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
Briefly Noted for December 19, 2008
Ahoy, Mateys! Mills Kelly's fall semester course "Lying about the Past" was revealed today in The
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
Change Over Time
This is kind of creepy—it reminds me of Michael Jackson's 1991 Black or White video, which is
Place Names / Time
Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed
Geni
The tech blogs are buzzing about Geni, a new genealogy application launched by former Paypal executive David Sacks (see Valleywag
Yahoo! Time Capsule
This is huge, or potentially so. Yahoo! has launched what they are calling an "electronic anthropology project"—a
CoverPop
If you ever have eight or ten hours to kill, check out CoverPop.com, a new mashup site and a
TagLines
If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now. A rolling timeline of the eight