Welcome to Past/Forward, a digital presentation for the American Association for History and Computing’s annual conference. Jeremy Boggs, Sheila Brennan, and Stephanie Hurter created this site to explore the currrent state of collecting, writing, and teaching the past online.
To do this, we decided to design our presentation in the form of a tagged weblog so that visitors may experience our panel in several ways:
- Read by section: This method of browsing best approximates a traditional panel presentation. You may read the sections of each author’s “paper” in order, much like reading a traditional piece of scholarship.
- Browse by Tag: Our site employed a method of categorization known as “tagging,” or, more properly, folksonomy, which uses a number of keywords to describe the content of individual posts. Clicking on a tag will take you to a page that lists all the posts, across presentations, with that tag. This method creates an interactivity among the presentations.
- Comment by section: Since we designed Past/Forward as a weblog, we encourage readers to post comments on individual sections just as you might for any other blog.
If you use a newsreader, such as NetNewsWire or Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for the entire panel, or to specific sections of the presentation: