2019-02-15: There’s a good section in Linda Colley’s Britons, for instance, on how early …
2019-02-15: Opportunity traveled farther on Mars during its lifetime than most people traveled from their …
2019-02-14: I believe my puppy is now teething
2019-02-13: If you haven’t had a chance to listen to last week’s @podcastwhatsnew, “Seeking Justice …
2019-02-13: With the addition of a letterpress lab, an exhibit on tactile writing systems, our wide variety of …
2019-02-12: I’ve been introducing my new dog to other dogs in the neighborhood, but her favorite new friend is a …
2019-02-12: “February 12, 1809, and Wikipedia’s Evolution”—Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born on …
2019-02-12: One more from @Huskiana
2019-02-12: Loving the trays of type @Huskiana (nice combination of Futura Bold and old letterpress tech)
2019-02-12: At the launch of @Huskiana, @Northeastern’s new letterpress lab, the brainchild of @ryancordell. So …
2019-02-12: Does anyone know how to reset the PRAM on a coffee machine?
2019-02-10: Google hasn’t paid much attention to Google Books for years, and it’s really starting to show.
2019-02-08: There are no scarier words in the English language than “I have just registered my kid for …
2019-02-05: I just love this evocative book in @zetamathian’s office. It’s the 2nd volume of …
2019-02-05: 1000s of African Americans were murdered as the civil rights movement arose—a brutal continuation of …
2019-02-05: Read a story aloud and have it illustrated on the fly with art from @metmuseum (uses the Met’s 300K …
2019-02-04: Registration is now open to everyone (not just members of the Association of Research Libraries or …
2019-01-31: Like all responsible dog owners, we already have a hundred nicknames for our new pup, including …
2019-01-31: I mentioned this talk when I saw it in December, and the video is now available: an incredibly blunt …
2019-01-30: Sure, those two guys made it across Antarctica, but many of us survived the journey to get our mail …
2019-01-28: If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the latest What’s New podcast on tactile reading, it’s …
2019-01-22: On the latest What’s New podcast, I talk with @SariAltschuler about the fascinating origin and …
2019-01-20: #LunarEclipse
2019-01-17: We have another opening @ClubSnell: Global Campus Outreach & Online Learning Librarian — come …
2019-01-17: Delighted that we will be hosting a conference on 3/25-26, sponsored by the Coalition for Networked …
2019-01-14: Meanwhile, “In a truly landmark development, the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) …
2019-01-14: We may have mistakenly adopted a kangaroo instead of a hound
2019-01-10: Ever have that nagging feeling you’re being watched?
2019-01-10: Next Wednesday evening, January 16, I’ll be a panelist at “Conversation in Civic Innovation: …
2019-01-10: The first What’s New podcast of 2019 is with Dan O’Brien, author of the new book The Urban …
2019-01-08: 911 is for emergencies, but many cities now have 311 for citizens to report issues and request …
2019-01-07: Coming later this month to @ClubSnell: “Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We …
2019-01-06: Say hello to Belle, a hound we just adopted from a rescue.
2019-01-03: Not-to-be-missed exhibit: “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City,” currently at the Peabody …
2018-12-30: For New Year’s Eve, the British Library has a tutorial on how to party like it’s 999
2018-12-29: Mark Twain: “A copyright term of an author’s life and 50 yrs will satisfy any reasonable …
2018-12-28: The U.S. Potash Company commissioned Ansel Adams to make a photographic portrait of their Carlsbad, …
2018-12-28: Love this photo of Georgia O’Keeffe taken by Ansel Adams (at the MFA Boston Ansel Adams exhibit)
2018-12-28: Spent this week doubling down on going back to the indie web. Finally moved everything to the great …
2018-12-27: Indeed, that software interpolation makes the parallels between They Shall Not Grow Old and The …
2018-12-27: .@tcarmody is of course right about the general problem(s) with Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not …
2018-12-26: I didn’t realize that the government shutdown includes the National Endowment for the …
2018-12-24: Snowboarding on Christmas Eve is the new Chinese food on Christmas
2018-12-23: Good tip (and lede)
2018-12-22: The full cold moon is out tonight, so bright it’s almost like the sun
2018-12-18: My Own Personal Stonehenge is also my favorite Johnny Cash cover song
2018-12-18: Today is the day of my own personal Stonehenge, when the sun sets perfectly into a notch between two …
2018-12-18: Researching fonts for the visually impaired for a show on multisensory reading I’m recording with …
2018-12-17: Hey all, we’re looking for a Marketing & Events Coordinator in our fine library @ClubSnell …
2018-12-17: A project by @dasmiq, newly funded by @NEH_ODH, will compare multiple digitized copies of books to …
2018-12-14: The jokers in my library’s fabrication lab made me a little something out of wood
2018-12-10: David Rosenthal’s summary of where Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (and blockchain technology in …
2018-12-10: “Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree: The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in …
2018-12-10: Alan Jacobs has launched a newsletter, to which I insta-subscribed. I also recommend his latest …
