creepy—it reminds me of Michael Jackson's 1991 Black or White video, which is
13
Mar

Place Names / Time

Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed
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16
Jan

Geni

The tech blogs are buzzing about Geni, a new genealogy application launched by former Paypal executive David Sacks (see Valleywag
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11
Oct

Yahoo! Time Capsule

This is huge, or potentially so.  Yahoo! has launched what they are calling an "electronic anthropology project"—a
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Sep

CoverPop

If you ever have eight or ten hours to kill, check out CoverPop.com, a new mashup site and a
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27
May

TagLines

If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now.  A rolling timeline of the eight