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Mark Sample writes about the inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities, topics ranging from arguments about humanists interpretations of quantitative data to a review of WordSeer. The journal's aim is to catch the good-or finding substantive and valuable digital humanities work "in whatever format, and wherever, it exists." This includes podcasts, blog posts, twitter conversations, slideshows, and any other relevant work, layered with evaluation from the authors.

THATCamp stands for "The Humanities and Technology Camp." Its creators refer to it as an "unconference." They do this to distinguish themselves from typical humanities conferences, in which the reading of papers and overly-thick academia lessens the helpfulness and practicality of it all. The website gives a number of bullets describing the idea: THATCamp is "collaborative, informal, spontaneous, timely, productive, lightweight, inexpensive to organize, not-for-profit, small, non-hierarchical, non-disciplinary, inter-professional, open, online, fun, and engaging. It expresses its desire to not only attract scholars, but people with a broad diversity of backgrounds and skills.

centerNet defines itself as an "International Network of Digital Humanities Centers." It has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries since its foundation in 2007. Basically, they're attempting to centralize all of Digital Humanities into a single vast network. They aim to be inclusive and avoid defining digital humanities concretely. Instead, they only suggest that "a "center" should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence." The projects can be found by a keyword search, by region, or by clicking on an interactive GoogleMap. The network isn't as flooded as you think; only 200 entries exist on the site as of today, but each one is of very high quality.