2018-12-10: Hidden in Cliff Lynch’s opening keynote at #cni18f was the premise of a science fiction book …
2018-12-07: You look nice this evening, Boston
2018-12-06: “By centralizing your writing, photos, and other web pages at your own domain name, you can control …
2018-12-06: Finals are here, so bubble wrap has returned to our library. (Stress reduction dogs are coming next …
2018-12-06: You can read my piece and nine other perspectives on this great milestone on the Europeana 10th …
2018-12-06: “The Past, Evenly Distributed: Europeana at 10” — It was an honor to be asked by @Europeanaeu to …
2018-12-05: Idea: pumpkin spice latke
2018-12-05: “Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities,” by @Ted_Underwood
2018-12-05: Meet the Axolotl, or Mexican walking fish. If hurt, it automatically regrows the wounded area, and …
2018-12-04: Thirty years ago I took a course with Elaine Pagels, “Spiritual Autobiography.” Tragically, her …
2018-12-04: On the latest episode of the What’s New podcast, I talk to three young researchers who are …
2018-12-03: A conference on imaginary maps from Thomas More’s Utopia to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle …
2018-12-03: We’ve got another opening at the Northeastern University Library: Digital Metadata and Ingest …
2018-12-03: “At best the Internet Archive has collected 0.39% of the web.” @edsu reminds us, with @bergisjules, …
2018-12-01: My niece Noa Chazan has launched a very cool and fun card game on Kickstarter that has echoes of …
2018-11-23: My in-laws have had a productive year writing books
2018-11-21: We are having turkey tomorrow, but we are also having a large brisket, and I swear by the sous vide …
2018-11-21: Next step in going indie with my social media: Goodbye, Instagram, hello indie photo sharing. (With …
2018-11-21: We have two openings @ClubSnell @Northeastern right now, with more to come soon: Web Developer: …
2018-11-20: Speaking of books, for some reason I felt that I should read Yuval Noah Harari’s new book (somewhat …
2018-11-20: Looking forward to reading Jason Farman’s new book Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the …
2018-11-20: Congrats to Hillary Chute, a colleague here @Northeastern, for having her book Why Comics? selected …
2018-11-20: On the latest episode of @podcastwhatsnew: “Bridging the Academic-Public Divide Through Podcasts” — …
2018-11-20: As part of my ongoing separation from centralized social media, you can now follow me on Mastodon …
2018-11-20: This year I’m buying all of my holiday gifts from the 1981 Sears Wish Book
2018-11-18: I accept the challenge
2018-11-06: Hey all, we’re looking for a WordPress/Web Developer to join our friendly, collaborative …
2018-11-06: BONUS: If you listen after the credits, Gov. Dukakis recounts how he met his wife Kitty while …
2018-11-06: On today’s special Election Day episode of the What’s New podcast, I’m joined by Michael …
2018-11-06: My favorite vote button in @amhistorymuseum’s extensive collection (found via @dpla)
2018-11-05: My candid conversation with three-term governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael …
2018-11-04: I know I am being sonically manipulated, but yes, I will buy more groceries when Earth, Wind & …
2018-11-04: New on my blog: “Bridging the Academic-Public Divide Through Podcasts”—my keynote at the Sound …
2018-11-01: There’s been a lot of concern about “deep fakes,” using machine learning to fabricate …
2018-10-31: Speaking of podcasts, a reminder that I’ll have three-term governor and 1988 Democratic presidential …
2018-10-31: I believe the Sound Education conference at Harvard, for educational audio producers & …
2018-10-30: As part of our Neighborhood Matters series @ClubSnell, we’re screening a documentary today on …
2018-10-29: Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab has finished digitizing 360 years of American case law, and …
2018-10-28: Borges jokes are my coping mechanism
2018-10-28: They have every car imaginable
2018-10-25: I think the most relevant work in Bruno Latour’s field for what’s going on right now in our …
2018-10-25: Interested to see the launch of the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing platform, and to note …
2018-10-23: Great to meet @RepJoeKennedy today for the launch of a new NSF-funded program for women and …
2018-10-23: Good article in today’s @nytimes about communities battling fracking in Colorado with a referendum: …
2018-10-23: Like science fiction, but real: nanosensors roam your bloodstream, identify chemicals & report …
2018-10-19: Recording a podcast today that’s probably the most science fiction-y—but actually …
2018-10-17: Good time to revisit @tcarmody’s excellent @kottke post, “Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless,” …
2018-10-16: Summary of the current state of copyright law and the legality of text mining books, by @bc_butler: …
2018-10-16: Love this Newton’s 3rd Law of Feedback by @elliedickson: “For every suggested improvement, there is …
2018-10-16: New on my blog: “What We Learned from Studying the News Consumption Habits of College …
2018-10-16: I’m a co-author on that large study of the news consumption practices of college students, and …
2018-10-16: “Students are feeling at sea about how to navigate the news today. The rebirth of a more in-depth …
2018-10-15: 50 ways to start thinking about library and archive collections as data (PDF) #DLFforum
2018-10-14: On my way to #DLFforum. Hoping to catch some of y’all there.
