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Electric Archaeology: 3 years in the Blogoverse

January 20, 2010 9:22 am / Leave a Comment

I just realized. I’ve been intermittently blogging now for three years, as of this December past. In that time, I think I’ve remained more or less true to the ‘mission’ of Electric Archaeology – to try out new techs, recount experiments, disseminate my research, in new media for archaeology and history. There have been times when I could post thoughtful, in-depth pieces; and times when I’ve merely passed on the interesting things that have turned up in my inbox. As of this morning according to WordPress, Electric Archaeology has had over 85,000 views, spread across 394 posts. There have been 329 comments made. I have 62 categories – clearly I need some rationalization there.

I sometimes toy with the idea of moving Electric Archaeology to my own space, so I can put some better analytics on it, but for whatever reason, that just doesn’t happen…

The all time most viewed posts on Electric Archaeology (the most recent posts of course are at the bottom, having had less chance to be viewed):

Title	Views
Home page	18,250
Civilization IV World Builder Manual	8,786
Game Mods	3,113
Moodle + WordPress = Online University	2,611
About Shawn Graham	1,609
Historical GIS and various Google Earth	1,495
History Channel – Roman Battle Game	1,458
Review: The First Jesus? Expedition Week	1,278
Language Switcher for WordPress	1,100
Publications & Conferences	1,081
Agent Models	979
Angel versus Moodle	975
Sketchup into Second Life	842
Review: EXPEDITION WEEK: ‘Search for the	823
Rubric for assessing historical scenario	689
Review: Unlocking the Great Pyramid, Nat	669
SketchLife – Sketchup plugin for exporti	650
When on Google Earth?	524
AutoCad into Unreal2	520
The most amazing game I’ve seen lately:	483
Multiverse & Sketchup : Doom of Seco	479
Review: Shipwreck! Captain Kidd, Nationa	470
Resistance is Futile: Facebook & Stu	463
Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great C	447
Review: Expedition Great White, Monday N	445
History Channel and Great Battles of Rom	432
Software Turns that Cheap Camera into a	428
Skype Can’t Hear Me Anymore	427
Ancient Civilizations Games- Competition	425
Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Ag	403
Cities & Centralities: A network app	396
Stone Age Online Game: Greenland	394
The Space Between: The Geography of Soci	389
The Glooper, Agent Based Modeling, and t	388
Path of the Elders: Game for teaching ab	386
Re-writing History: Battle of the Plains	380
Google Maps & Cultural Heritage	355
Archaeological Clutter & Dumpster Di	353
Archaeorama and the Amduat	352
Review: Lost Cities of the Amazon Nation	350
Omeka: a swahili word meaning ‘to displa	344
Review: Egypt Unwrapped: Alexander the G	330
Caesar IV and the Empire Online	324
Rome Reborn in Google Earth	318
FYI – Caesar IV tutorial	306
Review: Waking the Baby Mammoth	305
Simulations	304
Lulu.com and bypassing the publishers	302
PMOGing Internet Research Skills…	292
Digital Digging, a new version of Google	289
Going on an Expedition (National Geograp	280
Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure!) in	279
10th VAST International Symposium on Vir	279
YoYo Games Ancient Civilisations Game Ma	260
Archaeology in Second Life…. Where to	259
Planning archaeology in Second Life (2)	258
Open source virtual world: Croquet	243
CAA 2006 conference proceedings publishe	235
Sketchup + Augmented Reality	225
Historical Maps, GIS, and Second Life	222
Establishing Virtual Learning Worlds (fo	220
GIS & ABM in Netlogo	219
Forum Novum: a market in the Sabine Hill	219
Scenarios for Civilization IV	216
‘The Past Present: Augmented Historical	214
Magic (cyber)Carpet Ride	213
Life is a role-playing game: Weight Watc	212
Why computer games matter for history ed	206
So you’re interested in Alternate Realit	204
Masters and Doctoral Theses on Serious G	202
Roma Archaeology: Archaeological simulat	200
Forum Novum Scenario available	200
