FromThePage has been on a production server for about a month now, and the results have been fascinating. The first few days' testing revealed some shocking usability problems. In some places (transcription and login most notoriously) the code was swallowing error messages instead of displaying them to the user. Zoom didn't work in Internet Explorer. And there were no … [Read more...] about Progress Report: One Month of Alpha Testing
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THATCamp 2008
I'm going to THATCamp at the end of May to talk about From The Page and a few dozen other cool projects that are going on in the digital humanities. If anybody can offer advice on what to expect from an "unconference", I'd sure appreciate it. This may be the thing that finally drives me to use Twitter. … [Read more...] about THATCamp 2008
Meet me at SXSWi 2008
I'll be at South by Southwest Interactive this weekend. If any of my readers are also attending, please drop me a message or leave a comment. I'd love to meet up. … [Read more...] about Meet me at SXSWi 2008
Google Reads Fraktur
Yesterday, German blogger Archivalia reported that the quality of Fraktur OCR at Google Books has improved. There are still some problems, but they're on the same order of those found in books printed in Antiqua. Compare the text-only and page-image versions of Geschichte der teutschen Landwirthschaft (1800) with the text and image versions of Antigua Altnordisches Leben … [Read more...] about Google Reads Fraktur
Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA
Matt Mullenweg is an incredible speaker -- I've started going through the audio of every talk of his I can find online. His presentation at the 2006 Future of Web Apps (mp3, slides) is a review of the four projects he's worked on, and the lessons he's learned from them. It's a fantastic pep talk, and it's so meaty that I sometimes thought editing glitches had chopped out the … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA