Presenting in Seattle

I just returned from a history conference in Seattle. It was the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (Wayback Machine link). It was a great conference, well run, and very friendly.

I presented, "Processing the Suburbs: Gender, Technology, and Paperwork in Postwar America." At the heart of the paper is the need to provide a historical component to the Digital Humanities, and to better understand the historical foundations of modern digital culture.

(Revised and republished April 21st, 2025)

Blogging, 18th-Century Style

Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style – The Getty Iris.

An 18th-century information society?

It bugs me when people say, “we live in the information society,” as if ours is the first one that ever came into existence. Every society is an information society, according to the technologies of the time.

(Revised and republished April 21st, 2025)