2018-10-12: Here’s a side-by-side comparison of a map of all of Boston’s building lots in 1648, …
2018-10-11: Between Page And Screen is an augmented-reality book of poems. You open the book in front of a web …
2018-10-10: How to use the iOS Measure app correctly (courtesy of @DaveyCraney on Microblog)
2018-10-10: “Stable Random Projection: Lightweight, General-Purpose Dimensionality Reduction for Digitized …
2018-10-09: Here’s Chris Glass’s recreation of the 1848 daguerreotype of Cincinnati, using a large Hasselblad …
2018-10-09: “In 1848 Charles Fontayne & William S. Porter photographed Cincinnati from atop a building in …
2018-10-09: On the latest What’s New podcast, I talk to an 80s rock star who became a copyright lawyer about the …
2018-10-07: Boston skyline
2018-10-04: This is a good piece by @lorcanD about “collective collections”—how we can now visualize large-scale …
2018-10-02: (The last two links are from ARL/CNI.)
2018-10-02: Looking forward to reading this new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation, as …
2018-10-02: A complete rundown of the (mostly anti-public-domain) copyright implications of the new …
2018-10-01: Dark Mode would be cooler if Apple had named it Goth Mode
2018-09-29: My sister adopted a new hound. It may be half manatee.
2018-09-27: Idyllic outdoor class @Northeastern today
2018-09-26: Back to School Night: Revenge of Comic Sans
2018-09-26: You look nice today, Mt. Rainier
2018-09-25: You look nice today, Seattle
2018-09-25: On the latest What’s New podcast: How artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms …
2018-09-24: There’s always money in the banana stand
2018-09-21: This photo by Ramsay de Give in this article going behind the scenes at the opera is so great.
2018-09-20: Reading this piece by Brian Lavoie reminded me how much I love the map of potential “mega-scale …
2018-09-20: When they announced the search for a Prince archivist, I envisioned someone obsessively creating an …
2018-09-20: Really great to see that the @hathitrust digital library now supports computational analysis of all …
2018-09-18: So it’s a good time to subscribe to What’s New by clicking on your favorite podcast app …
2018-09-18: New on my blog: “What’s New, Season Two” — we’ve got a great fall lineup, including …
2018-09-17: You can customize your memoji in any way you want, except to look older than 30
2018-09-14: Good catch, kid
2018-09-14: Excited to join the lineup of speakers at the Sound Education conference for educational podcasts …
2018-09-14: I have a weird fascination with trying to walk to airports, so it was good to see this post by …
2018-09-13: Went to a faculty talk today on the rapid advances in autonomous drone swarms and I’m doing …
2018-09-12: For a company that’s “at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts,” Apple is really bad …
2018-09-12: Second week of classes and virtually every seat in @ClubSnell is taken. Always impressed by the …
2018-09-11: Seventeen years on, some may not know about the September 11 Digital Archive, which we did @chnm …
2018-09-11: We’ve got some cool new music on the podcast and some great guests coming up, including Tina …
2018-09-11: On the 1st episode of the new season of the What’s New Podcast, I talk with journalism …
2018-09-07: Switched from CrashPlan (which is getting out of the personal backup business next week) to …
2018-09-06: They’re all good dogs, but Lowla was our good dog. We will miss her deeply.
2018-09-04: Cultural History Baseball Cards from @JSTOR Labs links player profiles to academic essays written …
2018-09-04: Like this: CincyFlags is a community-driven project that’s desiging a unique flag for each of …
2018-09-04: I don’t post photos of my kids on social media, but they looked pretty awesome heading off to …
2018-09-04: Convocation, start of the new school year here @Northeastern
2018-09-04: European funding agencies announce Plan S, an uncompromising push toward true open access for …
2018-08-30: Particularly interested in this article: “Geo-Locating Census Micro-Data: Segregation, Clustering, …
2018-08-30: Good to see the launch of Current Research in Digital History from my old friends @RRCHNM.
