The Digital Humanities Now project launched this month, and is a significant initiative for anyone interested in digital scholarship and communication, social media, crowdsourcing, open content, Twitter, and, of course, the digital humanities. “DHNow”, created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, describes itself as
a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention.
Viewed for the first time, the site is a news feed, offering recent information about digital humanities-related work.
From the production side, or back end, more than 350 people contribute or curate content as a distributed editorial board. At the same time that content is processed by a computer program, Twitter Time.es, which helps refine and focus the broad stream of materials.
There is also a Twitter feed, http://twitter.com/dhnow, which offers updates from the main site.
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