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The Programming Historian

Bill Turkel and Alan MacEachern’s new book – The Programming Historian, in the form of a wiki – is now officially up. Bill was kind enough to let me be involved in peer reviewing it, and while I’m a...

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Word clouds

A very useful post the other day from Lisa Spiro at Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, covering two things: Using word clouds Text comparison tools I’ve been messing around with both over the last...

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Comparator

I posted previously about being inspired by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities to mess about with word clouds. The same post also gave me the idea to try some text comparison tools. TAPoR’s...

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Digital history and early modern studies

A few bloggers have recently been posting their thoughts about two works on digital history: Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens (eds.), A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Oxford: Blackwell (2008)....

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Reading early modern pamphlets

There is an interesting discussion going on over at the SHARP e-mail list about the differences between reading on paper and reading on a screen.The conclusion of most posters is that while we may not...

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