Over the next few months, I am going to offer the first in a running series of short book reviews. Reviews will appear at least once a month and be no more than a thousand words each. Ideally, they will be much closer to five hundred words but books vary in breadth and scope and [...]

Starting today, I will be writing a monthly column for ActiveHistory.ca. My posts will primarily explore history and the internet by drawing on some of the more recent debates, services, sites, and web trends that might be relevant or particularly useful to the historical community in general. My first post, for example, explores how short [...]

I became a news junkie the year before starting university. I know that hardly sounds unusual in 2010, where the latest web and tech trends conspire to make all of us information-news junkies of one variety or another, but in 2003 it meant going a little out of your way to keep up with things. [...]

MY NARRATIVE PRETENSE I thought I’d frame my inaugural post with an homage to Bill Lawrence’s superb sitcom Scrubs. If you haven’t seen the show, the plot is focused through a reflective first-person narrative and each episode title employes “my” as prefix to match. It’s a useful means of introducing myself and a narrative style [...]