Digital History Hacks blog

I learned about How to Read a Book, mentioned previously, on Digital History Hacks, a blog about applying a geek's tools to history. The author is William J. Turkel, an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. If journalism truly is the first rough draft of history, then journalists have something to learn from historians. Posts I liked included "Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape" and "On N-gram Data and Automated Plagiarism Checking." And check out his recently posted "Readings for a Field in Digital History."