Author Archives: Jana Remy

3….2…1….Launch! (or, One Week | One Tool goes live)

This post will coincide with the launch of the OneWeek tool, Anthologize. Yesterday I used the tool for the very first time, selecting and collecting the items from this blog tagged with #oneweek.  I found the interface to be fairly … Continue reading

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Pencils Down Day (or One Week | One Tool, day 6)

Today started early (maybe too early for those of us up to the wee hours of the morning working).  We reconnoitered at 7:30am at a hotel conference room for an intense few hours of work.  Tom made us promise to … Continue reading

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Risk & Strategy (or One Week | One Tool, day 5)

Today was mostly typing up loose ends.  We followed our now-regular schedule of having an all-team meeting at CHNM HQ at 10am.  Each team reported in on their progress.  Some of the discussion was to clarify what features will and … Continue reading

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Pants Day (or, One Week | One Tool Day 4)

Today didn’t begin with yoga, despite the fact that exercise was such a productive thing for me in previous OneWeek days.   Instead I opted to sleep in as long as possible, knowing that today would be a long one… Upon … Continue reading

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Identity Crisis Day (or One Week | One Tool, day 3)

Today’s not over yet, but I’ve got a few minutes of downtime, so I thought I’d take a moment to summarize today’s events thus far…. First of all, I’ll reveal that I’m on the Outreach Committee.  So I can really … Continue reading

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Decision Day (or One Week | One Tool, Day 2)

This post will mostly be about our selection process.  Perhaps this will be uninteresting to most of you…but I wanted to just get it down somewhere before I was too mired in the details of the project to remember what … Continue reading

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Some initial thoughts from my DH summer & One Week | One Tool

I’ve been calling this past few months my “DH Summer” (or #DHsummer for those of you who follow me on Twitter), because of so many events and experiences that I lined up in the field of Digital Humanities.  First, I … Continue reading

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The Challenge of Writing about a Fast-Changing China: Notes from the Borderland Between Scholarship and Journalism, with Jeff Wasserstrom and Mara Hvistendahl

This episode is another joint venture with The China Beat blog, a recording of the conversation between Jeff Wasserstrom and Mara Hvistendahl held at UC Irvine on April 23rd.  As described on the China Beat, “The lively discussion covered Hvistendahl’s … Continue reading

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COUNTRY DRIVING: Peter Hessler in Conversation with Kenneth L. Pomeranz

This episode of the Making History Podcast features New Yorker writer Peter Hessler (author of the books River Town, Oracle Bones, and  Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory) in conversation with Professor Kenneth L. Pomeranz, on … Continue reading

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Event: Writing History with Joseph Yannielli & David Blight, April 5, Yale

The Writing History Colloquium invites you to: “How to write the best article in America! or, The Art and Craft of Academic Article Publishing:” a conversation with Joseph Yannielli & David Blight Monday 5 April noon, HGS 204, 320 York Street … Continue reading

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