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, […]
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 […]
In response to my last post on “the Stream,” Cameron Blevins (History-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 […]