2018-08-30: Welcome Week begins today @Northeastern, and the campus is looking great, as usual, thanks to our …
2018-08-29: Love that Microblog now has a dog channel.
2018-08-29: Think about it: An archaeologist or paleontologist providing daily updates and finds from a summer …
2018-08-29: Academia could use more blogs like this one: plasma physicist David Pace providing daily updates on …
2018-08-29: Like this new visualization by @ClubSnell’s data viz specialist, Steven Braun, of the topics that …
2018-08-29: Thinking about a one-sentence pitch for Micro.blog After listening to @manton on @monday with @macgenie, I think Micro.blog could use a clearer …
2018-08-27: Redwood Library and Athenæum, the oldest lending library in the United States (Newport, RI, …
2018-08-27: In western Ireland I drove on a small road that took an unexpected turn, one that tells us about the …
2018-08-26: Pretty sure that’s the first blog post I’ve written in the second person.
2018-08-26: New on my blog: “The Narrow Passage of Gortahig” — In southwestern Ireland, a road threads its way …
2018-08-25: Tonight’s dinner conversation with my kids: the pros and cons of running off and joining the circus
2018-08-24: Sure, there were a lot of prominent felony convictions this week, but Weezer still haven’t been …
2018-08-23: “Students are abandoning humanities majors, turning to degrees they think yield far better job …
2018-08-20: Ebook sales declined by 36.7% between 2013 and 2017. Or did they? Still think I identified …
2018-08-20: Really excited after seeing some of the early prototype projects from our Boston Research Center, …
2018-08-18: Most people don’t understand who gets paid for a popular song like “Respect,” so it’s good to see …
2018-08-17: Recorded an episode of the What’s New podcast with @dankennedy_nu this morning for our fall …
2018-08-17: OK, my posts to social.dancohen.org now syndicate to Micro.blog (@dancohen), Mastodon …
2018-08-17: Just a test to see if my posts to social.dancohen.org now make their way over to Mastodon as well as …
2018-08-16: More than you know, Safari
2018-08-16: Long before the spectacle of blockbuster movies, there were panoramas, giant painted scrolls that …
2018-08-16: I love finding floppy disks in the back of books.
2018-08-15: As I’ve noted recently, if you are reading this on Twitter, I’ve already decamped to …
2018-08-15: 3rd-party developers & early adopters created the entire grammar of Twitter, from @-replies …
2018-08-14: The @librarycongress has published its 2018-2019 recommended formats for preserving different media, …
2018-08-14: I recently came across a series of 1960 photos like this one in the USC Digital Library (via …
2018-08-14: I’m probably the only person who didn’t know that. Anyway, I discovered this listening to the very …
2018-08-14: Feeling disoriented after learning that both UB40’s “Red Red Wine” and the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” …
2018-08-13: “More than 2.6 billion people currently use email; on an average day 215 billion messages are sent.” …
2018-08-13: These and other new episodes of @podcastwhatsnew will be out starting in September, so subscribe now …
2018-08-13: Starting to record the new season of the What’s New Podcast today w/ interviews w/ an …
2018-08-09: It’s time to demote Twitter usernames as the canonical @-names online. @davextreme (on both …
2018-08-09: Interesting: Creative Commons awarded Arcadia grant to create the Commons Collaborative Archive …
2018-08-09: Love this idea from my colleague here @Northeastern, @dietoff: Create high-resolution sound maps of …
2018-08-08: I enjoyed reading David Sedaris’s Theft by Finding but I’d really like to see an unabridged, …
2018-08-08: How did I not know about chessboxing? There should be more sports that come from performance art.
2018-08-08: I’m thrilled and deeply appreciative that @NEHgov has generously awarded @Northeastern Library …
2018-08-06: Reading “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, …
2018-08-06: Micro.blog friends: is there a convention yet for identifying a username on another service where …
2018-08-05: Well now I know what our dog did while we were on vacation
2018-08-04: From the top of the last mountain we climbed in western Ireland you could see the Skellig Islands, …
2018-08-03: My daughter wrote a poem about me: You are the rock over which I clamber to get to the top
2018-07-31: Muckross Abbey
2018-07-29: In the mountains of Killarney National Park, Ireland
2018-07-25: Biked today through landscape that can only be called mythical, on the way to one of the westernmost …
2018-07-24: Hiked this mountain today in Connemara National Park. From the top you could see almost all of …
2018-07-23: You look nice today, Galway
2018-07-20: I missed the launch last month of the Newberry’s new site for its digitized collections, which …
2018-07-19: It’s really worth keeping an eye on webmentions. Most promising web technology I’ve seen in a long …
2018-07-19: Got a letter from my son at camp: “By the time you read this, I will be home.”
