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This is the main page of O'Reilly's website. He is a member of PeerJ's board and has contributed to many open access journals. His focus within DH seems to be the technical aspects, but he his a huge advocator for open access. There are many videos on this page of interviews he has give, videos of his lectures, articles written about him, and articles he has written. His main page also spot lights workshops, conferences, and articles concerning the future of open access, technology, ethical uses of technology, and technological business philosophy. O'Reilly is an extremely active member in the technological world, and is also instrumental in developing the tone for open access.

5100 college professors took a survey about their attitudes to the digital approach to technology. Some interesting facts and comments were about using e-books and about 1/3 of professors are giving students access to this. One statistic was about 47% regularly use videos or similations in their course, 36% use it occasionallyand the rest never use any videos when teaching. Professors who teach online and blended courses give their students two times the advantage of other students who are not taught online courses.

Journalist Angelyn Irvin of the Daily Pennsylvanian covers a story about the Digital Humanities Forum (DHF) and about digital humanities as a general topic. One main goal of DHF is to essentially produce a better way to share information between those in technology and scholarly work. This forum is still in it's beginning phases, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation until the year 2014. The people helping funnel this project are professors, scholars, and students.

The UA article introduces a collection of humanities professors, with a focus on Africana studies assistant professor Bryan Carter, who have worked to integrate modern technology such as smart phones with their course. The article provides multiple examples of how these technologies have been specifically integrated into the classrooms, such as iPhones reading out lectures from the syllabus, as well as how online courses have attracted a new group of students who might have otherwise been uninterested in the course. The professors interviewed in the article all agree that integrating new forms of technology with the classroom is important to opening access to education to new students.

This website is used to "help liberal arts colleges integrate, pedagogy, and technology." Established in 2001, the NITLE is the leading organization for colleges who are wanting to integrate technology into their liberal arts department. The website feature articles to keep researchers up to date in the field. The main headquarters are located at Southwestern University.

This information page on the NEH website is meant to explain the purpose of the Office of Digital Humanities within the National Endowment for the Humanities. It explains the impact that digital technology has had on how scholars do their work and explains that the ODH is meant to "support projects that employ digital technology to improve humanities research." This is done through government grants to those projects that the office sees as most deserving of aid in improving their work. The ODH also collaborates with the scholars and librarians in the DH field through conferences and workshops.

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.

This article highlights the issue of technology assisting to those who could potentially do powerful and bad things with it. Some of this technology is in place today to help assist these terrorists to crumble our nation's infastructure. Security expert, Brian Snow, seeks to answer the hard questions concerning the intent to use technology in negative ways if put into the wrong hands.

This article explores our useage/dependance on technology. Could this be the machine/device that, in human history, we have been most attached to, most intimate with. A video comments and explores our intimate dependance of technology to connect us with the world.

Alan Turing is written about in this article and praised for his pioneering efforts in the technology we see around us today. He set in motion that breaking of coding information to help spur on what we know today and information technology. He also had strong beliefs in the theory that technology could become intelligent.

To prepare for a digital discussion Sean Morris gathered information containing education technology that shows new ways to communicate and new organizational tools. In the beginning of his teaching career him and a coworker created a paperless class that forced students to turn in assignments online; eventually turning it into a fully online course. Educational technology classrooms are created worldwide to use new modern ways to teach. Through online learning, students can use smaller parts to create a bigger picture which are then small parts for the collaboration of all the students work that is brought together. He leaves the readers with many questions about how to make the information accessible and accurate across the internet.

A doctoral student in English whose focus is modernist studies, textual studies, and projects in the digital humanities shows how teaching can be used with technology to make the students question their influences with their writing. His project is to track and evaluate modernists texts that reveal the influence of its history. In finishing his project he hopes to show that electronic editions of books reveal more information that show how books can be unstable and uncomplete.

This site is designed to organize the writings and events that are done by Alan Liu. Alan Liu is an English Professor at the University of California is Santa Barbara. His new media projects have been centered around digital humanities and the progress that it is making in technology. Other projects have focused on the cultural implications of humanities computing and our society as an information technology society. Also, Alan Liu is the founder on the UC New Media Directory that handles text encoding and human computer technology.

Unlike the definitional experience with Wikipedia, we are given a hands-on approach with technology influencing the humanities for a specific issue. The article describes the relationship of technology incorperated to make hindered people more accesible with the general activity of reading and the role Digital Humanities plays in intrepurting this interaction. This is a more specialized and focus area for the study but the approach is more practical than theorized.

The Sloan Foundation focuses its grants in science, technology, and economic institutions that they believe will improve American quality of life. Many of the open-access journals and projects that the Sloan foundation provides grants for fall under the initiatives for Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge. The initiative look for projects that expand public access to research journals, archives, and books online.

At the Digital Studio for Public Humanities, Kyle Moody attempted to define digital humanities in one sentence: "open and accessible research and content creation, distribution, and evaluation by persons able to use or utilize technology." In his definition, all people are included whether they are coders or not, a notable difference from many other digital humanists' definitions. Moody discusses how the digital humanities and technology are helping to blur the line between those accessing and consuming content and those creating content. This active reaction to what is being consumed helps developers to see what is wanted and needed and adjust their content based on public reaction. He left his audience with the open question of whether or not the academy has the responsibility to give the public more control over what scholars produce as well as if the academy should be the benevolent curator of cultural content.

With computers, we give up alot of face-to-face trust when we begin to engage in a more technology driven culture. So what steps need to be taken when we hand over the trust we give or revoke from human to human and hand it from human to computer. How can we build a safe and trustworthy relationship with this technology that we use everyday.

A literature professor uses digital work such as electronic literature and videogames in his classroom to teach students building and sharing that they often find more enjoyable because they are working with technology they understand. She uses building as a way to integrate digital humanities in a classroom and how its the reproduction of knowledge. In a classroom she states the importance of collaboration between students to show how they are making something for each other and the outside world.