Digital History Hacks

I just sent the following off to Ralph Luker to add to Cliopatria’s Hall of Fame for important history weblogs:

It seems like just yesterday I was toasting Bill Turkel’s Digital History Hacks for winning Cliopatria’s Best New Blog Award. Now Bill is moving on from the blog to other things, and I have the sad task of bidding DHH adieu. Let’s see what I said back then:

William J. Turkel’s Digital History Hacks goes beyond new media platitudes and internet hype to demonstrate in word and deed what history in the twenty-first century will be all about. From the nuts and bolts of spidering and scraping to the loftiest questions about what historians do and why, Digital History Hacks points the way to a brave new world with infectious enthusiasm and blazing imagination.

All that proved to be true and

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Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.

Digital History Hacks

I just sent the following off to Ralph Luker to add to Cliopatria’s Hall of Fame for important history weblogs:

It seems like just yesterday I was toasting Bill Turkel’s Digital History Hacks for winning Cliopatria’s Best New Blog Award. Now Bill is moving on from the blog to other things, and I have the sad task of bidding DHH adieu. Let’s see what I said back then:

William J. Turkel’s Digital History Hacks goes beyond new media platitudes and internet hype to demonstrate in word and deed what history in the twenty-first century will be all about. From the nuts and bolts of spidering and scraping to the loftiest questions about what historians do and why, Digital History Hacks points the way to a brave new world with infectious enthusiasm and blazing imagination.

All that proved to be true and

Read the rest of this entry »

Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.

Lisa thinks it's funny how I pronounce the word sorry.

Sorry about the multiple copies of that last blog entry: I don't know why the plug-in does that sometimes.

Sorry about almost no posting of any other kind: if only I could blame that on the plug-in!