The Web and Building

On Build­ing Cross-​posted on Human­i­ties 340: The Muses and the Web. As many of the stu­dents in Human­i­ties 340 have come to under­stand, one of the key issues in DH revolves around a con­tin­u­ing effort to define what the dig­i­tal human­i­ties is or are. One aspect of this almost per­pet­ual debate that seems to crop up […]

The Lurker: The Sub­ver­sive, Dis­rup­tive Nature of Readability

Read­abil­ity is a tool that allows the user to turn any web page into a: com­fort­able read­ing view right in your web browser. Too busy to read right then and there? Read­abil­ity makes it sim­ple to save your favorite arti­cles for read­ing later. Read­abil­ity is avail­able for Fire­fox and Chrome as an exten­sion. For Safari, Read­abil­ity comes as […]

iPhone Cyber­punk

The smart­phone, in my case the iPhone, is the mar­vel of the digital/​personal front of the early 21st cen­tury. I feel that I have now — as a pur­ported dig­i­tal his­to­rian (though I think that is a sus­pect term in its own right) — finally engaged the 21st cen­tury in its poten­tial. Of course, as with other tech break­throughs of the past (the auto, […]