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Monthly Archives of June 2009

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Here is Where

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • June 30, 2009
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“In search of America’s great, forgotten history.” (In the NYT.)

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Happiness is Mandatory

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • June 24, 2009
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Geeks Citizens, rejoice: I made up three alternate Alpha Complexes (uno dos tres) for a buddy’s gaming blog.

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The Slow Blog Movement, Continued

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • June 23, 2009
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(Yoinked.) Posting will continue to be slow this summer, for reasons described below. And also below that. Do not despair: I am, like everyone else, on the Twitter.

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  • Filed under: Blogging, Daddyhood, Early Internets, Not Blogging
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Hacking as a Way of Knowing

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • June 11, 2009
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…was a ton of fun, but man, making stuff in the real world is hard! We didn’t make a killer robot after all; we made a flower that only blooms in artificial light.

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  • Filed under: Asides, Digital History, History Appliances, Robots
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Department Enrollment Committee, FYI

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • June 3, 2009
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Survey: History undergraduates at Oxford more sexually active than any other undergraduate major.

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  • Filed under: Academia, Asides, History@Play
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Ahoy-hoy! I am an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, where I teach United States history and study the history of information and communication. My current research involves the history of pseudoscience and crank invention. I'm using computational methods like text mining and adaptive filtering to trace the circulation of "wrong, bad, or weird" science in 19th-century America. The goal is to draw lessons for our own time about the ways communication networks shape the ideas we have and share.

I am the author of The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and several book chapters and articles. I also co-designed and directed Tecumseh Lies Here, an augmented reality game that commemorates and critiques the history of the War of 1812. And I co-host a bi-weekly podcast that explores the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s through the lens of the classic sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. I received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2004.

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