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Blogs — a return to seriality?
Speaking of academic blogging, Kathleeen Fitzpatrick just posted a piece on “Blogs as serialized scholarship”, where she discusses to what an extent and in what respects blogging is a new form of...
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Keeping it together
The last few days I have been reviewing an old research proposal that I wrote more than two years ago. I was fortunate enough to receive a grant for the project, but because of various other...
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A curious and useful life
What follows is an abstract of the research project I am currently working on. It is scheduled to run until early 2015 and is funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens...
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Predicting usefulness
Robert McMillan of Wired has interviewed Robert Taylor, formerly of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and later Xerox PARC, regarding the recent discussion about...
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A global history of Linnaean science
On 12 October there was a workshop at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on “A global history of Linnaean science, 1750–1820″. My longtime collaborator Hanna Hodacs and I had organised...
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Bridging the gap
I couldn’t agree more with Sharon M. Leon: But, the fact of the matter is that to be responsible guides to their students, mid-career historians desperately need opportunities for training in...
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Data, information, visualization
Dana Solomon gave a presentation, now posted online, at MLA 2013 about “the deployment of information visualization as a method of textual analysis in the digital humanities”. It is worth reading in...
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