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Scholars who are digging into technical aspects of digital research tools might enjoy my History Research Hacks blog. That's where I put more complicated and/or computer-nerdy material, in the spirit of Jeremy Boggs' call for sharing code in the digital humanities.

I also digitize primary sources found in my research. Textual items are at Cliotropic Research, and moving-images items are at my YouTube channel.
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History Research Hacks
- Command-line OCR of JPGs to PDFs?
- Mapping the spread of birth registration with Protovis
What you’re saying

Recent Tweets
- Want to see this. RT @sramsay: Absolutely cannot wait for "Linotype: The Film." Great, great trailer. http://t.co/sf4bMVZI 3 days ago
- RT @_mesk: Out on DVD today: We Were Here, documentary about the AIDS crisis/activism in San Francisco in the 1980s/90s:http://t.co/w96owiix 3 days ago
- Sad that the DH Winter Institute at MITH http://t.co/BaoVAx02 will be during my first week of spring semester. 3 days ago
- St Louis: MT @STLpubLibrary: On 5/16 at 7 p.m. @ Schlafly Branch, Pulitzer-winning Isabel Wilkerson will discuss The Warmth of Other Suns. 3 days ago
- RT @kansandhaus: Library Data Geeks! Anybody know of any publicly available mappings from LCSH to DB/Wikipedia? 4 days ago
- RT @jmadelman: Historiann critiqued the title of the Mary Beth Norton festschrift this fall. MBN herself responds: http://t.co/vhI8LacK 4 days ago
- RT @AHAhistorians: AHA's Robert Townsend in @chronicle "Building a Digital Map of Scholarly Archival Materials" http://t.co/X0Iar8sp 4 days ago
- RT @academicronin: 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics (@katrinagulliver) - http://t.co/jfEeEcVL 4 days ago
Digital Historians
- Dan Cohen
- History in the Digital Jason Heppler
- Packets: Musings on Information Exchange, Historical, Digital, and Otherwise Jean Bauer
- This is an attic Lee Ann Ghajar
- William J. Turkel
In my copious free time, I read:
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