OnRez Viewer from Electric Sheep – Secon	199
Review: Herod’s Lost Tomb, National Geog	198
The Ancient Mediterranean Mod – Civiliza	195
Top 100 Learning Games, according to Ups	195
Serious Alternate Reality Game: Traces o	194
ANGEL LMS @ U Manitoba	191
Rome Total War: Battle of Cannae	190
Archaeology in, and archaeology of, Seco	186
Reading & Experiencing Space	185
Catalogue of Stamped Bricks from the Sou	185
Open Courseware	182
Civilization & Education	180
Learning from Las Vegas – Archaeology in	178
Northwest Rebellion – early stages work	177
Catal Hoyuk in Second Life	176
Sugata Mitra, Hole in the Wall, Self Org	172
Civ scenarios for teaching and learning	170
Archaeology, Data Mining, & Eureqa	162
Hampson Museum: Digital Curation, Digita	160
Learning to Write History with Video Gam	159
On Snow Crash, Sumer, and a Virtual Rape	159
Civ IV, some high school students, and s	155
Public Archaeology in Second Life – Remi	155
TravellerSim: Growing Settlement Structu	155
Tim Kohler on Agent Based Models in Arch	154
Visualising Word Links in Latin Inscript	152
Catalogue, XRF & XRD SES Brick Stamp	150
Excavating in Second Life (3)	149
Labour kills Educational Innovation	149
Library Research Skills Game from Carneg	145
JOLT: Best Practices for Integrating Gam	144
Dis Manibus RWU	142
Thinking Worlds: Rapid World Authoring	142
Interacting with Immersive Worlds II – C	142
Doing History or, ‘Where is Vinland?’	141
Game based learning and Latin Literacy	140
Vespasian Rocks. For 2000 Years.	140
International Digital Storytelling Confe	138
PMOG is now the Nethernet	138
Yahoo Pipes and the Pleiades Project	137
Horizon 2009 Report	133
Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanit	130
Federation of American Scientists, Games	129
The Role of the Governor General: Canadi	129
Using Natural Language Processing and So	128
Text-based virtual worlds: an archaeolog	125
Using Civilization IV in a University Cl	124
Omeka plugins: Contribute, Geolocation	123
The Grail Diary	122
TweetMapping Archaeology	122
Archaeology: Let’s Build Something New	121
Writing Archaeology and Writing Fiction	119
Map of Complexity Science	117
Serious Games Canada Summit, Montreal	112
PMOG Mission: “Awww Sir, how can I find	111
“Speculum Fantasia” and thoughts on othe	109
The Ancient History Encyclopedia	108
History Canada Game: Mod for Civ III	108
Review: The Mystery of the Screaming Man	108
Archaeometry Cluster Analysis, BSR Brick	106
Agent Modeling and the settlement of the	105
Excavating Second Life	104
ABM: The emergence of cities	104
“In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Aul	104
Omeka Live!	104
Conference: Trade, Commerce, and the Sta	103
Oblivion, London, and Archaeological VR:	102
Do games actually achieve curricular lea	102
Classics and MMORPGS: not classic mmorpg	100
Digital History Class at Indiana Univers	100
Myths about Serious Games & Improvin	100
Virtual Excavation Update 5	99
Immersive Worlds conference at Brock	98
Learning 2.0 – interview with Garrison	98
Shaking up the Textbook Market	96
Conference Announcement: Communities and	96
Learning with Digital Games – Nicola Whi	95
Teddy: 3d art from 3d drawing	92
SL_Archaeology (or, the virtual excavati	91
Interactive Fiction – bibliography and o	90
The Year of the Four Emperors mod for Ci	90
Tweeting Archaeology	88
Mashing the physical and the virtual: ‘t	88
MAGIS: Mediterranean Archaeology GIS	88
Visualisation in Archaeology	87
Dig Into History – game from the Orienta	85
Omeka Plugins	84
Archaeology in Second Life – WAC6	83
Teaching with Interactive Fiction	83
“Making Dead History Come Alive Through	82
Interacting with Immersive Worlds Confer	81
Pyla-Koutsopetria: archaeological site i	79
Google Earth, Politics, and Replacement	79
Niagara 1812 – Interactive Arts & Sc	79
VisitorSim: agent modeling for site mana	78
evolution of a wikipedia article	78
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: Educ	76
XRD results of British School at Rome st	75
(some) Top Ten Tips for Online Instructo	74
