Digital History

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• Firefox Turns 5 and Cambyses II

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  The Firefox browser turns five years old today. It now accounts for nearly 25% of browser usage today. Its fairly steady growth as an alternative to Internet Explorer has slowed with the release of Googles Chrome. It will be interesting to see how Firefox changes as Chrome grows - Firefox 4.0 is around the corner and ...
  15 hours ago

• Google Dashboard

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  Today Google announced the release of Dashboard . Googles Dashboard is a service that allows you to see and control the data saved about you on Googles servers. The release is due in part to the criticism that Google has received for its collection and storage of data from its users, which has been a growing concern ...
  5 days ago

• Luxembourg symposium ‘Contemporary History in the Digital Age’

  
  The HUMLab blog — Authority: 117
  I recently returned from a symposium in Luxembourg on the topic of Contemporary History in the Digital Age and will report some of my impressions here. First, I should say that attending the event was a remarkable experience for a number of reasons. The symposium, which was hosted by the Centre Virtuel de la ...
  6 days ago

• Digital Issues in the News Today

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  When I get up, I try to scan the various news and blogs sites I frequent to see if anything happened over night. I have also been on the lookout for digital related issues since I am in the process of locating ideas and issues for my new Digital History class. Today, what caught my eye was that there were 2 articles ...
  1 week ago

• Three Years Blogging

  
  Bull Runnings — Authority: 123
  I started this thing on Nov. 2, 2006.  Now it’s three years later, and I’ve made 759 posts, including 256 entries in the resources section.  The blog has received 172,496 WordPress hits, basically doubling the previous year each year – this year so far I’ve received 89,500 hits, and will probably get about ...
  1 week ago

• New Blog on 1st CT Volunteers

  
  Bull Runnings — Authority: 123
  Paleontologist William Parker, whom I have mentioned before with regards to the after action report of Colonel George Burnham of the 1st CT Volunteer Infantry, has started a new blog project on the regiment, Three Month Men.  Check it out, and good luck, Bill!Posted in Articles, Civil War On the Web, Digital History ...
  1 week ago

• Let there be light

  
  DigitaleLife — Authority: 136
  This is the time of year that lighting is real popular with the holidays just around the corner. This time of year when family and friends come over have a minka lavery light number 6773-301 in your guest bathroom could really make a statement. I know my sister in will completely redo her quest bathroom around the ...
  1 week ago

• “Everything They Ever Wanted”: A NetLogo Case Study of a Model of Rebellion in the Tobacco Dark Patch ofTennessee and Kentucky

  
  Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research — Authority: 103
  Agent based modelling appears to be gaining traction as a methodology in historical investigation. Good! Just seen: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/8/2/3/2/p82320_index.html “Everything They Ever Wanted”: ANetLogo Case Study of a Model of Rebellion in the Tobacco Dark Patch ...
  1 week ago

• It’s Quiet. Yeah, Too Somnolent.

  
  The Edge of the American West — Authority: 615
  I’m hoping that Amazon doesn’t actually put this into action: Method and apparatus for programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content. A synonym substitution mechanism may programmatically replace selected words in textual data with synonyms for the selected words. The modification to an ...
  1 week ago

• Dangers of the Internet

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  In my Introduction to History class I have been trying to stress to my class the dangers of the Internet - such as facebook pictures, twitter posts, emails, etc. They seemed to think I was overreacting, but a series of recent news articles support my concerns. " Digital dirt can haunt your job search " talks about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another E-Reader

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  Having put off buying an e-reader longer than I ever expected (and still waiting), I was interested to learn about the new Barnes and Noble " Nook ." Some bloggers are referring to it as a Kindle-killer, while others arent so sure. I am still interested in finding a good e-reader to use in Cyprus. My goal is to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The “Wired” West: Digital History at the Western History Association Annual Conference

  
  Making History Podcast: The Blog — Authority: 91
  Andrew Torget and Brent Rogers , speaking on a WHA panel titled “Exploring and Visualizing the Mid-Nineteenth Century West Through Digital History,” each showcased their laudable efforts at using digital tools in historical research. Torget, perhaps best known for his efforts on the Valley of the Shadow ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blackboard continues fight

  
  Ancient History Ramblings — Authority: 112
  Despite Blackboards loss in federal court in its battle against Desire2Learn is evidently not over. The company is going to file an appeal with the Supreme Court. The loss in federal court was a fairly substantial loss on all fronts for Blackboard, at least according to Desire2Learns blog . RSM
  3 weeks ago

• Text Analysis of Martha Ballard’s Diary (Part 3)

  
  history-ing — Authority: 98
  One of the most basic applications of text mining is simply counting words. I began by stripping out punctuation (in order to avoid differentiating mend and mend. as two separate words), put every word into lowercase, and then ignored a list of stop words ( the , and , for , etc.). By writing a program to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reading early modern pamphlets

  
  Mercurius Politicus — Authority: 103
  There is an interesting discussion going on over at the SHARP e-mail list about the differences between reading on paper and reading on a screen .The conclusion of most posters is that while we may not need a new word to describe reading on a screen – viewing? screening? diging? – there is nevertheless a ...
  4 weeks ago

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