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Comment on about me by Utopianism and its detractors | Miriam Posner's Blog

Utopianism and its detractors | Miriam Posner's Blog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:12:01 +0000

[...] may also have seen a presentation by Tim Sherratt about Invisible Australians, a project to resurrect via digitization, textual analysis, and facial [...]

Comment on Mining the treasures of Trove (part 2) by discontents - QueryPic

discontents - QueryPic — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:22:00 +0000

[...] QueryPic (I got a bit sick of ‘search summariser’ and ‘graph-maker thing’). The first version just harvested data and left all the graph-making to you. But QueryPic does it all! It harvests the [...]

Comment on When did the ‘Great War’ become the ‘First World War’? by discontents - QueryPic

discontents - QueryPic — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:08:16 +0000

[...] when I was looking at ‘When did the Great War become the First World War?‘ I promised a detailed post on how I constructed the graphs. But of course I got distracted. [...]

Comment on Extracting editorials #1 by discontents - Extracting editorials #2

discontents - Extracting editorials #2 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:18:57 +0000

[...] recording my thoughts and assumptions in this way has already proved useful. In a comment, Owen Stephens noted that his attempt to reproduce my search query produced fewer results. After a little bit of poking [...]

Comment on It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people by It’s All About The Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People : Global Perspectives on Digital History

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:55:07 +0000

[...] Read Full Post Here Category: Editors' Choice [...]

Comment on about me by Link roundup: the Asian American 99%, Philly bullying victims, Invisible Australians, and Chinese Canadian Stories « The Plaid Bag Connection

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:08:05 +0000

[...] a different note, this new web site by historians Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt looks very [...]

Comment on Hedley Marston by Jake J. writes re Woomera Children’s graveyard. « Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:31:08 +0000

[...] Here’s a review of “Fallout” http://discontents.com.au/words/reviews/hedley-marston [...]

Comment on It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people by Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:41:32 +0000

This is brilliant, inspiring work. Thank you so much for sharing it, and thank you so much for doing the work.

Comment on It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people by tim

tim — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:33:49 +0000

There's a great write up on 'Invisible Australians' based on this talk at Inside Higher Ed: Ambitious, Unfunded, and Possible by Barbara Fister.

Comment on It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people by Weekend Reading: The End Is Near Edition - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:01:48 +0000

[...] Sherratt has posted his paper, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People”, which offers a fascinating reflection on the ways interfaces can be repurposed to serve democratic [...]