ivrytwr podcast Episode 3
Today on the ivrytwr podcast I am joined by my friend Marri. Marri recently completed her MA in the History of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Since I completed my MA around the same time, Marri and I sat down to talk about our experiences, specifically, how our expectations met with reality. We … Read more
The Missing Links
Some weeks seem to generate more links than others – this week has had more links than a sausage maker. There’s a great digital humanities community on twitter. If you’re not signed up for twitter, I strongly recommend it. You’d be hard pressed to find a larger community of friendly and interesting people (and I’m … Read more
ivrytwr podcast episode 2
I’m extremely happy to share this episode of the ivrytwr podcast with you today. My guest today is my grandfather, Barry Browning. My grandfather has always been someone who I respect and admire. During the course of his life he has done many things, ranging from living through the Second World War as a child … Read more
How many online education programs do we need?
It seems nearly every day I read about the launch of a new online education program. Programs like Coursera, Course Hero, the Minerva Project, and Udacity (to name a few) all promise to revolutionize the learning process and challenge conventional ‘brick-and-mortar’ universities. In addition to these private services, more and more traditional universities are offering online … Read more
TED goes viral
I’m a huge fan of TED. How could I not be, really? TED hosts fascinating people with fascinating ideas and shares its videos free of charge on any service that supports online video. To me, TED is an exemplar for how knowledge should be shared in the internet age. I’m also a huge fan of … Read more
First day of school
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have gone back to school. Just yesterday I attended my first day of school from the comfort of my own home. In an attempt to learn some basic web programming I have enrolled in Udacity’s CS 101 course. Udacity is a free online education service started by three … Read more
The Privilege of Neutrality
I am a Norwegian medievalist studying for my MA thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Being a medievalist I have noticed three tendencies that are prevalent among non-medievalists, both within academia and the public sphere. First of all people are interested in the Middle Ages. Secondly, many people know very little about … Read more
All the news that’s fit to link
Do you know how I can tell it’s time to write another post about links? There are so many tabs open in my browser that I can’t even read what they are anymore. Even though I keep a Google Doc page to collect interesting links, some how my browser always seems filled with pages I … Read more
How to increase your twitter followers (the wrong way)
“I don’t think it’s just me that does this because there are only two kinds of Twitter users: those that want more followers and those that are lying.” – blurb on the front page of followmania.com In my last post I mentioned the need for finding a metric to measure social media engagement that went beyond simply … Read more
Being more social
A survey conducted in May of 2011 has shown that 64% of all American adults age 18+ use social networking sites as a part of their regular online activity. For people interested in public humanities this means that social networking sites can be used to reach an extremely wide audience. In addition to communicating with the … Read more
