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Describes digital humanities as an up incoming "buzzword". This growing field is being adapted to many different ideas and fields. This has created a broad base for the digital humanities landscape. Awareness is a main argument here as Partik Svennson believes it is the key for the field to grow.

In his blog, Dan Cohen decided to revisit a topic that was cover in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This data-mining related article discusses the issues with educational testing and growing technology in the humanities field. Devices that can browse an entire database of knowledge pin pointing specific facts. This device is then compared to the relationship between the calculator and math to this device and history. Just as the calculator has made memorizing certain mathematical principles pointless in testing, this device is said to make multiple choice test irrelevant for history. Similarly, cell phones, pdas, and tablets have been able to fill this gap already.