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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Showing the Extra Stuff

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Showing the Extra Stuff. While it's often tempting - and fun - to think of digital history applications (or digital applications at all) as large, flashy, extroverted things laden with all manner of bells, whistles and gongs, some of the neater ones are just as likely to be subtler or halfway invisible. I recently came across a neat-looking equivalent of that sort of thing while catching up on various world events on BBC News. View my complete profile.

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Omnia Mihi Lingua Graeca Sunt

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Friday, March 14, 2008. Omnia Mihi Lingua Graeca Sunt. Yesterday, in a fairly crowded Weldon. After I got bored of looking silly and checked the things out in the manner of the previous century. For various personal and school projects, figuring out the foibles of the SMART Board. Software for another project, and considering seeing if I can pick up Python. For the last few days. It’s more or less what the title implies – a survey and discussion of the state of...Figure out, d...

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: eNemy At The Gates

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Thursday, December 13, 2007. ENemy At The Gates. If you want to see an entertainingly polarized debate among a lot of historians - or academics in general, but it seems historians in particular lately - you need do no more than invoke online sources. Particularly in the context of assignments, those two words tend to result in a couple of common reactions:. It's an online source. So what? They're just as good as conventional ones.". The crux of this argument is that online sou...

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Here, have a neat gadget

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Saturday, April 19, 2008. Here, have a neat gadget. Just some mindless link propogation for the day. I recently stumbled over this link. A stroll around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill developed by European researchers. The treadmill is a "motion platform" which gives the impression of "natural walking" in any direction. The bulk of what I have to say about this one is "Cool! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Eye candy and the creation thereof

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Monday, April 21, 2008. Eye candy and the creation thereof. I've been kinda banging the visualization drum somewhat this past year, in case it wasn't obvious. It's something I'm thinking of putting some more work into for the next few months, more along the lines of creation than simply use. There's also likely to be a substantial component of it in my summer internship, but that's as much excuse to get into this as it is reason. We were using in the digital history course.

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: October 2007

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Wednesday, October 17, 2007. A Review of Livius. As an assignment for my public history seminar, we were required to review an historical website. For my own target, I chose Livius - Articles on Ancient History. Created and maintained by Jona Lendering in Amsterdam. This site has been around for a. Asked why he created Livius on his site's FAQ. For a personal project, Livius' scope is vast. As of its September 29 update, the site boasts over 3,200 separate pages. While...Nearl...

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Mindsets in the Digital Humanities

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Sunday, April 13, 2008. Mindsets in the Digital Humanities. It’s easy to get lost in the technical aspects of digital humanities. After all, isn’t the “digital” part of the term fundamental to the condition of the discipline? It would seem, anyway, that that was the core part of this whole area of study. Most of the elements we’ve been studying in the course of this year’s Digital History course. Technical in a computing sense about how not to design web pages. It is important...

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Witty Yet Insightful Title: Silently Posturing

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Witty Yet Insightful Title. Tuesday, December 4, 2007. As an aside exercise for my digital history class, we were asked. To read a paper. The second is "transient," and is the opposite of sovereign software both visually and in terms of interfaces. Intended for specific purposes, meant to be up only temporarily (or, if up for a long time, not constantly interacted with), transient programs can get away with being more exuberant and less intuitive than sovereign applications. The final set of programs are...