http://leisurelyhistorian.net History, Computers, Napping in Parks... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:13:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Proving true the conventional wisdom that short posts are better than long ones, The Ed Techie's 445-word summery of my last post is generating a lot more conversation than my post did... Check out the comments for further discussion... Not to mention that he made my points a lot more eloquently ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/i-talk-too-much/ Yeah, yeah, the EDUPUNK moment is long over, but it's still rattling around in the back of my mind. I wrote about it before, but I really think that a lot of the reaction against the term was based on a misapprehension of what punk is, what punk was, what ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/edupunk-aesthetic/ In my last post about building a digital comic strip archive, I tried to sketch out why I thought early comic strips would make a good subject for an Omeka-based archive. (I could have gone on for ages, but I'm trying to keep this brief-- also the reason for breaking ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/the-early-comic-strip-archive-part-two-why-a-database/ ...It's the full text of Moby Dick. http://leisurelyhistorian.net/one-of-the-cooler-wordle-visualizations-ive-seen/ I've been trying to come up with a project that would be well-suited to Omeka. I want to learn to use it, want to give myself practice with it, play with the insides, see what I can do with it. I think I've come up with a decent idea. I'm thinking ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/the-early-comic-strip-archive-part-one/ http://leisurelyhistorian.net/bjork-explains-television/ I was writing a reply to Mills Kelly's most recent post, and realized that my reply was long enough to constitute its own post. I suppose this is exactly what trackbacks are for. The whole pre-press peer review process is based on a different model of the economy of publishing. Review ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/digital_scholarship_and_peer_review_where/ By my friend Andre Collares, a graphic designer outta Florida. Just thought it was cool and thought I'd share. http://leisurelyhistorian.net/campbells_soup/ Dave Lester's recent post on Polar Rose reminded me that I've had the draft of an entry on some interesting image search stuff saved here for over a week. Image search technology just keeps getting cooler and cooler. I'm eagerly awaiting the day when there's an image search site that allows ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/image_search/ This month marks the 70th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman. This means that it's basically the 70th birthday of superheroes in general. While I find the pre-WWII Superman very interesting-- back when he couldn't fly, didn't have heat vision or x-ray vision, when he was just an enormously strong ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/the-black-bomber/ As Rob MacDougall pointed out, "Edupunk" seems to be the new hot meme in the edublog world. I'm coming a bit late to the party, as the term was coined almost two weeks ago, which in the blogosphere seems to mean a thing's ready for its postmortem... Well, unless it's LOLcats. ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/the-edupunk-thing/ Facebook traffic (in terms of unique visitors) is down 10% while sales of Hormel Spam is up almost 10%. http://leisurelyhistorian.net/signs-of-the-times/ ...So... One of the projects I'm working on at CHNM this summer is helping with the "final push" for the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank. The grant is ending around September, and we're trying to get as many people to submit to the site before we can't put as much time ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/do-you-heart-firefox/ It's been a month and a half since I've posted here. This is just a post to commit myself to getting back on the horse. http://leisurelyhistorian.net/my-poor-neglected-blog/ Just like your friend who's obsessively checking out his Facebook, squirrels are avid social networkers. Perhaps the best part of the entire article is the definition of squirrel "kissing" as "oral contact that doesn't lead to bickering." Also interesting (though less amusing): Manno tested what would happen to the squirrel network if individuals ... http://leisurelyhistorian.net/the-best-two-things-to-come-accross-my-feed-reader-in-the-last-week/