Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Cover via Amazon The Center for New Media and History at George Mason University announced last month the launch of a new Word Press extension, Anthologize, which will bring academic print and online publishing together. The idea is quite simple. Publish a…
“On Monday, the Internet Archive, which among other things has been working for some time to digitize countless numbers of public domain texts, showed the first public look at its BookServer project, an initiative its dubs, “The future of books.” Internet Archive…
Why it takes a world weary European scholar to say it? Despite a lot of chi-chi verbiage about “space” and “spatialization” humanities keep the distance in fact from the true revolution taking place in cartography. see Abstract and paper (requires login) below…
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due to Google Maps limitations). Clicking the button “Google Earth” will show the 3d Model of the German fortifications and will correctly align…
My department head put me on the spot today. At the monthly faculty meeting this afternoon I took notes with my Pulse gizmo. At the end of the meeting, Howard pointed to me gleefuly: “Ask Sorin what he is up to with…
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