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This blog addresses how video games contribute to Digital Humanities. It is a new study that raises questions to how to go about researching and developing this topic. This study can eventually bridge the gap between analog and digital archives, and culture criticism and methods. It can also show how video games are used as a teaching method and the benefits and challenges it entails. This can also encourage discussion about the role of video games in digital humanities.

The World Science Festival has attempted to to make a video to explain a new technology that will supposedly revolutionize the internet. This video allows you to vitually experience this new software and take it for a "virtual test drive."

This link links to Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal's live webcast show website where he discusses black studies in relationship to the digital humanities along with other experts in the field. The live show encourages interaction by use of the twitter hashtag #leftofblack to contribute to the conversations going on throughout the webcast.

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.

This site explains the components of cloud computing and the scale of the data centers where all of the information is stored. This article also has videos attached to give you a video tour of the Microsoft Datacenter. The scale of these datacenters is ridiculously large. Only a few companies are setting up these centers and allowing people to see them.

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.

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.

Liberal arts education has a new cutting edge aspect that students from the Tri-College Digital Humanities initiative are exploring. Over a period of about four years they are using technology to adapt liberal arts to a networked world. New media components are being added to classrooms and students are forging ahead onto unchartered territory. Questions and research that has never been done before are being explored by these kids as they use their imaginations and curiosity to aid them in this unique journey.

Mark Anthony Neal talks with Howard Rambsy II and Jessica Marie Johnson about the state of black studies and digital humanities. The professionals discuss the different ways digital humanities can help expand and make black studies more accessible, and how the digital humanities can strengthen the study of race and black studies.

Kevin Colton explains how the use of simulation can increase the fundamental learning of history. By using charts, maps, diagrams, and photos, students can get a different and more effective learning experience. He also goes on to explain the basics of how he created the simulation and gives images to give you an idea of what the maps might look like and a demo simulation video.

Alex Wright introduces the idea of the radiated library. This system would allows acess to all the world's communication systems at one time, similar to the internet, but on a macro-scale. Books, magazines, films, music, etc. would all be readily acessible simultaneously.

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.

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.

Exquisite Corpora is a Tumblr page created by the Harvard metaLAB. The participants are to be in teams of three and craft a detailed abstract for a proposal to a scholarly press based on the genre, platform, and audience cards that they received at the metaLAB grad school. Each one Includes one piece of media (an image, audio file, video, interactive piece, etc.) that illustrates their concept. They have 45 minutes to research, discuss, and compose their proposals before they upload it to the Tumblr. These are similar to the lightning talks we discussed in class.

Two scientist are able to identify a sound that an object makes specifially when it collides into something else. This article identifies the sounds and introduces the two nobel-prise wimming acientists work.

Are intelligence and pattern recognition the same thing? Do they go hand in hand? Or are the two completely unrelated? This article discusses the possibility of programs to either be intelligent or simply able to recognize a pattern.

This article addresses the topic of online voting. Is it the next step in voting? It raises the pros and the cons of the question. It address the major concerns: encryption, integrity, and privacy. How will others know that it is I who voted, will my vote count, or even be private and safe? Many panel members who are experts on cryptology are called together to weigh these options.

This opportunity is offered electronically to gather information on different games that can be used in teaching literature, languages, and writing. Some of the games are not done digitally but others focus around teaching with video games or social networks. Virtual worlds and spatial games (foursquare, geocaching, ect) will also be used as a teaching method. Selection of people who will be asked to present their findings will be based on different styles of classrooms, student experiences, successes, and failures.

Left of Black, a video program from Duke University, reveals a conversation between Professor Mark Anthony Neal, Howard Rambsy II, and Jessica Marie Johnson--all of whom are scholars. The three have an educational discussion over digital humanities and its relation to those who study different cultures and ethnicity, specifically Black Studies. Over this thirty minute conversation Rambsy and Johnson talk about what they have been doing in digital humanities and what can be done to incorporate more Black Studies work. For instance, Rambsy has been creating archival work in Black Studies by posting historical issues of "Negro Digest." Johnson explains how media effects the finance black studies digital humanities receives and that there are a variety of ways to produce black history in powerful ways online. Rambsy believes one great way to spread black studies digital humanities is to introduce and push students into projects in related fields.

Video series "At the Intersection" focuses on the use of big data by large companies, such as popular car companies. Land Rovers has accomplished many awards within only one year greatly due to the use of digital humanities. The old tactics of constructing a new car would be through physical examples such as clay models. With the use of virtual processing, designers could compare nine to eleven designs and examine specific problems. They invented a high computing ecosystem in order to generate over ten terabytes a day and store all their data. All these decisions was a huge change for their company and as a result they were able to create more options for better results in their products.