Sapping Attention

Note: this post is part I of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . Data visualizations are l...

Here's a special post from the archives of my 'too-boring for prime time' files. I wrote this a few months ago but didn't kn...

Note: this post is part III of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . The main thrust of my b...

Note: this post is part II of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . To read the data in ship...

--> I've now seen a paragraph about advertising in   Jill Lepore's latest New Yorker piece in a few places, including A...

I've been thinking more than usual lately about spatially representing the data in the various Bookworm browsers. So in this post, I w...

A follow up on my post from yesterday about whether there's more history published in times of revolution . I was saying that I thought ...

A quick post about other people's data, when I should be getting mine in order: [Edit--I have a new post here with some concrete examp...

It's pretty obvious that one of the many problems in studying history by relying on the print record is that writers of books...

We just rolled out a new version of Bookworm (now going under the name "Bookworm Open Library") that works on the same codebase a...

[The American Antiquarian Society conference in Worcester last weekend had an interesting rider on the conference invitation--they wanted 50...

I saw some historians talking on Twitter about a very nice data visualization of shipping routes in the 18th and 19th centuries on Spatial A...

I'm starting up a new blog, Qwikster Prochronism (an obscure near-synonym for 'anachronism') for anything I want to post abo...

[The following is a revised version of my talk on the 'collaboration' panel at a conference about "Needs and Opportunities for ...

[Update: I've consolidated all of my TV anachronisms posts at a different blog, Prochronism , and new ones on Mad Men, Deadwood, Downton...