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Entries from June 2007

From the Belly of the Beast

June 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This one comes from Jeremy. Found history, indeed.
“19th Century bomb found in whale” via BBC News

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Tags: Artifacts

Podcast Roundup

June 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I haven’t mentioned our Digital Campus podcast since Episode 2 in March, but Mills, Dan and I are still going strong. In my opinion, the last few shows have been among our best, featuring guests Jeremy Boggs and Bill Turkel in Episode 6 and Episode 7 respectively and an extended discussion of training for […]

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Tags: Audio · Digital Humanities · Mozilla

Change Over Time

June 8th, 2007 · No Comments

This is kind of creepy—it reminds me of Michael Jackson’s 1991 Black or White video, which is creepy on many levels—but it’s also kind of cool. Eggman913’s 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art provides a compelling and potentially telling history of the evolution of Western female portraiture in the space of three […]

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Tags: Art · Music · Video · Visualizations

Google Timelines

June 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments

On Monday Dave Lester pointed to the release of Google’s new timeline view of search results. Found History has often commented on the importance of timelines in public understanding of history and amateur historical practice, so this seems like it could be a big development in that space.
Google points out that the timeline view […]

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Tags: Google · Search · Timelines · Tools

More Crunch

June 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Here’s another one from the “Crunch” network of blogs. Today TechCrunch has a post on Apple’s 30th anniversary. While the post itself is not very interesting, many of the reader recollections solicited by the author and shared in the post’s comments section are. Currently there are nearly eighty. As our experience […]

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Tags: Apple · Collecting · History of Technology · Memory