David Overholt exhibited his project “Robby the Racist Robot” at the 2007 ITP Winter Show. There are a few things that I love about this project:
1) Dave interfaced a dot matrix printer with his macbook – pure genius
2) the analysis Robby conducts is based on actual data that it aggregates
3) the [...]
Hat tip to Found History for this modern remake of the Oregon Trail computer game — The Thule Trail. It mimics the visual style and structure of the original Apple II game, while traveling West in 2007, by car. Here’s the game’s description:
Load up your car for the classic American getaway: the road [...]
On Friday the Omeka team hit a new milestone - the fourth release candidate of our web publishing software for collections. This release includes several noteworthy changes, that in the long run are going to make a huge difference to users installing the software:
Greater Database Flexibility
Thanks to the hard work of Kris Kelly, we’ve [...]
I'm a digital humanist and graduate of American Studies, currently working as a web developer and Omeka community liaison for the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Finding America is my professional blog, and an amalgamation of the many hats I wear ranging from theorist to practitioner. I explore the confluence of American Culture and information technology in the archives, the classroom, and our digital lives.