Tag Archives: Research

The Range

Flickr. With this post, I think I need to put together a post on Sport Shoot­ing, Hunt­ing, and Con­ser­va­tion in Amer­i­can History.
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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