If you want to read a book that details New Gingrich’s game plan for his campaign, especially as it has played out in South Carolina over the past week, I encourage you to find it here and read it closely. It is an enlightening insight into a particular and long-standing brand of [...]
If anyone doubts the old advertising adage from the State of Florida that “the rules are different here…“, I offer this evidence.
We are gearing up for THATCamp Florida 2012, which will be held on 18-19 February at UCF’s Center for Emerging Media. The website for the event will be active soon @ Florida2012.thatcamp.org. There will be far more information forthcoming.
Hope to see all of you Digital Humanists there!
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Some random notes from a day of research. These are extracted from a hand-written document that was being proposed to promote the development of Florida to Europeans in 1880. Some of the images are timeless Florida memes, to be sure.
“Florida is the Italy for the poor, it is free Italy, a [...]
Read More →It is important that I note the passing of Stetson Kennedy. Kennedy played an important role in challenging the powerful role of the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, and beyond. It is this work for which he is best known. However, he also collected and wrote about Florida Folklife and Folklore [...]
Read More →The New York Times has picked up on the story that I highlighted back in May about Orlando leading three other Florida cities atop the list of “most dangerous” places to be a pedestrian. I hope the helps spread the word and increase the shame that the city and/or state should feel [...]
Read More →This past winter the New York Times offered a story about the spread of online learning in Florida state High Schools that I have been intending to address for some time. If you are interested in distance learning, or are a concerned parent with a child in the state’s school system [...]
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Two pieces of seemingly disparate bits of news came across my desk this morning about the Orlando Metro area, where I happen to be a prisoner of circumstance. First I learned that Orlando became the first city in US history to attract more than Fifty Million tourist/visitors in a single [...]
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As a rule I hate the term “collateral damage” as a description of civilian casualties in war time, so I hesitate using it here. Yet it seemed the best option to describe what happened to wolves in last week’s “budget” compromise that averted a government shut-down. There were many political [...]
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I am in Pensacola for the first time to participate in the National Council for Public History conference — talking about my work in the Surfing Florida history project. I took some time yesterday to go head out to the Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) to see Fort Pickens, which is in much [...]
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