ThatCamp Philadelphia: DHThis A Thon

Over Twitter the morning of ThatCamp Philadelphia, John Theibault and I decided to propose a session on Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam's new project DHThis, which is an aggregation website with Reddit/Digg style commenting and up/down voting. DHThis is a promising project that I think can be useful to introduce people to the digital humanities.

As I worked the computer while John did much of the explaining to campers in the room, I do not really have notes for this session. A handful of campers attended this session and we had a great discussion of not only DHThis, but web apps like this in general.

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After this post, I will be taking my yearly holiday hiatus. Our semester is winding down right now as papers and projects slowly trickle in to be graded. See you early in 2014 when the rest of my notes from conferences attended in the fall and summer will be posted and I will have some thrilling announcements about upcoming publications.

Sources For Ubuntu Information

  • Whenever I have a problem that a Google search cannot solve, my first stop is the Ubuntu Forums.  The user base is friendly, mostly, and very helpful with any number of problems you throw at them.  I have found solutions to many issues via these forums.
  • Ubuntu Tutorials is a useful site that offers…tutorials on various aspects of Ubuntu.
  • I am not a big fan of this site in general, but the Linux portion of Digg offers useful links from time to time if you can stomach the endless TOP 20 REASONS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS $$#$@$##$^^&^&*#$@#@ style posts.
  • Lifehacker also has a surprising amount of Ubuntu and more general Linux news, links, and tips as well.