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Category Archives: Musings
Is My New Art Already Irrelevant?
Aside from this enlivening Public History themed blog, I also maintain a super-top-secret art blog where I occasionally post collages I have made or recordings of my amateur folk singer excursions. Sometimes there’s poems. Anyway, the most recent thing I … Continue reading
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Great News, Guys!
Dear Cultural Institutions, Your forays into Web 2.0 just got way easier. I just heard about this website, ifttt.com, that basically streamlines one’s social media “blurbs.”(Side note: what is the word for a unit of social media content? A “tweet” … Continue reading
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Tagged cultural institutions, ifttt, new media, outreach, social media, web 2.0
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Mid-Term Madness: My Blog Silence Explained
I realized last week that it had been quite a while since I posted on this blog! It was not because I was flouting my blogging career but rather due to the deluge of work otherwise known as MIDTERMS! My … Continue reading
Web Make-over
For a recent class project, we had to re-design the Glessner House Museum’s webpage. Before: http://www.glessnerhouse.org After: http://www.ghm3.wordpress.com Comments?
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What? No Mod-Podge necessary?
(click image to enlarge. seriously. click it.) Brought to you by Adobe Photoshop, the latest, glue-freest medium for making collages.
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Tagged collage, composite image, hey girl, photoshop, ryan gosling, space
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Flickr, you say?
Our latest internet lurking assignment was to lurk around on Flickr. (Dr. Roberts: are you trying to turn us into creeps? [warning: link is BSFW- barely safe for work.]) Here are some thoughts on Flickr… First of all, enough landscapes. … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Future, Ya Tweerp!
At the prompting of the good Dr. Roberts (no, not the one from the Beatles song) I have created a Twitter account. Everyone in our Digital Media class did. Week One’s assignment: Lurk. Now, this is something that should be … Continue reading
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Tagged chicago, cultural institutions, information overload, lurking, new media, social networking, twitter
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Lunchtime Distractions-Grad Student Edition
One of the utmost joys of life as a graduate student is the ability to micro-manage your time and multi-task to the limit. Yes, sometimes multi-tasking includes checking out Jezebel while typing a paper but in this case it was … Continue reading
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Tagged archival theory, collecting the controversial, multi-taksing, tomato soup
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Inaugural Blog
Here we are in Public History Digital Media- getting bored, forging our way into the future, sharing authority with our readers.
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