Category Archives: Digital

iPhone Cyberpunk

By Richard | Published: 2010/04/18
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, [...]
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KitBashing

By Richard | Published: 2010/03/22
In the modeling/​hobby realm Kit­Bash­ing “is a prac­tice whereby a new scale model is cre­ated by tak­ing pieces out of com­mer­cial kits.” I would imag­ine that in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties, the process of Kit­Bash­ing is equiv­a­lent to hack­ing, remix­ing, and the Mashup. I am work­ing on a hand-​rolled cus­tom theme, but that is sev­eral long weeks away as I do have [...]
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Skimming and Boring the Stream

By Richard | Published: 2009/08/26
In response to my last post on “the Stream,” Cameron Blevins (His​tory​-ing​.org) pointed out that one “issue with the stream is the seem­ingly eter­nal one of breadth vs. depth,” and that one of the “biggest” chal­lenges for a user was the “transi­tion from hori­zontal skim­ming to ver­tical bor­ing down” into the stream. I agree with Cameron that [...]
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