Category Archives: Digital

Kit­Bash­ing

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 […]

Skim­ming and Bor­ing the Stream

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 […]

Markup and Dig­i­tal Humanities

This is the first post in a series about the role of html and css in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. As I was fin­ish­ing up a les­son on html and css for class today, I was, again, struck by the thought that html and css are pri­mar­ily geared, it seems to me, around cre­at­ing a dig­i­tal edi­tion. This is, of course, […]