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This past weekend I attended a fantastic workshop on APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). [For more general info see the series of articles by Julie Meloni and the workshop’s introductory remarks by Raymond Yee.] For my purposes here, I consider APIs as the technology that facilitates access to data. A library website might use an API  [read on...]

For a presentation i recently gave at the University of Minnesota, i experimented with a presentation tool that was new to me: Prezi. To learn what it can do, just watch one of the very short videos on their website. Very briefly: the basic idea is that you can lay out your presentation (text, embedded  [read on...]

Two recent discussions I have read/heard about the future of publishing and the role of new media in history have raised the issue of page numbers. The contexts in which the topic was raised were slightly different in each case, but the point was the same: publishing online in virtually any form that embraces the  [read on...]