Stéfan Sinclair was brilliant and did so much groundbreaking work in digital humanities, but most of all, he was simply a really kind person and a wonderful collaborator with so many of us. What a profound tragedy to hear that he has passed away.
Stéfan Sinclair was brilliant and did so much groundbreaking work in digital humanities, but most of all, he was simply a really kind person and a wonderful collaborator with so many of us. What a profound tragedy to hear that he has passed away.
2020
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 26: Considerate Over Clever”—Photography exhibit about empty urban spaces; crowdsourcing begins on an alternative weekly; questioning the questions developers get in job interviews; 19th century virtual reality
As required by Massachusetts law, this is an official notification to the general public that my children have just received their driver’s licenses. You have been warned, Boston.
Just a reminder that we are filling several positions in the Northeastern University Library, and I’d especially like to call your attention to the Semantic Data Specialist role.
Nice historical artifact we discovered while sorting through some of our books: a 1949 edition of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, with Yiddish newspapers holding together the spine. A physical representation of an intellectual community.
I would like a Dogme 95 sports channel
I’ve been going over my notes on digital history from 2003-2005, including some of these early Google search results, and it’s incredible how many of the top sites are by amateur enthusiasts, run off their AOL accounts or with a tilde and their name after some ISP’s domain name.
If you want to know how much the web has changed in the last two decades, here was the top Google search result in 2004 for “Abraham Lincoln”: web.archive.org/web/20030…
Dear future historians: High school and college yearbooks often go to press months before the end of the academic year, in case you’re wondering why the Class of 2020 was so blasé about this virus thing.
New issue of my newsletter is out: “Humane Ingenuity 25: Out of Body Experiences”—The view out of other people’s windows; issues w/ Microsoft’s new “Together Mode”; AI-created captions for cartoons that don’t exist; digitizing an entire island in Venice
The new “Together” mode in Microsoft Teams is like a Borges story about a lecture.
The marshmallow test, except with a hound and an ice cube on a hot day
Wear a mask and let dog be your copilot
Evening
Afternoon
Evening
Evening
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 24: Witness and Withness”—how libraries/archives can bear witness to the long and brutal history of racism; experimenting w/ low and high tech to make us feel closer together; maps that lie and tell the truth
Morning
And these neighbors have decided to go straight to Halloween. I get it.
Over a hundred days in and things are finally getting weird in the neighborhood. One of our neighbors built a dunk booth—kid hits a target with a ball and a five gallon bucket of water drops on the parent
Much wisdom here from @jenorr on her blog about our forthcoming necessarily imperfect fall school season.
If you could use five minutes of pure fun and incredible talent, may I recommend this video of the proto-breakdancing all-stars The Lockers on the first season of SNL? (via @tombreihan’s The Number Ones blog)