October 29, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Prep School Library Drops Books in Favor of Kindles — Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts (not far from where I grew up) is in the process of deaccessioning the books in its library in favor of Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. … Continue reading
October 27, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Big Copyright’s History of Anti-Innovation — Ars Technica has an interesting account of the movie studios, music companies, and other large content owners’ historical antipathy to new content delivery mechanisms. Some of the new technologies on the list: the player … Continue reading
October 25, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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The Material Culture of Mad Men — Via Steve Lubar, an intriguing interview with the prop master of Mad Men, a hit television drama set in early 1960s New York and acclaimed for its realism and attention to historical detail. … Continue reading
October 23, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Open Access to AHA Directory Until End of October — The American Historical Association’s (AHA) Directory of History Departments and Organizations is now online and available to all until October 31, 2009. After the trial period, the full directory will … Continue reading
October 23, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work, and a major figure in my dissertation, … Continue reading
October 16, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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The Great Museum WC — Maybe not the most important room in the museum, but among the most essential: Okay, you have GOT to check out that bathroom.
October 16, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Here’s a list of three questions one might overhear in a peer review panel for digital humanities funding, each of which can kill a project in its tracks: Haven’t X, Y, and Z already done this? We shouldn’t be supporting … Continue reading
October 15, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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Dan Brown Gets Smithsonian History Right and Wrong in "The Lost Symbol" — Smithsonian Magazine’s Around the Mall blog has a nice “fact or fiction” run down of claims made about the Institution by Dan Brown in his latest thriller, … Continue reading
October 14, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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BBC and Neil Gaiman Launch Collaborative Storytelling Experiment on Twitter — This week the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) teamed up with Neil Gaiman (author of Neverwhere and other latter day science fiction and fantasy classics) and thousands of Twitter followers … Continue reading
October 12, 2009
by Tom Scheinfeldt
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ArchivesNext on Modes of Social Media Interaction — Kate Theimer at ArchivesNext has an excellent post detailing four approaches archives and other cultural heritage institutions can take in inviting users to interact with their collections via social media. The four … Continue reading