What does Civilization Stand For? Moddin	74
Omeka & Archaeological Survey Projec	73
Virtual Excavation in Second Life Has Fo	72
Native Language and Culture through 3d G	71
Powerpointed Out? Try Flypaper Instead.	71
Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean	71
Immersive Learning Bibliograph 1	71
On Learning in Video Games	70
Flat World Knowledge	70
True Life Archaeological Adventures (…	70
CALL FOR PAPERS for ALT-J – Learning and	69
Interactive Fiction, Passively	69
Wordle my world	69
OpenSim	68
Web 2.0 is not a democracy (and some dis	67
Advocating for Public Archaeology: don’t	67
The Ecology of Games	66
Alpheios – Firefox tools for Ancient Lan	65
Teaching with Civilization IV in Distanc	65
Secrets & Design – Lessons for Publi	64
Platial and Pleiades – rss feeds	61
Essays on History and New Media	61
Report on the Greek and Roman Games in t	61
Solipsis – another online world	61
Google WonderWheel and Me	61
Archaeology: Reverse Engineering World D	60
Discussion	60
Before there were graphics, there was te	60
Writers wanted for site – what would you	58
Gaming archaeology	58
Omeka Live… again!	57
E-learning in Canada: Report	57
The spatial analysis of past built envir	57
Some Academic Online Worlds	57
The NetherNet No More	57
Canadian Historical Review – article on	57
Distance Learning with the NPS Archaeolo	56
The PDQ – a new journal bridging bloggin	56
Touchgraph: digging through digital data	56
Indici ai bolli laterizi: digitised some	55
Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life	54
Archaeology, Art, and Abandoned Urban Pl	53
PatronWorld – Digital Death for Artifici	53
When on Google Earth: Now on Facebook	53
A Tribute to the Rolling Boulder	52
Archaeology & Computing – some recor	51
When the Brain Drain gets Clogged	51
SLOODLE v 0.4 available: educational too	50
A Text Book in Agent Based Modelling	50
Reconstructing Hadrian’s Wall in Second	49
Piccolo for dynamic Harris Matrices (amo	49
	48
Ramo Games	48
Don’t Knock the Aztecs: Civ for History,	48
TinyMap vs. Platial	46
Responding to “Is PDQ a good idea?”	46
“Everything They Ever Wanted”: A NetLogo	46
Pyla-Koutsopetria: archaeological site i	46
EJA Review Piece, ‘Second Lives: Online	46
The archaeology of digital landscapes	45
Digital Media and Learning Competition:	45
“Burial Passage” – Remixing Catalhoyuk	45
Dual Reality: blended learning at Covent	45
On Caesar IV and the Ancient Economy	44
BiblioCartography	44
Some Agent Reading	44
Life on Site: PKAP and Podcasts	43
The Audio-Guide 2.0: location-triggered	43
Let’s write a textbook	43
Nabonidus & RWU Virtual Excavation	43
RPA Field School Scholarship	43
Digital Research Tools Wiki	43
Interactive Fiction Competition	42
Digital Zaraka	42
Archaeology Island in Second Life	42
Collective Dynamics Group	42
Of Chapels, Clutter, and Archaeological	42
The Virtual Via Flaminia	42
Archaeological Projects funded by the Ar	41
Civilization Revolution	41
Conference Call for Papers: NORTH AMERIC	41
Civilized Education	41
Canadians on the Nile	40
Electric Archaeology: Research Notes – w	40
Archaeoinformatics and Digging Digitally	40
University of Leicester – Designing in S	39
Open Context	39
Giving a presentation in Second Life	38
Towards a Theory of Good-History-through	38
Dryad and Simplifying World Design	38
Damnatio Memoriae, a work of Interactive	38
Archaeological Apps for Iphones and Andr	38
Interactive Fiction experiment continues	38
Ryerson & Facebook	37
Heritage Preservation in the National Po	37
Flash Earth	37
Archaeology and the Visual – a conversat	37
Machine translation	37
The Article of the Future	37
Vespasian, Civ IV, and Intro to Roman Cu	37
Nethernet Puzzle Contest: I am the Champ	35
Simulating History Research Lab	35
WAC-6: Art, Archaeology and Technology:	34
Electric Archaeology ‘Blook’	34
Agent Based Models in the Humanities: a	34
Some More Agent Based Modelling Readings	34
User Experience of Reality & Gaming	34
The Plan	33
On Comics	33
Seminars on GIS & Archaeology	32
Google Wave & Archaeology	32
PD(Q) – first edition	32
