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Entries from February 2008
Today, Now with 75% Less History
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Humor · Today in ...
Briefly Noted for February 27, 2008
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments
A Year Before is a WordPress plugin allowing users to display titles of articles posted n number of days ago. Its developers suggest using it in a “historical corner” to show “what happened in your blog e.g. 30 days, 6 months or a year before.”
Tenspotting. Chock full of “best ever” lists.
28 Weird Al Yankovic Parodies […]
Tags: Ambient History · Blogs · Briefly Noted · Music · Tools · Tops of All Time
Netscape RIP
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
So long Netscape. You were a good friend (for a while). Though official support for the first widely used web browser ends next week, Netscape’s hapless stewards at AOL have kindly left us a lasting(?) memorial. The Netscape Archive offers a brief history of the browser and a download page for discontinued […]
Tags: History of Technology · Mozilla · Tools
THATPodcast Episode 2: Introducing Omeka
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Jeremy and Dave are at it again. This time on THATPodcast they give us a video introduction to Omeka. Sticking with their two-segment format, the first half of the show features a discussion (in part by me) of the aims and values that underlie Omeka. The second half features a very helpful […]
Tags: Audio · Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools · Video
Omeka Forums are Buzzing
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments
It has been only three or four days since we released Omeka to the wild, and already we’re seeing some amazing interest. As of this posting, Omeka 0.9.0 has been downloaded more than 200 times, has been blogged by at least 50 authors, and for a brief time made the del.icio.us homepage “hotlist.” Most exciting […]
Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools
