Here’s the syllabus (PDF) for American Scriptures, a class I teaching for the second time and co-teaching with John Turner.
Here’s the syllabus (PDF) for American Scriptures, a class I teaching for the second time and co-teaching with John Turner.
RRCHNM has published the second issue of Current Research in Digital History, a journal that publishes short articles about DH work-in-progress. Here’s the issue.
This is the week where I write to a dozen people asking when their work will be done, and a dozen people write to me and ask when my work will be done.
Syllabus for a class I’m teaching this fall.
Length of time I used communication technology before being utterly exhausted with it:
Any of you IndieWeb folk have a non-creepy alternative to Google Analytics?
What’s the name for this law of the internet?
All publishing venues sooner or later dispense productivity advice.
My two favorite peer review comments of all time are (1) that I am a “Catholic triumphalist” (if memory serves, I was a Baptist when I wrote that essay) and (2) that I have a “posture outside DH.”
Well, there’s your problem right there.
Nothing makes me feel better as a teacher than to see a bunch of students who took a course with me one semester take a different elective with me the next semester.
If you are a sysadmin interested in working in the DC-area, and if you value a free and open web (probably a safe bet if you are on Micro.blog), then the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is hiring.
But if you think that lighthouse poem is cute, here is one she wrote for one of her stories. 😵
A poem my daughter wrote as a birthday present for her grandmother.
Starting to think in a serious way about classes for the fall. Here’s what’s on deck:
It is comforting to know that if I ever run out of ideas, I can redo my old work and call it “live action.”
A fair number of people who aren’t my students or colleagues ask me for advice about digital history projects or what have you. I want to be helpful, but those conversations rarely seem to go anywhere and take up a lot of time. So I’ve started asking people to either send me something they’ve written or write up one page gathering their current thoughts before we talk. Most people I never hear from again. For those people who do it, our conversations are much more productive and don’t waste either party’s time. Not sure if this is a prickly old man thing to do or not, but I’m sticking with it.
Now that the Red Sox are losing to the Orioles we can officially call this a bad season.
Congratulations to GMU’s Jeri Wieringa, who completed her PhD today with her dissertation “A Gospel of Health and Salvation” on Seventh Day Adventists.
Anyone who thinks the internet is an immaterial abstraction has never had to work on the internet in a data center.
In a turnabout of events, the 7 y.o. says we can’t go out to lunch yet because she is the one who is busy writing.
Two hours to write the script in Go, which then takes two hours to run. Could have written the script in R in an hour, but then it would have taken two days to run.
Does anyone else mistakenly type terminal commands in iMessage threads to their loved ones?
Have to agree with the Washington Post that the Museum of the Bible’s “sound shell” is pretty cool.
Susan Schulten explains how maps were made during the Paris Peace process in the aftermath of WWI.
My colleagues and I are working on digitizing the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. Or—I should say—redigitizing. It appears likely that the Census Bureau used Hollerith punch cards for tabulation, so in some sense the census was digitized at the time, not to say, born digital.