“Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about de-evolution.”
I have to admit that I became much more fond of Clay Shirky the moment that I found out that he occasionally reads this blog (or at least the last…
“You are not alone.”
In which I report upon the other reason I spent last weekend on the other side of the state.
“Nothing is over until we decide it is!”
This afternoon, I got into a Twitter conversation with Mike Caulfield: https://twitter.com/holden/status/506894579757359104 Read the whole exchange and it may look like an argument, but I've actually met Mike before so…
High Anxiety: Minerva edition.
If you had seen the first draft of the essay I turned in for the Baffler, you would have seen two distinct arguments. The first was the argument about being…
Chalk one off the bucket list.
I have been published by the Baffler. The subject is the Minerva Project and thanks to really intense, fantastic editing I'm very happy with the result.
Lepore/Christensen revisited.
Here at the end of the summer, I wanted to revisit something from the beginning of the summer: the great Jill Lepore/Clayton Christensen smackdown of June 2014. Why? Well, I'm…
DH as self-defense.
If you're interested in what I was doing for most of this month, you can read about it here. [Yes, I'm the goofball wearing a baseball cap in the back…
No longer an ex-labor historian.
So I have an article on the historiography of the Ludlow Massacre out in the new issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas. Inevitably, it's very,…
No myth.
This is #2 on Josh Kim's list of 8 Myths about MOOCs: Myth #2 - The people involved in MOOCs think that open online education will replace traditional higher education:…
Digital history? Moi?
Here at "Doing Digital History" in lovely Arlington, Virginia we're currently working on ways to design and justify our respective digital history projects and courses at our home institutions. I'm…
