Roy Rosenzweig’s article Scarcity of Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era brings up some really interesting points about the shelf life of websites and other digital media. Websites are quick, and images can get anywhere on the internet faster than you can blink, but they can also be deleted from existence with the push […]
Archive for November, 2012
Nov 18 2012
Data Mining Large Digital Collections
I think that the concept of a Syllabus Finder is really interesting; an archive of syllabi from different courses at different universities would probably be really helpful in the future, allowing professors to possibly coordinate classes. It could also help students by arranging a syllabus from each class in some sort of digital format where […]
Nov 13 2012
PowerPoint is Evil
I definitely agree with the sentiment of Edward Tufte’s article “PowerPoint is Evil”. Every teacher and professor I’ve ever had has bemoaned the existence of PowerPoint and my high-school Geopolitics teacher even threatened (jokingly) to fail anyone in the class who used PowerPoint in their end-of-the-year presentation. I understand that it’s a useful tool for supporting a […]
Nov 04 2012
Feltron Reports and Historical Charts
Feltron Reports acre actually really confusing to me, I must admit. There’s a lot of information in each one, and the way Nicholas Felton sets them up makes them difficult to read. The concept is really good, and Felton is quite brilliant for putting all of this data together in an interesting way (he’s also quite patient, […]