Right now I only follow a handful of bloggers who are faculty or students in American Studies programs (including related fields), and I’d like to form a list that provides a cross-section of what they’re up to. If you are an AMST blogger, have a class that’s blogging or know of one (or 10!), leave [...]
Mac users should be aware of dashboard widgets, which are small and contained applications that are displayed on a single screen to allow you to see a lot of useful data at once. For example, Apple computers ship with built in weather, calendar, and calculator widgets — and there are other widgets for sports scores [...]
In Part One I wrote about Polar Rose, a Firefox toolbar that performs facial recognition on photos loaded in your browser. Polar Rose programmatically creates associations between individual’s faces that you could have easily overlooked, and opens new possibilities for how we organize and search digital photographs. Equally as important, Polar Rose is free, built [...]
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.