Archive for September, 2008
Thoughts on the Readings
The readings this week were a great breath of fresh air for me. This is where the rubber hits the road. I connected with Paula Petrick’s Top Ten Web Design Mistakes and found that the Williams and Tollett, The Non-Designers Web Book offers hope for this neophyte in the area of Web Design.
I was reminded of [...]
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My project idea is to utilize the web and digital means to create more accessibility to US battlefield sites to create a more interactive experience. This project is borne out of my own desire to try to “see” and “experience” battlefields that I have not had the chance to visit. In addition to thinking about [...]
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The Perils of Migration
Friends-
Sorry to be radio silent. I have been picking up the pieces of a mac migration gone awry. I’m finally, up and running, but limping along. It seems I’m the only human being (at least Apple Tech Support thinks so) to ever have migrated my data from one mac to another and have all my [...]
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Readings
I posted last week about my thoughts on the JAH article not really realizing that they are a part of this week’s class.
This week’s readings were great! There were a few items of note beyond my comments from the JAH article. I was struck by Morris’ investigation of ”The Valley of the Shadow of Death” photos. I have sense [...]
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Google is shipping out!
“The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs…”
Find the article here: link
ADDENDUM to Prof. Cohen’s comment:
Tax-avoidance aside- I wonder how big Google want to [...]
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England versus Ireland
Hoping not to spark too much tension between these two countries, I chose to look at the cultural heritage websites for England and Ireland.
The English Heritage homepage is a visually inviting and appealing homepage. Above the fold there are several options and items to choose from.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
As you can see from the above there is [...]
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“Ambient awareness”
“Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” (NYT) I like the notion of the digital intimacy this article talks about. Of course, it’s pretty cool that a friend of mine is quoted in the article! Celebrity aside, it’s a great article and one that seems to fit well into what we are reading and thinking about: [...]
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I am currently making my way through the e-text version of the Len Manovich book (my hard copy has yet to arrive) comments on that soon. I have read with great interest the upcoming Journal of American History provided in pre-published hard copy by Dr. Cohen.
The article is a refreshing look at the scholarly landscape ahead for [...]
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