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Entries from February 2008

Today, Now with 75% Less History

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Today In History: History Lite. A blogger in Indianapolis gives us a different take on the history of February 29th.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Omeka · Tools