» Introducing Digital Humanities Now
18/11/09 20:12 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
Do the digital humanities need journals? Although I'm very supportive of the new journals that have launched in the last year, and although I plan to write for them from time to time, there's something discordant about a nascent field—one ..
» Digital Campus #45 – Wave Hello
14/10/09 19:34 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
If you've wondered what an academic trying to podcast while on Google Wave might sound like, you need listen no farther than the latest Digital Campus podcast . In addition to an appraisal of Wave, we cover the FTC ruling on bloggers accep..
» Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities
14/10/09 18:49 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
Longtime readers of this blog may remember that one of my first posts examined the potential role for APIs (application programming interfaces) in the humanities. It's also been a long-running theme in this space that APIs can play a criti..
» Digital Campus #44 – Unsettled
01/10/09 20:14 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
The latest edition of the Digital Campus podcast marks a break from the past. After three years of our small roundtable of Tom , Mills , and yours truly, we pull up a couple of extra seats for our first set of “irregulars,” Ama..
» Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
28/09/09 12:49 from AO
Gregory D. Massey's 2005 article in The Public Historian , “The Papers of Henry Laurens and Modern Historical Documentary Editing” , is a case study that traces the changes in historical editing over the last forty years. Thoug..
» Digital Campus #43 – Summer Wrap-up
14/09/09 20:19 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
Hopefully it doesn't sound this way to our audience, but it's harder than one might imagine to put together a regular podcast. Due to our very busy schedules and some happy and sad events over the past few months, Mills , Tom , and I just ..
» Moving forward
15/08/09 20:56 from Mhardin1's Weblog
It's time to restart the blog. The History and New Media class last year taught me a couple of things. I should not be working solely in new media, at least with respect to history. It's too much like my day job. I cannot escape it, and..
» Departure from Dulles Airport
09/06/09 13:41 from Begunn's Weblog
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» Help Us Create the Future
03/06/09 10:30 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is celebrating fifteen years of providing high-quality, free educational resources and tools to an audience that grows exponentially each year. Last year, sixteen million peop..
» Gearing up for summer and THATcamp
29/05/09 11:59 from Populariscultura's Blog
Ahoy bloggers! I failed miserably to keep up with my blog last sememster. But today is a new day and I'm thrilled to be preparing for the upcoming THATcamp un-conference. check it out: http://thatcamp.org/ Amanda French has posted a geat ..
» Digital Campus #42 – The Real World
21/05/09 19:10 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
This week's podcast looks at the fake, the real, the copies, and the bizarre: fake journals from Elsevier, the MPAA telling teachers to film their TVs, the University of Michigan asking for real uses for its copies of Google's book scans, ..
» Zotero 2.0 Is Here!
14/05/09 21:21 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
After an extensive development and testing period and the addition of even more features to make academic research easier, more collaborative, and ready for the future, Zotero 2.0 went public tonight. I'll be blogging extensively about Zot..
» Idealism and Pragmatism in the Free Culture Movement
12/05/09 19:01 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
[ A review of Gary Hall's Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). Appeared in the May/June 2009 issue of Museum.] Beginning in the late 1970s with Richard Stallma..
» Final Project
11/05/09 22:52 from AO
So, my project is done. Well, it isn't exactly done, but I feel that I completed what I set out to do. I added more items than I expected and did a lot less with the videos than I had planned. I was a little frustrated by using a content m..
» Finished product
11/05/09 13:30 from Maureen's Weblog
I am all done with my project (or at least I have to be as it is due today, right?) Building a site is time-consuming. Understatement of the year I know, but seriously I think that has been kind of surprising to me. Every time I go to my s..
» Updated…
04/05/09 14:39 from Maureen's Weblog
Alright, so after hours of trying to figure out what the heck was going on with my primary navigation bar, I finally got. So it should be visible in both IE and Firefox….. yea….. Again, the site can be found here…
» Website progress
04/05/09 01:33 from Maureen's Weblog
My site is really coming along. At this point I'm just adding a little bit more description to each image I have uploaded. I completely changed my header, which I think helps in carrying the visual aspect I desired for the site as a whole ..
» My Website is coming along
03/05/09 23:01 from Smdeane's Weblog
…My website is coming along! You can see my website has improved immensely since the last time we met in class. Actually, the revisions should be rather minor; I plan to correct the following: Fix the links for grade level 3-5 and th..
» The Spider and the Web: Results
29/04/09 22:49 from Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
A couple of weeks ago at the Digital Dilemmas Symposium in New York I tried something new: using Twitter to replicate digitally the traditional “author's query,” where a scholar asks readers of a journal for assistance with a r..
» Plug-in along, or should I say web-in along?
23/04/09 19:48 from Smdeane's Weblog
Just checking in with everyone…thanks for your comments! Since the HTML/CSS Mock-ups Presentations on Monday I have been “web-in along” with my website revisions, based on the your comments and my own. I have been working..
» HTML and CSS thingy
20/04/09 16:01 from Maureen's Weblog
Alright so I have been working away on this and I think the most frustrating thing is that I can spend hours and hours on something really dumb and no one will ever know that I spent an entire afternoon doing it. One thing I have been tryi..
» HTML and CSS Mockups
20/04/09 15:15 from AO
I am happy to report that I didn't have any CSS issues that forced me to change my design mockups. I did however make some changes to the design due to some comments from Jeremy and Trevor. I agree with Sharon that this has been the most c..
» Mockups
20/04/09 10:17 from Mphillie's Weblog
Based on the feedback I got from the class, I made some minor adjustments to the original logo/header . Subsequently, I reduced the verbiage in the subtitle and selected a different image of the newspaper. Belatedly, I came to the realizat..
» HTML and CSS Mock-Ups
18/04/09 21:57 from Smdeane's Weblog
Well, I would have to say that this assignment has been the most challenging for me! Although I have made some headway using HTML and CSS for my three mock-ups, I still have a long way to go. And this is a good time to mention that I have..
» Interesting Article and Blog
16/04/09 13:42 from Acapps1's Weblog
An interesting article in the current issue of Historically Speaking Bulletin of the Historical Society (http:/www.bu.edu/historic) by Professor Marshall Poe entitled “Fighting Bad with Good, or, Why Historians must get on the Web N..