Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Topics Entertainment
Inroduces a new line of educational software. The release said history software...but where!?

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Historical Voices
Oh, yeah! If we had a sister project, this might be it! An awesome collection of voice recordings. and the structure for following research, promoting best practices, sharing ideas, etc.

Monday, July 19, 2004

Million Book Project
Ahh! Visiting in the library of Carnegie Mellon Univeristy (Go Tartans!), a plasma display recounts the story of digitizing a million books. China and India are partners with CMU in the massive scanning effort. Details like shipping containers full of shrink-wrapped books are part of the tale.

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Mozilla Foundation turns 1
So, do we know what this thing is? A short social experiment? The bow of a new wave in economic history?

Mozilla's open-source model had produced products of amazing elegance. And the future?

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Defining the Barrierwashington post
Great Interactive with voice and video, and maps.The technique of laying a video over a map is why I founded this. When the map responded to the video, my heart lept.

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens | PBS PBS | NOVA
Lots of little interactives in here: they focus on the science of galileo's discoveries.

Friday, July 09, 2004

Tour a Viking Ship PBS | Warrior Challenge. Vikings. Interactive Zone | PBS
Tour would work better if the explanation window stayed up.

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Mystery! A Thief of Time . A Hillerman Trivia Challenge PBS | American Mystery!
This little game ties a quiz with a drive through the Southwest.

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Virtual Hajj PBS | Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
Thought we covered this Muhammad site, but I don't recall the Virtual Hajj part.