Not sure if anyone else was going to post this article. I am not familiar with this blogger, but I think it’s interesting that in a place such as China where the news is highly censored, blogging can be a preferable a method to creating community. Thearticle is on the stabbing of a [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Chinese blogger stabbed
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Codex and other stuff
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been going through the Word Press codex and tutorial as well as playing around with notepad and manipulating HTML code. One thing I discovered was that the original site that inspired the layout for my site in Clio I is that I think it will take me a lot of time to figure [...]
Practical applications and semester project
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I want to share an article that was in the Washington Post last week which discusses how through computer simulation using a portrait of Martha Washington from the 1790s, historians are able to “prove” that the first First Lady was attractive in her younger years. Many people may ask why we should care either [...]
CSS web design
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am feeling overwhelmed. Not sure yet how I feel about that…
Websites for this week
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I LOVED the Ellis Island to Orchard Street and Lost Museum website. I think that as I read in Staley’s book and thought about virtual reality I just really wondered about how that could be used and how objective would such simulations be. Of course I quickly reminded myself that all of history [...]
What will history programs of the future look like?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s turning out that my first week’s blog posts are going to be in a series of posts I guess.
One central focus for Computers, Visualization, and History address the idea that “We believe that only written prose can accurately capture the past” (page 9 of the introduction). This got me thinking about [...]
Clio II
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I think that I’m all registered, but this setup is a little different from last semester, so we’ll see. I’m through the Understanding Comics book and thought it was an interesting way to think of things outside of the box. I was wondering if we’re supposed to think of our online projects in [...]
