The Folly of Education Budgets
Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, has proposed significant budget cuts to education–both higher education and K-12–but increased fundings for prisons. He will also enact a tax cut that his predecessor...
View ArticleSeasonality
One of the most interesting things I’ve experienced since moving to Arizona has been the loss of an ability to keep time, as well as to know “place” through the seasons and weather. This is not the...
View ArticleDrivewise by Allstate
The biggest bait and switch ever. When my family recently moved, my wife was brand loyal to Allstate, with us choosing them for home & auto, despite more favorable quotes. Their Drivewise program...
View ArticleCuratescape a Semi-Finalist in Knight News Challenge
Earlier this week, the Knight News Challenge named Curatescape as a Semi-Finalist in its “News Challenge to explore role of libraries in the digital age.” Open to anyone, the challenge argued that “the...
View ArticlePet Rocks, Pet Peeves, and Pet Advice
So, I discovered that one of my pet peeves is when some self-involved colleague presumes to speak for me and all “professors” while dishing out advice to students that is both hostile and...
View ArticleThinking about your CMS
What are your Goals Audience Humanities Scholarship How Sustainable Manage Build Iteratively Budget Project Identity: URL, story, hosting (i.e. Reclaim Hosting) Jump Outside the Box Discovery Channels...
View ArticlePerforming the Book
As a scholar, I’ve long been inspired by Julio Cortazar’s comments that great writing is like Jazz—improvised, in the moment or “the take.” The best public history and digital humanities, I’ve argued,...
View ArticleMy Princeton Interview or Remembering Nelson Mandela
I remember when I first really encountered Nelson Mandela. I was 18 and interviewing for admission to Princeton University. It was Autumn 1983. As I sat in a Steak-n-Shake sipping a malt, my...
View Articlesustainability and public history
Today, as I prepared for a discussion with sustainability scholars about digital tools and sustainability, I found myself mulling sustainable public history, which is the theme of the NCPH this year....
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Floods & Community on the Salt River
I have been spending to much time this semester putting out fires to really luxuriate in just how interesting my new city in the midst of a Sonoran desert can be. I’ve been blown away by the diversity...
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Exploring images
Consider the following two images of the Salt River in Phoenix, from the Mill Avenue Bridge. The former is a flood of the Salt River in 1938....
View Articledigital identity
As I begin a new gig directing public history at Arizona State University, I’ve had to rethink a whole number of things about my career and digital identity. So much of my professional life had been...
View ArticleOpen as a Value
I have watched the #AHAGATE with fascination. You can read about it at Open History, http://openhistory.uservoice.com/, as well as the blogs of a host of colleagues. Among the broader perspectives that...
View ArticleWhy Open Review Matters
The emperor has no clothes. Or so I declare in a comment on a post at the brilliant public history blog, History at Work. I didn’t mean to spoil the feel-good digital party at History at Work, really....
View ArticleWhy State Humanities Councils & Museum Commissions Matter
Recently, I was invited by the Ohio Humanities Council to spend an afternoon with colleagues from around Ohio to brainstorm about how some of the council’s grant standards could be updated for the...
View ArticleCuratescape
We’re excited that Curatescape is being adopted. Present deployments thru April 2013 in blue; deployments scheduled for Spring & Summer 2013 in Purple; Projects in Green are funded and under...
View ArticleHow much does digital humanities count?
How much does the digital humanities count? Even in what you might term the year of the Digital Humanities (2012–but pick your own date), this is a vital question for the digital humanities, not to...
View Articlea changing electorate
Amazing night last night on so many levels, beyond the outcome. Beginning with a bit of a guilty pleasure, I turned the channel to Faux News just as Ohio was being called to savor the victory just a...
View ArticleAmelia and I are posting
Amelia and I are posting, cause she’s been doing her own weebly blog. I am showing her how to add links, such as this one to the cultural gardens, or even photos. This is fun. by
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