Responses to edwired’s post Making Digital Scholarship Count (2) raise the question, is a blog scholarship? I worry that our efforts to open up definitions of scholarship may create checklists—this is in, that’s out—that will further inhibit creativity and innovation. A blog seems to be an excellent way to develop a train of [...]
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Is a blog scholarship?
Posted in history, new media, popular history, scholarship, tagged blogs, Center for History and New Media, digital humanities on July 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Should a blog be like a magazine?
Posted in Education, civic engagement, cultural heritage, history, place, tagged And Did Those Feet, blogs, civic engagement on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Flude wonders if his blog, And Did Those Feet: Cultural Heritage Resources Blog “is too diverse – a bit like my working life. Not connected enough?” Kevin considers splitting his blog into three: London, museums, and archaeology. I’ve been blogging long enough to get a feel for what I might in fact [...]
Narrating the Present
Posted in narrative, tagged blogs, chat, Twitter on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When my kids were in high school, ours was one of the first homes among their network of friends with DSL. Our son Jesse and a number of his friends soon moved their computers into our basement. They cleared out a small area from the trunks, boxes, suitcases, and general detritus of our [...]
“Much of life. . is recollection”
Posted in history, tagged blogs, FLICKR, recollection, Yi-Fu Tuan on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yi-Fu Tuan cites Alfred North Whitehead in writing that much of life is recollection. “Stories,” Tuan writes, “help parents to recollect. All parents like to tell stories of their children. Modern parents, however, have the advantage of being able to weave their tales around snapshots in the family album. Photographs are not only reminders [...]
