Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. There was a location, a budget, and a flurry of planning. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. Three years later, at the…
Kaiser Fung talks about the suck of overlaying plots to show a relationship. When the designer places two series on …
As John Seely Brown pointed out in his keynote at DML 2012, the lifetime of skills is getting shorter all the time. Rather than just recognizing skills, digital badges create new opportunities to come up with creative ways to support learners in reflec…
NINES wishes a belated happy birthday to Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911), creator of the Pulitzer Prize, depicted here in his role as editor of The New York World. [via NYPL.]
The University of Sheffield is undertaking research with the intention of improving search within the humanities. The AHRC-funded project called ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s English Newsbooks‘ is a collaboration between the Humanities Research Institute and the departments of History (Professor Mike Braddick, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Arts and Humanities), English (Dr [...]
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In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes and make some judgements. During evaluations, eye …
John Keats once wrote to a friend that Shakespeare ”has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing”. There’s plenty still to say about Shakespeare himself, however, and at least one centuries-old truism about him was recently toppled – and by an Australian. Shakespeare had an extraordinarily large vocabulary, and this is a significant [...]
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The Washington Post asked three “young entrepreneurs” how their company uses infographics. They responded with similar sentiments. The first one …
**cross-posted at the Juxta blog ** In September of 2008, when I first became acquainted with Juxta as a collation tool, I wrote a blog post as a basic demonstration of the software. I hunted down transcriptions of two versions of one of my favorite poems, Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” and collated them alongside the abbreviated [...]
