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Entries from June 2008

Six Tips for Hiring Good Programmers

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There has been a useful discussion on Twitter (of all places!) among some of the THATCamp participants about how to write a good help wanted ad for programmers for digital humanities projects. Here are a few of the suggestions, mostly from the programmers in the bunch:

“All depends on what you’re looking for: a [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Management · Twitter

Thoughts on THATCamp

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Last week CHNM hosted the inaugural THATCamp to what seemed to me like great success. Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp,” THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities. Structurally, it differs from an ordinary conference in two ways: first in that its sessions are organized by participants themselves (ahead of time [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Management

Twitter, Downtime, and Radical Transparency

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Listeners to the most recent episode of Digital Campus will know that I’m a fairly heavy user of Twitter, the weirdly addictive and hard-to-describe microblogging and messaging service. But anyone who uses the wildly popular service regularly will also know that the company’s service architecture has not scaled very well. During the last month [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Management · Public History · Tools · Twitter

Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I couldn’t be more excited to announce the launch of CHNM’s first major online exhibition for general audiences. Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives draws visitors into the Gulag’s history through bilingual exhibits (English and Russian), a rich archive, and other resources. Exhibits are presented with a thematic approach that illustrates the diversity of the Gulag [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Public History