“You can’t always get what you want.”
There's a moment in the first segment of the 60 Minutes piece on Apple that ran last Sunday that I found kind of amazing. It's in an exchange between Charlie…
Would somebody who shares my obsession with fridges please do me a favor?
I spent most of a day talking to the team that made this BBC World Service radio documentary about refrigerators. I even went to visit Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA…
Ice harvesting, 1869.
One of the advantages of writing a book about something you already know something about is that you often know exactly what you're looking for when you surf the Internet.…
In which I repeatedly namecheck Disney’s “Frozen.”
Apparently, the still relatively new website "We're History" is doing very, very well. I got asked to produce this article as a result of telling my editor there, Heather Cox…
We’re History.
We're History is basically the successor site to the dearly departed blog of the Historical Society. However, Heather Cox Richardson (who is not the only mastermind of this thing, but…
Icebox v. refrigerator.
Our DH seminar homework for tonight is to write a brief blog post considering how we might use text mining in our upcoming digital history projects. Unfortunately for me, a…
