Epistemographer

See, now this is what I call using new media to do history in innovative ways:

“The Lost City. A group of architecture students have to reconstruct the historical evolution of the city of Lausanne. They have to understand how the old urban structure of the city from the Middle Age survived and melted in the [...]

“Scientists create and collect their own data, while humanists work with data collected by others” (heard at the DLF Cyberinfrastructure and Humanities panel).

Thoughts?

I’ve been hanging around at the Digital Library Federation’s Fall Forum in Baltimore. Most of my notes are jotted on low-tech paper, but I did type in my notes on John Unsworth’s keynote address, “Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences” (slides here) Here’re my raw, unedited notes:

Basic vocabulary of “cyberinfrastructure” can be problematic

Term comes [...]

I. Am. So. There.

Interesting; on the heels of my post yesterday about filing vs. tagging comes Joi Ito, pointing toward a post by David Weinberger that seems to resonate:

Peter Merholz, AKA peterme, has an excellent article at Adaptive Path called Metadata for the Masses:
“But what if we could somehow peek inside our users’ thought processes to figure out [...]

I called my mom tonight to watch the last few pitches of the NLCS game seven, and to watch the Cardinals win the pennant. She grew up in St. Louis, and had actually flown out to catch a game of the first Cards-Dodgers post-season series; as the last pitch was thrown, she murmured in joyous [...]

Dan Froomkin offers the best concise read on the election that I’ve seen:

So maybe on Nov. 2, Americans won’t be voting for presidential candidates as much as for competing realities.

No time for a long post now, but I was just deciding which folder into which to sort a particular e-mail, and realized that the system of categorized folders I’d been using for the better part of a decade doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. This actually seems to fit with a trend [...]

Slashdot just published an interview with Neal Stephenson, pretty much all of which is must-reading. Check out the whole thing, but one quote that particularly jumped out at me is his observation on bookstores, which seems to encapsulate many of my conclusions about video stores into a few lines:

There was a time maybe five years [...]

I’ve been meaning to post something about Movable Type for a while – especially since I realized that people actually read this blog (when I actually post to it regularly), and that my words occasionally have an impact beyond what I’d expect.

Back when everyone went bonkers over Six Apart’s licensing scheme for Movable Type 3.0 [...]