Dig­i­tal Tools and Meth­ods: Ideas and Links

Intro­duc­tion Any medium pow­er­ful enough to extend man’s reach is pow­er­ful enough to top­ple his world. To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain lit­er­acy. Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties is a col­lab­o­ra­tive approach to schol­ar­ship that com­bines tra­di­tional forms of human­is­tic study with infor­ma­tional tech­nolo­gies. The emer­gence and adoption […]

Pub­lic and Private

I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in a panel dis­cus­sion on “The Pub­lic and Pri­vate in Media” as a part of an art exhi­bi­tion: The New Nor­mal. The New Nor­mal exam­ines the issue of pri­vate infor­ma­tion becom­ing less pri­vate in our tech­no­log­i­cal soci­ety. Regard­less of how well I present/​discuss today, this exhi­bi­tion has made me reex­am­ine my ideas of the private […]

On Blog­ging

I have wanted to blog for some time, but I have not had the courage to do so, at least until now. I have had a RSS reader for sev­eral years now (make that 6 years) and have fol­lowed many in the web stan­dards and dig­i­tal human­i­ties spheres. I think fear was the biggest stum­bling block for me, fear of […]