Human Cogitation, Human Explanation
Over at the project website I ve posted a little update from some initial explorations of Flickr and Instagram data related to Everest; just posting here as an fyi if that sort of thing is of interest. The update doesn t get into the weeds, but lemme tell you: working with social media data these days is [ ]
What follows is the script I laid out for myself for my DH Benelux 2026 conference keynote address. Bolded square-bracketed text indicates where I wanted to move along in my slide deck, italicized and/or bolded text indicates stage directions to me for things I really wanted to emphasize and stress (to different degrees). I write [ ]
I stepped in to help out at the last minute at a workshop on digital reconstruction in archaeology, to make the opening remarks. This is what I cobbled together. April 22 2026. imagine a slide here showing off Michael s work! (also, you should know I have a pretty broad view for what counts as reconstruction ) [ ]
If I had been offered project management training when I was doing my PhD, I probably would ve been one of *those guys* who huffed and postured and been a general jerk about why I was being made to do it. I like to think I ve grown since then. I can make Gantt charts with the [ ]
Recently, I ve had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other. I used to sometimes sit students down with Ed Summer s old Etudier package which was great; but Google Scholar doesn t really [ ]
tl;dr: I build little wonky things to help with my own teaching and research. If all goes well, they turn out to be useful/interesting for other people too. This post is in the spirit of that sharing. A worsening problem I am having is an overall decline in basic digital literacy in my students. Since [ ]
I make crap when I m overwhelmed by other things. By that metric, January was a doozy: The newspaper utilities thing can be configured with yaml files specifying what kinds of transformations to make; that became the idea behind DHMarginalia, a way of configuring what you wanted to analyze, which I see becomes Polybius which becomes [ ]
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it s the other way around. Stories exist independently of their players. If you know that, the knowledge is power. Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest [ ]
On January 19th, the National Trust for Canada (a heritage charity) raised the alarm about the imminent closure of the Canadian Register of Historic Places website and database. The register is at https://www.historicplaces.ca/. The National Trust s post contains the details about which ministers at the Federal and Provincial levels to contact to protest this act [ ]
When you go to one of the big museums, you expect to see cool displays, cool interactives, gee-whiz digital wizardry. Smaller museums, not so much. I wanted to figure out what could be done for a smaller outfit. So I started playing. I ve had students make Pepper s Ghost type displays in the past using cd [ ]