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Yesterday I was reading an article in The New Yorker which contained a statistic that shocked me. But first, a tangent. Citing things on the web is a challenge. The New Yorker article I want to refer to here is… Continue Reading →

2015/01/21 4

Newspapers the old-fashioned way [#blogjune 11]

Thanks to all those who read my post yesterday, on skills for digital historians. Today, I want to briefly touch on another aspect of the increasingly digital world. I heard in our meeting yesterday that a history academic asked a… Continue Reading →

2014/06/11 2

Skills for digital historians [#blogjune 10]

Today, three archivists (I was one) and three historians met to discuss what skills and resources were important when teaching a capstone history subject – not as part of a dedicated ‘digital humanities’ course, but as a necessary introduction to… Continue Reading →

2014/06/10 4

Sex and the wiki

I spent my walk home thinking about an article I read just before leaving the office: How can Wikipedia woo women editors? Unlike some of the comments (yes, I read them) I don’t think the problem has arisen because women… Continue Reading →

2014/04/08 0

My Year in Review

Traditionally around this time people start looking back, trying to sum up what happened over the past twelve months in politics, culture, society, or their own lives. I also find people I know outside work still regularly ask me what… Continue Reading →

2012/12/19 0

Generous interfaces, stingy metadata

I have been aware of Mitchell Whitelaw’s great work on generous interfaces for a while now, so was interested when a colleague recently sent through a link to Mitchell’s 2011 National Digital Forum presentation Generous Interfaces. The particular example my… Continue Reading →

2012/12/04 0

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