Sapping Attention

Starting this month, I’m moving from New Jersey to do a fellowship at the Harvard Cultural Observatory . This should be a very interesting ...

In writing about openness and the ngrams database, I found it hard not to reflect a little bit about the role of copyright in all this. I...

Patricia Cohen's new article  about the digital humanities doesn't come with the rafts of crotchety comments the first one did, so u...

I’m back from Moscow, and with a lot of blog content from my 23-hour itinerary. I’m going to try to dole it out slowly, though, be...

I'm going to start using this blog to work through some issues in finding useful applications for digital history. (Interesting applicat...