I hope to submit my fourth article on the digital humanities very soon.  Two articles have been published, the third will be published fairly soon, and I now have a full almost-ready manuscript of the fourth article. However, it has been difficult to stop incorporating new material as there is such an interesting discussion on the digital humanities going on [...]

I am currently in California and after among other things have spent time at Stanford and met with the Spatial History group, I will spend Monday at UC Humanities Research Institute. After that I will go to NYC for a couple of meetings, and a talk at Yale on Dec 2. I am looking forward [...]

I am currently working on my fourth digital humanities article. The final part discusses a number of design parameters. The current setup includes:

Assume mutual respect
Allow the digital humanities to be a trading zone and meeting place
Care about space
Connect to the heart of the disciplines
Engage across multiple modes of engagement
Engage with technology
Digital humanities as an arena [...]

Someone pointed out that I have not blogged in this space for quite some time. I have just been too busy, and I have also prioritized doing online writing elsewhere (including the HUMlab blog). Hopefully there will be more writing here in the future. Or I will start a new blog. Let’s see.
I am currently [...]

Slide from Lisa Spiro’s DH2008 presentation (full powerpoint here, blogg entry here).
How “Movie Making” Has Challenged Me

Condensing core argument
Thinking visually: how to represent an argument with images rather than words
Getting the right imagery (high quality, copyright free)
Thinking cinematically: constructing transitions, camera movement
How to bring scholarly practices (citation, elaboration) into digital storytelling?
Considering how to make argument [...]

Café time again. I spent most of it working on two texts – one relating to Umeå as a possible cultural capital of Europe and another one outlining a planned EU project – but I have had also had 20 minutes looking at a new interesting book (thanks Jim for telling me about it): A [...]

It is a new year. I have made a comittment to spend half my work time every day on my own writing and projects (not a new years eve committment though), and today I think the distribution is relatively even. I am currently in my favorite café. There is a very loud discussion going on [...]

It is a really nice fall Saturday in Umeå, and I am taking it easy. While walking and being social have been part of taking it easy, I have also been trying to get a sense of what is going on in digital humanities currently. My next writing project – more or less – is [...]

I spent the morning reading through my big digital humanities article, making some corrections and additions. This is the first time in several months I have time to spend some quality time on it. It felt good, and I am happy I can use some material from Digital Humanities Quarterly and a book I bought yesterday [...]

I am in the café again working on a part of my article that deals with information technology as a tool in digital humanities. I am trying to come up with a framework for analyzing different kinds of tools. What makes a tool innovative? How can the material qualities of a tool be articulated? On [...]