Oregon Trail Survey Data Made Public

In October 2006, I conducted an online survey about the Oregon Trail computer game by using the beta Facebook API to authenticate users and target OT enthusiast groups. Tonight I’ve published raw results. In only 8 days the survey had 500+ participants representing 44 states and 4 countries. While my original intent was [...]

Elektro: the World’s Fair robot that smoked

Those who have read my blog for a while know about my ongoing interest in robots, particularly the development of the robot archetype in popular American Culture in the early twentieth century. By and large I’ve sought to understand these depictions of robots within the cultures that produced them. Whether that was the [...]

THATCamp Deadline Approaches

The submission deadline for The Humanities and Technology (bar)Camp is Midnight, Saturday the 15th; you have less than 4 days to submit your proposal! If you’re free the weekend after Memorial Day, send us an application to join a top-notch crew of digital humanists give a range of presentations “from full-blown papers (not many of [...]

Omeka’s Growing Developer Community

The Omeka team should be encouraged. At three weeks since we released the public beta, we’re had over 500 downloads and had a flurry of interest at conferences including WebWise & code4lib. We’re in a good position to continue building an active developer community that augments Omeka’s core. Here are three exciting examples:
1) [...]

Twitter for Educators

Following up a blog post by Tom Scheinfeldt on using Twitter as an outreach tool, I recently came across a service under development called Edmodo. Billing itself as “Twitter for teachers and students,” Edmodo is in alpha testing as a social educational portal, including a classroom-calendaring feature. Based upon the screen capture of [...]