2018-07-19: Autocorrect has finally conceded that I almost always mean “oy” rather than “it”
2018-07-17: I wrote a little ode to email, which has revealed itself over time to be better designed than …
2018-07-17: New on my blog: “In Praise of Email” — It’s worth reviewing just how much the email …
2018-07-17: An occasional reminder for those reading this on Twitter that I am now doing the social media thing …
2018-07-17: “If, thirty years from now, someone decides to offer the equivalent of the Internet Archive’s …
2018-07-15: A nice pairing: John Chiara’s photographic negatives of New York City in the New York Times …
2018-07-14: The Internet Archive’s Open Library just added full-text search inside the 4 million books they have …
2018-07-14: Is there a “reply all” function on Micro.blog? (If not, that would be helpful in some cases, …
2018-07-13: The saddest thing: my dog constantly wandering the house looking for our other dog, who passed away …
2018-07-13: Library Journal covers our launch of the Boston Research Center including an interview w/ me about …
2018-07-12: Google, March 6, 2017. Never forget. (via @benmschmidt)
2018-07-12: New on my blog: “Looking Back at Season 1 of the What’s New Podcast, and Ahead to Season 2” — …
2018-07-11: Been a little down on the New York Times crossword since they had “Emo rap”
2018-07-11: Strange things are going on at Google Books, but since it’s an opaque project we can’t be sure …
2018-07-11: The ability to use Markdown is just one of the countless ways that Micro.blog is better than …
2018-07-11: Everybody loves the Magna Carta, but did you know that there were hundreds of other Cartas before …
2018-07-11: Memes are not that new. (Punch Magazine, 1849.)
2018-07-08: We had to say goodbye to our sweet companion of 16 years, Mini. It’s going to be really hard to look …
2018-07-07: I love soccer and I love Earth, Wind & Fire, but I hate the “September” soccer chant.
2018-07-05: Current status: Straight outta
2018-07-04: Glass room cantilevered over the Thames
2018-07-03: Just watched that England-Columbia game in a barn in the English countryside and during the penalty …
2018-07-03: A church Lewis Carroll preached in
2018-07-02: A key point by @manton about the social media architecture we should aim for — or truly, return to: …
2018-07-02: Oxford at night
2018-07-02: Yale University Press has already sold 50,000 copies of the Voynich Manuscript.
2018-07-01: St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
2018-06-28: “A Guide to Micro.blog For People Who Have A Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter” …
2018-06-28: Here’s an outline of that Brown University talk, with a link to the video of the whole thing: …
2018-06-28: Giving a talk on Monday in Oxford about collaborative intellectual activities and the role of …
2018-06-28: Bad result for England, but good result for me as I can now watch their knockout round game from the …
2018-06-28: This is cool: Matthew Lincoln’s Mechanical Kubler uses the Rijksmuseum’s digitized collection, …
2018-06-27: Europeana has a new blog series and project on “Reading Habits in the Past,” with some great …
2018-06-27: “Memes as News Sources? Uncovering and understanding the information-seeking behaviors of high …
2018-06-27: ICYMI, yesterday I wrote about my new social media setup, using social.dancohen.org as my hub, and …
2018-06-26: You look nice this evening, Fenway Park.
2018-06-26: New on my blog: “Going Indie on Social Media” — why and how I’ve gone to an independent …
2018-06-23: Crystal Light is the cryptocurrency of camp.
2018-06-22: On to high school for my kids. Feelings probably better captured by a German compound noun than by …
2018-06-21: Larry Bird, style icon
2018-06-21: Great to see this come to fruition: “DPLA launches Open Bookshelf, a Collection of Free …
2018-06-20: My thanks to my good friends @kfitz and @ayjay who have also jumped over to personal …
2018-06-20: For those reading this on Twitter, you will still get all of these posts as (cross-posted) tweets, …
2018-06-20: This is the first in a series of notes to let you know that I am trying to move off of …
2018-06-20: Received a very good note from my kids’ 8th-grade English teacher about the power of writing, …
2018-06-20: This is just a test to see if posting to social.dancohen.org makes its way over to Twitter.
2018-06-19: People think Make Way for Ducklings is a cute make-believe children’s book, but at this time of year …
2018-06-18: Genesis 1:1
2018-06-18: I am sure that I have configured my DNS correctly to have microblog.dancohen.org point to …
2018-06-15: Saw this presentation live and recommend it for very interesting applications of machine learning to …