Ancient World Mapping Center	32
MadLat Conference, Winnipeg	32
Quibus Lusoribus Bono? A Classicist Shak	32
Deadline Approaches: LEAP II, Internet A	32
Interviews with Digital Historians &	32
Some games with historical value… of s	31
The Virtual Research Environment for Arc	31
Online learning in SL & RWU	31
Space as a change agent	30
Dodging Bullets in Presentations	30
When on Google Earth: now in its 21st it	30
Affordable 3D printer: archaeological us	30
Winnipeg: MADLaT conference	30
Digitally Distributed Urban Environments	30
Persuasive Games	29
The Sky Remains	29
PMOG mission	29
Computers from Prehistory to Today	29
Online education and the economics of th	29
Wikitude World Browser	28
Archaeology Channel International Film a	28
VastPark Stress Test	28
Call for Papers: Complex Networks	28
Creating Serious Games	28
Bug Labs and hardware mashups	27
Interactive Fiction – the Text Adventure	27
Social Networks and Ceramics	27
The best edu-blogs	26
Remembrance Day	26
70 000 views	26
Free Archaeology & Nabonidus	26
Special issue of Innovate Online	26
Theorizing Digital Archaeology	25
Most viewed Electric Archaeology posts	25
Get Interacting With Immersive Worlds	25
Archaeology Magazine & Blogging Arch	25
SLED Events – Places to go to see educat	24
Educational Uses in Second Life	24
natgeogame1	24
The State of the Humanities	23
Josh Epstein on Agent Based Modeling	23
Why Grand Theft Auto Should be Taught in	23
“the employment of leisure”	23
“Great game, but NOT a study guide”	23
PMOGing (2)	23
2006 ‘Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, an	23
Interface, NETSCI09, and MHR	23
box, Slideshare, and Angel	22
Abolish the University. And while we’re	22
So those system requirements really are	22
9000 views	22
A Polis of Pixels: Social Networking for	22
natgeogame	22
Ah the Rural Canadian Internet…	21
Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment Au	21
NetherNet Redux? Google Sidewiki	21
From the vault – reflections of a first	21
Just Leap In: Light Embeddable MUVE?	21
wordpress 2.5 ate my homework	20
The Trouble with Civilization	20
Pleiades Responds	20
Another Day, another Online World servic	20
….and now, the Multiverse!	20
Complaints Department	19
Second Assisi & Secunda Vita	19
File this under ‘tooting of own horn’	19
R.F.Newbold, “Some social and economic c	19
Blogging Archaeology	19
Video of 3d printer in Action	19
Slideshare and Slidecasting (and the Tra	18
WAC Student Committee Recruiting New Mem	18
10 000 BV	18
Wikis in plain english	17
XRF results of British School at Rome st	17
Caesar IV	17
The London Charter	17
RWU: first in the world!	17
Publishing Archaeology	17
Educational Tour Guide	16
Visualizing Latin & Other Things	16
The Past Discussed (Quarterly)	15
To market, to market we go!	15
TypeRacer	15
P2PU – the social wrapper on open course	15
XRF results of British School at Rome st	15
Some games bibliography for you	14
Bridging weblogs and the unwebbed	14
Tenure for Digital Work	13
Immersive Worlds Conference	13
Escapist Magazine and Serious Games	13
PD(Q) Still a Good Idea	12
Bristol Light Cider, from Coronation Hal	12
Our Surest Hopes of Prosperity – Gordon	12
Case Studies Wanted – The Subject Centre	12
Next Generation Storytelling	12
Roma Victor	11
Educause Immersive Learning Environments	11
On this Remembrance Day: Cecil Elliott	11
birthing pmog	11
Twisty Little Passages	11
Upcoming Presentations	11
Useful education-in-SL stuff	11
Egyptian Temples in SL	10
Look on thes works, ye mighty	10
GeoAnnotated Electric Archaeologist	10
Digital Media and Learning Competition	10
Centres for Digital Humanities & Oth	9
Goodbye, IFA	8
Digital Humanities Summer Institute at U	8
Kickstarter: funding your project	8
The Coming Web	8
Who I am, what this blog’ll be about…	8
All Rules Lead to Players	8
Material Culture…. in a virtual world?	6
On a slightly different note – of museum	6
Immersion	5
Working online	5
Mapping Witches	5
Postcard from Second Life	3
Who’s On Second – podcasts about nonprof	3
Agent based modelling of the Hispanic Ba	3

