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September 28, 2008
Ok, I have spent ENTIRELY too long on the mock-up for my homepage.  I have been working and changing it all week, and I have to say I think it still looks awful compared to how I imagined it in my mind.  So I think I have learned one of the major course [...]

Hi class!  I feel just awful because a staff member from the Museum of Brands, Packaging, and Advertising, contacted me to say that they have only 2 staff-members compared to 200 at the V & A Museum, and also they are a registered charity, so that’s why their site isn’t too fancy!  I feel really [...]

Good website: Collections at V&A: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/index.html
In fact, this isn’t just a good website, it’s a great website.  I am reminded of what a former GMU literature professor, Dr. Colin Owens, used to say about poetry: either it’s good, bad, or transcendent, and very few items fall into the last category.  But at risk of hyperbole, [...]

A good website and a not-so-good website: I am in agreement with Curtis here that non-techies are in no position to judge, so I have decided to use the terms good and not-so-good, as opposed to good and bad (who am I to call a website bad, when I don’t know how to make one [...]

I am having trouble creating parameters for my final project.  At present, my advisor and I plan for my Dissertation to concern 19th century Consumerism in the U.S., although I will have to narrow the topic down much more than that—perhaps to a certain city or state, or to the lead-up to the Civil War [...]

The readings for this week really helped me to further conceptualize the parameters of new media and digital history, and to understand the principles behind historical websites and other historical uses of new media.
As Sharon said in her blog, the book by Williams and Tollett is exactly what one would want for an introductory course [...]

For the second website, I chose to review “Collect Britain” located at: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
In contrast to the website reviewed in my previous blog, this one has a message at the top of the Browser “Putting History in Place,” so it presumably wants to foster a sense of place and historical connectedness among Britons.  Unlike the other [...]

In light of my goal to propose a final project concerning the relationship between Victorian visual culture and material goods and Consumerism in the 19th Century in the U.S. and Britain, I selected these 2 websites to review:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/, Collect Britain, (reviewed mainly in separate blog) and
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/, British History Online (reviewed in this blog)
I think [...]

I enjoyed all the readings for this week—Errol Morris’s text was perplexing yet interesting, and I am intrigued to see what others have to say about it.  I can only say it reminded me of classes I have taken on epistemology (study of knowledge and production of truth) and ontology (study of existence).  The article [...]