Kickstarter: funding your project

January 13, 2010 3:58 pm / Leave a Comment

An interesting platform for obtaining funds for your project is at Kickstarter. Say you’re a local community history group, and you have a great idea for a project using Omeka to showcase some fascinating aspect of your region, but you need funds to hire someone to set it up for you. That kind of microproject probably wouldn’t attract the regular funding sources… but maybe the people browsing the projects on Kickstarter can help. On Kickstarter, you describe your project. People pledge funds. If you get enough pledges to reach your target, the money is sent to you.

Seems to me it might be an interesting way of funding and promoting local archaeological projects to. Search ‘history’ in their current list of projects, and you’ll find projects such as:

Experience Fun History With Us!

by Annette Laing

Bring historical thinking and creative fun to kids in rural Georgia through make-believe, music, and games, and get a signed copy of Annette’s book!

$2,046 pledged

136% funded

successful

or,

Pittsburgh’s Industrial History: Exploring our Past from the Skies of the Present

by Ben Peoples

Visually exploring and documenting significant historic industrial sites in the greater Pittsburgh area – using low altitude aerial photography

$424 pledged

141% funded

successful

It’s only open to American projects at the moment… but worth checking out!

Digital Media and Learning Competition: a digital archaeology moment?

August 24, 2008 10:37 am / Leave a Comment

The following appeared on my ‘discussion’ page this morning:

We would like you and your readers to consider applying for and to help get out the word about our second (2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. It’s a $2 Million Competition. Focus: Participatory Learning
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008
Full information at: http://www.dmlcompetition.net
Awards will be made in two categories:

Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards support large-scale digital learning projects
$30,000-$250,000

Young Innovator Awards are targeted at 18-25 year olds
$5,000-$30,000

Full information at: http://www.dmlcompetition.net

I would be interested in putting in an application for myself, but the thought occurs: there are a lot of digital media/archaeology types out there, with great ideas and motivation, but not so much funding perhaps. Why don’t we put together a collaborative proposal?

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Category Archives: funding

Electric Archaeology: 3 years in the Blogoverse

Kickstarter: funding your project

Experience Fun History With Us!

Pittsburgh’s Industrial History: Exploring our Past from the Skies of the Present

Digital Media and Learning Competition: a digital archaeology moment?

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